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  • Kim Kardashian to sue YouTube

    Kim Kardashian to sue YouTube

    MUMBAI: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian isn’t happy that the footage of Kanye West’s proposal to her has hit the Internet. She is suing YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley for posting video of the proposal online at his new Internet venture MixBit.

    In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Kardashian says Hurley was not invited to San Francisco’s AT&T Park, where the proposal took place, but rather tagged along with someone who was invited. He was only allowed to stay after allegedly promising both verbally and in a signed confidentiality agreement he would not publish details of the event. Hurley was photographed holding the signed confidentiality agreement, and the photo is included in the suit.

    The lawsuit, in which West is also a plaintiff, says Hurley, who sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion, was eager to promote his “new but foundering business” and saw the event (which was ostensibly a birthday celebration for Kardashian) as an opportunity he could exploit.

  • Supergroup formed to create music for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”

    Supergroup formed to create music for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”

    NEW DELHI: Oscar-and Grammy-winning composer Hans Zimmer will work with Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr, Michael Einziger, and Dave Stewart to create music for The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

    Making this announcement in Culver City, Sony Pictures Worldwide Music president Lia Vollack said the film, directed by Marc Webb from a screen story and screenplay by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, is produced by Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach.  

    The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be released in theaters in the United States on 2 May 2014, and international release dates commence 16 April 2014.

    Commenting on the announcement, Zimmer said, “Marc and I were talking about Spider-Man, and as the word got out, so many of our friends and musicians started calling us up, wanting to be a part of it because they love Spider-Man. That was the thing that united all of us – the great love for Spider-Man. With all of these hugely talented people wanting to join us, it was Marc who said, ‘Why not start a band?’ Marc and I have had a great start jamming with everybody, and we still have a few surprises up our sleeve.”

    Vollack added, “This kind of collaboration is only possible because of who Marc Webb is – not only a director but also a musician – combined with who Hans is and what Spider-Man means to so many people. Nobody has ever approached film music in this way before and this likely can never be replicated. We are huge fans of Hans, Pharrell, Johnny, Mike, and Dave, and when combined, we know the result will be truly unique… and amazing!”

    Zimmer, a nine-time Oscar nominee and winner for his work on The Lion King, previously collaborated with Williams on the film Despicable Me, as Williams produced four original solo songs and several other character-sung pieces. They later collaborated on the music for the 84th Annual Academy Awards. Marr played on Zimmer’s score for the hit film Inception, Einziger played on his score for The Lone Ranger, and Stewart played with Zimmer on the score for Madagascar 3.

    Hans Zimmer has composed the scores for more than 100 films taking in more than 17 billion dollars. His many credits include scoring the Pirates of the Caribbean blockbusters, Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, 12 Years a Slave, Rush, Man of Steel, Sherlock Holmes, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Gladiator, The Thin Red Line, Rain Man, and many more. He has been honoured with an Academy Award, two Golden Globes and four Grammys. In 2003, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers presented him the prestigious Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement for his impressive and influential body of work.

    Pharrell Williams, a three-time Grammy winner, is one of the world’s most in-demand and influential music producers and recording artists. This summer, Williams became the 12th artiste to hold the #1 and #2 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously as he was featured on two songs – Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, also featuring T.I., which Williams also produced, and Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, which Williams co-wrote – both of which have been called the Song of Summer. He has previously composed songs and the score for the hit animated films Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2.

    Johnny Marr rose to fame as co-songwriter and founder member of The Smiths. Since then, Marr has continued to push boundaries and work with some of the world’s most exciting musical artistes, including Modest Mouse, The The, Pet Shop Boys, Talking Heads, and Beck. This year NME awarded Marr the Godlike Genius award. He recently released the critically acclaimed solo album, The Messenger.

    Michael Einziger is the founder/guitarist/songwriter for the groundbreaking band Incubus. Wake Me Up, the worldwide smash he co-wrote with Avicii, has been #1 in 70 countries. As an acclaimed record producer, he produced /co-wrote/executive produced three projects set for release in the coming months: Chuck Inglish, Yuna and the Internet (Odd Future). In addition to scoring the Josh Duhamel film Scenic Route he has scored Supremacy and is working on three additional film projects. Einziger previously collaborated with Zimmer on The Lone Ranger, for which he composed additional music.

