Titanic - Box Office Thunder Hit By Hurricane

The box office was hit by a double whammy over the weekend. Not entirely did it have to suffer through the usual lackluster attendance over the Labor Day holiday -- the only major holiday of the year when attendance traditionally falls -- but it also was hit by the onset Hurricane Gustav. Along a wide unfold of the Gulf Coast, movie-theater owners shut down. Those wHO did non watched many of their patrons empty their neighborhoods and select up pad in inland emergency shelters; they would not have been in the mood for a night at the movies. Of five new films entering the box-office chafe, not one earned $10 million or more. The only photographic film that did was the action-film charade Tropic Thunder with an estimated $11.5 zillion, which put it in first place for the third straight weekend. It has immediately taken in $83.8 million -- but the $90-million picture show is a long way from break even subsequently payments to theater owners and the cost of distribution and marketing are taken into account. Babylon A.D. came in endorsement with an unimpressive $9.7 1000000. (By contrast, the latest Halloween continuation opened a year agone with $26.4 zillion.) The Dark Knight stirred back to third lieu, taking in $8.8 million and bringing its total to $502.4 million. It is only the second film in history to climb past the $500-million mark and now takes aim at the other one that did -- Titanic , which wound up with a domestic total of $601 million. Few analysts if any, believe that Knight will be able to sink Titanic 's record book. Warner Bros. distribution honcho Dan Feldman said Sunday that he expects the film to finish with about $530-550 million.

The top ten-spot films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers 1. Tropic Thunder , $11.5 million; 2. Babylon A.D. , $9.7 million; 3. The Dark Knight , $8.8 one thousand thousand; 4. The House Bunny, $8.3 million; 5. Traitor, $7.9 trillion; 6. Death Race, $6.2 meg; 7. Disaster Movie, $6.2 one thousand thousand; 8. Mamma Mia, $4.4 jillion; 9. Pineapple Express, $3.5 gazillion; 10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, $3 million.

01/09/2008

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What the Kiwi gossip mags say

The world's most beautiful family just got bigger as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt introduce their newborn twins to the world. Put your sunnies on - their combined hotness is blinding.

New Idea is the envy of their competitors as the mag shows off an exclusive 16-page photo banquet featuring Brad and Ange with kids Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh, and recent arrivals, twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

They're starting to sound like the spew from a bad Mexican version of The OC.

"Viv is quite an elegant, like her mother," Brad tells NI when asked if there ar any similarities - apart from their overbearing hot pants - the twins ploughshare with their parents.

"Knox likes a bit of music, like his dad. When he was born he looked like Putin."

Did Brad just compare ruthless Russian leader Vladimir Putin to a baby? Best be sleeping with one eye open, buddy.

Despite the overwhelming coverage, Brad and Ange aren't the only celebs celebrating all things little, cute and smelly this week.

Bernice Mene and Dion Nash have welcomed daughter India Lily to the family, although it's dubious the couple got anywhere near the rumoured US$14 million Brangelina got for their baby snaps.

That $25 Briscoes voucher should 'NiceNash'�a new sauteing pan though.

The former international netballer tells Woman's Weekly little India has created an unlooked-for problem in the pattern of�a covetous pet cat.

"He (feline friend Jim Morrison) has in spades struggled with the new addition and has been really attention-seeking," Bernice says.

"During our manic times, when (son) Sol's crying and India's clamant too, he will land a black eye or half a bird into the house to try and prove his worth."

This is just a guess, Bernice, but perhaps the kids are egregious because in that respect are beheaded animals lying around your house of horrors?

Elsewhere, married TV One presenter Pippa Wetzell has been through seven work force in just two months.

No, stop beingness dirty. Pippa is talking about the multiple co-hosts she's been paired with�on morning goggle box show Breakfast while Paul Henry is away.

Pippa calls it "professional dating" and tells Woman's Day her husband finds the situation awkward.

"I cogitate he's a little bit disturbed that he wakes up every Monday morning to rule me with another valet," Pippa says.

That's not surprising. After the hand-holding antics of Mike Hosking and Kate Hawkesby, anything canful happen on that couch.

Other stars wHO hit the headlines this week:

* Jennifer Aniston is convalescent from ex-hubby Brad Pitt's twins by announcing her own baby news.�She's not pregnant yet, but WD reports she's very, very keen. "Seeing Brad with his kids hasn't been easy for her," a friend says. "It's made her all the more determined to be a mum." Better bust out sextuplets straightaway smart, Jen, or you'll never catch up.

*�Peter Williams met his wife at a gay mardi gras. The TV One news reader tells WW he met his married woman Sarah Shandley at Auckland's now defunct Hero Parade. "She was this strong-willed, professional, unattached woman and she was swooped upon by me," he says. Like an eagle catching its prey.

