Christmas comes but once a year and so does Reformation clothing's NEW NYE collection with HAIM!

I was perusing Twitter yesterday and I came across a Tweet saying that Reformation clothing over in the USA were doing a clothing collection with the girls from HAIM and as me and my sisters are massive fans of this band we were instantly wanting to know more about this new collection that has been specifically designed to put you in the party mood...and maybe even make your New Year's Eve go off with a bang because in the words of Jamie T "New Year's is always shit don't you know what I mean man deal with it"....because these clothes will definitely make you look Amaazing!

But I have just thought that as 'tis the season,-sorry I just couldn't help it I've suddenly today started feeling in the Christmas spirit and having "What's This" from "Nightmare Before Christmas" stuck in my head-, that these will definitely make amazing must have Christmas gifts for anyone who a) loves the band HAIM and wants to look as cool as the girls in the band do,-but just thinking about it this could just be me,- or b) loves their fashion and has an occasion they want to look amazing to or want to dress to impress.

But saying this the other clothes on Reformation clothing's website you could easily say that these would make an amazing Christmas gift or easily wear any items from the website and you'd look amazing in them at any event you went to... even at New Year's Eve!

Here is the link to the full NYE Party Collection on Reformation clothing's website:

https://www.thereformation.com/stories/reformation-haim-collection

If you ask me some of these items are a bit plunging but at least you'll feel amazing in them and I think you'll definitely have all eyes on you when you walk in the room...mostly I think from all the women in the party envying you and wanting to know where you got that from and wishing they had that dress or skirt.

I think as well like on some of the models on the website you could really interchange some of these items like with the skirts you could easily wear them with tights, boots and a top for in the day or you could put a vest underneath some of the plunging tops and wear them with jeans or you could easily dress them up for evening.

Has nobody learnt their lesson from the first movie?!... Leave King King alone!

I was just perusing the internet this morning and I saw that the second trailer for the new "King Kong: Skull Island" has been released into the wilds,-sorry for the pun I just couldn't resist- and is now doing the rounds on the internet.

Here is the link to the IMDB.com page where you can see this second trailer of this film if you haven't already seen the trailer for this film yet:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3731562/?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2703897782&pf_rd_r=02KWMABA4PJ4CZGCGW2A&pf_rd_s=hero&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_hp_cap_pri_1

This new film "King Kong: Skull Island" is according to Wikipedia,-I know I know what your thinking whilst reading this "that these pages can be edited by anyone and they can't always be trusted as a source of news", but I've checked out what it says on this page and so far from what I can see the things it says are true,- this is set to be a reboot of the "King Kong" franchise and is said to serve as the second instalment in Legendary Pictures "King-Kong"/ "Godzilla" series.

And according to IMDb.com this is a film based on the origins of King Kong...but I was thinking "Does there really need to be another "King Kong" film"? and now that I'm writing this I'm thinking that "this better be bloody good because nobody needs another "X:Men Origins: Wolverine", but I'm thinking that the only reason that Legendary Pictures wants this to be the first film to reboot this franchise is for the money...because after the first movie I really can't see why you'd want or need another movie of "King Kong" as Kong died after Jack Black's character thought it would be a good idea to take him out of his natural environment and bring him back to America and make a show out of him...and we all know how well that idea turned out to be.

Anyhew...this movie sees another group of explorers want to go deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific unaware that they're venturing into the domaine of a mythical giant gorilla "King Kong" as well as other giant beasts...what could possibly go wrong?

But if you ask me a lot can go wrong...like this movie trailer just looks like it should have been marketed as a comedy rather than an action/adventure as Tom Hiddleston looks like to me he's orange and if this film is set in the 1970's why is everyone apart from Samuel L Jackson looking like their wearing modern day clothes...and the only thing to say this is set in the 1970s is a Motown record.

And when the film has cast "StepBrother"'s John C Reiley how can this possibly be anything serious?

Well this is just my opinion and I guess that when this film is officially released in cinemas in the UK on March 2017 will we know for sure how well this origins film fares.

This film also features Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston of course, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly and has been directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Dan Gilroy wrote the screenplay for this movie as well as writing the story for this film, Max Borenstein also wrote the screenplay for this movie and John Gilroy who also wrote the story for this movie.

Finally the loooooooooooooooooong awaited "Dark Tower" adaption of Stephen Kings book news!

You may or may not have heard already but for ages now there has been news on how Ron Howard was set to direct an adaption of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" but for aaaaaaages and through lots of various different things this wasn't looking like it was ever going to be made into a film....but the other day I heard that Idris Elba had been cast as the gun slinging Roland Dechain "The Gunslinger" and Matthew McConaughey cast as his sworn enemy "Randall Flagg" a.k.a "The Man In Black" and both of these are joined in "The Dark Tower" by Tom Taylor who is cast as Jake Chambers.

Also according to ComingSoon.net's website this movie won't be a direct adaption of "The Dark Tower" series of books but more of a continuation and sort of remix of the series that will focus more on Roland's final cycle in his pursuit of "The Dark Tower" and will use elements from all the books in the series.

If you haven't read this book series it's about Roland Deschain, Mid-West's last gunslinger, who is traveling southeast across Mid-World's post-apocalyptic landscape, searching for the powerful but elusive magical edifice known as "The Dark Tower". Located in fey regions of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, The Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time-space continuum. It is the heart of all worlds, but it also under threat. Someone, or something is using the evil technology of The Great Old Ones to destroy it.

Nikolaj Arcel is set to direct this adaption through MRC and Sony Pictures.

The release date has been delayed though and is now pencilled in to be released July 28th 2017 (this is according to IIMDb.com the USA release date) ...which was when the new Jumanji film was thought to be released but this according to ComingSoon.net Jumaji will now be released December 22nd 2017.

Other cast members are: Abbey Lee will play Tirana, Franz Kranz will play Pimli the right hand man of Randall Flagg, Jackie Earle Haley, Katheryn Winnick and Claudia Kim.

Say What!?...20th Century want to redo the X-Men films!...and more

Now I saw this headline on The Hollywood Reporter's website whilst I was reading another article and I just had to read it as this sounded to me just ridiculous...a redo or a reboot or whatever of these films sounds absurd as how on earth can you reboot these films as they were in my opinion amazing and had such big visual effects and they must have had a rather large budget to make these films as well as getting the actors such as Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult.

Anyhew...according to this article over at 20th Century Fox the superhero film franchise is waning and it looks like the studio has pressed the reset button on this flagship franchise with Simon Kinberg who oversaw the original X-Men film franchise as writer and producer now working on a new script but insiders say that according to The Hollywood Reporter that this script has been written with these stars optimistically in mind.

But in doing this 20th Century Fox has a problem, Bryan Singer's "X-Men's: Day's Of Future Past" earned $748 million and "X-Men: Apocalypse" made only $544 million at the box office...so I think it's fair to say that the number of people going to see this movie dropped from this second in the new line of "X:Men" films and this probably means that people weren't as eager to see this follow up of Brian Singer's first rebooted "X:Men" film and probably either didn't go the first week that this film was released and went to the cinema when they could go or when their wasn't such a rush on at their local cinema, or they waited for it to be released on DVD, Blu-Ray or they waited for it to be available to stream on their devices at home.

So if this was to be rebooted how bigger budget do you give the filmmakers and how do you reboot this film franchise without just throwing lots of money at it and just filling the movie with lots of things blowing up, visual effects or action without it looking shit and having critics as well as audiences leaving the cinema or people watching it saying "that that was an hour of my life I'm never going to get back".

Also the new chairman at 20th Century Fox Stacey Snider has the headache of if they want to do this reboot with Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult as they've come to the ends of their 3 picture deal contracts then Fox better be prepared to stump up lots more cash than before as these actors won't come as cheap like before.

Also according to this same article the long talked about "X:Men" spin-off film "Gambit" that is set to star Channing Tatum has yet again stalled in its production as Doug Liman who was set to direct this film has already left the project leaving 20th Century Fox in desperate need to find a new director asap as well as the production that was set to start in August not happening.

David Leitch may be first in line to direct "Deadpool 2"...and there may be a 3rd already in the pipeline

I was just perusing the internet and this caught my eye on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision pages...well I just thought after hearing the news that Donald Trump will be running America for the next 4 years I think we are all in need of a palate cleanser...or just something to forget that America will now be run by a giant orange monster.

Anyhew...you may or may not already know that "Deadpool" director Tim Miller won't be coming back for "Deadpool 2" as of tensions boiling over about how he wanted this second film to be more stylised so as to compete with the big blockbuster franchise films but everybody concerned from Ryan Reynolds to the writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick didn't want this...and the studio agreed with Ryan Reynolds and Co...so in the end Tim Miller walked, and according an article posted on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision pages on October 28th 2016 insiders say that the studio and producers have been meeting with other potential candidates such as Drew Goddard (who directed "The Cabin In The Woods") and Magnus Martens (who is just one of the directors on Netflix's "Luke Cage"), but the name that remained consistently on top of this list is David Leitch who is one half of the directing and stunt team behind "John Wick".

