'Superwoman' to play before 22 games
Alicia Keys will help usher in the new WNBA season via a promotional spot featuring her performing "Superwoman" from "As I Am" (MBK/J). The video, which was shot live at a concert in Anaheim, Calif. earlier this month, will air before each of the 22 regular season WNBA games that will be carried by either ABC or ESPN2.
The WNBA season tips off May 17 on ABC with a game between the Phoenix Mercury and the Los Angeles Sparks.
"As I Am" is currently at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 3.4 million units according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Friday, 27 June 2008
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Sunday, 15 June 2008
Blonsky Sued By Ex-managers
Actress Nikki Blonsky is facing legal action from her former managers who are demanding a share of the royalties from her role in hit musical Hairspray. The 20-year-old is being sued by Margaret Karaszek and Michael Ostrowski, partners in Morgit Management, the firm that used to represent the actress. The duo filed papers at New York's State Supreme Court earlier this month , accusing Blonsky and her mother Karen of breaching their contract by not awarding the company 20 per cent of her earnings from the 2007 movie. Karaszek and Ostrowski insist the star was an "unknown" when she landed the role of Tracy Turnblad and claim their firm sent Blonsky's showreel to the casting team and even drove her to Manhattan, New York for the audition. The actress was reportedly selected for the film six months after her contract with Morgit Management expired, but attorneys for the company insist Karen Blonsky had verbally confirmed she would be renewing the agreement for at least two more years.
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008
The Virgins - Critics Go Postal Over Boll Film
The only film producer challenging Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull with a new release this weekend is the critically despised
German director Uwe Boll, who has managed to find 17 theaters across the
country to show his R-rated Postal. It's based on a video game about a
man who "goes postal" and begins shooting everything and everyone in sight. The
movie includes scenes of the the 9/11 hijackers crashing into the World Trade
Center while discussing the virgins they're sure to win when they arrive in
paradise. Another scene shows Osama bin Laden and George Bush holding hands as
they walk into a mushroom cloud. When virtually every major theater chain,
including AMC and Regal, the nation's two largest, turned it down, Boll
distributed it himself, sometimes even renting theaters, but even many of the
theaters that have agreed to show it are only doing so at odd hours. "We're
running in Austin only at midnight at the Alamo. How are you going to do box
office if you're not going to play five times a day?" Boll asked in an
interview with MTVNews.com. In the New York area, the movie is only playing in
out-of-the-way Brooklyn.
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