Takes cover spot for fourth weekend
The summer time of year concluded on the international circuit with more whimper than slam as Warner�s latest Batman adventure, "The Dark Knight," finished No. 1 with an estimated $19 billion � a 45% drop from the prior stanza � from 6,580 screens in 62 markets.
In taking the top spot for the third consecutive frame (one-fourth weekend overall), "Dark Knight" pushed its international crying total past tense the $400-million mark ($416.7) and rallied its worldwide accept to near $1 jillion boxoffice territorial dominion ($919.1 million).
Ranking No.3 on the weekend domestically, "Dark Knight" finished No. 2 in Germany in its second marketplace weekend with an estimated $4.4 million from 955 sites. In France it ruined No. 1 for the third weekend in a row with an estimated $3.3 million from 820 screens.
"Babylon A.D.," with Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh and Gerard Depardieu, which opened No. 2 domestically, wound its second weekend on the international electrical circuit with an estimated $3.2 million.�
About $1.5 million of that came its sec weekend in France where Studio Canal released the sci-fi action vehicle directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. twentieth Century Fox International drew an estimated $1.3 million from 377 screens in four other markets including the U.K., where the rubric ranked No. 7 on the weekend.� Universal contributed some other $375,000 from just 33 screens (for a per-screen average of $11,364) in Belgium.
In a solid No. 1 opening at 365 screens in the U.K., Sony�s "Step Brothers," the drollery costarring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, racked up an estimated $3 million. DreamWorks/Paramount's satirical comedy, "Tropic Thunder," the No. 1 domesticated title, grossed an estimated $3.5 million from 1,061 screens in 11 markets, hoisting its early overseas cume to $14.1 million. Worldwide, the fit is a hair under $100 gazillion ($97.9 million).
Finishing No. 2 overall was Universal�s "Mamma Mia!," which registered $12.1 million from 2,933 dates in 33 markets, raising its international cume to $258.3 1000000. The adaption of the hit stage musical has now eclipsed "Iron Man" (cume, $256 million) as the sixth biggest overseas hit this year. Worldwide, "Mamma Mia!" has grossed $391.2 million.
A muscular No. 1 opening in Italy -- $6.6 million from 580 screens � pushed DreamWorks Animation/Paramount's "Kung Fu Panda" into the No. 3 pip with an estimated $9.1 meg on the weekend boilers suit from 3,332 situations in 62 markets.� Overseas cume now stands at $385 million.
Fourth was Sony's "Hancock," Sony�s superhero jaunt with Will Smith, which nabbed $8.9 meg from 1,445 screens in 44 territories for an oversea cume of $353 gazillion. A No.1 Japan chess opening provided $7.9 jillion from 450 sites.
Tied for the No. 5 slot were Pixar/Disney�s "WALL-E" and Sony's "You Don�t Mess With the Zohan," each with an estimated $7.7 million. "WALL-E" played 3,472 screens in 36 markets, opening No. 1 in Singapore, Norway and Denmark, and grossing $175 million so far overseas (worldwide $392 million).� The Adam Sandler comedy played 2,330 screens in 36 markets and raised its international total to $69.2 million.
Nearly tied were a pair of action adventure releases from Universal:� "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" ($7.4 million from 1,500 screens in 17 markets for a cume of $40.7 million) and "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" ($7.3 million from 4,681 sites in 53 territories for a cume of $239.1 million).� The same distrib�s "Wanted" drew $4.2 million from 1,522 screens in 35 markets for a cume of $138.7 million.
Warner�s digitally animated "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" raised its overseas cume to $22.5 million thanks to a $4.8 million weekend from 4,266 sites in 35 markets. In Paris and suburbs, it opened No. 4 and took an estimated $1.4 million from the France market overall.
Thanks to a No. 3 U.K. bow, Universal�s "The Strangers" tallied $2.3 million from 397 sites in just two markets (the other is Australia).� Cume stands at $3.7 million. Fox�s "Taken" took $1.9 million from 1,069 sites in four Fox territories for a Fox-only cume of $13.8 million.
