Since the death of Michael Jackson, and let’s be honest, since the moment Disney pulled it from their theme parks, rumors have been swirling around about the possibility of bringing Captain Eo back to the Disney theme parks. The 17-minute short film was created in 3D and cost a hefty $17 million to make…yet for many (like us here at WoooHa…I’ve personally seen it at least 10 times) it was the highlight of our Disneyland trips. The rumor was that Disney would go back and re-do the aged special effects in the film and relaunch the original version with enhanced special effects. It looks like for now it’s not going to happen but Disney president Bob Iger says not to give up hope…

“There aren’t plans to bring back ‘Captain EO’ at this time,” Iger said at a news conference. “We are looking at it. It’s the kind of thing that, if we did it, would get a fair amount of attention and we’d want to make sure we do it right.”

So Captain Eo fans, the possibility is not 100% dead but it looks like you still will have to put up with Honey I Shrunk the Kids for just a little longer. For nostalgic purposes I leave you with the original Captain Eo poster and a clip from the best part of the movie. Via: SlashFilm

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Newest NBA2K10 trailer showing off D. Rose’s moves set to Flo-Rida’s song “R.O.O.T.S.” WoooHa thinks the 2K series puts NBA Live to shame. Only contest will be who has the better soundtrack.

Dr. Dre x Lady Gaga x Monster. Dr. Dre formally introduced Lady Gaga into his “Beats by Dre” headphone family as she will be launching a series of headphones called “Heartbeats” under the Beats by Dre division. The headphones are obviously targeted towards females who crave true acoustic sound or towards guys who like diamond-shaped jewelers on their headphones. The “Heartbeats” will hit stores in October. How the heck did Dre get stuck into doing this you ask? Two words…Jimmy Iovine. The partnership that Dre has with Monster is actually a deal brokered between Iovine and his Interscope label…Lady Gaga is part of Interscope and well you can fill in the blanks. Since Dre owns equity in the Beats by Dre line it’s a win-win for him…just as long as she doesn’t appear on “Detox.”

Check the pics from the press event which was recently held in Germany as well as official shots of the headphones.

Lil Wayne x Hurricane Season. Back in June we exclusively reported that Hurricane Season, the basketball film starring Bow Wow, Forest Whitaker and Lil Wayne was being shelved by the Weinstein Company because the film studio could not afford to market and distribute it. At that time, The Weinstein’s were facing dire financial hardship and had invested a big part of their theatrical marketing spend in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards. If Tarantino’s film failed, films like Hurricane Season would go from shelved to sold off in a matter of months….luckily for the studio, Inglorious Bastards will turn a profit as it already has grossed over $140 million world-wide and cost $70 million to make.

So what does this mean for Hurricane Season? It means The Weinsteins will have replenished funds to release and market a select few of their upcoming titles and we have the exclusive drop that Hurricane Season is one of them that will be resurrected. In other words you, yes you, will have the opportunity to watch Lil Wayne play a seventeen year old high school student who hates his school’s basketball team AND you will get to see Bow Wow play a star player on the team. Now that is definitely worth the wait…and the $12 ticket.

DJ AM x DJ Hero. DJ AM was a big supporter of the upcoming Activision game DJ Hero including his work remixing a handful of tracks for the game and for filming a series of promo videos stressing the importance of the DJ. With the passing of AM, Activision is suddenly placed in the awkward position of what to do with AM’s marketing material. In a tasteful move, the home page of DJ Hero pays tribute to the fallen DJ and they will continue to push (but not exploit) AM’s involvement in the game. Activision had the following official statement:

We are deeply saddened by the loss of DJ AM, who was a tremendous talent, a trusted partner and friend to DJ Hero. Our thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family. AM was instrumental in the making of DJ Hero and we hope that his work on the game will be a fitting tribute to his creative spirit and musical talent.

Here is the current promo vid of AM that Activision will continue to use in their online marketing campaign along with a couple of the tracks he remixed for the game. RIP DJ AM.