But according to other sources of The Hollywood Reporter it's still to early to declare Leitch as a frontrunner as other meetings are still taking place and no official offer has been made and no negotiations are underway...but according to an article posted on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision pages on the 9th November 2016 it looks like David Leitch is now in negotiations to fill this directors chair that 20th Century Fox so desperately needed to fill in order to get a sequel up and running for this surprise box office hit.

And according to this same article to show how much faith the studio has in this Ryan Reynolds lead franchise, 20th Century Fox is lining up a "Deadpool 3" already, which sources say will have filmmakers readying for a storyline that will involve another X-team...X-Force.

Beauty and The Beast first pics!

I saw this headline on Facebook.com's website and just had to look at these pictures that Entertainment Weekly Magazine had on their website...well it is "Beauty and The Beast" after all who wouldn't want to see pictures from this new live-action version that is said to be featuring original songs from the original Disney version.

These are just some pictures from this new "Beauty and the Beast" Disney movie which will star Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as "The Beast", Luke Evans as "Gaston" the hunter who will hunt down the beast at any cost and wants Belle for himself, Josh Gad as Gaston's servant Le Fou, Kevin Kline as Belle's father, Ewan Mcgregor, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen and Emma Thompson.

Here is the link to Entertainment Weekly's website where you can see the full gallery of images:

 http://www.ew.com/gallery/beauty-and-the-beast-photos/2809401_emma-watson-belle

These are just some of the long line of other images and hopefully a full trailer that will be no doubtedly making their way onto the internet as part of the build up to this film that is said to be released in the UK according to imdb.com's website on the 17th March 2017.

And if you haven't seen it already there is a teaser trailer, you can watch via this link on imdb.com's website:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2771200/?ref_=nv_sr_1

But in this Disney version of the original film there's a twist, instead of Belle's father being the inventor in this Bill Condon directed version Belle is the inventor and her father Maurice just makes music boxes for Belle as the film's set director Katie Spencer explained to Entertainment Weekly what was with all the music boxes:

"Kevin Kline as Maurice, is making all these music boxes that have to tell the story of Belle not travelling..."

she goes on to explain:

"She's overprotected in a way, by her father, because she's lost her mother. So we've made all these music boxes that represent different countries of the world, so she can see what she's missing." 

Get ready for more Lisbeth Salader in "The Girl In The Spider's Web" sequel

I was just perusing the web when this caught my eye on ComingSoon.net's website.

I have to say this piqued my interest as I loved the original Swedish with English subtitles version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" films and really didn't understand why after these films that starred Noomi Rapace an Michael Nyqvist were so successfully there was another film made about this that starred Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig...well maybe now I write this I do understand why the powers that be wanted to remake this as the original was so successful for both the main actor and actress as I think it's probably fair to say that this film made Noomi Rapace a breakout star and even though it made $10m in North America and $104,617,430 globally it did,-I think it's fair to say,-amass a big audience, well it must have done from those figures and the second film was an English speaking American version so the people in the movie industry probably thought "Well if the first film was so successful why not remake it for English/American audiences, maybe it'll be that successful again?"...

But I think we all know how that remake version of the film went...down like a lead balloon,-that's just my opinion, for anybody reading this and thinking that they quite liked this version of the film-, even if it did star Daniel Craig.

For those that haven't seen the movie where the hell have you been?...anyway I will help fill in the blanks for you to catch you up, in the first movie "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" it follows Mickael Blomvist who is head of Millennium magazine who was the top journalist that wrote hard hitting expose stories but he falls out of favour as one of his expose's lands him in prison for 2 years and he has to pay damages for printing a story about a high profile person in society because he didn't check his sources where the information came from, after these 2 years he gets an odd request from a man asking him to find his niece who has disappeared he reluctantly agrees and goes to this man's house to interview his family about the day Hattie went missing, but this film also follows Lisbeth Salander who is a psychologically damaged hacker and has been declared legally incompetent by the government and after her guardian has a stroke is appointed a new guardian to take control of her money and life, she later finds out that this new guardian is a sadist and one night when she goes over to his house to ask for money to buy a new laptop he tells her he won't give her money unless she gives him a blow job, after that he then ties her up and rapes her but unbeknownst to him Lisbeth has filmed it all using a hidden camera in her ruck sack and then the next night she goes back for revenge this time she ties him up and attacks him with a tattoo pen writing on his stomach that he is a rapist pig and she tells him that he can never remove it or she'll come back and write it on him again...anyhew whilst this is going on she gets involved in this case and together both Salander and Blomvist find out that Hattie didn't disappear that she in fact was smuggled out of the country by her sister Anita who looks exactly like her and she is now living Australia away from her family as it turns out both her father and her brother had been abusing her.

Anyhew....according to Variety.com's website David Lagercrantz's novel "The Girl In The Spider's Web" which he wrote as follow up to this "Millennium" series of books after Steig Larsson who wrote the other books in this series died from a heart attack in 2004 is set to be adapted into a film by Sony after it acquired the rights for this book in 2015.

Also according to Variety.com's website Fede Alverez who directed "Don't Breath" is said to be eyeing up this as his next potential project for Sony.

Steven Knight is said to have co-written the script for this adaption along with Scott Rudin, Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon and Eli Bush, with Yellow Bird's (who produced the original Swedish version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo") Ole Sondberg and Soren Staermose producing this with David Beaubaire overseeing this for the studio according to Variety.com's website.

According to this website Sony has now fast tracked this to be made next year.

This film will see both Salander and Blomvist teaming up again and entering a world of cybercriminals, government operatives and ruthless underworld spies-some even willing to kill to protect their secrets. 

Say What?!... "Deadpool" director Tim Miller won't be coming back for Deadpool 2

You may or may not have heard this but I was perusing the internet the other day and I came across this that Tim Miller the director of "Deadpool" was not going to be coming back to direct the sequel unlike other articles on other websites would have you believe.

If you read this blog you might have already read that the same people involved with "Deadpool" including  Ryan Reynolds would be returning to this sequel but I have read on TheWrap.com's website that the shit hit the fan at the weekend as according to TheWrap.com's website:

"Shortly after then-20th Century Fox CEO Jim Gianopulos confirmed a second at CinemaCon in April, cracks began to form in the creative team that also includes screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick"

Oh dear...this doesn't sound good...

According to an insider for TheWrap.com Reynolds, Wernick and Reese in initial sequel talks envisioned a "scrappy", raunchy and inexpensive movie very much in the same vein as the first but Miller wanted a much more stylish take, one that would according to this insider compete with the mega-budget superhero movies and one that would have cost three times the budget of the first film which was $58million...but according to TheWrap.com's website this isn't the only time there's been friction between Ryan Reynols, Wernick, Reese and Tim Miller.

According to one insider when Jim Gianopulos was at 20th Century Fox he had to act as "peacekeeper" between Ryan Reynolds and Tim Miller but when he left this job was handed to Stacey Snider on September 1st who it is said to have had input in a situation that was largely being handled by 20th Century Fox President Of Production Emma Watts....but according to another insider executives didn't have to step in and manage relationships until well after the first film was released.

Regardless to say that Reynolds, Wernick and Reese won this fight and their vision won out and Tim Miller's vision didn't so now he's walked away and even now thanks to one fans suggestion of who should step into these directorial shoes being put up on the internet...non other than blood, guts galore and comedy legendary director of movies such as "Pulp Fiction", "The Hateful Eight", "Kill Bill", "Kill Bill Vol. 2" etc Quentin Tarantino the fans have gone crazy and have even started a petition on Change.org to make this more than just a suggestion.

But if you ask me I don't think this is going to actually become a reality, because now I think about it although he may have the clout to tell all these people where to go with their arguments, his style of films I would have thought might go against the "scrappy" ideals that every body to do with this film wants from the sequel, and I just thought if Quentin Tarantino was to direct this sequel it would definitely give this sequel a different kind of style from the first film and it would also most probably give the film more of a cult status like all the other films he's made...which would definitely piss off every body that is involved with this sequel movie giving 20th Century Fox executives more of a headache than when Tim Miller was directing the movie.

Hold Up...There's Going To Be Another Deadpool Movie!?

You may or may not have already heard about this but Ryan Reynold's "Deadpool" is getting a sequel with the addition of some new characters Cable and Domino.

According to Collider.com's website director Tim Miller and the film's producer's are looking forwards to casting a new key female role...and according to "sources close to production" are telling Collider.com testing has already begun for the character Domino...actresses that are already being considered for this role are Lizzy Caplan, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sienna Miller, Sofia Boutella, Stephanie Sigman (who you may or may not recognise from the film "Spectre" where she played the Bond girl that was in the hotel with James Bond in Mexico City on The Day Of The Dead opening part of the film), Sylvia Hoeks...and now according to these "trusted sources" of Collider four more actresses are testing for this role Ruby Rose (who you may or may not recognise from "Orange Is The New Black"), Mackenzie Davis, Eve Hewson and Kelly Rohrbach.

