New Music!

I will be away for a bit so there won't be very much news on here for a bit but do not fear I will leave you with some fantastic new music that I have heard lately.

One of my favorite films recently is 'Drive', I just love how it's all got a 80's style to it and it also feels very much like a film noir but most of all I love the music and I have to say that there has been one song from this movie that I just loved when I first heard it in this movie and I always meant to after my first viewing of this film to Youtube it so as to find out who the band is that sings it, but I always forget and then it always used to annoy me that it got played in the Sky adverts and then someone would ask me "who is the band that sings that?" and I'd always have to say "I don't know".

This is my favourite song from the movie but while I was listening to this yesterday I came across this other song used in the movie and I have to say that although it's not my favourite it does get stuck in my head...but in a good way, right up until it was going round and round in my head and I couldn't go to sleep as it made me want to listen to this song and then wake up and watch the movie.

Also, I just had to put on how every time I see the L'Oreal Elvive advert with Claudia Schiffer in I always think that the song being played in the background is Claire Mcguire but I heard the full version of this song in an episode of Home and Away the other day and I have to say I was wrong and thanks to Youtube I found out that it was "The Temper Trap-Lost Love".

This video reminds me of the hellish cross country running I used to do at school and this really reaffirms for me how much I hated P.E!

Anyhew....I really think this has to be on my summer chilled list along with Jack Johnson, Ben Howard and most importantly The Virgins for making me so chilled out and relaxed that it transports me mentally to the beach...if you haven't already got it yet you definitely need to buy yourself a copy of  The Virgins first album 'The Virgins' as I got this for Christmas last year and I popped this on the CD player and instantly was transported from glum Britain to feeling like I was lying by the pool in somewhere very hot and to far far away land!

Also I just had to put these other songs that I'm loving at the moment:

Boy Like Girls 'Be Your Everything' I really like this video, I love this band and have been a fan of these guys since I first heard 'The Great Escape' ages ago,-I have to say that this song does occasionally come into my head and because it's been a while since I've played this on Youtube I always find myself thinking who sings this, but thanks to Youtube (I have no idea what I'd do without Youtube) I refound out that the band who sings this is 'Boy Like Girls'-.

Greenday "Oh Love", I absolutly love this band and love 'Basketcase', but recently it did really annoy me as the other day I was watching the build up at Reading Festival to Kasabian coming on the main stage and instead of showing these guys they showed 'Florence and the Machine', I have to be honest I loved the songs on her last album 'Lungs' but I really do think that she can now on some of her songs overdo the one high note she can hit, and that night she really went over the top and made me question whether she actually has some lungs on her (pardon the pun) or could you stick her album on in a spa while your trying to get relaxed for a facial treatment, i.e is her music just whale music?

Anyhew...in the break of her slapping the floor of the stage over and over again they played a snippet of Green Day performing Basketcase and these I have to say looked incredible in that snippet and had all of the crowd really hyped up with some of the crowd even doing their own mosh pits, and I was thinking that Green Day's set looked much more exciting than Florence's set so I was left wondering why on earth did they just leave this on rather than cutting back to Florence's set.

Also I have to put on here Ben Montague's new son Another Hard Fall I absolutly love this guys voice and am a massive fan of him since I heard 'Haunted' and saw him at the glee club in Oxford ages ago with my sisters...although there weren't very many people there it was a fantastic gig that made me feel very sorry for him as he is very talented and I thought back then that more people should really take some time and listen to his music as it's fantastic and this song is no exception to "Haunted" and "Love Like Stars".

 

 

If you've not heard anything from this guy yet why on earth not and if not just have a listen to any of his other songs or why not book yourself to one of his gigs and see him live as he is just fantastic live, or better yet as this was released on Sunday on Itunes why not go along to Itunes right now and buy yourself this.