The newly resurrected Death Row has officially announced that they will be launching a film production unit that will heavily utilize the famed Death Row Records catalog. The Hollywood Reporter states that Death Row Films is set to shoot their first movie called Sons 2 The Grave (not to be confused with DMX’s Cradle To The Grave) in Toronto this October. The movie will use songs from the label catalog which of course includes Dr. Dre, Snoop, Tupac, Tha Doggpound, etc.

The film is about a young basketball phenom returning to an embattled inner city ghetto after two gunshots cut short his dream of an NBA career. So basically like the life of 50 Cent but replace “rapper” with “basketball player.” The film is said to still be fairly low budget as the new Death Row entire operations was recently purchased out of bankruptcy for $18 million. The new president of the company Lara Levi stated the following:

“This film embodies what we’re trying to do with Death Row, to tell human stories that don’t always have happy endings, and that allow us to learn from violence and disenfranchised lives, but not glorify it.”

“We’re looking at film properties that relate to “Boyz ‘n the Hood”-type stories, and to power the films with Death Row music,” Lavi said.

In the mean time, Lavi continues to look for ways to make money off of the catalog while physical CD sales continue to plummet. The label has already secured deals to license Death Row songs for EA Games, TV’s “CSI” and “Cold Case.” On one hand it’s good to see Death Row still alive and kicking…on the other hand we can’t just help but think that the Death Row name and catalog is now just getting pimped out to the highest bidder. Somewhere Pac is turning in his grave.

Diddy x Sean John. Some how Diddy found time to throw his annual White Party while taking a break from taking over the world. Well now that the party is over…Diddy is back to all business with the launch of his new Sean John Fall clothing collection. The Fall Collection and Sean John has a couple of recent notable things going on for it specifically a stronger online push:

- The winners from the online Sean John Faces of the Future model search held back in May are featured in the new Fall collection photos (shown below)

-A brand new Sean John blog was just launched to kick off the new fashion season

-Sean John releases this new “Celebrate Life” t-shirt with proceeds going to the Malaria No More foundation. Check em here along with Diddy’s message.

And now on to our exclusive first look of the Sean John Fall Collection. See if you can pick out Diddy’s son Christian in the ads.

Kanye West x GURU Energy Drink. Back in April, Kanye West announced he was becoming an equity partner of GURU Energy Drink and would also be developing his own flavor of the drink in the coming months. Since then, news has been slow about when his drink would hit the market but WoooHa has landed the first official Kanye x GURU collaboration pics that will be used for promotional and advertising purposes. So THAT’s how he gets his beats to sound so good! GURU it up folks and be cool like Kanye.

Diddy x Guiness. Diddy has been accused of cheating on his multi-million dollar Ciroc endorsement deal with Diageo in the past but now it looks like his next move in the liquor business is a little more out in the open. According to our friends over at Advertising Age, Diddy has held talks with Diageo once again but this time to work of the Guinness and Red Stripe beer brands that is also owns.

There is no indication of when the beer deal will be struck, but it will most likely focus on pushing Guinness and Red Stripe further with the African-American beer drinker and the hip-hop/urban lifestyle consumers as well. Once we hear more you know we will have the full story. It makes sense for Diageo though as they firmly believe their investment in Diddy on the Ciroc deal has been worth it and hopefully Diddy can extend the brand equity of Guinness and Red Stripe in the same manner.

Snoop Dogg x Skull Candy. The headphone company announced their partnership with Snoop back in February which included Snoop promoting the company with a tour and appearances while Snoop would get his own custom Skullcrusher headphone line. Well now the Snoop Dogg Skullcrushers are officially available for the price of $79.95 at the official site.

The headphones come in Snoop’s signature bandana design in either Crip Blue (not official name) or Ten-A-Key Black. Check em here. Do I see a Beats by Dre vs. Snoop’s Skullcrusher battle coming on?