Also according to Collider.com Domino is a frenenemy of Deadpool but has a close connection to the other new character that will feature in this sequel Cable as according to her comic book history she becomes partners, a confident and lover of Cable who if your like me and your not sure about this character he is according to Wikipedia,-I do realise whilst I write this that these days you can't believe everything you read on this website as these pages can be edited and things can be made up so if your reading this then please don't hold it against me if there are some things in here that aren't factually correct regarding this character's comic book history, but like I said in the grand Marvel comic book universe scheme of things I've not really heard of this character-, he is a mutant who is the grown son of X-Man Cyclops aka Scott Summers and the clone of Jean Grey who is transported to the future as an infant and grew up to become a warrior then is transported back to the present.

Also according to Collider.com Domino is also a mutant with her powers including the ability to initiate random acts of telekinetic acts that turn probability in her favour. But also according to this same article there is no word as yet on who will be playing Cable for definite...so like Collider.com I think this could mean that returning director Tim Miller, screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick along with Ryan Reynolds who will also be returning either already have an actor in mind to play the role of Cable and need to negotiate to get him in the film, have already got the actor who's going to play this character and are just finalising contracts before they can officially come out in the press and say who it is that will be playing this role in the film or just haven't got around to casting this yet.

Filming for this sequel is according to Collider.com said to be aiming to get underway in early 2017...apart from this there is no other details about this sequel so we'll just have to watch this space.

Who fancies another trip into deepest darkest peru for Paddington 2?

Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! I read this last night and I just couldn't keep this to myself I was so excited to hear that Paddington was getting a sequel.

I loved the first film, it was so lovely and endearing and Ben Whishaw who voiced Paddington really in my opinion brought the character to life and it was so funny especially the things that happened because Paddington didn't know how things in the modern day really work because he was brought up by his aunt Lucy and uncle in deepest darkest Peru and they taught him to always be polite like if you want to talk to someone talk to them about the weather like "it's really raining cats and dogs isn't it" and most importantly in case of emergency always have a marmalade sandwich under your hat.

But if you haven't seen this film...then why the hell not because besides being a massive hit when it was released it really is a family feel good movie...well even if you haven't got kids this is a really good film to watch if there is a rainy afternoon, if your feeling ill and are taking the day off of work or even if there's nothing on TV and you want to watch something that's a bit different then you'll definitely be a fan of this film as there are just so many "Aw Paddington" moments such as when Paddington is teaching Mr and Mrs. Brown's daughter how to speak bear...or when Paddington helps the police to catch a pick pocketer or because Paddington has never been anywhere outside of deepest darkest Peru he doesn't understand what the toothbrushes are when the Brown family first take him in so he uses them as ear cleaners, floods the toilet and ends up trying to cling on to the top of the old fashioned toilet but that falls off the wall and he lands in the bath with the water building up all around him and he ends up in the tub with it falling all the way down the spiral staircase and water going everywhere in the house...and the Brown children try to dry him off using a hairdryer and his fur goes really static and fuzzy.

And like in the first film the storyline is so "Aw Paddington" because in that film there is an earthquake in Peru where Paddington's family live and sadly his uncle gets killed and Paddington's aunt Lucy has no choice but to pack up Paddington's belongings-which is lots and lots of jars of Marmalade- and put a sign over his head saying "Please look after this bear" and send him on to London, but when he gets there no one wants to talk to him or help him until on the last train into Paddington station the Brown family find him and take him in and help him to find the geographer who documented a trip to Peru because he thinks he might be able to help him, but instead he finds he died and his daughter has been looking for Paddington ever since looking for revenge as she wants to stuff him and put him in the British Museum.

But this time according to Deadline Hollywood's website Paddington is at this point a popular member of the community of Windsor Gardens and he's settled in to his home here, but whilst going in search for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday which he finds in Mr. Gruber's antique's shop, he has to embark on another adventure with the Brown family in tow to get back this unique pop-up book once it get's stolen.

According to Deadline Hollywood's website Ben Whishaw will be returning for this sequel to reprise his role as the voice of Paddington, Imelda Staunton will also be returning to reprise her role as the voice of Aunt Lucy, Hugh Bonneville will return to reprise his role as Mr. Brown, Sally Hawkins will be reprising her role as Mrs. Brown, Madeleine Harris will reprise her role as Judy Brown as well as Samuel Joslin will be back to reprise his role as Jonathan Brown, Peter Capaldi will also be returning to reprise his role as Mr.Curry the next door neighbour, Julie Walters will return to reprise her role as Mrs. Bird the Brown's cleaner and Jim Broadbent will be returning to reprise his role as Mr.Gruber the antique shop owner...along with some new faces appearing in this sequel from the likes of Hugh Grant who also according to Deadline Hollywood's website will be playing the role of Windsor Garden's resident vain, charming acting legend whose star has fallen in recent years Pheonix Buchanan, and Brenden Gleeson who will be playing the character Knuckles McGinty a notorious safe-cracker and legendary strong man who becomes an unlikely ally to Paddington.

Also according to Deadline Hollywood Paul King will direct from a script that he co-wrote with Simon Farnaby and this sequel will be produced by David Heyman who has previously produced "Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them". StudioCanal will fully finance this film, will distribute this film in Germany, New Zealand, UK, France, Australia, will handle international sales and has developed this film.

And according to Den Of Geek's website this sequel is pencilled in for next year on November 10th 2017.

Fenech-Soler are back with album no.3 "Kaleidoscope"

You may or may not already know this amazing band Fenech-Soler or you might have heard them recently on Annie Mack's Radio 1 show showcasing their brilliant new EP "Kaleidoscope"...but if you haven't heard of them already... where the hell have you been...under a rock!? anyhew...if you haven't I urge you to immediately go on to their website, ITunes, Amazon, YouTube, Vevo or wherever you listen, download, stream or buy your music from and listen to their addictively catchy music such as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0takBpMWtM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRupdVVAPwY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbb1OHa2ljE

or you might have even heard a clip of the title track "Kaleidoscope" from their new album on the TV advert for the clothing website http://www.kaleidoscope.co.uk/fashion/_/N-1eZ1i?cs_ev=topnav-_-New%20In-_-Shop%20by%20Department-_-Fashion

And as I am a massive fan of these guys from the first time I heard "Lies" from their first album, and have of course their second album "Rituals" I like most of their fans was bummed to hear when they said that after their second album that they'd be taking a break from music for a bit and that there would be no music for a bit....but I was probably like most of their other fans over the moon to hear that album no.3 would be winging it's way to the masses.

And now thank goodness the EP has finally been released "Kaleidoscope"!

Now I think about it this EP would be ideal to play at a house party, as background music to having dinner or a few drinks to...now I think about it this music would be really good if you were getting ready to go out if there is any parties your going to as it is building up to Christmas party season...also I just thought all these songs including Fenech-Soler's other songs are just really easy to dance along to, you just put on any of their records and it has you instantly feeling like you need to dance around to this song...unlike other songs out their at the moment that are suppose to be dance songs but they instead leave you thinking "ok, you say that I should dance along to this record but with the baseline and the pace of the music how exactly am I suppose to do this?"...or this could just be me that thinks this.

New movies set to be released on DVD Part 2

Along with having the exciting news of when "Suicide Squad" will be released on DVD here are some other films that you might be interested in:

!Warning this post may contain spoilers!

• Jason Bourne, thankfully for now it seems or at least for this film Matt Damon is back with Paul Greengrass in tow along with Julia Stile's character Nikki Parsons who gets Jason Bourne from out of hiding because she has been trying to find Christian Dassault,- someone who worked at Treadstone- but has now suddenly disappeared and in order to find him she hacks into the CIA and instead finds a list of secret files full of black operations that no one is suppose to know about and she takes this and a file that contains a photograph of Jason Bourne and some more information about him being under surveillance by someone before he joined Treadstone...this then leads to her death by an asset played by Vincent Cassel (you may or may not recognise him from the film "Ocean's Twelve" who played Francois Toulour the protégée of an infamous thief known as LeMarc who challenges Danny Ocean to steal the Faberge Imperial Coronation Egg because his mentor didn't describe him as the greatest thief of all time but instead described Danny Ocean as the best thief of all time, so he tells Danny Ocean if he steals it then he'll know that Danny Ocean is the best thief of all time and if he doesn't then he'll know that he is rather than Danny Ocean, Toulour loses of course but then reappears in "Oceans Thirteen" to get the diamonds Danny Ocean is planning to steal with the help of Terry Benedict from Willy Bank played by Al Pacino as he nearly kills Danny Ocean's friend Reuben, and give them to Terry Benedict in a double cross from Terry Benedict but of course Toulour and Benedict lose as they find out the diamonds they have are fakes and Terry Benedict's share from the heist is donated to charity by Danny Ocean as Danny Ocean knows all along that Terry Benedict was going to double cross them- and a team sent by the CIA that is headed up by Tommy Lee Jones who wants to kill Jason Bourne but a new recruit played by Alicia Vikander wants to lead a team to try and see if she can get Jason back into the programme.