  • Asian film features in Greek festival after four years

    Asian film features in Greek festival after four years

    MUMBAI: The 54th Thessaloniki International Film Festival that will commence tomorrow will screen Kim Tae-gon’s Sunshine Boys ?????in competition, thus making it the first time in four years that an Asian film has competed at the Greek festival.

    The South Korean drama premiered at the Busan International Film Festival last year. It screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Osaka Asian Film Festival and Durban International Film Festival. The festival is also screening Uchida Nobuteru’s Odayaka in the Open Horizons section and, in Special Screenings, Kore-Eda Hirokazu’s Like Father, Like Son and Hong Sang-soo’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon.

    Last year, there were six Asian films at the festival, including Abbas Kiarostami’s Japan-shot Like Someone in Love in Special Screenings and Hong’s In Another Country as the closing film. The festival which will go on till 10 November opens with Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive and closes with Alexander Payne’s Nebraska. Both films’ directors will attend the festival. Payne will also be President of the competition jury.

  • Beiber tracks his ‘Recovery’ from heartbreak

    Beiber tracks his ‘Recovery’ from heartbreak

    MUMBAI: He became an instant hit on the chartbusters with “Baby”, now singer Justin Bieber, has launched a new track titled, “Recovery”. Penned during the time he was going through a “hard break up”, the track surely seems to attract a lot of young romantics.

    “It’s here. One of the most important songs to me I’ve ever written. Recovery,” the young singer tweeted on Sunday.

    Recovery is a mid-tempo R&B song that features Bieber singing about wanting to get back with his ex-lover. Bieber described Recovery as an acknowledgement that in life you can’t just fall down and not get over things.

    “You have to step up and recover. At the time, I was going through a very hard break up and when you’re going through stuff like that you think that the world is just gonna end. Then you wake up the next day and realise that life has to go on,” said Bieber, who has been in an on-off relationship with singer Selena Gomez.

    Bieber took to Twitter to thank the English singer-songwriter, Craig David for inspiring him, and wrote: “Craig David thanks for the inspiration bro. Appreciate it.”

  • Beiber tracks his Recovery from heartbreak

    Beiber tracks his Recovery from heartbreak

    MUMBAI: He became an instant hit on the chartbusters with “Baby”, now singer Justin Bieber, has launched a new track titled, “Recovery”. Penned during the time he was going through a “hard break up”, the track surely seems to attract a lot of young romantics.

     

    “It’s here. One of the most important songs to me I’ve ever written. Recovery,” the young singer tweeted on Sunday.

     

    Recovery is a mid-tempo R&B song that features Bieber singing about wanting to get back with his ex-lover. Bieber described Recovery as an acknowledgement that in life you can’t just fall down and not get over things.

     

    “You have to step up and recover. At the time, I was going through a very hard break up and when you’re going through stuff like that you think that the world is just gonna end. Then you wake up the next day and realise that life has to go on,” said Bieber, who has been in an on-off relationship with singer Selena Gomez.

     

    Bieber took to Twitter to thank the English singer-songwriter, Craig David for inspiring him, and wrote: “Craig David thanks for the inspiration bro. Appreciate it.”

  • Tallinn and Tokyo markets launch joint award to encourage co-productions

    Tallinn and Tokyo markets launch joint award to encourage co-productions

    NEW DELHI: A new Tallinn Black Nights Japan-Estonia Partnership Award has been created jointly by Industry@Talinn, part of Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, and TIFFCOM Co-Pro Connection, the project market that runs alongside Tokyo’s TIFFCOM market.  

    Industry@Talinn takes place from 25 to 29 November while TIFFCOM Co-Pro Connection was held from 22 to 24 October.

    The award is intended to encourage greater cooperation between the film industries of Japan, Estonia and Northern Europe. The winning project at this week’s Tokyo event, deemed to have the most European co-production potential, will have the opportunity to find investors in Estonia next month.

