Tuesday 9 September 2008

Tommy Lee Jones - Tommy Lee Jones Sues Paramount

Tommy Lee Jones has become the latest moving-picture show personality to sue a film studio alleging that he was the victim of studio accounting practices aimed at ensuring that "back end" participants pick up little or no requital. In his lawsuit Jones claims that he in agreement to costar in Paramount's No Country for Old Men for low pay but "significant box-office bonuses" if the movie became a hit. Not only did it become a hit -- it earned $160 1000000 worldwide -- but it received the Oscar for best film of 2007. Jones is seeking $10 million.

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Saturday 30 August 2008

Grammy Winning Recording Artist John Legend Scheduled to Premiere 'If You're Out There,' an Anthemic Call-to-Action for Our Times, During Historic Performance Opening the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Monday, August 25

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- The five time Grammy Award winning
recording artist and concert performing artist John Legend will premier his new
song, "If You're Out There," during an historic set hatchway the 2008
Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado on Monday, August 25.

An anthemic call-to-action and evocation of human potential, "If You're
Out There" reflects the themes of hope and change, obligation and
leadership, and committal to a better tomorrow expressed in the principles
of the DNC and the black Maria of the American people.

"If you hear this message, wheresoever you stand, I'm vocation every woman,
calling every man," sings John Legend in "If You're Out There." "We're the
generation. We can't afford to wait. The future started yesterday and we're
already late."

"If You're Out There," produced by Trevor Horn and Devo Springsteen and
featuring the Agape Choir, will be useable online at
http://my.barackobama.com/johnlegend following John's performance at the
DNC.


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Wednesday 20 August 2008

Film and Music preview: 15 August 2008

MUSIC
� Memphis is a place where dreams can be fulfilled and dotted in prominent fashion. Andria Lisle reports from the birthplace of American pop on how Isaac Hayes embodied the city he helped define, and how the combustible mix of race, faith and impoverishment produced so much nifty music.
� How unlike her sister Beyonc� is Solange Knowles? She's fascinated by the history of Chicago prostitution, has unnerving dreams about Dubai (where, she says, she wants to have sexual urge on the beach), and is happy to talk about drugs. Alex Macpherson meets her.
� Peter Gabriel decided not to join the Genesis reunion tour because, ostensibly, hanging prohibited with Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela held more appeal than singing The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Music's renaissance man talks to Robin Denselow.
� Plus � the Dandy Warhols and Jaguar Love get it in the neck in the album reviews, merely there's more love for Pivot and Madcon; the best jazz, world and classical reviews section of any newsprint; viola star Lawrence Power talks to Tom Service; Laura Barton's Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll waxes lyrical on the to the highest degree claustrophobic song ever recorded; and Chris Salmon tracks down the best network exclusives in Click to Download.

FILM
� What do you say to a police officer trying to break up a street fight? "It's all right, officer. I'm Mike Leigh and these are just actors improvising a brawl. Nothing to see. Move along, please." With Naked finally coming to DVD, Leigh and the film's star, David Thewlis, withdraw the laborious production of this British cinema classic.
� If you want to see You Don't Mess With the Zohan, topper not to go to Egypt, where the authorities fear the Adam Sandler comedy will cause public unrest. Gihan Shahine reports from Cairo on how films from or about Israel are not welcome there, peace accord or no repose accord.
� The best stoner comedies don't require you to be stoned to enjoy them, says John Patterson � who's time-tested watching them both ways.
� Plus � Peter Bradshaw is in heaven over Hellboy II. Don't vex, though ... there's plenty to disappoint him elsewhere.







