Wednesday 10 September 2008

Victoria Beckham Throws A-list Birthday Party For Romeo

Victoria Beckham went to great lengths to give her boy Romeo an extravagant 6th birthday, make out with a superheroes theme.


The birthday boy dressed for the function in a Batman mantle and brother Cruz wore a Power Rangers suit.


Only the finset attended the bash - pals Gwen Stefani and rocker married man Gavin Rossdale and toddler Kingston, Heidi Klum and her kids Leni and Henry and Geri Halliwell brought baby Bluebell.


The party - held at Universal Studios, Hollywood - was filled with the succeeding generation of young, budding celebrities.


David Beckham was absent from the party� as he is currently grooming with the England team.

Monday 1 September 2008

Daddy Yankee - Daddy Yankee Breaks Puerto Rican Movie Records

Reggaeton hotshot DADDY YANKEE's movie debut has pie-eyed box agency records in the rapper's native Puerto Rico.

His new celluloid Talento de barrio has broken unexampled opening day records subsequently an estimated 12,000 fans off out to see the movie when it debuted last week (ends15Aug08).

Producer Jorge Rivera says, "We're very surprised."





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Friday 22 August 2008

What the Kiwi gossip mags say

It's a sad day as deuce high-profile couples - one from New Zealand, the other from Hollywood - pack their bags and depart for that alone city known as Splitsville.



A beaming Chris Cairns and his South African married woman Carin star on the cover of this week's edition of Woman's Weekly, but the "love catastrophe" headline gives the secret plan away.


The pair have broken up, and there's reportedly no chance for a reconciliation of the union that produced two sons, Thomas and Bram. It's just non cricket for the kids.


"It's a sad situation," agrees the former big-hitting Kiwi cricketer. "We separated hexad months ago."


Carin is reportedly heartbroken over the split, and has shifted back up to South Africa to be comforted by her mum on her family's lily farm. Never underestimate the healing qualities of a lily.


And Chris won't comment on rumours that a third party - an Australian girl in her 20s who met Chris when he was playing beach cricket sooner this year�- is byzantine in the break-up.


Those blasted Aussies. First they steal our bands, now they're stealing our men.


There ar more broken in heart string section over at New Idea as Jennifer Aniston gives notorious philanderer John Mayer the heave-ho. Was his body not a wonderland?


While Jen continues her sleeveless searching for Mr Right and wonders where it all went wrong, John is convalescent from the break-up exploitation a slightly differently method.


NI reports the singer consoled himself with a hot tub caper in Cabo with a naked alien. Life goes on as usual, then.


Don't worry, romantics - there's good famous person relationship tidings afoot: Kiwi supermodel Rachel Hunter is getting married.


Woman's Day reports�Rachel's boyfriend - 26-year-old iCE hockey actor Jarret Stoll - proposed during their New Zealand visit net week at boutique hotel Mollies, acquiring down on bended knee�with a mob worth $100,000.


Thanks to that ring,�Jarret's nickname has changed�from "toy boy" to "iCE man". That's $100,000 well exhausted, then.


Other stars who hit the headlines this week:


* This week's weirdest couple alert truly is unknown. Keanu Reeves has reportedly hooked up with Trinny Woodall, the British co-host of strike fashion show What Not To Wear. "Trinny met Keanu through a friend in London and they really clicked," a source tells WD. Perhaps she could begin a new show called, 'How Not To Act'.


* Tori Spelling has dropped out of the forthcoming Beverly Hills 90210 by-product show. The plastic surgery-loving star was set to reprise her role as Donna Martin until she discovered she was organism paid half as often as co-stars Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth. Those tummy tucks aren't chintzy, Tori. Are you certain you don't want to reconsider?


* In random Hollywood news this week, Nicollette Sheridan and Grace Jones need to wear more clothes, Gordon Ramsay looks like a lobster when he's sunburned, Hayden Panettiere is taller than Eva Longoria and Elton John needs to stop wear clown pants.


Finally, the quote of the week comes from George Clooney's ex Lisa Snowden, who claims the Ocean's Eleven star ruined her sex living: "I've been celibate for a year and I am starting to think I english hawthorn never give sex again."


Perhaps you could start up a reinforcement group, Lisa. There ar bound to be heap of George's ex's suffering the same fate.


* What do you think of this week's gossip? Post your comments below.







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Tuesday 12 August 2008

"Lost" producer eye earthquake film

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - J.J. Abrams wants to make the earth move for you.





The producer of "Lost" and director of the upcoming "Star Trek" movie is working with David Seltzer, the film writer of the original "Omen," to shake up audiences with a disaster flicker involving an earthquake.





The ignoble Universal project is non intended to be a remake of the studio's 1974 motion-picture show "Earthquake," which spawned a stop on the its popular studio apartment tour.





Details of the story are organism kept in a apparently tremor-proof vault, though as is Abrams' modus operandi, relationships will be at the core of the project. Abrams arguably rewrote the rules for disaster flicks with the winter box agency champ "Cloverfield," which thrust the big story to the background by qualification the audience see the bedlam through the prism of a personal human relationship.





Abrams is finishing up guiding "Star Trek" for its May 2009 release. At the import, plans only to bring forth the "Earthquake" revamp. Seltzer has a "Strangers on a Train" remake in development at Warner Bros.