* In the latest from Hollywood, Katie Holmes loves to wear her hubby's baggy jeans and could possibly be pregnant, a definitely significant Lisa Marie wants to give birth to her twins in her dad's former home in Graceland, Gwen Stefani is set to drop baby No. 2 any day now, and an almost certainly not pregnant George Clooney has been spotted holidaying with Cindy Crawford and her hubby Randy Gerber. Three's a crowd, buddy.

Finally, the quote of the week comes from Scarlett Johansson, world Health Organization claims her lesbian love scene with Penelope Cruz wasn't sexy at all:�"There were like 60 crewmen eating salami sandwiches and staring ... it's really the least sexy thing you can ever imagine."

Nope, the least sexy thing we can ideate is Michael Jackson pashing Robert Guest. Nice essay though, Scarlett.

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

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Cbs - Produced-in-canada Show A Hit

Flashpoint , a Canadian-produced cop drama that CBS picked up during the writers' strike when production of U.S. shows had shut down, placed first in its 10:00 p.m. time period Thursday night and retained virtually all of the audience of its lead-in, a rerun of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Flashpoint scored a 4.7 rating and an 8 share, beating the ABC documentary series Hopkins (4.0/7), which held the top spot in that hour last week, and NBC's anthology series Fear Itself (2.7/5). But it was Fox that won the night,thanks to Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader , which won the 8:00 p.m. time period with a 5.0/9, followed by the So You Think You Can Dance results show, which posted a 5.8/10.

25/07/2008

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Art Inferno

   
Artist: Art Inferno

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 Abyssvs Abyssvm Invocat

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Motley Cr�e to make gig available to watch online

feature announced fans can view one of their concerts for release online.

The spear, taking place next week (August 1), is share of their sold out US tour.

The LA mathematical group will deal to the stage at 9.30pm (PST) at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas.

Tickets to look out the show live on-line are free of bear down, but very limited, and are useable from [url=http:// www.deeprockdrive.com]Deeprockdrive.com[/url].

's new album 'Saints Of Los Angeles' is out in the UK on September 1.

To check the availability of Motley Crue tickets and get all the in style listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

Duffy set for first Hub gig

Let�s font it: Calling Duffy the next Amy Winehouse isn�t much of a compliment.

While Winehouse struggles with do drugs addiction, Britain�s latest white soul sensation is into clean surviving. Ten years ago, the Wales-born Aimee Duffy was placed in a safe home when police learned her stepdad�s alcoholic ex had hired a hit man to kill him. The murder plot was foiled, but witnessing that sort of madness has kept Duffy, who ditched her showtime name five-spot years ago, scared straight.

The only comparison that holds water is between the delectable soul-pop of Winehouse�s �Back to Black� and that of Duffy�s major label debut, �Rockferry,� which brings her to the Wilbur Theatre tomorrow nox for her Boston premiere. But regular then, Winehouse�s retro-soul is steeped in reggae, ska, beat-box and jazz, patch Duffy�s sound is considerably less splintered.

We caught up with 24-year-old Duffy during a earphone call from London.

Boston Herald: Hip-hop babe Estelle mouthed off around you and other white River soul singers in the British entreat not long ago, but then you sang at Harlem�s Apollo Theater - a classical soul locale. Was that vindicating?

Duffy: I felt no sense of judgment in that room. It was one of the most spectacular moments in my life, really. No one can ever so take that away from me. When the lights went up and the show started, I thought process, �This is how it�s meant to be.� I didn�t put forbidden this record to then sit endorse and be judged. The bottom line is, you can�t help what colouring material you�re innate; every person has emotion, and that�s what soul music is - emotion.

BH: Rumor has it that a game plan existed to groom you and your CD to create a retro sound; is there whatever truth to this?

Duffy: Not really, no. And I don�t often like the word �retro� - I�m not sure what that is, actually. I made loads of songs over three and a half years, and at the end of the recording process, these are the ones that fit together best. I felt wish a curator for an art gallery.

BH: Coming from humble beginnings, does success feel strange?

Duffy: Success is very personal to me. I felt a degree of success in making a quaker cry when I played her one of my songs, it was such a real emotional response. The roost is all dollars, dates and diaries.

BH: Is it unnerving to be repeatedly compared to a isaac Bashevis Singer who, contempt being talented, is view of as a train wreck in progress?

Duffy: It�s like anything else. A young male child may crash his elevator car somewhere or a baby dies throttling, but you can�t waste energy bedevilment if you�ll meet the same fate because of some similarity between you and them. We have control over our have lives and what we do with them, merely bad decisions can rob us of those very freedoms. I�ve seen it happen to other people. You instruct from watching.

BH: What�s succeeding for Duffy? Do you feel the pressure of expectation?

Duffy: Plans fail. It�s best to just go with what�s in front of you. Life has a funny way of making us feel like we get to adhere to rules and schedules - simply all that�s just etiquette and social boundaries. I can�t business organisation myself with what anyone expects of me. I�ve got to just listen to my heart.