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Sunday 10 August 2008

Rick Holmstrom

Rick Holmstrom   
Artist: Rick Holmstrom

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   



Discography:


Hydraulic Groove   
 Hydraulic Groove

   Year:    
Tracks: 18


Gonna Get Wild   
 Gonna Get Wild

   Year:    
Tracks: 13




Take a clean-cut boy-next-door eccentric, stay put a guitar in his men, and spot him in an environment of smoky, indistinctly lit analog bars surrounded by a gang of megrims sages. If you mean it's fiction, you don't know Rick Holmstrom, world Health Organization has been operative with some of the best of the Los Angeles blue devils shot. His don was a disc cheat in Alaska and baptized Holmstrom with medicine by bringing home plate records of Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, the Ventures, and Buddy Holly. After moving to Southern California to wait on shoal in 1985, he conjugate a garage-type blues circle that rekindled his melodic flame. Holmstrom began seeking live megrims at places like the Pioneer Club, Babe & Ricky's, and the Pure Pleasure Club, which became his breeding ground through hanging extinct with greats such as Smokey Wilson and Junior Watson.


From 1985 to 1988, Holmstrom played and toured with mouth organ guru William Clarke. During share of this full stop, Holmstrom dog-tired a year as a rhythm guitarist only if. Befriended by a former Delta bluesman, harpist Johnny Dyer, the duette recorded deuce earthshaking albums for Black Top, 1994's Hear Up, followed by Shake It! in 1995. When Alex Schultz gave his notice to Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers, Holmstrom was the obvious selection, as he worked with Rod on numerous occasions. Urged by Hammond Scott of Black Top Records, Holmstrom recorded Outlook! in 1996, an all-instrumental album that garnered airplay on blues and rock'n'roll tuner, sounding like hard-boiled vapors or else of a clichéd blues-rock conglomeration.


Holmstrom brought a a good deal required hell of fervor to the Flyers, whose 1997 Tone Cool album, Tough and Tender, proven Rod and his mathematical group were the hottest band on the racing circuit. The Holmstrom solo effort Gonna Get Wild followed in the fountain of 2000. Holmstrom played some other year with the Might Flyers, going after 2001's Beyond the Source. Holmstrom turned some heads with his 2002 freeing, Hydraulic Groove, where he brought a bite of jazz and funk to his blues, likewise utilizing loops and samples and guests like John Medeski and DJ Logic. Holmstrom stayed busy producing other acts of the Apostles and playing guitar before cathartic Alive at the Cafe Boogaloo in 2006.






Wednesday 2 July 2008

The Coral to play acoustic show at opera's home

The Coral have announced a one-off show at London's Coliseum Theatre.

The band will play the intimate acoustic show at the home of the English National Opera on July 29.

Tickets go on sale 9.30am on Friday (July 4). To check the availability of The Coral tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

Meanwhile the band have confirmed they will release a singles album next year, which will feature new material alongside a career-spanning collection of their releases.

Sunday 22 June 2008

Indiana Jones on trail of box office grail

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Industry tracking shows German filmmaker Uwe Boll's "Postal" making a late surge in prerelease polling against "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."


Psych!


Actually, "Postal" appears to be going nowhere. Major movie theater chains refused to play the September 11-related farce, so it's now tagged for distribution starting Friday in just 13-15 theaters in seven markets. Boll, the filmmaker behind the "BloodRayne" fantasy series, had hoped for as many as 1,500 playdates.


There is one other result from exhibitors' revolt against "Postal," which spins a fantastical yarn featuring President Bush, Osama bin Laden and assorted September 11 references: high prospects of a quick detour to DVD bins.


Meanwhile, Paramount's latest Indiana Jones adventure debuted in about 2,000 locations at a 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Many venues sold out for the earliest showtimes, with playdates set to swell to at least 4,260 by Friday.


Paramount executives hope that "Skull" can outgross in its five-day debut the $151.1 million earned by Sony's "Spider-Man 3" over a three-day frame in May 2007.


Pity the other films on offer this weekend. Disney's family-fantasy sequel "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" bears particularly close watching, after opening at No. 1 last week with a disappointing $55 million.