    “The previous year has marked a rapid increase in the two way interest in collaboration between Estonian and Japanese film-making communities with several production and post-production initiatives in discussion,” said Tallin Black Nights industry director Sten Saluveer.

    The 17th Tallinn Black Night Film Festival (15 November to 1 December) includes a retrospective of director Wakamatsu Koji who died last year, alongside its regular programme of contemporary Asian films. The event has previous given awards to Tsukamoto Shinya and Ogigami Naoko.

  • ‘Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs’ sequel coming in December

    ‘Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs’ sequel coming in December

    NEW DELHI: The animation film Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 2 in 3D, a sequel to the earlier film, is to be released on 20 December.

    Directed by Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn, the film has the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, Terry Crews, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris, and Benjamin Bratt. 

    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 picks up where Sony Pictures Animation’s hit comedy left off. Inventor Flint Lockwood’s genius is finally being recognised as he’s invited by his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind.

    Chester’s right-hand-gal – and one of his greatest inventions – is Barb (a highly evolved orangutan with a human brain, who is also devious, manipulative and likes to wear lipstick. It’s always been Flint’s dream to be recognised as a great inventor, but everything changes when he discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating food-animal hybrids – “foodimals!”

    With the fate of humanity in his hands, Chester sends Flint and his friends on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures to save the world again!

  • Tallinn and Tokyo markets launch joint award to encourage co-productions

    Tallinn and Tokyo markets launch joint award to encourage co-productions

    NEW DELHI: A new Tallinn Black Nights Japan-Estonia Partnership Award has been created jointly by Industry@Talinn, part of Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, and TIFFCOM Co-Pro Connection, the project market that runs alongside Tokyo’s TIFFCOM market.  

     

    Industry@Talinn takes place from 25 to 29 November while TIFFCOM Co-Pro Connection was held from 22 to 24 October.

     

    The award is intended to encourage greater cooperation between the film industries of Japan, Estonia and Northern Europe. The winning project at this week’s Tokyo event, deemed to have the most European co-production potential, will have the opportunity to find investors in Estonia next month.

     

    “The previous year has marked a rapid increase in the two way interest in collaboration between Estonian and Japanese film-making communities with several production and post-production initiatives in discussion,” said Tallin Black Nights industry director Sten Saluveer.

     

    The 17th Tallinn Black Night Film Festival (15 November to 1 December) includes a retrospective of director Wakamatsu Koji who died last year, alongside its regular programme of contemporary Asian films. The event has previous given awards to Tsukamoto Shinya and Ogigami Naoko.

  • Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs sequel coming in December

    Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs sequel coming in December

    NEW DELHI: The animation film Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 2 in 3D, a sequel to the earlier film, is to be released on 20 December.

     

    Directed by Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn, the film has the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, Terry Crews, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris, and Benjamin Bratt.

     

    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 picks up where Sony Pictures Animation’s hit comedy left off. Inventor Flint Lockwood’s genius is finally being recognised as he’s invited by his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind.

     

    Chester’s right-hand-gal – and one of his greatest inventions – is Barb (a highly evolved orangutan with a human brain, who is also devious, manipulative and likes to wear lipstick. It’s always been Flint’s dream to be recognised as a great inventor, but everything changes when he discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating food-animal hybrids – “foodimals!”

     

    With the fate of humanity in his hands, Chester sends Flint and his friends on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures to save the world again!

  • Paramount’s ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ set for Christmas Day release

    Paramount’s ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ set for Christmas Day release

    MUMBAI: The latest teaming of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will hit theaters just in time for an Oscar run. Paramount‘s The Wolf Of Wall Street is opening December 25.

    It originally was scheduled for 15 November. The studio cleared the Christmas Day slot last week when it moved the Chris Pine starrer Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit to 17 January.

    It’ll be a busy holiday at the megaplex, with Wall Street going up against openers including Universal’s Keanu Reeves actioner 47 Ronin, Warner Bros’ aging-boxer comedy Grudge Match, Ben Stiller’s take of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty for Fox, Open Road’s Justin Bieber docu Believe and the Weinstein Company’s August: Osage County.