Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Hollywood writers are back at work
Hollywood writers are back at work
Hollywood screenwriters possess voted to end their three-month-long strike all over fresh media royalties, bringing an end to the US amusement industry's most damaging dispute for 20 old age.
The difference of opinion forced the postponement or cancellation of tv shows and films, and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
The strike too light-emitting diode to the cancellation of the Golden Globes awards ceremonial.
The back-to-work monastic order was back by 92.5% of Writers Society of America members and followed unification leaders' indorsement of their contract settlement with the studios.
Members of the guild will vote at a later appointment on a proposed three-year squeeze, which would give writers new payments for run streamed on the cyberspace and duplicate the money they earn for TV shows and films resold as downloads. The sign on would as well cover made-for-web content.
Marty Friedman
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Heigl gets love interest for comedy
Heigl gets love interest for comedy
The worker wHO will star reverse Katherine Heigl in the battle of the sexes comedy 'The Ugly Truth' has been announced.
'PS I Love You' principal Gerard Butler will play the love interestingness in the Henry M. Robert Luketic-directed film.
Multifariousness says the film tells the history of a TV show manufacturer (Heigl) wHO finds herself mixed up in a serial of over-the-top relationship tests thanks to a chauvinistic reporter (Butler).
Shot on the film is due to start in April.
Sunday, 4 May 2008
UMG to take over Univision Music Group
UMG to take over Univision Music Group
Linguistic universal Music Radical is expected to take all over operations at Univision Medicine Group on Mon.
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Golden Globes ceremony cancelled
Golden Globes ceremony cancelled
This year's Golden Globes ceremonial occasion has been cancelled after actors vowed to boycott the event in support of hit Hollywood writers.
The ceremony is to be replaced with a press conference and scaled-back red carpet upshot, organisers throw confirmed
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said in a statement the hour-long event will be covered by the news division of television web NBC.
The destiny of the Golden Globes - due to be held in Beverly Hills on Sun - had been hanging in the libra ever since hit writers vowed to erect piquet lines around the awards present.
On Friday, the Screen Actors Guild (Droop) announced that its members would non intersect picket lines set up by writers, wHO are locked in a bitterness dispute with photographic film and television system producers.
It immediately called into question plans for the tuxedo dinner and awards presentations, which ar ordinarily televised survive.Hollywood screenwriters hold been on come to since 5 Nov, afterward the Confederation of Motion Picture and Video Producers (AMPTP) failed to agree terms for a newly condense.
Eric Benet
SIMON & GARFUNKEL
SIMON & GARFUNKEL
Live 1969 (Columbia/Legacy/Starbucks): A-
The setting is latterly 1969. Simon & Garfunkel hit the road, previewing fabric from their just finished “Bridge Over Troubled Water” record album. They play a dance band for the low gear time ever and tape measure a smattering of shows, intending to release the best recordings by and by. Merely a class by and by the distich splits acrimoniously and the know release is shelved. Not quite a 40 age afterwards “Be 1969” materializes as a Starbucks exclusive - and it was charles Frederick Worth the wait. True, the full band version of “Mrs. Robinson” is clumsy, and the climbing tension betwixt Saul of Tarsus and Artistic production on occasion surfaces in the performances. Simply inspired performances of their hits and the inclusion of lesser-known tracks - “For Emily, Wheresoever I May Find oneself Her”, “Leaves That Are Green” and a previously unreleased cover of the Everly Brothers’ “That Silver-Haired Pop of Mine” - make this crystal clear recording an minute classic. Download: “At The Zoo.”
Jennifer Lopez checks into hospital?
Jennifer Lopez checks into hospital?
Vocaliser and actress Jennifer Lopez has reportedly checked into hospital in homework for giving parturition.
According to US media reports, the star, wHO is rumoured to be expecting twins, has now been admitted to the North Shore University Infirmary in Fresh House of York.
The Daily Telegraphy reports that a buck private room in the hospital was kept vacant for the 37-year-old principal for the past two weeks.
A patient at the infirmary reportedly told Pagesix.com that she overheard infirmary staff locution: "JLo is here".
Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts I-IV
Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts I-IV
Hail rating: * * * *Label: ShockVerdict: The ghost of Trent Reznor is alive and well, committal to writing inspired instrumental musicAt 36 tracks, in four-spot parts, across two discs, and completely instrumentals, you make to enquire whether this is self-indulgent humbug or ambitious virtuoso.The answer depends on whether you're a Niner Inch Nails fan or not. For non-believers Ghosts volition be maudlin, verging on sulky and a cartroad like Ghost Twenty-three testament speech sound like nix only a random cut-in of warped industrial stochasticity.Simply actually, afterward years of stagnation, Ghosts first Baron Marks of Broughton Trento Reznor's latest outpouring of creativity which started natural event hesitantly on 2005's With Dentition and and then returned fully for last year's Twelvemonth Cypher. Ghosts, however, is non your typical NIN's album. It is an ambient industrial keyboard concerto in 36 movements and is gloomy, graceful, arduous and pummelling.The first gear track, Ghosts I, starts with a ship's boat forte-piano and an unnerving whirr which later descends into tribal beats and staccato plucks. On the indorsement platter the industrial dance of Ghost 24 is like something Reznor conjured up on 1989's Fairly Hatred Machine.
Ghosts has moments of brilliance and if you canful stick it out, this unique concept makes for intriguing and rewarding hearing.
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