I know it's just a movie but when I saw this movie at my local cinema I did think that this idea of Alicia Vikander's character was ridonculous...and that it was stupid for Nikki Parson's to be hacking into the CIA especially after everything that happened in "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum".

Anyhew...According to Amazon this will be released on DVD on the 28th of November 2016 another date I suggest that you put in your diaries and another really good idea for Christmas...also I just thought this is a really good idea for something to watch on Christmas day as speaking from experience not that I don't mind watching "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of The WareRabbit" as the BBC put on TV last year at Christmas as I do love a bit of Wallace and Gromit but sometimes you do want to watch something a bit different.

• Also according to Amazon's website on the 7th December 2016 (more stocking fillers) "Now You See Me 2" and "X:Men Apocolypse" will be released onto DVD.

According to Amazons website's synopsis "Now You See Me 2" sees the Four Horsemen from the first film "Now You See Me" J. Daniel Atlas played by Jesse Eisenberg, Merritt McKinney played by Woody Harrelson with the addition of a new partner Lula played by Lizzy Caplan and Jack Wilder played by Dave Franco come out of hiding a year after their last heist that saw them become members of a secret circle of magicians and illusionists called "The Eye", steal money from their agent played by Michael Caine and given to members of New Orleans who's insurance company didn't pay out after they lost everything in Hurricane Katrina because Michael Caine owned that insurance company and then also get Morgan Freeman's character who followed The Four Horseman everywhere they went as he had built his whole career on unmasking the magic out of magic tricks put into jail, so as to unearth the unethical practices of a corrupt tech magnate, but they instead find themselves blackmailed into stealing a powerful piece of technology by businessman Walter Mabry played by Daniel Radcliffe called "The Stick", this is said to be a powerful decryption device that will see The Four Horsemen going across the globe having to undertake another elaborate life-or-death illusion that will require a little help from their FBI insider friend Dylan Rhodes who is played by Mark Ruffalo.

"X:Men Apocoypse", also according to Amazons website's synopsis sees Apocalypse the most powerful mutant being reawakened after amassing the powers of many other mutants becoming invincible and immortal and after becoming disillusioned with the world he decides to cleanse the world and with the help of powerful mutants including a disheartened Magneto played by Michael Fassbender he wants to create a new world that he will reign over, so with the help of Raven played by Jennifer Lawrence and Professor Xavier played by James McAvoy they lead a team of young X-men to save mankind from total destruction as well as stopping their greatest nemesis.

• Also another stocking filler and another date for the diary is December 26th 2016...this is when "The Mechanic:Resurrection" which stars Jason Statham and Jessica Alba. This according to Amazon's website synopsis says that Jason Statham reprises his role as Arthur Bishop who is the hitman who makes each job look like an accident...but this time he thinks he's managed to leave this life behind and disappear for good, but it looks like someone's found him and kidnaps his girlfriend and he won't get her back unless he completes a diabolical list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows" is set to be released onto DVD on 24th October...not much of a stocking filler like the other DVD releases I've just put up on here, but this film is a good one to have on stand by if you have kids as this action packed comedy sequel will definitely keep them entertained and will definitely make them instant fans of "the heroes in a half shell": Leonardo, Donatello, Rafael and Michelangelo and not forgetting their sensei Splinter..I'm sorry for "the heroes in a half shell" bit but me in particular and my sisters have been fans of these since we were kids and I just couldn't believe it when I first heard there was going to be a film about them...and this is a good film to also have on standby if there is nothing on TV or if there is a rainy afternoon as I saw the first film with Megan Fox in and I thought it was hilarious.

This according to Amazon's website synopsis the turtles arch nemesis Shredder voiced by Brian Tee is back and has employed Techno Cosmic Research Institute scientist Dr. Stockman played by Tyler Perry to create some mutants of his own in the form of ferocious duo Bebop voiced by Gary Anthony Williams and Rocksteady voiced by Stephen Farelly. Meanwhile the evil Kraang voiced by Fred Armisen arrives from Dimnsion X to lead an invasion on New York City...so with a little help from their friend journalist April O'Neil played by Megan Fox and vigilante Casey Jones the turtles have to fight a battle on two fronts to save New York City from total destruction.  

I've just got the Bat signal-sorry for the pun- when "Suicide Squad" is set for release on DVD and other DVD's are out Part 1 Of 2

I am soooo excited to get this email through my inbox from Amazon and I just had to put this up on here.

! Warning this article may contain spoilers ! 

As I really enjoyed "Suicide Squad" when I went to see the film at the cinema regardless of its faults as I thought it was very see through right from the start that this story with how Amanda Waller's played by Viola Davies has the idea of putting together the worst of the worst villains that had been caught by Batman played by Ben Affleck as in the case of DeadShot played by Will Smith and Harley Quinn played by Margot Robbie with Killer Croc played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Captain Boomerang played by Jai Courtney, El Diablo played by Jay Hernandez and a 3,000 year old witch Enchantress played by Cara Delevingne to form task force X and co-operate with the government in the wake of Batman vs Superman's battle and so as to stop as Amanda Waller puts it in the film: "What's to stop Superman flying down and taking the president out of the White House?" that something really bad is bound to happen with the witch that has supernatural powers and can't be controlled...and of course letting her out really does turn out to be a disaster as she turns all who come into contact with her into her alien soldiers and of course there isn't just her there is also her brother that she lets out and the only way to stop him is El Diablo who can manipulate fire and put the fire wherever he wants.

But the film in my opinion is disappointing with like most critics say that Jared Leto who really does in my opinion steal the show as well as Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, and really does look the part of a deranged psychopath that you really don't want to mess with because you just don't know what he's going to do or what or when he's going to get ticked off with you...that's now I think about it probably down to in part the wardrobe department on the film and partially down to Jared Leto's method acting skills, but you don't see very much of him in the film all you get to see are little snippets of him in the film such as when Batman first tracks him and Harley Quinn down and he escapes but Harley Quinn gets captured and sent to Belle Reve, when the Joker first finds out where Harley Quin is being held and is planning how to get her out along with the microchip that is implanted in her neck, how to get a message to Harley Quinn in the form of getting a phone into Belle Reve with the help of Griggs who is a guard at Belle Reve, how the Joker and Harley Quinn first met, what happened to Harley Quinn after meeting him and how right at the end of the film he finally goes in to Belle Reve himself in order to get her out.

But apart from this, this film is an action packed film with some comic moments such as how Captain Boomerang doesn't like anyone touching his toy unicorn or the most qualified army trained person Rick Flagg that she puts in charge of this task force at one point gets into trouble more than once and has to be helped out by the bad guys, and is in my opinion definitely a film to put in your DVD collection to have readily available for when there is nothing to watch on TV. I do realise though that nowadays people do stream films or download them but this statement I have just written does in my opinion still stand.

Anyhew I digress...as I am a huge fan of Batman (apart from the Christopher Nolan Batman films my favourite Batman films have to be the Tim Burton directed Batman films especially "Batman" with Jack Nicholson playing The Joker) and of Jared Leto's band 30 Seconds to Mars I just had to see this film and like with the new Jason Bourne film I just had to pre-order this film right after I had seen it at the cinema...but until this morning I couldn't find any release date information for when I would receive this DVD through my mailbox and thankfully I do now 5th December...so I just thought that this is definitely a date for the diary and as it's close to Christmas it could in my opinion make a very good gift idea for Christmas.



 

Now these just look too good to share...even if they are just for Halloween!

There's no pun intended here -as it's coming up to Halloween and all- when I say that it feels like as I have spent so long a time not writing anything on here that it feels like I am having to shake off the cobwebs and dust on my computer and I'm sorry about that.

But I have just had this email whisk it's way into my inbox and I just had to put it up on here and let you know about it and make sure you grab these sweet treats for Halloween before they all go.

As I am an avid chocoholic I like most chocoholic's cannot just have one chocolate thing and share it...for example if there's a box of chocolates that enters the house doesn't matter what variety except dark chocolate (I hate dark chocolate) even a Terry's chocolate orange I'll end up eating it and then feel the pain afterwards...I do realise that saying I can't share chocolate sounds bad but that is how much of a chocoholic I am even before people have a chance to taste what the chocolate like it's gone...anyhew this is by the by when I first saw this tantalising email from Hotel Chocolat (my favourite place to get chocolate from) I instantly wanted all of them as they all looked so good...even though there just for Halloween...and now I think about it, why not get all of these amazing chocolates All Hallows Eve only comes around once a year.

