MTV Video Premiere For 'Love In This Club' Will Air Exclusively Across MTV,
BET and VH1 Networks on April 7th
Smash single 'Love In This Club' Heats Up The Charts
NEW YORK, April 2, 2008 -- LaFace/Zomba recording artist
Usher sets to release his eagerly awaited album "Here I Stand" on May 27th.
Originally scheduled for a June release the highly anticipated album has
been pushed up in order to satiate increasing global demand from all of his
fans. The video for "Love In This Club" will make its worldwide debut on
MTV April 7th and the latest smash hit sits comfortably at #2 as the weeks
greatest Airplay Gainer on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
Usher's newest single, "Love In This Club," features Young Jeezy, and
is co-written by Usher and produced by Polow Da Don. The smash hit
currently holds the #2 position on both the Hot 100 and Hot Digital Tracks
charts. The song became his eighth #1 hit and is the lead single from his
forthcoming, fifth studio album, Here I Stand. The video for "Love In This
Club" was directed by the rising directing tandem of the Brothers Strause
and will have its worldwide debut on MTV, BET and VH1 on April 7th.
Slated for global release on May 27th, Here I Stand is Usher's
follow-up to his history-making, 9x platinum-selling Confessions. Within
the first week of the release of Confessions, Usher sold more than any
other R&B artist in the history of SoundScan. The album spawned four #1 hit
singles and Usher spent 40 weeks in the No. 1 position on The Billboard Hot
100- which is more than any other male artist in the nearly 50 year history
of the chart. Worldwide, the multi-talented, five-time Grammy-winner,
musician and actor has sold nearly 14 million copies of Confessions and it
earned a multitude of honors including MTV, BET, and People's Choice
awards.
Over the span of his 14-year career, Usher has sold close to 26 million
albums worldwide and combining all of his single, album and DVD sales, he's
sold in excess of 36 million units globally. With four studio albums, the
eponymous first release, Usher (1994) and multi-platinum albums, the 6x-
platinum My Way (1997),the 4x-platinum 8701 (2001), and the 9x-platinum
Confessions (2004) and one gold-certified live album simply titled Live
(1999), and a string of #1 hit singles including "U Remind Me," "U Got It
Bad," "Yeah," "Burn," and "My Boo" Usher's return to the top of the charts
is inevitable. The Tennessee-born, Atlanta raised performer, songwriter,
producer, dancer, actor started his multi-faceted career at the age of 15-
years old.
Usher Raymond IV has achieved what few other contemporary entertainers
have ever accomplished. He most recently launched a successful line of
signature fragrances, actively heads up his own charity, New Look
Foundation, a camp for teens that teaches them about the entertainment
business, and he is part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.
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Friday, 27 June 2008
FlyTunes(TM) Adds Video, Customization to Mobile Content Network
Over 350 content channels now available on iPhone and iPod Touch
LANCASTER, Pa., May 15 -- FlyTunes Inc. today announced
several major changes to its mobile content network, popularized on the
iPhone and iPod Touch. Beginning today, FlyTunes is adding video and audio
podcasts, a new user interface, and a customizable channel guide. As the
first content network specifically focused on mobile devices, the FlyTunes
network has experienced explosive user growth since its launch in January
at CES.
With over 200 new channels available immediately, the new video and
audio channels cover a wide range of topics, including news, entertainment,
politics, kids & family, health, comedy, business and technology. With
today's additions, FlyTunes now offers users over 350 channels of music,
talk, video and podcast entertainment choices, far more than fee-based
satellite radio services.
To ease users' ability to find the content they want from its
ever-increasing channel options, FlyTunes is also releasing a new,
streamlined user interface that lets users quickly find and select desired
channels from two simple dialog boxes. Each selected channel now displays
more detailed information, including an SMS text message link to allow
users to send friends a direct link to listen in. The new MyGuide feature
allows users to personalize their mobile media experience by enabling or
disabling individual channels and even entire genres from the selection
menu.