Also I cannot post this without mentioning "The Dead Famous" and their new single and video for "Hide Your Halo":

I really like this video and I really like the song and like every other time I Youtube this band I just have to stop what I am doing and listen to all their dongs as they are all soooo addictive to listen to...but I have to say that they are amazing live so much so that I am going to see them again on October 1st, I suggest that if you haven't already heard any of their songs you need to drop everything that you are doing right now and switch over to Youtube and listen to all of their other songs and I guarantee that you will become an instant fan and then if you've listened to all of their tracks go and download their song 'Superstar', if this isn't giving you much of a reason to download this track you might warm to more to the idea that this download is free!

You now have no reason to not download this track!

I have to say that the black and white parts of this video makes me think of Sin City and I love the sparks flying off the flames that are in front of the lead singer, but I have to say if I knew I was shooting a music video and was told that you have to stand behind some sparks that will be flying off from a fire I don't think I could stand there and look as cool as James (lead singer) does...I think I would have to take a couple of steps back to feel that there was a comfortable distance between me and the sparks as I wouldn't want any of these sparks flying onto any of clothing that I was wearing as I think I would have a fear of these setting on fire.

Stretch Armstrong getting his own stretchtastic movie!

Back in July on The Hollywood Reporter's  Heat Vision blog it reported that Stretch Armstrong was getting its very own movie and that Breck Eisner was in negotiations to direct this but now we can it's been made official that he will direct this without Taylor Lautner who was originally on the cards to be in this film.

Stretch Armstrong as you know is a toy that is owned by Hasbro and as part of an agreement between Hasbro and Universal made all the way back in 2008, but back in January this stretched (pardon the pun) right off Universal's lot and into the hands of Relativity Media's regardless of Taylor Lautner's rumoured involvment with this film and several release dates for this film being released and then nothing coming of it.

According to The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision blog Relativity Media have been working on the film, working off a script that has been written by Dean Georgaris who has written scripts in the past for 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider:The Cradle Of Life' as well as 'The Manchurian Candidate',-I have to say that going on these two films being on his CV as past films that he has written scripts for then this isn't bad, as I've seen both and although the first Lara Croft was for me the better of the two but this second one I still do watch it every time that it comes on the TV, 'The Manchurian Candidate' is a fantastic film with Denzel Washington in and a must see if you haven't seen it already and I do have to say that this film is probably a lot better than Lara Croft but to be honest they are very different styles of films as Lara Croft is more a family fun film and the Manchurian Candidate isn't really a family friendly film as it's certificate is 15 and there's one bit in the film where the main character played by Liev Schrieber sleeps with his mother played by Meryl Streep-, so this film may be not one that you sit down with the kids to watch.

Ryan Kavanaugh from Relativity Media, Brian Goldner and Bennett Schier from Hasbro are going to be producing with Tucker Tooley from Relativity going to be executive producing.

Hasbro CEO and President Brian Goldner has commented that Stretch Armstrong could "potentially to move "Stretch" out of '12 and into '13".

This then would seem to back up how IMDb.com report that Stretch Armstrong will get released over in America on 11th April 2014, but apart from this there isn't any other info...so for now we'll just have to see what happens

Brangelina brood following in mummies footsteps!

According to Metro 1 of the many many many many children of Brad and Angelina Jolie will be taking their acting debut by acting alongside Angelina on the set of her new film Maleficent...the film adaption of the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty.

According to Metro Angelina's four year old daughter Vivienne will play Princess Aurora and Ellie Fanning will play an older version of her.

According to The Sun Newspaper,-which knowing what this newspaper is like you may or may not want to believe their "source" at this newspaper, and asthis newspaper is part of the Murdoch News Corporation Empire and how the ethics of some journalists at this newspaper has been called into question of late you may be like me and want to hold any of their "sources" to the stories they print with a hint of salt-:

"Angelina thought it would be a fun experience for Vivienne to share, and Vivienne is a natural".

She will be starring alongside Imelda Staunton who you might recognize from Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix as Dolores Umbridge who is appointed by Cornelius Fudge the Minister for Magic who like everybody else doesn't believe Harry when he says that Lord Voldermort has come back and that he killed Cedric Diggery , Sam Riley who you might also recognise from Brighton Rock where he played pinky who is a gangster, Miranda Richardson another Harry Potter export as you might recognise her from Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire as the annoying Daily Prophet journalist who makes up things during the Triwizard Tournament to make it more interesting like in the film of this she makes up that Harry is dating Hermione Granger just because she's seen her wishing Harry good luck.