Once you have seen all of these coolly designed chocolates just for Halloween you'll want them too, they have designed a chocolate yumkin priced at £5.50 (a milk chocolate with white and dark chocolate decorations that is a hollow designed pumpkin that the website says you could put on your windowsill to charm guests at your Halloween party...but knowing how delicious Hotel Chocolate's chocolate always is I really don't know how you'll be able to resist not wanting to eat it yourself), Oozy eyes white chocolate priced at £3.85 (white chocolate eyes filled with red molten caramel) Oozy eyes milk chocolate priced at £3.85 but if you wanted you could mix and match this product with 3 or more selectors for £3.15 each, Skull Lick Chocolate Lollipop priced at £1.95, Dark Chocolate Vampire's priced at £5.50 and other delicious sweet treats to get you in the mood for Halloween...well if these treats don't take your fancy then surely Hotel Chocolate's "Choose You're Poison" selection of 16 cocktails in  four intoxicating flavours these include: Black Cat Martini, Corpse Reviver, Green Fairy and Zombie...these in case you don't know are chocolate's spiked with vodka, gin, absinthe, white rum, triple sec and vermouth...will get you ready and in the mood for Halloween.

These are just some of the sweet treats that Hotel Chocolate has on offer for Halloween that you can either use for trick or treater's or you can treat yourself with this Halloween...see below for all the Halloween goodies on offer from Hotel Chocolate:

 http://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/shop/gift-ideas/halloween-treats?utm_source=hcmarketingemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HALLOW01

Please note that when visiting this website this link may only take you to the first page of it's Halloween inspired chocolates but all you need to do is press the "All" button at either the top or the bottom of the page once you've scrolled down the page.

Meatloaf ok after collapsing on stage and much more unbelievable news!

I was just perusing the internet to see if there was any more news on Meatloaf after he was filmed live on stage in Edmonton in Canada whilst on his cross Canada tour was taking place collapsing as he reportedly sang "I Will Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)"...and I found this surprising piece of news.

According to Times Colonist's website MeatLoaf will continue on this tour,-in a "the show must go on attitude" I guess, sorry for the pun I just couldn't keep it to myself I had to do it- and will play his scheduled Saturday night gig that is due to take place at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, Canada.

This same website also states that Meatloaf has stated a media blackout for his Canadian dates, so this means no previews and reviews of his shows are available not even any updates or further information have been released via his official Facebook page or his verified Twitter account...so this to me sounds rough because I was thinking if you were a fan of Meatloaf and had bought tickets to any of these Canada gigs or if you just wanted to know if he was alright after he collapsed then because of this media blackout you wouldn't be able to find out if you could still go to these gigs or if these gigs had been cancelled and were going to be rearranged for another time or if you just wanted to find out if he was ok or not.

And I'd think if you were a fan and had bought tickets to anyone of these tour dates I'd think you'd be feeling pretty anxious about the news of him collapsing because according to Times Colonist website this isn't the first time that this cross Canada tour of Meatloaf's has had many a fan sitting on the edge of their seat, not only because you may or may not know that according to several other reports Meatloaf suffers with a syndrome that causes an irregular heartbeat as well as this collapse being attributed to dehydration and asthma, but some of these tour dates have already had to be cancelled such as a tour date that was scheduled to take place on June 18th in Cold Lake, Alta but according to Times Colonist website Meatloaf then returned to play in Lethbridge on Tuesday...and he is also said to be scheduled to play a gig in Penticton on Thursday fingers crossed.

But according to Times Colonist's website these stumbling blocks haven't put a damperner on his plans to reunite with long time songwriting collaborator Jim Steinman to release Meatloaf's new album "Braver Than We Are" which is set to be released later this year on September 16th according to Rollingstone Magazine's website.

The first single from this new album "Going All The Way" is said by RollingStone Magazine's website to be:

"...a multi-movement symphonic-rock epic in the vein of  "Paradise By The DashBoard Light" and "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)"  with all the attendant melodrama of those hits."

And RollingStone Magazine's website goes on to say that this song:

"The song features additional vocals by Ellen Foley, who sang on "Paradise", Karla Devitto, who appeared in the "Paradise" video and sang Foley's part on the "Bat Out Of Hell" tour."

RollingStone Magazine's says that this album will feature 10 never before released Steinman compositions, and that Jim Steinman got final say on the mix and the composition of these songs before they were deemed finished.

This same article also states that Paul Crook former Anthrax guitarist has helmed this new album of Meatloaf's as well as also playing guitar on this same album.

And if you want to hear a preview of this new song by Meatloaf then why not click on the link below to RollingStone's Magazine's website:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-meat-loafs-bombastic-new-track-with-bat-out-of-hell-songwriter-20160622

After hearing just the first few bars of this song it sounds like to me that Meatloaf's voice is more than a bit shaky and maybe time to hang up his coat and probably let "Bat Out Of Hell" die with dignity, I see why he is only touring one country and maybe why now I come to think abut it Meatloaf is not doing any press for this album and just touring it because if his voice isn't up to much then people will probably think it's just because it's live and Meatloaf is probably doing more than just singing so fans are going to be lulled into wanting to listen to what the song's sound like normally after the shows or from YouTube before these shows and therefore there might not be as bigger response from people buying physical copies of this album or from streaming or downloading this album...but I do realise before anybody reading this either on their laptops, androids or Iphone's start screaming at their screens whilst reading this post this is just my opinion.

News just in Idris Elba's new music project!

I was just perusing vevo.com today to listen to some music and this came up on vevo.com's homepage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvemQhu9nmA

You may or may not already know that Idris Elba when he isn't busy filming things like "Luther", "The Dark Tower" or "The Jungle Book" he is busy DJing all over the world doing sets at Snowbombing and Creamfields.

And now according to MixMag.com presents a new project "Hiatus", and the first track from this project is called "Spectacle (All Gone Pete Tong Edit)", and according to MixMag.com this track was produced in Idris Elba's own studio and this music video as well as the composition for this song was done by Idris Elba, he also has shot the music video for this with Ian Morgan and composed this with Graeme Cohen.

The producer of this dance track is Warren Ferreira.

According to MixMag.com:

"It's more club-friendly than the original as there's more drive but the festival-feel is still firmly intact."

I would have to agree with this,-but it does make me wonder what the original version of this song of Idris Elba's was, I imagine that it probably sounded more drum and bass, more house or more garage sounding, or probably something not so mainstream sounding or something that sounded like it needed something to get it on radio and heard by all, not just heard because it's a new project by Idris Elba that's been remixed by Pete Tong, ( according to MixMag.com "The radio pioneer was shown the track when the two met in LA and he's flipped the cut on it's head, turning it into a 4/4 house roller") - I can definitely see it being played in the clubs of Ibiza or now that I think about it, it will definitely put you in the party mood and I could probably see it even being played in the height of the party season being played at places like Nikki Beach St. Tropez.

And I've just seen on Amazon UK's website you can now download this mp3 album "Spectacle"...sweeeeet!

And While We're on the Subject of Robert Ludlum...

You may or you may not have seen but I have just read an article on Variety.com's website as I saw a headline about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson joining the cast of a Robert Ludlum film on IMDb.com's website and it then suddenly disappeared...so naturally I googled this just to see if my eyes weren't deceiving me and I wasn't going crazy and this is apparently true.

According to an article on Variety.com's website Jeffrey Weiner, Captive Entertainment, Brad Fischer, James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Mythology Entertainment have closed a deal with Universal Studios to produce a collective universe based on the best selling novels of Robert Ludlum, (who you may or may not wrote and created the "Jason Bourne" series) the first film that has been developed for this universe is Robert Ludlum's "The Janson Directive".

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will star in this as well as executive produce this along with Danny Garcia and their Seven Bucks Productions company, Tracey Nyberg of Mythology Entertainment, Seven Bucks Productions' Hiram Garcia, Captive Entertainment's Smith and Jeffrey Weiner and Mythology Entertainment's James Vanderbilt along with Brad Fischer and William Sherak and Akiva Goldsman will also produce this first film.

If you like me haven't read these books the story follows a former spook now turned best private security consultant in the world being framed for a horrendous crime and in order to survive he must team up with the protégé sent to kill him.

To tie in with this universe James Vanderbilt will co-author two more stories which will be adapted into screenplays.

Jason Bourne Update!

You may or may not have heard but there is coming to cinemas near you another Jason Bourne film and this time Matt Damon is back to reprise the role of Jason Bourne and Paul Greengrass is also back to direct, produce and according to Collider.com Paul Greengrass along with Christpher Rouse will write this new Jason Bourne film.

The first time I heard the news that Matt Damon was coming back to this film series I was very excited because even though Jeremy Renner was good in this role in my opinion,-and I might just sound a bit like an X Factor judge when I say this,- he wasn't as good as Matt Damon as I think that Matt Damon really made this role his own...an I think he really brought this character of Jason Bourne created by Robert Ludlum to life and this along with the action and the storyline was what was so good about these Matt Damon instalments of the Jason Bourne film franchise.

and I did think when I went to the cinema go to to watch the "Bourne Legacy" film with Jeremy Renner in and Rachel Weisz I left this same cinema feeling really disappointed which was not a feeling I wanted to feel when watching a Jason Bourne film, because I felt like this was a first part of something and that it was going to lead up to something...and thankfully it led to the exciting news that Matt Damon was coming back to this film franchise.