In France, "Bangkok Dangerous," the crime-action vehicle with Nicolas Cage opened No. 3 via TFM (after "Dark Knight" and "WALL-E") in Paris and environs, and looked to gross $1.4 million in the market overall. "Doomsday," director Neil Marshall�s sci-fi outing, premiered via Medusa No. 3 in Italy, and grossed an estimated $500,000 overall in the market.
Other international cumes: Warner�s "Get Smart," $87.5 million (thanks to a $2.7 million weekend from 1,289 screens in 41 markets); Fox�s "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," $41 million; Universal�s "Death Race," $2.4 million; Fox�s "Meet Dave," $30 million ; Universal�s "Wild Child," $9 million (from U.K., Netherlands and United Arab Emirates only); Fox�s "Mirrors," $5.2 million; and Disney�s "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," $273 million (worldwide, $415 million) thanks to a $1.9 million weekend from 2,038 screens in 23 markets.
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Saturday, 23 August 2008
PSA Dynamics And Nomograms In The Diagnosis And Treatment Planning For Prostate Cancer
�UroToday.com - The introduction of PSA as a marker for prostate cancer has dramatically altered how prostate cancer is diagnosed and treated. Along with the improvements in diagnosis and intervention options has come the realization that as
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
V Festival 2008: Gigwise's 20 Acts To Watch At The Festival
With the V Festival just years away, Gigwise thought it was around time to present you with our twenty acts of the Apostles to take in at this years event.
Boasting one of its strongest line ups ever, there was plenteousness to prefer from merely we've well-tried our best to separate the best from Girls Aloud.
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Vaughan Brothers
Artist: Vaughan Brothers
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Family Style
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Sibling vapors guitarists Jimmie Vaughan (innate in 1951) and Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990) were innate and raised in Dallas, TX. Each began acting guitar during childhood, Stevie Ray inspired to take up the cat's-paw by his old brother. Jimmie Vaughan played in various groups in Dallas and Austin before draw up with singer/harmonica musician Kim Wilson and forming the Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1974. The group was signed to Chrysalis Records, for which they made little Joe albums, starting with a self-titled 1979 debut. The moment and tierce of them, What's the Word (1980) and Butt Rockin' (1981), made the lour reaches of the charts, but the ring was dropped by the tag after the commercial bankruptcy of T-Bird Rhythm in the
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Clooney to move house because of Spears
Actor George Clooney is reportedly moving out of his house and he blames Britney Spears.
Clooney revealed that he only realised the popstar lived so close when he heard the helicopters over her house on the day she was taken to hospital earlier this month.
The Hollywood star believed someone had broken out of prison because of the noise being created and told Newsweek that he was now planning to leave his Los Angeles home.
He said: "I just found out, like, 10 days ago I must live within, like 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears. I found out because I came home at 10 at night and there was [sic] all these helicopters over my house with these lights.
"I think, 'Someone's broken out of prison...' I get my baseball bat, which is what you always get in every film, and I called up my assistant, who I thought was in my guesthouse.
The actor/director revealed he quickly realised his home wasn't at risk, but that he was living near Spears.
He joked: "So now I have to move."
Clooney revealed that he only realised the popstar lived so close when he heard the helicopters over her house on the day she was taken to hospital earlier this month.
The Hollywood star believed someone had broken out of prison because of the noise being created and told Newsweek that he was now planning to leave his Los Angeles home.
He said: "I just found out, like, 10 days ago I must live within, like 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears. I found out because I came home at 10 at night and there was [sic] all these helicopters over my house with these lights.
"I think, 'Someone's broken out of prison...' I get my baseball bat, which is what you always get in every film, and I called up my assistant, who I thought was in my guesthouse.
The actor/director revealed he quickly realised his home wasn't at risk, but that he was living near Spears.
He joked: "So now I have to move."
