Has Madonna finally found her (London) calling when it comes to movies?

After years of lackluster performances in mediocre flicks, the Material Mom decided to get behind the camera for a change and make her directorial debut with the quirky dark comedy Filth and Wisdom.

And if this new trailer is any indication, Madge might actually be able to teach her filmmaking hubby, Guy Ritchie, a thing or two. Hip and slightly naughty with a way cool soundtrack, it seems destined for cult status.

But that's our two pounds. Check it out and sound off in the comments section below!

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Good news everyone, Gwyneth Paltrow is launching a lifestyle website—because when life is as amazing as hers obviously is, it’s selfish to keep all those fabulous secrets to yourself.

The name of this potentially life-altering site is GOOP. Go ahead, say it out loud a few times—it’s infinitely worse sounding than the word blog. She could have gone with Gwyneth Paltrow's Blog. Or Gwyneth Blogrow. Or Gwyneth's Blog of Lovely Things I Get to Do and You Probably Won't Get to Do but Should Consider Doing. But GOOP?

While the site is still in it’s beginning stages, it promises to offer tips on how to Make, Go, Get, Do, Be, and See like Gwyneth so that we may become as awesome as Gwyneth and eventually get to hang out with Madonna.

In the place of said tips for now, Gwyneth offers up a short essay explaining how she has achieved such an enviable life:

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Well, technically, it's tomorrow. But we wanted to be one of the first to send a shout-out to the Material Girl.

After all, this particular B-day's a biggie: Madonna's turning 50!

That makes her the newest Hollywood heavy in the Fabulous at 50 club, a superexclusive group of leading ladies who are just getting better with age. (Check out the gallery below.)

With her 11th studio album out this year and a world tour in the works, it doesn't seem like the iconic singer is slowing down yet—and that's why she rocks.

Congrats on the milestone, Madge!

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The fate of Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour just got a whole lot sweeter.

Despite rumors that the pop icon's elaborate world tour would be scrapped on account of illness—inspired by a seemingly sprained ankle—a rep for the singer’s concert promoter, Live Nation, tells E! News the show will go on.

“We haven’t canceled any shows, it’s a full go starting on [Aug.] 23,” says the rep.

Meanwhile, the singer’s longtime rep Liz Rosenberg came to E! News to set the record straight on reports that the Material Mom is thisclose to adopting another child…

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Looks like Madonna's Sticky and Sweet tour is gonna come with a side of French dressing.

Continuing her penchant for partnering with haute couturiers for her stage shows—Jean-Paul Gaultier provided the wardrobe for 1990's Blonde Ambition tour, Dolce & Gabbana took the reins for 1993's Girlie Show—the "Vogue" singer has teamed up with venerable French fashion house Givenchy to provide at least two costumes on her upcoming world trek.

One of the outfits will be donned during Madonna's opening number, a coat dress in black stretch satin, keeping in line with the fashion house's dark and gothic bent.

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She might be battling divorce rumors, an A-Rod scandal and a tell-all book by her brother, but maybe Madonna's still a small-town girl at heart, after all.

The Material Girl returned to her Michigan roots Saturday for a screening of her acclaimed documentary I Am Because We Are at the Traverse City Film Festival.

"You can take the girl out of Michigan, but you can't take the Michigan out of the girl," she told the crowd of 540 people. "There's something poetic about coming back to the place where I used to come for holidays—camping trips with my dad and stepmother and my very large family. It's great bringing my movie to a place that I feel familiar."

Madonna, who was raised in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, did not address any of her recent controversies in the Q&A session that followed.

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Alex Rodriguez is trying to go down without much of his fight. (No, we're not referring to his postseason play.)

In court documents filed Thursday, the Yankees slugger admits to much of what was set forth by estranged wife Cynthia Rodriguez in the divorce petition she filed earlier this month, including her characterization of their five-year marriage as "irretrievably broken" (he makes mention in court docs of a certain Material acquaintance or any dalliances) and that Cynthia is a "loving and nurturing mother."

Notably, he denied her challenge of their prenuptial agreement, drawn up once upon a time to protect baseball's highest paid player from potentially coffer-draining situations such as this one.

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