Anyhew...you may or may not have seen the trailer here is a link to it on Youtube.com for this new film here it is below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uLVIUuEfFY

From the looks of this first official trailer there's another programme and according to Julia Stiles's character Nicky Parsons "it's even worse than before"...and it looks like after she hacks into this programme (which I can't understand why she would do that has nothing been learnt from the last four movies, the people involved in this shady programme will come at you and anybody you know however they can until your dead), and it looks like she's got Jason Bourne involved to take the bad guys down...but again I don't understand why would she do that because after the events of "The Bourne Ultimatum" where the filmmakers obviously wanted her to be another Marie character with her dying her hair and cutting it short that Jason Bourne put her on a bus and told her no friends no routines just blend in to the crowd so that she could stay hidden from whoever was coming after him, and once again it looks like Jason Bourne has to take down the bad guys and tell them to leave him alone...

but this time there is a difference it does look like Jason Bourne has finally got his memory back....as well as their being newcomers Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones and Vincent Cassel appearing in this new instalment of "Jason Bourne".

To see how this new addition to the "Jason Bourne" film franchise will stack up to the other films you'll have to wait for and note down in your diaries 27th July 2016.

Frank Marshall will also produce this film along with Paul Greengrass, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Weiner for Captive Entertainment, Gregory Goodman and Ben Smith.

fast and furious 8 update!

Now readers of this blog will already know that I am a massive fan of "The Fast and The Furious" films, and I was just perusing the internet and I came across this news update on Empire Magazine's Facebook page and I just couldn't not blog about it...I had to just tell some one about this.

Start your engines... Vin Diesel has once again got the PR ball rolling for this next instalment with this full cast photo posted to his Instagram account:

 

sorry for the pun but I'm just too excited about this news and the thought that there's going to be an eighth addition to the "Fast and Furious" film series and I'm just excited because it's "Fast and Furious".

According to Empire Magazine's website this is a full cast photo of just some of the stars you're likely to see in this next instalment of "Fast and The Furious", along with original cast members Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges...with the addition of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (you may or may not recognise him from the 5th, 6th and in the most recent film instalments of this film series as he played Hobbs who was head of the elite taskforce that the CIA hired to find Vin Diesel's character Dominic Toretto, his sister Mia Toretto, Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor after Dominic Toretto had escaped from the escort bus that was taking him to Longpok prison and followed them to Brazil but then helped them complete a heist after his team members were killed, and then in the 6th film Hobbs needed the team's help to catch Owen Shaw and in exchange the whole team were going to get pardons but that all changed when Mia got kidnapped by Owen Shaw and instead the team got the house where Dominic and Mia grew up instead of pardons and then Hobbs broke out of hospital and a full arm cast in the 7th instalment when Owen Shaw's big brother came after Toretto because he and the team put his brother in hospital).

...and of course back for their second runs in this film series is Nathalie Emmanuel who you may or may not recognise from "Fast and Furious 7" she played the character Ramsay who along with some terrorists and Deckard Shaw was working with had created "The God's Eye" which was a hacking system that could see anyone from anywhere provided there was a camera, Jason Statham is returning to play Deckard Shaw and so to is Kurt Russell to play Mr.Nobody...with the new additions of the now confirmed Charlize Theron, Scott Eastwood and Kristofer Hivju.

Charlize Theron is reportedly going to play the new villain of the movie called Cipher with Kristofer Hivju also reportedly going to play the role of her henchman.

Scott Eastwood is reportedly going to be playing in this next film in the series Mr. Nobody's protégé.

"Straight Outta Compton" director F. Gary Grey will be directing this next instalment and will no doubt be seeing what else he can do next after the car flying out of three buildings's stunt from the last film. And he will be using Cleveland, Cuba and Iceland as filming locations for this next instalment that is said to be released in cinemas on April 14th 2017.





 



 



No They Didn't, Say It Isn't So! An Actual Remake Of Splash is coming to cinemas near you!

I just saw this on Collider.com and I can't believe this is actually happening...I think I've just had to pick my jaw up off the floor after hearing this unbelievable piece of film news.

According to Collider.com via an interview with CNBC producer Brian Grazer told correspondent Carl Quintanilla that:

"I'm actually gonna do Splash today, and I can't say . I'm actually going to do it from the point of view- I can't say anything about it. There's a movie star involved or gonna be involved. I haven't announced it."

And in case your reading this and thinking "is this guy talking about doing Splash the TV show"...no you'd be wrong in thinking this, Brian Grazer is in fact talking about remaking the Ron Howard directed "Splash" that starred Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah as a mermaid who saves Tom Hanks from drowning and she then becomes a human to track him down.

And he went on to say in this same interview that this new take on the Tom Hanks film will be a "version of" his original concept for "Splash" which was called "Wet" (so says Screenrant.com) which was according to Screenrant.com was based on the mermaid's point of view, and when Brian Grazer was asked in this same interview whether he would go back to this original idea for "Splash" he said said that:

" Yes. And that's what...we're going to do a version of that. But I can't tell you the twist".

This isn't the only Tom Hanks film that is getting remade as according to Collider.com the film "Big" is going to be remade into a half an hour comedy adaption that will be loosely based on the original's film but has been described as "looking more at what it means to be a kid and what it means to be an adult and how that in today's world these two things are more confused more than ever", as well as the film "Bachelor Party" being made into a half an hour comedy anthology by ABC this series again is only loosely based on the original film's narrative but will be geared more towards examining relationships and the institution of marriage.

This sounds to me, now I think about it that these two remakes are going to be over analysing what was a fun family film and is going to suck all the fun out of them and have people thinking "what was the point of remaking it if that was what they're going to remake it like".

Apart from this not much else is know about this remake, so we'll just have to wait and see what other news comes out about this remake.

Stephen King's "It" update!

Like I was saying in my last blog post this adaption of this book of Stephen King's "It" seems to me to have been long time coming and there seems to have been a lot of conflicting reports about this firstly I heard via Empire Magazine's website that Cary Fukunaga was going to be directing this movie remake and that Will Poulter who you may or may not recognise from ""The Miller's" and "The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader" where he played Edmund who got turned into a dragon was reported to be cast as the demonic clown Pennywise.

But...and this is a big but now according to The Hollywood Reporter's website this is all changed

According to an article on The Hollywood Reporter's website Cary Fukunaga who walked away over creative differences which put the film back a year while New Line Cinema were looking for another director for this and thus made Will Poulter unavailable to be in this movie so of course he dropped out and now Andy Muschietti who directed the surprise horror "Mama" will now direct and Bill Skarsgard who is the brother of Alexander Skarsgard who will be starring as Tarzan in this summer's "The Legend Of Tarzan" film is in final negotiations to play the role of the demonic clown Pennywise instead.

This article also reports that this film adaption of Stephen King's book will be told in two parts, the first part will tell the kid's story, and the second part will focus on the adult's who have to band together again to fight "It" once and for all even though they have no memory of the first battle.

The story follows a group of teens called "The Loser's Club" who defeat a creature called "It",-and if you are familiar with the story for "It" you'll know that Pennywise is a clown which is the form that an evil entity frequently takes the form of and lives in the sewers and when he smiles is all killer teeth-.

Barbara Muschetti, Seth Grahame-Smith, Roy Lee, David Katzenberg and Dan Lee are producing this film adaption, with John Silk executive producer and Richard Brener, Walter Hamader and Dave Neustadter overseeing this for New Line Cinema.

Talking of all these Stephen King books that are being adapted to be made into movies one other Stephen King book that I think all Stephen King fans, fans of "The Shining" film would appreciate and just because in my opinion it is a bloody good story should that should be adapted into a film should be "Doctor Sleep",-if unlike me you haven't read this you must read this as it's such a page turner and it's so gripping and thrilling you'll find it hard to put it down as you'll want to find out what happens next, I relise now that I've said this if you want to read this book and not know what this is about STOP READING NOW!- this story picks up after the events at the Overlook Hotel and follows Danny Torrence and how he is still tormented about what happened at the Hotel and how he turns to drink and alcohol to dull his shining and how he drifts from town to town and has lost touch with Dick Hallorann and how Mrs. Massey (the ghost from Room 217) along with other ghosts from the hotel still haunt him, so when he was younger he was told by Dick Hallorann to create lock boxes in his mind and to put them there so that he wouldn't be scared of them anymore. But then he comes to a New Hampshire village called Frazer where he decides he's going to get clean so he gets a job part time working on a tourist train and then in the evenings he works at an old people's home where along with a cat which is said by the staff of the old people's home that if he goes into a patients room then that person will die but he also has the reputation of using his "shining" to help these patients cross over and it's in Frazer where he comes across Abra a little girl who has an even more potent shining than he does and after she witness a murder of a little boy by "The True-Knot" (a group of quasi immortals that feed off of people's "steam" and they travel round in campervans) that they try and hunt her down as they think that her steam will cure all of them that are getting sick and dying as well as helping them live for ever, this inevitably leads to Danny having to have a showdown with them that leads back to the campsite that is located right next to the old site for The Overlook Hotel and a showdown with the true knot's leader Rose who he has had repeated warning via his shining to stay away from the lady in the top hat.