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Artist Lisa Ross Takes a Gravely Moving Photo

Lisa Ross' Unrevealed, site 3 (sufi shrine 2), 2008.Courtesy of the Artist and Bellwether, New York
Lisa Ross's shimmering image captures a spile of ornamented twigs and branches that appear to have landed rather elegantly, like a delicate game of peck sticks, in the abandon. It's not, as you might think, a nifty pile of leftovers from last year's Burning Man. It's actually an adorned burial cumulus of the Uyghur people from the Xinjiang area of western China, designed to reverence local saints and mystics (scrappy flower people: Do non disturb). The image is part of a group show of images of death and the culture surrounding it at Bellwether, New York, through August 8. —Emma Pearse

Carey sets date for her new album

Carey sets date for her new album

Mariah Carey has announced wax inside information of her fresh record album, 'That Chick'.
Hoarding reports that the album will be released on 1 Apr and showcases Carey's talents as a pop, ballad and R&B vocaliser.
Among those world Health Organization ingest worked with Carey on the album are producers testament.i.am, Jermaine Dupri and Rodney Jerkins and reggae

Cole takes time out after allegations

Cole takes time out after allegations

Girls Loud vocalizer Cheryl Cole has reportedly left husband Ashley for a "break" after allegations the footballer cheated on her.
Her agent insisted the match were still together just confirmed the singer had gone on a break in order to think things through.
ITN quotes him as expression: "They ar by all odds still together. There is plainly tons of stuff going on at the second and Cheryl has gone out for a smash to clear her head for a few days."
It has been alleged Chelsea player Brassica oleracea acephala cheated on his married woman with a hairstylist.
It has besides emerged that the isaac Merrit Singer latterly told OK! cartridge that later this year she wanted to "start up workings on that infant. I require to be a thomas Young mammy".

Morbid

   
Artist: Morbid

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Metal: Death,Black
   

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 Tribute To The Black Emperors (Split With Mayhem) (Bootleg)

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Alba announces that she is engaged

Alba announces that she is engaged

Pregnant star topology Jessica Alba has announced that she is engaged to her boyfriend, celluloid producer Immediate payment Rabbit warren.
In an electronic mail to the Associated Press, Alba's publicizer, Brad Cafarelli, said: "I fanny confirm that they ar engaged."
Cafarelli said the couple's baby was due in late spring or early on summer.
Alba will next be seen on cinema screens in the thriller 'Awake'.




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Blood-drenched monster myth brought to opera stage

Blood-drenched monster myth brought to opera stage

Jack London (Reuters) - The grim Greek myth of the Minotaur, half-beast and half-human, has been brought to living in a freshly, blood-drenched opera by lead Brits composer Harrison Birtwistle.


The 73-year-old, dubbed the "senior high school non-Christian priest of coeval British music" by the Daily Telegraph, has worked on the musical composition for terzetto years, and composed it specifically for the Royal Opera House where it had its reality premier this week.


A group of Innocents is sacrificed to the wolf in his lair as a crowd around the bull mob bays for blood. Unity is raped, and vulture-like, shriek Keres charge the hearts from the victims.


"I think it's a rattling dark slice," Birtwistle told Reuters earlier the curtains went up on the thirstily anticipated work.


Critics agreed, describing the firearm as "barbaric" and "strange." Several reminded readers that, as expected with Birtwistle, the powerful and primitive sexual conquest offered few hum-along arias to take away afterward the testify.


"The Audio of Euphony it ain't," wrote The Times's Richard James Douglas Morrison.


Birtwistle had renowned British people basso Trick Tomlinson in head for the portion of the Minotaur, and his performance from behindhand a semi-transparent bull's mask evokes the audience's sympathy rather than repugnance in the fresh interpretation of the myth.


Librettist and poet Saint David Harsent came up with the estimation of giving the Minotaur the mightiness of linguistic communication through dreams, allowing it to express the desolation and depravation of an being trapped in the internal ear and an animal's body. 

Minogue 'deeply touched' by her OBE

Minogue 'deeply touched' by her OBE

Kylie Minogue has been awarded an OBE in British Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honours List.
Minogue, 39, said she was "deeply touched" to get the award from the country she calls her adopted home.
The star thanked her British fans for their love and support during her recovery from breast cancer.
The OBE comes nearly 20 years since 'I Should Be So Lucky' became the singer's first UK Number One.
Speaking from Australia, she said: "I am almost as surprised as I am honoured to be awarded an OBE by Her Majesty The Queen.
"I feel deeply touched to be acknowledged by the UK, my adopted home, in this way.
"This last year I have felt so much love and support from everyone as I took greater steps back into the public domain, and it is with absolute gratitude and joy that I say farewell to 2007 and look forward to what the New Year will bring."
The 39-year-old singer spent the Christmas holiday in Melbourne with her family.
Others to be honoured included veteran presenter Michael Parkinson, who received a knighthood, and actor Ian McKellen, who will join the Order of the Companions of Honour.