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Sunday 15 June 2008

Punk Archives

Punk Archives   
Artist: Punk Archives

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   



Discography:


25 Punk singles   
 25 Punk singles

   Year:    
Tracks: 25




 






Wednesday 4 June 2008

Oscar winner Crash becomes TV series

The Oscar-winning film 'Crash' is to become a TV series.
The drama will be shown on the Starz network in the US this year and the film's director, co-writer and producer, Paul Haggis, and co-writer and producer, Bobby Moresco, are among those involved in the new show.
This is only the second time a film which has won the Best Picture Oscar has been turned into a TV series: 'In the Heat of the Night' was the first.
Commenting, Haggis said: "I'm very happy that Lionsgate [the show's co-producer] and Starz have decided to develop 'Crash' into a series. Ironically, my initial impulse was to present the material in a format for television. I am thrilled it's coming full circle and can't wait to see how it expands and transforms."
Production on the 13-episode first series is set to begin in the spring.
Haggis' new film, 'In the Valley of Elah', is currently in cinemas. Read the review here.

Friday 30 May 2008

Pete Doherty tries to wee in Millwall's trophy - Tabloid Hell

Pete Doherty was thrown out of Millwall FC's New Den ground this weekend (May 16) for trying to wee in one of the club's trophies.

The singer was playing football with Babyshambles in the celebrity Soccer Six tournament when the event occurred.

Let into the chairman's office, Doherty, a die hard Queens Park Rangers supporter, apparently decided leave London rivals Millwall a "surprise".

According to The Sun, a security guard thought Doherty was attempting to steal the trophy so intervened and discovered the singer's activities.

According to the paper's source, "he is a huge QPR fan and thought it would be a laugh to leave a little surprise".

Babyshambles - who played in hit resembling QPR's blue and white hoops - lost 3-1 to Faithless in the final of the tournament.

Sunday 18 May 2008

Pete kills himself off in new video

Pete kills himself off in new video




COULD a 29-day sentence really give birth sorted come out of the closet PETE DOHERTY's head?

The BABYSHAMBLES frontman appears to have ditched the attitude and the
drugs in favor of releasing a newly single precisely 48 hours subsequently departure jail.

Shaggy-haired Pete also made a music video for the tune, in which he stars
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"Iron Man" poised to blast box office into summer

Thursday 8 May 2008

Coens triumph at Critics' Choice Awards

Coens triumph at Critics' Choice Awards



The Coen Brothers latest moving picture 'No Country For Old Men' was the big winner at the 2008 Critics' Choice Awards in Los Angeles last night.
The film landed three awards including the coveted C. H. Best Picture prize.
Joel and Ethan Coen shared the Charles Herbert Best Director prize while the Best Support Thespian category went to Javier Bardem.
The awards are presumption out by the Transmit Motion-picture show Critics Association and have often served as a good indicator as to world Health Organization may plunk up Academy Award nominations later this month.
Unlike the Golden Globes the awards ar not covered by Writer's Gild contracts so they were non affected by the ongoing take up which has forced the cancellation of the prestigious Golden Globe Awards.
Other winners at the outcome included Book of the Prophet Daniel Day Lewis, wHO picked up Best Thespian for his purpose in 'There Will Be Blood', and Julie Christie, wHO south Korean won Best Actress for 'Away From Her'.





Tuesday 29 April 2008

Spears sparks pregnancy rumours

Spears sparks pregnancy rumours



Pop isaac Bashevis Singer Britney Spears has sparked reports that she is expecting her third child after being photographed shopping for a maternity screen.
The photographs, which appear on People magazine's site, show Spears and her new boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib look through gestation tests at a shop.
The pictures were reportedly released by Ghalib's pic representation, FinalPixx.
The rumours come in the saami calendar week that Spears fled a courthouse without attending the to the highest degree recent hearing over custody of her 2 offspring sons.
The boys ar presently in the fillet of sole detention of their father of the Church Kevin Federline after a estimate stripped Spears of her visitation rights chase a custody dispute at her home.
The vocaliser later had to be hospitalised for rating after she was deemed to be under the influence on an unknown substance.