Lil Wayne x Bow Wow x Hurricane Season. I’m sure you Wayne fans remember this movie being filmed last year and Wayne hyping it up to MTV and the press. Movie is based on the true story of a Post-Hurricane Katrina high school basketball team made up from five different schools and the coach that led them to the state championships.¬†Bow Wow plays Gary, a 5 ft. 7 guard for the team and Weezy plays a high school punk named Lamont who bets against his own high school. Heck we even dropped the first exclusive pics of Bow Wow from the movie way back in the day.

Well now we got more exclusive news for you. Our sources here in Hollywood are telling us that the studio that owns the marketing and distribution rights to Hurricane Season¬†literally has run out of money and will not be able to release it anytime soon. The studio is the Weinstein Company, and it all makes sense since it’s very public knowledge that they are going through big-time financial issues. Hurricane Season finished filming in mid 2008 and was set for a late 2008/early 2009 release date. Instead, it has been pushed back indefinitely.¬†

So what does this all mean? Well you won’t be seeing Wayne playing a high school kid or Bow Wow playing a basketball player anytime soon. Either that or the producers try and buy back the rights so they can sell them to another studio….or it ends up going straight-to-DVD 50 Cent style.¬†

So we got DJ Hero, Scratch The Ultimate DJ and now Def Jam enters the interactive hip-hop music gaming set with Def Jam Rapstar. Unlike the first two games where the user gets to play a DJ, in Rapstar you are…well…the rap star.

It’s basically a glorified rap karaoke game officially endorsed by Def Jam and their roster of artists. Here is the first official trailer featuring the music of Young Jeezy followed by an insider look at the game by one of the developers.

Xzibit x Bad Lieutenant. UPDATE: The trailer is now back up. Hot off the presses here is the brand new movie trailer to Xzibit’s (ahem Alvin Joiner here in Hollywood) latest movie where he co-stars with Nicholas Cage. Movie is remake of the Harvey Keitel film with Cage playing the lead role as a corrupt, drug loving cop who must find a killer (Xzibit) but in the process ends up doing buisness with him. Movie looks refreshingly badass.

The latest Word on the Street (AKA – RUMOR) is that Eminem’s music is not the only thing that is back. With his #1 album released last week and his much publicized comeback from drug addiction, we are hearing here in Hollywood that Eminem and management are trying to gear up their film production deals as well.

Strike while the iron is hot is what we say. With all the hype and publicity, now is the perfect time for Eminem to start right back up where he left off in film. Eminem and manager Paul Rosenberg launched Shady Aftermath Films after the success of 8 Mile way back in 2002 but failed to green light and produce a film under the production banner starring Eminem. Back then the first film, Have Gun Will Travel was postponed since 2006 but now it looks like Em and company are looking to make the jump back into film.

No word yet on what projects Shady Aftermath Films is looking, but rumor has it they are exploring different film ideas including possibly revitalizing Have Gun Will Travel and a project loosely based on Eminem’s recent obstacles in balancing the music industry, personal life and drug use. We will have more once we hear it.

We have just confirmed with movie studio Anchor Bay that they have bought the outright film distribution rights to 50 Cent’s new movie Streets of Blood. Those in the industry know though that Anchor Bay buys and distributes movies…straight to video. Yes, that’s right. WoooHa can confirm that Streets of Blood is going straight to video and will be available in stores July 28, 2009.

We have been covering Streets of Blood for sometime now. We were the first to break their sales trailer that the producers were pitching to studios months ago. But clearly no theatrical studios were interested. For those 50 fans, you might remember that this is the movie where 50 and co-star Val Kilmer formed a strong friendship…to the point that Val bought 50 a classic car.

Anyways, there you have it. All in all it’s not a good week for 50 Cent news. Earlier this week, sales numbers for his game “Blood on the Sand” were released and they were VERY VERY low and now this news about his movie going straight to DVD. The good news though is that 50 has a bunch of other movie projects coming soon including Twelve and a bunch of other projects in the works. Let’s just hope they hit theaters this time though.

Check the new trailer just cut by Anchor Bay and new DVD art as well. Remember, you saw it here first.