Blu-ray Sales Fly Into The Blue

After a rather slow start, gross revenue of Blu-ray high-definition titles are accelerating and are likely to take cancelled exponentially during the vacation season, according to a report by U.K.-based Futuresource. Blu-ray titles will account for around 12 pct of video sales by the end of the year, the research firm said, and will lift t 61 percent by 2012. In a statement Futuresource managing director Jim Bottoms said, "What has impressed me most is the way the retailers are supporting Blu-ray and how much space they are gift over to Blu-ray discs."

21/08/2008

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Video game reviews: "Guitar Hero" and Aerosmith come together

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"Guitar Hero: Aerosmith"

"Guitar Hero: Aerosmith" is the up-to-the-minute title in the popular rhythm-game series, and its focus on the ex-serviceman rockers limits its appeal.

The bulk of the game's 40 or so songs are Aerosmith tunes. Factoring in several solo songs from Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, the band or its members hog the spotlight, leaving only a dozen or so spots for cuts from the likes of Joan Jett, the Clash, Ted Nugent and the Kinks.

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Annie Lennox urges women to invigorate AIDS fight

MEXICO CITY �

Annie Lennox says complacency threatens to obtuse the fight against AIDS.

The singer-songwriter is participating in the international AIDS league in Mexico City this week as an ambassador for Oxfam.

On Saturday, she urged artists, musicians, filmmakers and women to maintain the issue at the forefront. She says, "This dialogue must not go off the table."

Lennox has launched a campaign called "Sing", which includes a song she recorded with 23 distaff singers to raise money for AIDS. She as well is political campaign on behalf of South African women and children infected with HIV.

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Kate Rusby

   
Artist: Kate Rusby

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Underneath The Stars

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Little Lights

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11

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Folk singer/songwriter Kate Rusby has lived in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, since nascency, and grew up in a musical kin. Her parents had a ceilidh dance band and introduced her to British common people at an early eld. Along with her sister, Emma, Rusby joined the banding, vocalizing backup and playing the goldbrick. By the clock time she was 12, Rusby besides sang lead and played guitar.


At 15, she debuted at the Holmfirth Festival, and was introduced to another thomas Young folksinger, Kathryn Roberts; afterwards playing together live for a while, the duo recorded Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts, which south Korean won Folk Roots' 1995 Album of the Year prize. Rusby besides collaborates with the female folk ensemble the Poozies, coming into court on their 1997 album Come Raise Your Head and 1998's Infinite Blue. On her possess, Kate Rusby has released 1998's Hourglass, and 1999 byword the U.S. vent of Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts as well as the solo Insomniac. Slight Lights appeared in spring 2001. She released 10, a accumulation of re-recorded and new tunes, as well as a fistful of live cuts in 2003, followed by the acclaimed Underneath the Stars in 2004. Girl Who Couldn't Fly arrived the succeeding year.





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Paramount domestic box office passes $1 billion

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paramount Pictures said on Monday it had topped $1 billion in sales at U.S. and Canadian box offices, boosted by hit films "Iron Man" and the latest "Indiana Jones" saga, and become the first studio to pass that benchmark.


Last week, the film studio, which is owned by Viacom Inc, surpassed the $1 billion mark in international ticket sales.


"Iron Man" has now grossed $305 million domestically (U.S. and Canada) for Paramount, while director Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" pulled in $291 million.


Animated movie "Kung Fu Panda," which was produced by DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc and distributed in domestic markets by Paramount Pictures has made $156 million.


(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Andre Grenon)

Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head

Scarlett Johansson has released her debut album


It seems wherever you turn your head, you can�t escape that distinctive red lipstick and unbelievably gorgeous profile of 23 year old American actress Scarlett Johansson. Few could say that they haven�t seen one of her movies or ad commercials for the likes of Calvin Klein, L�Oreal or Louis Vuitton. However many more would be surprised to know of Scarlett�s vocal talents, even after seeing her karaoke performance in �Lost in Translation� with Bill Murray.
At such a young age, there is more than meets the eye to Scarlett, who has expressed her feelings about monogamy, saying that she doesn�t believe its human nature to be with just one person, and stated (as reported in the Washington Post) that she gets HIV tested every 6 months as it�s part of being a �decent human being�.  
Anywhere I Lay My Head is Scarlett�s first album, and features her inspired vocal interpretations of 10 Tom Waits songs, plus one original track, written by Johansson and album producer David Sitek (TV one the Radio). As an undeniable bonus, two tracks on the album, �Falling Down� and �Fannin Street� feature backing vocals by non other than David Bowie. Yeah Yeah Yeah�s guitarist Nick Zanner and �multi-instrumentalist� Sean Antanaitis also comprise but a couple of the members of the band behind the album�s music. 
Tom Waits began recording studio albums 10 years before Scarlett was even born. Possibly one of the best testaments to great music (and lyrics) being timeless. Anywhere I Lay My Head creates new interpretations for Waits songs that featured across 8 different Tom Waits albums.
Interestingly, the album was recorded over 5 weeks in a small country town of Maurice, Louisiana, and subtly incorporates the sounds of nature captured by microphone outside, while the group recorded indoors. And in a way, as was Scarlett�s voice, for on many of the songs, it is just as melded into the music as the hordes of insects singing their life melody.
It will be interesting to see what the Tom Wait fans of the world think of Scarlett�s elucidation of the man, however as someone who considers herself Tom Wait �uneducated�, I judge this album on it�s own merits, without pretence. Scarlett�s voice is like a husky whisper within the trees, the words working their way around the delicate forestry that is the collective brilliance of team Sitek brought together.










Best described as a soft Alt/Indie genre, and produced for a niche audience, Anywhere I Lay My Head  will alternate between working you into a lullaby trance, and capturing an introspective mood that will bring about the best memories of youth.
Tracklisting:
1) Fawn
2) Town with No Cheer
3) Falling Down
4) Anywhere I Lay my Head
5) Fannin Street
6) Song for Jo
7) Green Grass
8) I Wish I was in New Orleans
9) I Don�t Want to Grow Up
10) No One Knows I�m Gone
11) Who Are You?

MTV Movie honors

The "Transformers," the blockbuster about robots in disguise, took home the golden popcorn trophy for best film at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night, and Johnny Depp won two buckets for best comedic performance and best villain at the awards show in Universal City, Calif. Adam Sandler won the Generation Award, the show's highest honor.

Other winners included Ellen Paige for best female performance for "Juno"; Will Smith for best male performance for "I Am Legend"; and Zac Efron for best breakthrough performance for "Hairspray."

Today in History

1897: Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration."

1924: Congress passed a measure that was then signed by President Coolidge granting American citizenship to all U.S.-born American Indians.

1953: Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

1979: Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

Today's Birthdays

Actor Stacy Keach, 67. Actor Jerry Mathers, 60. Comedian Dana Carvey, 53. Actor-comedian Wayne Brady, 36. Actor Wentworth Miller, 36. Actor Zachary Quinto, 31. Actor Deon Richmond, 30. Rock musician Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes), 28.

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You can't beat your bandmates

I know a good bond is key to a successful band, but surely ALPHABEAT take it a
step too far.

The Danish pop group reveal they frequently all snog each other when they are
out on the lash during on this weekend's Nokia Green Room show.

Considering there is just one woman in the six-person outfit, it could get
interesting.
ANDERS SG said: "There's actually always a bit of kissing going on
when we get a bit drunk.

"Good European fun!"

Watch a video clip of the admission below.

Spears sparks pregnancy rumours

Spears sparks pregnancy rumours

Pop isaac M. Singer Britney Spears has sparked reports that she is expecting her tierce kid afterward being photographed shopping for a pregnancy test.
The photographs, which appear on People magazine's web site, register Spears and her newly young man, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib looking through maternity tests at a patronize.
The pictures were reportedly released by Ghalib's exposure agency, FinalPixx.
The rumours come in in the same calendar week that Spears fled a courthouse without attending the about recent hearing over custody of her deuce thomas Young sons.
The boys are currently in the sole custody of their fatherhood Kevin Federline after a judge stripped Spears of her visitation rights pursuit a hands dispute at her place.
The vocalizer after had to be hospitalised for evaluation after she was deemed to be under the influence on an alien substance.

Vromb

   
Artist: Vromb

   Genre(s): 
Industrial
   Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Locomotive VLS

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 4


   
 InterlG¼der EP

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 5

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Mom's having tummy tuck? What to tell the kids

Mom's having tummy tuck? What to tell the kids

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mom's acquiring a tum rapier and a newly nose. Merely how does she separate her kids?