"The mobile Internet is a completely new paradigm for content and ad
delivery, very different from traditional broadcast radio and TV," said
FlyTunes CEO Sam Abadir. "FlyTunes offers an unmatched variety of media
that our customers can personalize to match their tastes and enjoy anywhere
they go on the device that they already own."
The new channels, user interface and guide editor are available
immediately to all FlyTunes users. FlyTunes is available at no charge --
new users can sign up at http://www.FlyTunes.fm.
About FlyTunes
FlyTunes Inc. (FlyTunes.fm) was founded as 2006 by a group of seasoned
PC industry veterans to create cutting edge media management technology for
mobile digital media players. In January 2008 the company announced its
revolutionary content network that delivers Internet radio content to
portable cell phones and media players.
FlyTunes, FlyTunes.fm are registered trademarks. All other trademarks
and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
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LANCASTER, Pa., May 15 -- FlyTunes Inc. today announced
several major changes to its mobile content network, popularized on the
iPhone and iPod Touch. Beginning today, FlyTunes is adding video and audio
podcasts, a new user interface, and a customizable channel guide. As the
first content network specifically focused on mobile devices, the FlyTunes
network has experienced explosive user growth since its launch in January
at CES.
With over 200 new channels available immediately, the new video and
audio channels cover a wide range of topics, including news, entertainment,
politics, kids & family, health, comedy, business and technology. With
today's additions, FlyTunes now offers users over 350 channels of music,
talk, video and podcast entertainment choices, far more than fee-based
satellite radio services.
To ease users' ability to find the content they want from its
ever-increasing channel options, FlyTunes is also releasing a new,
streamlined user interface that lets users quickly find and select desired
channels from two simple dialog boxes. Each selected channel now displays
more detailed information, including an SMS text message link to allow
users to send friends a direct link to listen in. The new MyGuide feature
allows users to personalize their mobile media experience by enabling or
disabling individual channels and even entire genres from the selection
menu.
"The mobile Internet is a completely new paradigm for content and ad
delivery, very different from traditional broadcast radio and TV," said
FlyTunes CEO Sam Abadir. "FlyTunes offers an unmatched variety of media
that our customers can personalize to match their tastes and enjoy anywhere
they go on the device that they already own."
The new channels, user interface and guide editor are available
immediately to all FlyTunes users. FlyTunes is available at no charge --
new users can sign up at http://www.FlyTunes.fm.
About FlyTunes
FlyTunes Inc. (FlyTunes.fm) was founded as 2006 by a group of seasoned
PC industry veterans to create cutting edge media management technology for
mobile digital media players. In January 2008 the company announced its
revolutionary content network that delivers Internet radio content to
portable cell phones and media players.
FlyTunes, FlyTunes.fm are registered trademarks. All other trademarks
and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
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Jihad for Love
In a time when Islam is under tremendous attack from within and without, A Jihad for Love is a daring documentary filmed in twelve countries and nine languages. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma has gone where the silence is loudest, filming with great risk in nations where government permission to make this film was not an option.
A Jihad for Love is the world's first feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. Parvez enters the many worlds of Islam by illuminating multiple stories as diverse as Islam itself. The film travels a wide geographic arc presenting us lives from India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa and France. Always filming in secret and as a Muslim, Parvez makes the film from within the faith, depicting Islam with the same respect that the film's characters show for it. --© First Run Features
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A Jihad for Love is the world's first feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. Parvez enters the many worlds of Islam by illuminating multiple stories as diverse as Islam itself. The film travels a wide geographic arc presenting us lives from India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa and France. Always filming in secret and as a Muslim, Parvez makes the film from within the faith, depicting Islam with the same respect that the film's characters show for it. --© First Run Features
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Thursday, 26 June 2008
Life different for documentary unit in new world of 'reality' TV
NEW YORK - In filming a sequel to a 2000 series about Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, ABC News producers found that reality television had changed how they could present reality on television.
The network's six-part series following the lives of doctors and patients, "Hopkins," premieres Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT, the first of a handful of summer series from ABC News. This one traces steps first taken on "Hopkins 24/7" eight years ago.