Stephen King films news updates!

You may or may not already know about this film news but as I mentioned in my last post on here I'm catching up on all things movie and music wise.

Anyhew... there seems to be some new updates on Stephen King's long gesticulating movie remake of Stephen King's "It" which seems to me like it's been rumbling on for aaaaaaages as does seem the same as the making of Stephen King's other book " The Dark Tower" series of books which last I heard Ron Howard wanted to direct this adaption,,-(to see these news updates about Stephen King's "It" please see this next blog post),- but now I see that according to Entertainment Weekly's website things have slightly changed on this front, Ron Howard is still aboard this movie adaption but as one of the producers along with Brian Grazer, Erica Huggins of Image Entertainment and Jeff Pinker as executive producer.

And also it has been reported in this same article on Entertainment Weekly's website that Nikolaj Arcel will begin adapting this series of books written by Stephen King as well as co-writing this film adaption,-Nikolaj Arcel is best know for co-writing the screenplay for the Swedish version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo" which in my opinion is the better film version of this book rather than the American remake of this film, because the Swedish film adaption of this book was great on it's own and to be honest I don't really know why their was a remake of this film anyway, well saying that I do know why their was a remake firstly because I guess this was in Swedish and secondly the first film was seen by loads of people and that probably translates into a lot of money was made at the cinema as a lot of people would have bought tickets at cinemas to go and see this film when it was originally released.- along with Anders Thomas Jenson, Akiva Goldsmith (who will also be producing this film adaption with his Weed Road Company) and Jeff Pinker.

And this same article also says that Idris Elba who you may or may not recognise from the brilliantly amazing "Luther" TV series or you might just even recognise his voice from "The Jungle Book" recent remake as the voice of Shere Khan or you might even recognise his voice from "Zootopia" as the voice of Chief Bogo and music fans just might recognise him from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' song "Dance Off" (if you haven't seen this music video yet please see below)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9LAzNMn8Ow

has been confirmed to play the gunslinger,-if you haven't read the books like me this character is called Roland Deschain who is a sort of frontier knight who's weapons of choice are a pair of revolvers who needs to get to the dark tower which stands at the nexus point of time and space in order to save his decaying world and in order to complete this journey to the dark tower he must call upon our world for help, drawing on a junkie called Eddie, an amputee called Susannah and a young boy called Jake to be part of his "ka-tet" (a term used for a group brought together by destiny), but also wanting to reach the dark tower is "the man in black"-, who according to this same Entertainment Weekly article Mathew McConaughey will play,-this character in the books is a devil who goes by many names but mostly Walter O' Dim or Walter Padick who wants to reach the dark tower in order to rule over the dark tower's seemingly infinite kingdoms.

Also according to this same Entertainment Weekly article Abbey Lee who you may or may not recognise from "Mad Max: Fury Road" is reportedly in talks to play the role of Tirana, but it's not yet known who will be cast to play the roles of the other characters.

The first film will not though adapt the plot of the first book "The Gunslinger" which was published in 1982, but what is known about this Dark Tower adaption is according to Stephen King:

" (The movie) starts in media res, in the middle of the story instead of at the beginning, which may upset some of the fans a little bit, but they'll get behind it, because it is the story"

But Nickolaj Arcel did hint about this film's plot saying that:

"A lot of it takes place in our day, in the modern world"

But also according to this same article filming for this will start in South Africa and Song Pictures has plans for this film adaption to be released in theatres on January 30th 2017.

England Football Team Suits 2016 designed by Marks and Sparks!

God it feels like an age since I've written on here and I'm sorry for the absence I've been busy travelling and I'm back now so I'm just catching up.

Anyhew...You may or may not have heard that for Euro 2016 England football team will have their team suits designed by Marks and Spencer's according to an article on The Mirror's website, also according to this same article the FA's Commercial Director, Stuart Turner has said:

"Once again, the in-house design team at M&S has shown excellent attention and the England squad will be heading to France in a suit of the highest quality..."

He went on to say that:

"We are delighted to continue our partnership with M&S into a ninth successive year ahead of another major tournament...

"...The FA's relationship with M&S continues to go from strength- to- strength and we are really pleased with the England team's official suits for Euro 2016..."

Also whilst I was perusing the internet to try and find any information about these wool navy suits I saw on Marks and Spencer's own website that not only will these be navy but these suits will be wool with a tailored fitted jacket which according to Marks and Spencer's website:

"...really defines the shoulder, chest and waist..."

this suit also comes with tailored fit trousers and has been made using Alfred Brown cloth with details such as a navy jacquard football pitch lining, a star on the inside pocket for winning the World Cup in 1966 as well as the internals featuring red, white and blue trims so says Marks and Spencer's own website.

Their website also mentions how this suit is available in a tailored fit in store with slim fit, big and tall fit.

This suit also comes with a pure wool 5 button waistcoat, a cotton tailored fit Supima shirt, a pure silk striped tie and leather lace up Derby shoes.    

England Euro 2016 NEW! Home and Away kit revealed!

I was perusing the Facebook this morning and I saw a headline revealing the New 2016 England home and away team kit that will be showcased at this years Euro 2016 tournament that starts this June 10th with the final taking place a month later in Paris.

If you want to have a gander this is what the Home Strip will look like according to GIVEMESPORT.com:



Also according to GIVEMESPORT.com this is what the Away Strip will now look like:



But this new kit hasn't as you can imagine with most changing of things in football with open arms and reading why this new kit has been controversial I can understand why...if your thinking about buying this new kit it will according to an article on The Daily Mail's website that a full adult replica kit will cost £101, but also according to this same Daily Mail article if you wanted to buy a full replica kid's kit it would cost £84, and if you were thinking of buying just an adult shirt this would cost you £60 and a kid's replica shirt would cost £48.

And if you were thinking of buying the shorts,-which I can't see why you'd just buy these on their own or unless you wanted to buy these along with the shirt or as part of the full kit,- for the adult shorts it will cost you £28.00 or if your going to buy the kid's sized shorts these will cost £23.00.

But it looks like though the cheapest part of this new kit both in adult sizes and in kid's sizes is the socks, these will only cost £13.00.

But I'm guessing as with everything these days these prices may seem a bit high as your not only paying for the name Nike which has designed, created and made these shirts but also your going to be paying for the technology inside these new kits as well as how these kits look.

As According to The Daily Mail these NEW kits "...mark a revolution in football apparel...".

The Daily Mail's article goes onto say that:

" England's Vapor kits are 10 per cent lighter, boast 50 per cent more stretch, wick sweat 20 per cent quicker and dry 25 per cent faster than Nike's most recent football kits."

The creative director of Nike, Martin Lotti has said about this NEW kit that:

" For both kits we set out with the goal of bringing together the colours that are synonymous with English football: white, red and blue – flashes of contrast are used to illustrate innovative details such as the cross-dyed knitted sleeves and the ventilation-enhancing stripe on the sides of the shirts and shorts."

He goes on to say that:

"England have had great moments in red over the years – one in particular – and our design team have risen to the challenge of integrating references to England’s footballing history with a futuristic system of performance apparel in both the home and away kits."

 

Some of these "futuristic system's" that Nike are planning to introduce with this NEW kit is on the shorts the drawstrings which have been a staple feature on the team shorts for a while now has now been removed and a brand new waistband has been introduced along with ventilation holes being on this strip so the players can be able to cope with playing in the warm climate of the south of France.

 

Also sewn into the back collar of this NEW kit will be the word "England", and the words "Lion" and "Three" will adorn the inside cuffs of the shirts.

 

And on the reverse of the crest will reveal a white rose graphic, this is supposed to be a reference to the symbol that was embroided on early England caps in the nineteenth century.

 

Both the adult and kid's replica kits will come in different fits but the professional team are said to be going to wear specially made athletic-fitted shirts.

 

These NEW home and away kits will only be available to purchase from March 24th.

 

Thinking about it now, saying that prices for this new kit are high to me aren't to me very controversial as the £60.00 price tag for buying just a shirt is probably the minimum anybody has to  splash out on if they wanted to buy a shirt from the team they support shirt...so to me I don't really get what all the fuss is about as really this price tag is to me cheaper than some of the astronomical prices football teams ask their fans to pay for either just a ticket to see one match home or away or if their fans want to buy a season ticket...these prices seem to me to be more controversial than these prices and some fans this season such as Liverpool fans have even walked out of matches as way of protesting against these ridonculous prices.

New Music Must Read Part 2: Stevie B Wolf's New Project!