A FL plastic operating surgeon has written the first known picture al-Qur'an aimed at 4-7 year-olds that seeks to reassure them well-nigh momma going under the knife.


But the book, "My Beautiful Mom", has stirred up a hornet's nest among feminists and still roughly cosmetic surgeons wHO feel it may undermine the self-pride of the very young.


Dr Michael Salzhauer, a father of quaternary, said he wrote the book because many of his patients are having "mum makeovers" to fix saggy breasts and abate tummies a few eld later accouchement and were concerned about what to tell apart their kids.


"It sounds like a prank only in that respect truly is a need to address this publication," Salzhauer told Reuters. "It is for the mamma world Health Organization has already booked her plastic surgery and now has to separate her kids, wherefore she is release to be in bed, wherefore pappa is picking the kids up from school and wholly those other issues."


"Hundreds of thousands of women own this operation in the United States. This is for a specific consumer at a specific time in their life that is going to turn their family top side down for a duo of weeks."


According to the American Companionship of Plastic Surgeons, 1.8 1000000 charge card surgery procedures were performed in the United States in 2007 -- near of them chest augmentations and suction lipectomy.


Salzhauer said feedback to the book from his have patients has been very positive. But more or less of the explanations from the attractive, cartoon-style mummy in the rule book have sparked a furious online contend. 





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Lutfi 'cooperating' with Britney Spears' family

Lutfi 'cooperating' with Britney Spears' family

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles approximate today extended a restraining society against Britney Spears' former self-styled managing director until July 31, under an agreement between attorneys for both sides.The ruling means that Surface-to-air missile Lutfi cadaver barred from advent within 250 yards of the Grammy-winning pop star or her property, in retention with the terms of the original restraining fiat issued by another judge in February and already extended once."We conceive this is in the best interests of Overleap Spears," her lawyer, Vivian Thoreen, told Superior Motor hotel Judge Aviva K. Bobb in request for the parliamentary procedure.Thoreen presented the try with an understanding between lawyers for both sides to keep the restraining order in billet.Lutfi was not in homage merely his spokesman, Michael Sands, said he had agreed to go the restraining order."Surface-to-air missile and the mob are cooperating and trying to do what's best for Britney," Littoral said in a statement.In obtaining the archetype ordering, Spears' mother, Lynne Spears, accused Lutfi of sedation her girl in orderliness to take control of her life and funds.


Spears' beginner, Jamie Spears, has meanwhile taken control of her affairs under a court-ordered conservatorship as the 26-year-old entertainer's career has turn buried under an avalanche of personal and health problems.Before this year, she was hospitalized twice and placed under psychiatric evaluation, merely has since returned to workings.Spears north Korean won congratulations for her much-discussed edgar Albert Guest role in the CBS situation comedy How I Met Your Female parent, and said she had a "blast" playing a skin doctor role supporter named Abby.She was involved in a tiddler traffic accident on a Los Angeles state highway on Sabbatum when she rear-ended another car with her Mercedes.- REUTERS

Ex EastEnder recovering after health scare

Ex EastEnder recovering after health scare

Former 'EastEnders' star Todd Carty has been discharged from hospital subsequently a health scare, which saw him become "violently sick" while on stage at the weekend.
According to the BBC, the 44-year-old worker, wHO played Scrape Fowler in 'EastEnders', became ill during a performance of 'The Byplay of Murder' at The Gordon Craig House in Stevenage, Hertfordshire on Saturday.
Carty's agent Derek Noah Webster later rung to BBC News 24, expression that the actor became "violently sick" on stage and was taken to hospital as a solution.
John Webster said: "It mightiness have had something to do with an ear contagion that Lord Todd has been hurt from for a few years now - I can't really confirm that."
"He did break down on stagecoach, he was violently sick. The field of operations staff brought the curtain cut down, rushed him to the Stevenage hospital."
Webster later said: "He was kept in hospital overnight for tests merely was released yesterday. All is well and he volition be endorse at work tomorrow motion-picture photography a fresh TV show."
Carty, world Health Organization shot to celebrity as Tucker Jenkins in 'Grange Hill', too recently played PC Gabriel Kent in 'The Bill'.




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Music Instructor feat. Dean

   
Artist: Music Instructor feat. Dean

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Super Fly [Upper MC]

   Year:    
Tracks: 18

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