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Report: Starbucks Coffee dumps music label after one year in business…

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Starbucks Coffee, the popular coffeehouse all over the United States has decided to dump it’s music label. Paul McCartney was the first artist to be signed to the label and released a record through it. Joni Mitchell and James Taylor were also on the label’s roster. The artists signed to the label will be turned over to Concord Music Group. The reason for dumping the label is to help save money for the coffees and foods for the actual coffeehouse business. Not only that, Ken Lombard who started the label is leaving the company. Starbucks has also made a deal with Apple LLC to go digital with the music, so customers can buy music from Apple Itunes music stores without paying WiFi connection.

Read more here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSWNAS968120080425

I somehow predicted this label wouldn’t last long so it didn’t surprise me. They wouldn’t dump it if it was a successful label.

Kev

 

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Report: Ewan McGregor in for “Angels and Demons”???

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The former Star Wars star Ewan McGregor is in negotiations to play alongside Tom Hanks in “Angels and Demons” prequel. Ewan may play the character Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca, who is a pope from the novel.

Ewan McGregor has been an underrated actor for  years but became a household star after playing Obi Won Kenobi in the three Star Wars prequels.

Dark Horizons reports:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/080425g.php

Look like Ron Howard is in a hurry to get the casting done and bet he can’t wait to start filming!!! I can’t blame him since his project was interupted by the WGA writers strike.

Kev

 

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Report: Christian Slater and a few others confirmed for Stephen King’s “Dolan’s Cadillac” film…

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Three actors have been confirmed to play the leading roles in the Stephen King adapted film “Dolan’s Cadillac”. The film is adapted from the short story that was published in the novel “Nightmare’s and Dreamscapes”. Christian Slater is one of those actors confirmed for the film, he is set to play the leading character Jimmy Dolan. Some of Christian Slater’s well known film roles include “Gleaming the Cube”, “Heathers”, “Young Guns II”, “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”, “Kuffs”, “True Romance”, “Hard Rain”, etc.

Actor Wes Bentley and actress Emmanuelle Vaugier are set to play alongside Christian Slater.

“Dolan’s Cadillac” is about an innocent man who seeks revenge on a mob boss who murdered his wife. Filming of the movie is expected to begin May 14th.

Years ago Kevin Bacon and Sylvester Stallone were asked to do this film and both were interested but later turned it down.

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i0f3a7216274d5d82dabea16b4cd67c37

Finally! It’s great to finally see Christian Slater get a big role after years of doing small roles in films. It’s going to be interesting seeing Christian as a villain.

Kev

 

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BREAKING NEWS: Yoko Oh-No on a suing rampage again…

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Yoko Oh-No is at it again. First she threatens to sue female rock artist Lennon Murphy for rights over her first name, now she is suing the producers that challenges the concept of the Darwinian evolution. She is accusing them of using John Lennon’s historic song “Imagine” without her permission. The name of the film that wants to use the song is titled, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” which stars comedian Ben Stein who starred in a string of Red Eye commercials and hosted Comedy Central’s “Win Ben Stein’s Money”.

The complaint in the suit asks the court to stop the film from promoting, distrubiting, promoting the movie and seeks financial damages.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hlCmrQJO7lSHjdN0BtU_ZANKDLugD908083O0

No, the way I see it, the world of blogosphere’s is not accusing her of “selling out” because of the use of the song in that film. Yoko’s always been a sellout for years.

It’s a fact that the fans of the Beatles despises this evil woman.

Yoko and J.K. Rowling would be good friends, they should drink together in a bar talking about stuff like how powerful, ego-ish, and controlling they are.

Kev

 

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Report: “Superman: Returns” sequel in the news again…

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If you read this website in this Hamilton College webpage, in it hints there will be a Superman: Returns Sequel….