If you read this blog or have read this blog before you'll know that I am a big fan of Stevie B. Wolf and I just really, really wanted to put up on here news of the new project he's already started called DORADO, this is him bringing out a brand new single every month for the next year...sounds like a tall order if you ask me but now that I think about it it sounds exciting to try and challenge yourself to come up with a brand new song every month for a year but it does sound like it could be a very long and arduous challenge but very exciting.

He's already started this road to DORADO with already releasing the single "Need You Baby", if you haven't managed to have a listen to this yet here is a link to it on soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/steviebwolf/need-you-baby

This as with all his other music is really good for background music if your chilling at the end of the day with having a few sun downers out on the terrace somewhere or if your just sat chilling at home his music is perfect music to listen to or even if you want to just sit back and decompress at the end of a hectic working week this is just perfect music to listen to.

But with this song especially and with Stevie B. Wolf's other songs including his amazing cover of Blink 182's "Dammit" he definitely gives a beachy sound to them,- i.e if you listen to any of his songs you can definitely imagine playing these songs whilst sat on the beach with a group of your friends chilling with a few beers-.

And I also have to say that with "Need You Baby" that with it's cheery vibes that get your toes tapping along to it is a bit sad to hear the song end.

If your already a fan or you just want to see what the next single for this next month will be then, be sure to stay tuned to Stevie B. Wolf's Facebook page where he'll be sharing his next single "Believe the Calm" this Friday 18th.

My apologies and New Music Alert: MUST READ! Part 1 SHINOBI NINJA

My apologies for not being on here in a while but I've been run off my feet lately promoting the fabulous L(A)B=Lab+Beauty Pro-Lift+ facial beauty tool being on the shopping channel QVC, this is a fantastic product that you can use for everything...and I mean everything, wrinkles, fine lines around the mouth crows feet (around your eyes) laughter lines, blotchy skin etc and it can be used for everyone from grandma right down to teenagers, middle aged people and men with either dry skin, oily skin, sensitive skin etc. It also helps that this tool comes with it's own duo set of a moisturising serum and a hydrating toning spray that can be used with and in conjunction with the interchangeable heads: the ion head, red LED light and blue LED light which cleanses, tones and hydrates as well as it really lifting the skin and giving you a mini facelift in just 4 mins!

And if you follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram now you can get your hands on this beauty tool for 25% off the sale price:

Facebook: LAB=Life+Beauty
Twitter: lablifebeauty
Instagram: lablifebeauty

Or if you want to take a gander at the other amazing beauty tools we do in our L(A)B=Life+Beauty range why not wander on over to our website here:

http://www.lab-lifeandbeauty.com/

But anyhew...enough of me saying about how amazing these products are and how you really Do need one of these beauty tools in your life and that these are your NEW! Must Have product that everyone is going to instantly be putting on their 'wishlists' for that special occasion that's coming up, that person's birthday that's coming round the corner or just for your next night in with the girls or why not run on down to your local Boots pharmacy and pick yourself one up or if you haven't got a store near you you could always use the trusty 'online shop' to get your hands on one.

Whilst doing this I have definitely been keeping my ears and eyes open to any and every form of new music I can listen to as I definitely think that all the 'chaos and the calm' created by running around and promoting this range of wonderful products would push me to the brink,-sorry for stealing the name of James Bay's album it just seemed to perfectly sum up how everything has been going lately-.

One of the fantastic new artists I've been listening to,-I've been listening to this band for a while now and really excited these guys are going to be at this year's SXSW Festival in Austin Texas on Thursday the 17th March at the Sledghammer 503 East 6th Street for anyone that's going to be in the area at 12:55-1:20am please check these out- is a Brooklyn, New York rock band SHINOBI NINJA whose style of music is described as "Rock Hood" on their Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/ShinobiNinjaMusic/info/?tab=overview

You should really check this out as well as their official website:

http://www.shinobininja.com/, (where you can find all their other upcoming gig dates)

Youtube channel and amazon USA where you can get a hold of their albums which include:

Escape From New York
the Maxi Single Funday (you can get this on their big cartel store)
Rock Hood
Artistic Visions
Return From...

Or go to their big cartel store to find all their really cool merchandise and lots more:

http://shinobininja.bigcartel.com/

All their music is as described rock music but in my opinion each track of theirs definitely has a very different feel to it, but all of these tracks do have a high energy to them that you can really rock out to and have a really good time to, these tracks aren't just amazing to hear in a concert environment these tracks would also sound really good if you were having any kind of party or even if you just want to listen to something different.

If you want to "try before you buy" any of SHINOBI NINJA's music you should definitely listen to "What If The Times" and just hear the summery vibes or in my opinion just sit back and you can just imagine this being played at a pool party somewhere.

Check out their other single "Bang Bang" your sure to have a better day by this song getting stuck in your head.

And the hits just keep on coming for Rita Ora and for X Factor

I was just perusing the web this morning after hearing Nick Grimshaw from Radio 1 wasn't going to be coming back after this series of The X Factor to see who else might be coming back or if there would be any additions to the judging panel after hearing this news...and I saw that not only is Nick Grimshaw not coming back but  Caroline Flack had also been axed and that it has been suggested that in a bid to shake up next year's series of "The X Factor" Simon Cowell is planning to be giving 1 Direction's Louis Tomlinson a role on tThe judging panel...so it looks like not only are the ratings for the TV show are in turmoil but it looks like the actual show could be in turmoil too and that the suggestion of the show "taking a rest" might be the best option at the moment.

Also I have to say I not only saw news of this on The Mirror's website but more news has come out about Rita Ora's on going lawsuits between her and her label Roc Nation...and then some.

According to The Mirror Rita Ora wants to leave "The X Factor" and according to "a source":

"Rita is one of the hottest properties in entertainment so it is no surprise The Voice producers want her back".

This source goes on to say that:

" X Factor ratings were dismal last year so it is no surprise Rita is keen to walk away..."

  This source continues to say that:

" A return to The Voice is very possible because she loved being a coach last time"

This "source" also reckons that:

" They (the producers) were devastated when she moved to The X Factor last year. But now it looks like she won't be doing the next series, it means they've got a chance of poaching her."

Not only this but you may or may not already know that Rita Ora has lately been fighting it out in the law courts with suing Jay-Z's Roc Nation record label with her team saying that Roc Nation have been holding back songs deliberately from her and giving them to Rihanna instead and that the record label has been promoting Rihanna and over artists on the label more than her, and in a counter lawsuit Roc Nation have sued her for breach of contract saying that she was contractually obliged to deliver five albums and she has only delivered one so far, and they're also suing her for the money plus damages the label has put into marketing and developing this second album which she has failed to deliver so far.

But according to The Mirror's website:

" Jay-Z is said to be happy to release the star from her contract..."

Not only this but also according to this website Rita Ora has had to discard as many as 100 unreleased songs, some of these tracks include ones that were written by Jess Glynne, Charlie XCX and Dianne Warren.

Oh dear it looks like things are going from bad to worse for Rita Ora as you may or may not already know that she has already had to discard one album that was produced by her ex-boyfriend who is also signed to Roc Nation Calvin Harris.

So until these issues can be sorted out Rita Ora will have to continue working on collaborations to keep up her level of exposure if she is to keep her name in the music charts and more importantly to keep her name in the papers and the magazines.

Oh My God, Oh my God, Oh my God...this is The sort of best news I've ever heard especially on Valentines Day The New Ghostbuster's has a trailer announcement

Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God I just saw this on Latino Review and I just had to immediately stop what I was doing and put this up here for all to see...Sony Pictures has released a trailer announcement that although there isn't a trailer as of yet for the new Ghostbuster's movie there is this which shows some footage of what this new look movie will look like and that there will be an official trailer for this new movie released on March 3rd 2016...so  says Latino Review as of an article that was posted on their website yesterday.

Here is the link to watch this announcement via Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zen753JD5kI

I love these films and can't wait when the first official trailer for this movie gets released, and I really can't wait for when the actual movie which will be released over here in the UK on 15th July 2016...as it seems to have taken forever to get this movie made.

Also I've just seen these exciting stills over at IMDb.com which has only got me more excited about this new movie:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1199762176/tt1289401?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_1#

I apologise that I couldn't put these still pictures from this movie on to this blog but my computer seems to be working against me instead of working with me. Bloody computers!

It is good to see,-from a fan point of view,- though that the proton power packs that were created in the original "Ghostbusters" by Dr. Egon Spengler have been kept along with the Ghostbuster car. I also just thought although this is just an announcement by Sony Pictures have made it does feel a bit like to me anyway a teaser trailer as there is obviously going to show the new "Ghostbuster" crew of  Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones...and Chris Hemsworth as the secretary, and Andy Garcia as the Mayor of New York City, Michael K. Williams, Matt Walsh and Neil Casey. But there also looks like there might just be some surprises to watch out for when this first official trailer gets released as there looks like they've still got the "Ghostbuster's" logo, the "Who You Gonna Call" slogan is still there, and the police cars are still there...but just what else might this new movie have in store for moviegoers I wonder?

Well we'll just have to wait and see what these surprises are when the trailer gets released on March 3rd 2016.