Back then, executive producer Terence Wrong's cinema-verite style was relatively novel for a news division and for prime-time television in general. Now television is flooded with series that feature real people but aren't exactly non-fiction.
"If you put on a show where real human beings are fighting for their lives, the hope is that the authenticity will come through and distinguish the show from what is called reality television," Wrong said.
TV cameras make most people nervous, but in convincing Hopkins to participate Wrong also had to deal with the cynicism of some doctors that he was making just another reality show instead of realistically trying to portray life at a big hospital. That wasn't an issue a decade ago.
"I was flat-out scared," said Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, a brain surgeon. "I was scared for my patients. I was scared for my family. I was scared for myself."
Wrong tried to counter the skepticism with time.
ABC's crews spent four months at Hopkins, taking thousands of hours of film. Stories unfolded naturally and characters emerged. It reached the point where Quinones-Hinojosa said he forgot the cameras were there.
Alex Piper, who worked on Wrong's crew, contrasted that with reality series he had worked on for Los Angeles-based producers who fed cable networks. Filming would be done in a month or two. Some stars of reality series have complained that they were made into caricatures so they would fit a story producers had in mind.
"Then we come on the air without manipulation or choreography," Wrong said. "Are the viewers making a distinction? Do you get brownie points for making something that is a true documentary? The answer is no. But you have to be dramatic enough and entertaining enough to hold their attention against all of these other shows. And that's a very high bar."
Quinones-Hinojosa is one of several strong characters in Thursday's first episode. He climbed over a border fence from Mexico as a youth to pick fruit in California, and eventually became one of the nation's top brain surgeons.
Some of the stories are titillating, almost like soap operas. ABC focuses on Karen Boyle, a rare female urologist, and a couple she is treating where the man is trying to reverse a vasectomy. A resident, Brian Bethea, is chronicled in the midst of marital trouble. He agonizes on camera about it in one raw moment, fed by fatigue and emotion; yet, he's also shown at a bar, flirting with women.
Call him the Dr. McDreamy of "Hopkins."
It's an apt analogy. Makers of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" have told Wrong that "Hopkins 24/7" partly inspired their prime-time medical drama. Now ABC is promoting "Hopkins" with spots interspersing pictures of its real-life characters with the fictional doctors and nurses on "Grey's Anatomy."
It is prime-time television, after all, and Wrong said he had to pick stories with entertainment in mind. He's studied dramas and adapted some of their techniques, such as tiny cliffhangers before commercial breaks so viewers won't wander. The original series eight years ago used a narrator; now the story moves forward without one. Wrong also hired some struggling singer-songwriters to give "Hopkins" a soundtrack.
"I hope that what people get out of this is that we are just like everyone else," Quinones-Hinojosa said. "We're human beings. We try to do the best we can with what we have."
ABC's news division will be active in prime time this summer. Also debuting this week is the limited series "Primetime: The Outsiders," about people who live on the fringes of society. The first episode will be about a group of Amish teenagers. The network is also doing recurring true-crime yarns and a series on family secrets.
A two-hour special theorizing on what the world will look like in the year 2100 is in the works, although it's not likely to be ready until mid-September.
The news producers have the opportunity because ABC's regular prime-time lineup does particularly poorly in the summer. Viewers have little interest in watching reruns of serial dramas like "Grey's Anatomy" or "Desperate Housewives," while self-contained dramas like CBS' "NCIS" repeat well.
Still, there was a valedictory sense among ABC producers when they talk about long-form projects. Networks are cutting costs, and it was more difficult to get approval from the company to film "Hopkins" than it was a decade ago, said Phyllis McGrady, ABC News senior vice president for creative development.
The ratings performance of "Hopkins" will say a lot toward whether ABC News gets to make similar series in the future, she said.
"I feel like it's a unicorn," Wrong said of the project. "It's the rarest of things. You don't see this sort of thing on network television."
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On the Net:
http://www.hopkins.abcnews.com
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org
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Travis To Self-Release J Smith EP
Travis are to self-release a new EP via their own record label, Red Telephone Box.