“While he explained that Legendary focuses on commercial projects over independent films, he said that the company seeks to make the stories they tell “elevated” and take the source material seriously. Legendary’s roster of upcoming films includes a wide variety of properties, including Watchmen (from the renowned graphic novel), Akira (a remake of the popular Japanese anime film), a Superman sequel (in
Which Tull hopes to invoke more of the image of “an angry god”), Clash of the Titans, Where the Wild Things Are and a film of Paradise Lost (Tull is particularly interested in the “[story] arc of Lucifer”). Tull is also sponsoring the Legendary Film Treatment Challenge, an upcoming opportunity to submit film treatments to Legendary Pictures for consideration.”

http://www.hamilton.edu/news/more_news/display.cfm?id=13939

Also Brandon Routh himself, did an exclusive interview with collider website that Brandon is definitely interested in playing Superman still…

See the interview here:

http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/7675/tcid/1

My god. Isn’t it amazing how Brandon looks and talks almost exactly like Christopher Reeve even when he’s not filming movies? I think that’s why Brandon got the job to play Superman in the first place.

What do they mean by turning the next Superman movie into an “angry god”. Are they hinting an intense villain other than Lex Luthor that Superman will fight against? Or will Superman get turned into a villain like he did in “Superman III”?

I’m glad Brandon is still playing the role and it’s great to see a video where he said from the mouth himself to prove that he is still playing the character, my belief just to squash the nasty rumours of him dropping out of the role.

Kev

 

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Report: Robert Langdon sidekick found for “Angels and Demons” prequel…

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An actress named Ayelet Zurer has been confirmed to play alongside Tom Hanks for the “Angels and Demons” prequel to “The Da Vinci Code”. Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are now finally back to work on “Angels and Demons” since the writers strike is officially over. She can be seen in other films such as “Vantage Point” and Steven Spielberg’s “Munich”. She is an actress from Israel.

Entertainment Weekly reports:

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/04/israeli-actress.html

Glad the film is back on a roll! I enjoyed “Angels and Demons” way more than “The DaVinci Code” book. I expect “Angels and Demons” film to be at least three hours since the book is pretty thick.

Kev

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Report: Stuntman gravely injured in James Bond stunt…

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Making crazy action movies with crazy stunts has been dangerous these days. A stuntman getting killed in a dangerous Batmobile wreck in “The Dark Knight” is just the beggining. The James Bond “Quantum of Solace” gets even better.

The film crew of 007 “Quantum of Solace” were filming a high speed car chase scene in Italy. That was real, it is no CGI or staged crap baloney, this is 100% real car chasing, using real cars and all. It was reported that director of the film Marc Forster and leading star Daniel Craig both were NOT at the scene.

At least a few stunt men were injured, and as you saw on reports, one car went off the road and the car actually went into the lake. An experience stunt driver is in critical condition, “gravely” injured means this could be life threatening.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hiOpB5EMIqCLOesy8cYBOLX6MPLAD908AF8O0

I find it amazing that these film makers are risking their lives desperately trying to make a scene exactly it is in the script no matter how dangerous the scene is.

In the past, action movies used to be made in CGI, in studio and on the stage, etc. Today is not like that anymore. Action movies these days have been doing the real thing to make it realistic.

Sly Stallone admitted in a few articles in the past that he was injured quite a bit when he was filming the new “Rambo”, most everything was done for real in “Rambo”, the only fake thing in “Rambo” was when Rambo was rolling down the hill with the explosion coming behind him, that was the only thing done in CGI, but the rest of the movie was real.

Kev

 

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Report: Stone Temple Pilots hopes to open for Led Zeppelin…

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Stone Temple Pilots spoke with MTV News revealing why they reunited. The reason why they reunited is that the band hopes to open for Led Zeppelin. If Led Zeppelin confirms a full fledged world tour in the future, STP offers Led Zeppelin to contact the guys in STP if Led Zep ever needs an opening act.

MTV.com reports:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1586020/20080422/stone_temple_pilots.jhtml

Who doesn’t want to open for Led Zeppelin? Anybody would, even I would.

Ever since Led Zeppelin reunited, it inspired more bands from the past to come back.

The latest band from the past to reunite recently was Janes Addiction.

Kev

 

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Cool Video: Bill O’ Reilly trashes Miley Cyrus for revealing photos…

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I hate Bill O’ Reilly but I actually agree with him in this video 100%.

Miley’s achy breaky dad Billy Ray allows her to dress like this?

I blame her boyfriend in these photos for this, he is probably the one who uploaded these photos to the internet.

http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=0b9da2d5-0d0c-4aba-aae4-73fa1d4f6cc6

Kev

 

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