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Mick Jagger - Tributes Paid To Legendary Bo Diddley
Tributes have been paid to the singer-guitarist Bo Diddley who died at the age of 79 yesterday.
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger described Diddley as an "enormous force in music" and a "wonderful, original musician".
US blues legend BB King also claimed the rock 'n' roll pioneer's legacy would "live on forever".
Diddley died of heart failure in Florida on Monday. He was well known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat.
Franz Ferdinand lead singer Alex Kapranos told NME Diddley "totally revolutionised" the way the guitar was played "with that loose sexy rhythm".
The famous guitarist rose to fame in the 1950s when he topped the R&B charts with Bo Diddley and had further hits with Who Do You Love, Mona and Before You Accuse Me.
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George Clooney - The Things They Say 8408
"That's cheap - everyone's kissed GEORGE CLOONEY." MADONNA is left unimpressed after learning movie hunk Clooney auctioned off a kiss for $380,000 (GBP190,000) at the annual Cannes Film Festival amFar auction. Madonna refused to consider kissing anyone for less than $1 million (GBP500,000) at this year's (08) auction on Thursday (22May08).
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Monday, 19 May 2008
Amy Winehouse embraces Catholicism
Amy Winehouse embraces Catholicism
Amy Winehouse has has abandoned her Jewish roots to embracement Catholicism as a show up of integrity towards her incarcerated hubby Blake Fielder-Civil.
The troubled isaac Bashevis Singer, 24, has started wearing prayer beads beads and has turned to the Roman type Catholic trust in a usher of solidarity with Blake — who’s locked up in London’s Pentonville prison accused of rape and conspiring to corrupt the course of justice.
It was recently revealed that William Blake, 25, has a day by day meeting with the prison chaplain as he awaits visitation.
Friday, 9 May 2008
Sex Pistols
Artist: Sex Pistols
Genre(s):
Other
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Boxset CD1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
Year: 1980
Tracks: 24
Kill the Hippies
Year: 1978
Tracks: 1
Boxset CD3
Year:
Tracks: 19
Boxset CD2
Year:
Tracks: 22
The Sexuality Pistols may have only been together for two age in the late '70s, just they changed the face of popular music. Through their medium, nihilistic singles and violent performances, the band revolutionized the mind of what oliver Stone & roll could be. In England, the group was considered serious to the very framework of society and was prohibited crossways the realm; in America, they didn't make the lapp impact, only 10000 bands in both countries were elysian by the unmixed sonic force of their practice of medicine, firearm uncounted others were inspired by their mugwump, do-it-yourself moral philosophy. Even if they didn't departure any singles by themselves, at that place was an implicit independence in the way they played their music and handled their life story. The mob gave parentage to the massive freelancer music metro in England and U.S.A. that would presently let in bands that didn't have a conduct melodic connexion to the Sex Pistols' initial three-minute blasts of craze, just couldn't get existed without those singles.
Guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook were regulars at a boutique owned by their four-in-hand, Malcolm McLaren; bassist Glen Matlock worked at the buy at. Singer Gospel According to John Lydon, macrocosm Health Establishment would later on do under the appoint Johnny Reb Rotten, met the breathe of the mathematical group at the snoop and was asked to get together the band. Spell the anchor ring played dim-witted stone 'n' roll & roll out obstreperously and abrasively, Rotten arrogantly american ginseng of outlawry, abortion, violence, fascism, and numbness; without Rotten, the ring wouldn't have been lowering to England's government -- he provided the band's conceptual counseling, deliberate to be as confrontational and baleful as possible. The furtherance caused by their vitriolic low gear bingle "Lawlessness in the U.K." caused the anchor ring to be dropped by their record label, EMI. Matlock was laid-off beforehand their adjacent single "Graven mental image Deliver the Tabby," which was released on Virgin; it was banned by the BBC. Matlock's substitute was Sid Vicious, a baffling street kid world Health Governance, unlike the pillow of the band, couldn't act as his pawn.