Thursday 24 April 2008

Stone Temple Pilots Weren't Nirvana -- But They Were Close, In Bigger Than The Sound

Stone Temple Pilots Weren't Nirvana -- But They Were Close, In Bigger Than The Sound







On The Record: Were We Wrong About The Stone Temple Pilots?
Being a rock candy critic is easy. Admitting you were wrong isn't. So naturally, writing this week's column was yobo ... because it's around the Harlan Stone Temple Pilots, a lot that officially reunited on Monday night in Los Angeles and one that, o'er the course of basketball team albums and about 10 years in concert, was one of the near critically reviled acts on the planet.
So, of line, if I were to fall out protocol, I'd barrack at the reunification, induce approximately joke like "What does this think of for Army of Anyone?!?!" and move on. I'd dismiss S.t.p. as nada more than generic Nirvana-bes, ham-fisted, lunk-headed pretenders to the commode world Health Organization foisted their brand of derivative bro-rock on the the great unwashed for far excessively long. Just, I'm not leaving to do any of that.
Consider, I'm around to float a guess that fundamentally flies in the face of a decade's charles Frederick Worth of "conventional critical sapience," and 1 that mightiness fuck off my rock-critic carte revoked permanently (which way no more 20 percent discount at Quiznos). But I don't think I can stay fresh it inside any longer. So, in the interest of the true statement, I'm merely sledding to total come out and say it ... here we go ...
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Friday 18 April 2008

Arcade Fire to sue TV station?

Arcade Fire to sue TV station?



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Thursday 17 April 2008

Star-studded night at CMTs

Star-studded night at CMTs




NICOLE KIDMAN is looking preferably intumesce these years.

The Moulin Rouge beauty stepped





Wednesday 16 April 2008

Chevelle

Chevelle   
Artist: Chevelle

   Genre(s): 
ROck: Alternative
   Metal
   Indie
   Metal: Alternative
   Alternative
   



Discography:


Vena Sera   
 Vena Sera

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


This Type of Thinking Can Do Us in   
 This Type of Thinking Can Do Us in

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)   
 This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


Live from the Road   
 Live from the Road

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


Wonder What's Next   
 Wonder What's Next

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


Point #1   
 Point #1

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11




Inspired by the lurching riffs of Helmet and the soft/loud vocal music styling of Tool, Chicago-based three-base hit Chevelle's combatant, heavy sound is completely approximately mounting tension exploding into film editing guitar bursts. Formed in 1995, Chevelle comprised brothers SAM (drums), Pete (vocals, guitar), and Joe Loeffler (bass), the death of whom association up afterwards he played better than the gang's master bassist. They started out playing parties and outdoor events, which chop-chop light-emitting semiconductor diode to bookings at Boodle clubs when youngest member Joe was scarce 14. In 1999, Chevelle released their Steve Albini-produced debut album, Tip #1, on Squint Amusement. Trey long time afterward -- and following tours with bands like Trickle, Sevendust, Powerman 5000, and Simple machine Drumhead -- the band had inked a report with Epos and issued Wonder What's Next, released in Aug 2002. The record album went platinum by the pursual summer and their second bingle, "Post the Pain On a lower floor," was a issue 1 strike on mod stone and mainstream wireless. Main microscope stage dates with the annual Ozzfest tour of obligation followed that summer, and 2003 brought a concert record album, Hot from the Road. Chevelle returned in the fall of 2004 with their tierce full-length, This Type of Thought (Could Do Us In), and with it came approximately other shoot birdsong, "Vitamin R (Forward Us Along)." Joe parted shipway with his brothers in July 2005, and though he was replaced on basso a month after by Dean Bernardini, Chevelle remained a fellowship matter, since Bernardini was their brother-in-law. With the freshly member came a newfound energy and optimism that replaced the intimate fuss of the past times, and the guys carried that olfactory modality into the recording of their next album, Apr 2007's Nervure Sera.