Juno Temple who was recently in the new Batman film as Anne Hathaway's partner in crime will also be in this as one of the fairies that look after Aurorer.

This doesn't have a date up yet of when it will be released in the UK but IMDb.com says that it will be released over in America on the 14th March 2014.

I've hit the motherload...Matrix 4 and 5 to be done in 3D!

Holy Crap Batman! This is for me the motherload of news that I have seemed to hit on on Metro's website...I can't believe this is being done as I am a big fan of this and I especially loved Matrix 1...I can even remember how one of my friends at school told me after he saw this first film that he just had to attend a fancy dress party as Morphios!

The second one for me was alright but it wasn't anything on the first film.

Anyhew according to Metro Keanu Reeves had spoken to Andy and Larry Wachowski about the possibility of shhoting two more films in 3D.

Metro reports that Reeves met the brothers around Christmas time when they told him that they'd been working on completed scripts for two more follow ups to the Matrix franchise.

The Wachowski brothers are also reportedly planning on meeting one of the most infamous directors around these days James Cameron to ask him about the possibility of shooting these films in 3D.

Keanu Reeves has reportedly said on this that these films will revolutionise the action genre just like the first Matrix movie did.

I don't know how this might be done and how exactly he'll come back into the fold as Neo as forgive me if I'm wrong but at the end of the last one when Trudi died he also died....but now that I remember it there was a voice over saying that he went away and no one saw him again but he would return...but hopefully not in the comic way that Kim Jong Il says he will return my other favorite film 'Team America:World Police' when he is really a cockroach and goes to a toy spaceship and yells 'I will weturn!'.

Hold the bus!...Bill and Ted 3 is in the works! Awesome Dude

I have just stumbled upon this titbit of amazing news.... according to Metro news website Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are on board to reprise their roles of Bill and Ted in Bill and Ted 3.

There has been talk for what seems like ages now that Alex Winter (Bill) wanted to do another Bill and Ted movie with Keanu Reeves but now according to Metro Newspaper this awesome bit of news is getting closer to becoming a reality.

It seems that now both Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are on board for this project with Ed Soloman and Chris Matheson who originally created the film and introduced it and Keanu Reeves to the world.

Dean Parisot who was behind 'Galaxy Quest'....in case your wondering like I was thanks to IMBb.com it has confirmed that this was the film where there were aliens who really did believe that a  sci-fi TV show with the same name which fought off aliens to save the world was real so they get them to save their world from an alien dictator.

He is repordedly attached to this project to direct it.

But before you get all excited about this becoming a reality shooting for this looks unlikely to kick off before next year as at the moment Dean Parisot is going to be making a sequel to RED, and this also might get delayed some what as Metro report that although MGM still own the rights to this film it's thought that a deal could be struck up with another studio so as to co-finance this.

So we'll have to wait and see what this film plot will be as at the moment there hasn't been a whiff of plot details, but even though this is the case I still am excited to see this film as I loved the first two and thought they were totally awesome dude!
 

Justin Bieber to be on The Simpsons

According to Entertainment Weekly's Insider TV Justin Bieber will have a cameo role on the show as himself in an upcoming episode of the show.

According to Justin Bieber's Twitter Feed he wrote this afternoon:

"just did a voice over for the SIMPSONS!!! #swaggy"

But this has since been removed...so this could spell another Rachel Weisz and James Bond situation where if your not familiar with this situation I'll fill you in, apparently back when they were casting for the new Skyfall film Rachel Weisz was reportedly cast to play the head of Quantum but then a friend of hers tweeted that she was so excited for Weisz to be playing this role in the new James Bond and then from this Rachel Weisz was no longer in this movie.

Meaning that it has been removed because Bieber has thought 'Oh shit! I wasn't suppose to tell anyone about this!".