The label actually spawned the band's very first EP 'All I Want To Do Is Rock' and as with that 1996 release, frontman Fran Healy has designed the artwork.
The EP will be sold as a 10" and download, featuring the song 'J Smith' - which serves as the title track from the forthcoming album 'Ode To J Smith', as well as b-sides 'Get Up' and 'Sarah',
All Travis fans who purchase the EP from travisonline.com will be able to purchase the 10" for �3.49 or an exclusive bundle of the 3 track digital download and a signed copy of the 10" vinyl for only �3.99.
The album 'Ode to J Smith' is complete and due for release in the Autumn.
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Tom Hanks loses Idaho home construction dispute
KETCHUM, Idaho —
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A Blaine County judge has rejected Tom Hanks' second request for arbitration over what the actor says was $2.5 million in faulty workmanship by the construction company that built his sprawling compound north of this central Idaho resort town.
Following the decision, a lawyer for the construction company said it will seek monetary damages from Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, for what it alleges was "abuse of process" for filing the second arbitration request.
Fifth District Court Judge Robert Elgee ruled late last week that the dispute between Hanks and Storey Construction Inc. had already been decided in 2004 when the American Arbitration Association ruled in favor of Storey and awarded the company $1.85 million in unpaid contract balance, interest and legal fees.
In November, Hanks and Wilson filed the second arbitration request, alleging "latent" construction defects had been discovered. Elgee rejected that request.
"The judge essentially ruled that they had their chance in the prior arbitration," Miles Stanislaw, a Ketchum attorney representing Storey, told the Idaho Mountain Express. "So unlike the movies where you get to do it over again, in Blaine County you don't get a do-over if you don't like the results the first time around."
New York public relations firm 42 West, which represents Hanks and Wilson, issued a statement saying an appeal is likely by Sun Valley Trust, the company listed as the owner of the property.
"The court ruled against Sun Valley Trust, but also admitted that its decision was harsh," John Hanover, an attorney with Los Angeles-based Peckar and Abramson, said in the statement. "Idaho law in this technical area is not clearly established and everyone, including the judge, knew that this issue was headed for the Idaho Court of Appeals regardless of how Thursday's hearing turned out. We think that the right result here is for my clients' case to be heard and decided on its merits, and we trust that the Court of Appeals will ultimately agree."
"I am happy that this nightmare is finally over," Gary Storey, owner of Storey Construction, said in a statement. "This ongoing harassment from Hanks and Wilson has put tremendous stress on me, my family and my business."
Stanislaw, in the same statement, said Storey Construction will seek monetary damages from Hanks and Wilson.
"Damages are potentially in the millions since Idaho law allows for the award of punitive damages against those who use the legal system for spiteful or improper purposes," Stanislaw said.
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Nicole Richie - Richie Sells Off Designer Engagement Party Gown
New mum NICOLE RICHIE is selling off the vintage Halston gown she wore to her ill-fated 2005 engagement party.
The size 0 dress will be on show at the Fisch for The Hip consignment store in New York, where fashion experts expect it to sell for $3,000 (GBP1,500).
Richie has kept the gold garment even though her engagement to Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein fell flat, but now she's starting a new life with rocker Joel Madden, she has decided it's time to let the item go.
A source tells In Touch magazine, "Nicole loved this dress. It's a piece of art."
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Depp Has 'No Plans' To Wed Paradis
Johnny Depp's publicist has been forced to speak out to quash new reports alleging the actor and his longtime partner Vanessa Paradis have married. The Pirates Of The Caribbean star was rumoured to be planning to wed Paradis at Sandra Bullock's Georgia home earlier this month , but Depp's representative shot down those claims, insisting they were false. New rumours arose this week (ends20Jun08), alleging Depp and Paradis were to exchange nuptials in Kentucky. But Depp's spokesperson has again had to move fast to nix those reports, telling Usmagazine.com the claims are "not true". The representative adds: "There is no wedding." The couple has been together for 10 years and have two children - Lily-Rose, nine, and John, six.
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