/Hollywood Reporter









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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Noosphere

Noosphere   
Artist: Noosphere

   Genre(s): 
Trance: Psychedelic
   



Discography:


Aqua   
 Aqua

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11




Psy-trance duette Noosphere emerged from Northern Germany in the late '90s and began releasing full-length albums patch to the highest degree of its peers continued releasing purely 12" singles. Comprised of Niels Paschen and Eberhard Schulz, Noosphere released its debut untrimmed, Radiated, on Twisted Records in 1999. The duet returned in 2002 with Turquoise for Spirit Zone, an record album that featured co-production work by Marcus Maichel of X-Dream.






Tuesday 24 June 2008

Concord Dawn

Concord Dawn   
Artist: Concord Dawn

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   



Discography:


Chaos By Design   
 Chaos By Design

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


Broken Eyes / Say Your Words   
 Broken Eyes / Say Your Words

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2


Uprising (RISE005)   
 Uprising (RISE005)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2


TYME026   
 TYME026

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


CHANNEL9617   
 CHANNEL9617

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


Uprising   
 Uprising

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


Disturbance   
 Disturbance

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


Concord Dawn - Disturbance (Low Profile) LPO006   
 Concord Dawn - Disturbance (Low Profile) LPO006

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9


Concord Dawn   
 Concord Dawn

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9




 






Sunday 22 June 2008

Studios revving up retro

Period films will dominate fall release schedule





NEW YORK -- For those ready to move past the endless stream of dark dramas from fall 2007, get ready for a new barrage -- from the 1960s, the 1940s and the 1780s.


Studios are preparing to unleash a hailstorm of period movies -- in broad terms, films set in an era other than the current -- in the fall, at times turning the multiplex circa 2008 into a veritable cinematic museum.


The films range from large studio productions (Universal/Clint Eastwood's 1920s missing-child drama "Changeling" and Fox/Baz Luhrmann's World War II epic "Australia") to specialty releases (Searchlight's midcentury Southern tale "The Secret Life of Bees" and Miramax's 1960s Catholic-school drama "Doubt"). They veer from costume dramas (the 18th century Keira Knightley quill-and-wig extravaganza "The Duchess") to political sagas (Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon") to 1950s family dramas (the Sam Mendes-Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration "Revolutionary Road") to biopics (Gus Van Sant's "Milk") to yet more WWII throwbacks (Ed Zwick's "Defiance," Mikael Hafstrom's "Shanghai" and Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna").


"It seems like Hollywood is merging with the History Channel," media critic Robert Thompson noted wryly.


The latest wave of period movies is notable for several reasons. These movies are coming all at once -- scores of pictures crammed into a period of just 10 or 12 weeks. The stakes and expectations are higher because the overall number of fall specialty releases is expected to be down by as much as 25% from the nearly 70 titles released last year. And these period films are being released as questions linger from last season about whether the audience can find enough with which to identify in fall releases.


That combination is enough to make some executives nervous. "It's a lot of period movies, and it's going to be a question of who'll be able to connect," said one high-ranking specialty exec releasing a period film.


Nonetheless, development execs point to reasons why historical is suddenly fashionable despite the risks.


In a time when summer releases have trumped fall movies on spectacle, they say, it's a chance for films to chisel out a new niche. Boxoffice Mojo president Brandon Gray suggests that period pictures are in effect the fall's answer to the summer tentpole.


"A movie set in period can be a selling point because it transports you to another world without being a fantasy or relying on big special effects," he said.


Period movies can also allow a story to be told in ways that contemporary-set movies can't tell them. "In a period movie you can strip out modern American irony and ambiguity and get away with it," Thompson said. "A contemporary movie that has absolutes would seems old-fashioned. But if you set it during a previous time, you can make it credible."


Last year, such movies as "Michael Clayton," "Rendition" and "In the Valley of Elah" took on current issues through a contemporary lens. This crop looks at equally large themes -- the corruption of power ("Changeling"), the innocent victims of war ("Australia," "St. Anna," "Defiance") and the slipperiness of truth ("Doubt," "Frost/Nixon") -- but uses the distancing mechanism of period.


But for all the advantages, will consumers bite on stories that often take place before many of them were born? Execs acknowledge the challenges.


"The situations won't be as relatable, so you need to find something relatable that transcends the era," said Fox co-president of theatrical marketing Pam Levine, whose company will try to turn "Australia" into a wide play.


Marketing guru Terry Press, who at DreamWorks successfully marketed such period films as "Gladiator" and "Seabiscuit," also sees a fine line. "You don't want to confuse period with old-fashioned (in your marketing). That's the quickest way to lose a big part of the audience."


For a "Gladiator" spot, DreamWorks cut footage from the film with NFL highlights to give it a modern feel. Miramax, which undertook a similar promotion for "Gangs of New York" under the Weinsteins six years ago, will try to bridge the historical and modern in "Brideshead Revisited," the class-themed WWII movie. "We want to show people that the issues of class and being an outsider are still very relatable today," Miramax marketing chief Jason Cassidy said.


No matter how the material gets played, though, there might be a commercial ceiling. Notes one development exec, "American audiences like occasional period movies, but they do want them every weekend?"



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