The episode he will be in will be called 'The Fabulous Faker Boy' which has the storyline of Bieber tries to get into a talent show that Bart is in playing piano but they won't let him in.

This episode will be aired on FOX TV on September 30th 2013 as part of the 24th season.

Al Jean the executive producer of the show has commented on this cameo role saying that despite it only being a cameo:

"...all of his fans should watch every minuite of the show , before and after he's on..."

This though won't be the only high-profile A-lister that will get the yellow treatment this time around, according to Entertainment Weekly Edward Norton, Steve Carrel, Zooey Deschanel, Anne Hathaway and Natalie Portman will get the yellow treatment for this 24th season of the show.

 

Lady Gaga in toy lawsuit!

The other day I was reading on Entertainment Weekly's website that Lady Gaga has got herself in hot water with MGA Entertainment who were planning on releasing a doll of Lady Gaga around Christmas, but now this lawsuit $10million lawsuit that they've slapped her with means that any one who was thinking that they'd got their perfect christmas gift for that person that is a fan of hers you'll have to go back to the drawing board and think of a back up present.

According to Entertainment Weekly MGA Entertainment says that at the last minuit Lady Gaga, her management as well as her licensing copanies asked for the dolls voice chip to be removed which has now delayed its release date, saying that Lady Gaga's people had:

"....engaged in intentionally and deliberate delays..."

So now with the release date being pushed back it means that this toy wouldn't get released in 2013 more in line with when her perfume and next album comes out.

Lady Gaga's people though are confident though that their in the right and that there is no legitamate reason for dragging Lady Gaga's name into this dispute even though the dispute is mainly between MGA Entertainment and Lady Gaga's record label, which MGA Entertainment is also asking from her licensing company Bravado International a $1million for the rights to produce a doll in her likeness.

Lady Gaga's people have said that she will:

"...vigorously defend MGA's ill conceived lawsuit and is confident that she will prevail..."

But MGA begs to differ saying they are in the right and have offered to show a recorded sample of the back and forth dialogue that they have had with her people.

According to MGA they were asked by an intermediatory from Lady Gaga's camp back in March that the doll be more supermodel like, and that they also recieved an email saying to "think a prettier version of Gaga. Thin out the cheeks and sharpen the jawline. Give her more of a cat-eye and sexier, poutier lips".

And then according to MGA Entertainment they were told by her camp that they like the dolls silver Grammy outfit and the doll's green crystal dress but they wanted a 'Born This Way' zombie ensemble as well...including they say with "...a removable head to reveal a bloody stump..."-this to me sounds like the doll was going to be a toy that came right out of 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' and that it might of needed to come with its own age restrictions as I don't think that parents will have been buying this toy for very small little monsters, but then again her main market is teenagers-.

Anyhew...MGA go on to say that when all these demands were met and they then sent out samples to her and it was at this time that she asked for the voice chip to be pulled.

They also say that on April 23rd Lady Gaga was keen on having the shipping for this delayed until her new album was released.

But on a lighter note for all you fans of Lady Gaga you'll be happy to know that she has been cast as La Chamelion in Robert Rodriguz's 'Machete Kills' which if your a fan of Robert Rodriguz films like me then you'll know this is a follow up of his other 'Machete' film starring Danny Trejo which you'll have seen in 'Once Upon A Time In Mexico' as the guy who works for Johnny Depp's CIA Agent Sands who is told to get El (played by Antonio Banderas) out of hiding so as to stop the local maffia from executing a coup on the President lead by General Marquez on the day of the dead in Mexico.

    

In typical Robert Rodriguez  ironic style La Chamelion is a character that likes to play with silenced pistols but still likes to look demure while doing it.

Also ironically Charlie Sheen has also been cast...I'm not so sure if there is going to be any guns or things to blow up that Tiger Blood drinking machete wielding Charlie Sheen should be near it but I guess that if anything gets blown up that shouldn't you can always say that it was Charlie Sheen or Mel Gibson,-who has also been cast-, that did it.

Also Vanessa Hudgens, Sofia Vergara, Willian Sadler, Demian Bichir, Michelle Rodriguez and Edward James Olomis will star.