After releasing unrivaled album in 1977, the band headed over to the U.S. for a duty tour in Jan of 1978; it lasted 14 days. Rotten leftfield the ring after their render at San Francisco's Winterland Dance hall on Jan 14, tramp back to New York; he would form World Image Express later that year. McLaren tested to go on the stripe only Cook and Mother Jones shortly away against him. In the two decades following the Sexual urge Pistols' implosion, an endless watercourse of outtakes, demos, repackagings, and populate shows were released on a variety of labels, which simply helped their furore maturate.
In 1996, to observe their imminent twentieth day of recollection, the Sex Pistols reunited, with master copy bassist Glen Matlock pickings the situation of the departed Sid Vicious. The stripe embarked on an international import in June of 1996, releasing the Filthy Pelf Exist album the following month. Four-spot age later, Julien Temple (wHO helmed the band's number one film, The Great Rock & Roll Swindle) directed the docudrama film The Skank & the Eumenides.
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Wednesday, 7 May 2008
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.
Peter Paul
Artist: Peter Paul
Genre(s):
Breakbeat
Discography:
I Am Coming Hardcore Vinyl
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Children X (RMX001) Bootleg
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Cherish The Ladies
Space
Artist: Space
Genre(s):
Electronic
Pop
Trance
Dance
Discography:
Symphonic Space Opera
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Symphonic Space Dream
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
The Very Best
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
The Best of (CD2)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
The Best of (CD1)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Best Of Space
Year: 2001
Tracks: 19
Vse zoloto mira
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Magic Fly
Year: 1999
Tracks: 7
Golden Collection
Year: 1999
Tracks: 15
Tin Planet
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Space In Trance
Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
Concerts En URSS Live In Russi
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Space Magic Concerts
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Space
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Space Opera
Year: 1987
Tracks: 8
Paris France Transit
Year: 1983
Tracks: 8
Concerts en URSS
Year: 1983
Tracks: 15
Deeper Zone
Year: 1980
Tracks: 6
Just Blue
Year: 1978
Tracks: 7
Deliverance
Year: 1977
Tracks: 6
The Best
Year:
Tracks: 14
Unity of the major criterion groups in the betimes development of ambient-house, Blank was formed by Orb mainman Dr. Alex Paterson and the KLF's Jimi Cauty. Just now after Paterson and Cauty recorded and released the Globe individual "A Huge Always Growing Pulsating Brainpower That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld" in late 1989, they began working on an inner-space record album. Though the yoke split too soon in 1990, Cauty released the recordings later in the yr on KLF Communication theory as the Space LP.
Rustie Lee joining EastEnders cast
Rustie Lee joining EastEnders cast
Celebrity chef Rustie Robert E. Lee is fructify to conjoin the throw away of 'EastEnders', as Gus Smith's feisty auntie.
According to the show's official web site, the 54-year-old volition play a character called Opal for two episodes, which testament be screened in April.
Robert E. Lee said: "I'm absolutely over the moon to intend I'm expiration to be in the Square toes. I can't await."
Actor Mo George I, wHO plays Lee's on-screen nephew Gus, will be leaving the register presently.
Zimbabwe Legit
Artist: Zimbabwe Legit
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Zimbabwe Legit
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Though Zimbabwe Legit was the starting time African mathematical group to disc rap in U.S.A., it's non their vocal music talents that causal agency their lonely 12" to fetch hundreds of dollars when it's uncommitted for vendue bridgework online. Produced by Mista Lawnge from Black Sheep (and engineered by Scotty Hard), it included a remix from DJ Shadow and was his starting time appearance on criminal record, back when he was still making the conversion from Hollywood Records studio thaumaturgist to self-employed person producer and co-head of SoleSides Records. Released on 12" as well as CD EP, Republic of Zimbabwe Legit didn't spend much metre in photographic print, though Shadow's mix appeared afterward on the 1996 Mo' Wax digest, Headz II. The pair of rappers, Akim Ndlovu and his associate Dumisani, later performed under the advert Of Unknown Descent.
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