Wednesday 3 September 2008

No comeback for Britney at VMAs

It appears the emotional scars from Britney Spears� much maligned performance on MTV�s Video Music Awards last year haven�t cured quite yet.



After weeks of "will she or won�t she" speculation about whether Spears will perform once again this twelvemonth, her manager told Ryan Seacrest on Monday that she will not.


"Britney Spears will not be playacting at the VMAs this year. I�m telling you officially and unequivocally," said manager Larry Rudolf on Seacrest�s Kiss-FM morning wireless show in Los Angeles.


Who could forget Britney, world Health Organization used to steal the show with her vocal and dance performances, clumsily teetering about the stage last year with a bad hair weave and ill-fitting intimate apparel outfit? It was so bad, it was good.


When Spears of late appeared in a series of facetiously VMA promo commercials - complete with a 9,000-pound live elephant in the room-alongside this year�s host, British comedian Russell Brand - rumors swirled that she would seek redemption by performing once more at the upcoming present on September 7.


And piece Rudolf�s words to radio and TV personality Seacrest seem to be unshakable, given Spears� rollercoaster of a life this past year, anything could still happen.


Rudolf could not be reached for comment or confirmation simply Gina Orr, a spokeswoman for Spears� label Jive Records would neither reassert or deny that Britney will be absent from the VMA�s stage.


Orr's program line saying only, "Contrary to media reports, Britney was never slated to perform on this year�s VMAs. She's in the midsection of transcription her adjacent album, which is expiration amazingly well, and her focus corpse on the studio."


But it doesn�t say she won't perform and when pressed for a firm answer, Orr said the statement was all there was to be said.


So, in the language of TV pitch people everywhere, "rest tuned".


And would it be so big to see Britney perform, anyway?


A astral act might redeem Britney�s image in one case and for all. If not, the memories of her stupefied routine mightiness be the publicity bomb calorimeter that haunts her eternally.









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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Sony may bite on Spidey spinoff

Studio developing 'Venom,' quest new writers




With Heath Ledger's villainous Joker drawing attention and boxoffice dollars, Sony is moving forward with "Venom," a potential "Spider-Man" spinoff based on a bad guy.

The studio is developing the project, based on the gooey nemesis who appeared in "Spider-Man 3" and is hoping the character could dish up as an antidote to the ripening "Spider-Man" franchise in the way that Fox has used Wolverine to supply longevity to its "X-Men" franchise.

But getting any spinoff off the ground, let alone one centered on a baddie, can be tricky.

The studio had commissioned a potation of the script from Jacob Estes, a writer of the specialty film "Mean Creek," released various years ago by Paramount Classics. He's also attached to the Plan B drama "The Gifted."

But the studio is considering sledding in a different

Thursday 19 June 2008

The Tsinandali choir

The Tsinandali choir   
Artist: The Tsinandali choir

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   



Discography:


Table Songs of Georgia   
 Table Songs of Georgia

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10




 





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Friday 13 June 2008

Movers and shakers of TV industry gather in Banff to peddle, pitch and ponder

BANFF, Alta. - The majestic mountains and towering pines might seem a certain distraction, yet deals were made, sales were celebrated and the future of the television industry itself was pondered Monday at the annual Banff World Television Festival.

Westwind Pictures, the producers of CBC's "Little Mosque on the Prairie," announced a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Studios, which aims to get an Americanized version of the show on the Fox network.

The deal also involves another Westwind Pictures show currently in development; Fox will help Westwind develop the show and then determine if it wants to buy it.

"It's taken a long time to get here, some due to the writers' strike and some due to just making sure that we had the right collaborator," Mary Darling, head of Westwind Pictures, said of the deal for "Little Mosque."

"The reason we pursued a deal with this studio is because we really feel we've found people who are in synch with us on the vision of the show. They're very earnest in terms of getting the tone of the show right, and yet they want to make it as funny as possible in order for it to play to a wide audience."

The CBC sitcom, about a community of devout Muslims living in a small prairie town, won't be changed drastically for an American audience, Darling added.

"It'll be 'Little Mosque in Minnesota,' if I have my way," the Minnesota-born Darling said with a laugh.

BBC Worldwide and Toronto's Temple Street Productions, meanwhile, announced Monday that they'd entered into a development partnership.

BBC Worldwide has acquired a minority stake in Temple Street, which is already producing the Canadian version of the BBC hit series, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" The reality show, hosted by Gavin Crawford, premieres this weekend on CBC.

BBC Worldwide already bid successfully for international distribution rights to Temple Street's time-travel drama "The Session," debuting in January on CBC.

And Toronto-based Shaftesbury Films, the country's biggest producer of dramatic and children's programming, announced it had bought Smokebomb Entertainment, a developer of original, multi-platform digital content.

But it wasn't all wheeling and dealing at Banff on Monday. A number of seminars were devoted to the very future of the TV industry, with "Digital Heavy Hitters" featuring industry insiders who were managing to find success on the Web stemming from their television productions.

The issue of piracy - people recording TV shows and posting them on YouTube, for example - and rapidly changing viewing habits were weighing heavily on the minds of most TV executives at this year's festival. The industry is grappling with the challenges posed by the lucrative younger generation of viewers who want to watch their TV on the Internet, on their cellphones and on their hand-held devices.

Nonetheless there was still time for celebration. Brent Butt of "Corner Gas" fame won the Peter Ustinov Comedy Award while Sofia Milos from "The Border" was honoured with the festival's excellence award at a glitzy luncheon at the historic Banff Springs Hotel, the home of the festival.

"When you're honoured, it's hard not to feel honoured by it," Butt said with a laugh. "I'm honoured and humbled and it's a tremendous award ... I'm sure they've mistaken me for someone else, but I'll take it."

Among other awards announced at the luncheon:

Blueprint Entertainment, the producers of shows including "Kenny vs. Spenny" and "Whistler," was given the the Lionsgate/Maple Pictures Innovative Producer Award.

ABC Studios, the producer behind such hits as "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost," was given the outstanding achievement award.





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Friday 6 June 2008

Dabrye

Dabrye   
Artist: Dabrye

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   



Discography:


Two/Three   
 Two/Three

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 20


Additional Productions, Vol. 1   
 Additional Productions, Vol. 1

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 8




Dabrye is one of the aliases of Tadd Mullinix, an Ann Arbor, MI-based producer wHO carven a recession in the IDM community with early 2001's Nictitation Makes a Face (released under his possess name), a misrepresented record album that blended a crazy sense of sense of humour with real emotion. Later that year, Mullinix unveiled Dabrye with One/Three, the get-go of a three-part series that skews fractured hip-hop production. Falling into a categorical underworld, tracks from One/Three enjoyed frequent rotation on tastemaker Gilles Peterson's BBC radio programme, and "Hyped-Up Plus Tax" was finally licenced by Motorola. Instrmntl followed on Scott Herren's (Prefuse 73) Eastern Developments pronounce in 2002. Singles "The Payback" (featuring a Prefuse 73 remix) and "Plot Over" (a collaboration with Jay Dee and Phat Kat) were respectively released in 2002 and 2004, and various remixes for other artists were compiled for 2005's Additional Productions, Vol. 1. Two/Three, featuring several invitee MCs, followed in 2006.






Saturday 31 May 2008

Moods Of Nature

Moods Of Nature   
Artist: Moods Of Nature

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   



Discography:


Rainforest Reflections   
 Rainforest Reflections

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 5


Babbling Brook   
 Babbling Brook

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 5


Woodland Wonder   
 Woodland Wonder

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


The Tropical Rainforest   
 The Tropical Rainforest

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 14




 





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