I wanted this blog's words to look like they had a similiar look to Rolling Stone Magazine as that Magazine is to me a god like magazine. I also wanted this blog to be like me with fresh, new and exciting news about all things music and film based.
You may or may not have already seen these music videos for Fall Out Boy's Young Blood Chronicles but as I am a huge fan of Fall Out Boy I've already seen some of these and really waned to put these videos altogether on here as these music videos I think are really good and thank god they are back together again as a band...that's all I can say!
I was really happy when I first heard that Fall Out Boy was back together again and this album since I bought a copy of it is amazing, I seriously can't stop playing it and it really does remind you how good Patrick Stumps' voice is, I can honestly say that I can't say that I have a favorite song on this album as all the songs are as amazing as the other tracks on the album,-I realise that this may sound a bit biased as I have already said that I am a huge fan of Fall Out Boy but its true-, and I know that this series of music videos "The Young Blood Chronicles", are not exactly PG rated but I think that they ought to be shown on music channels more...this could be though that I don't have anything other than 4Music or VIVA which only shows pop music now I don't have SKY and I just don't see these music videos that get shown on TV, or it really is a case of these music videos are not family friendly and therefore need a watershed. It also annoys me how Radio 1 seem to play "The Pheonix" and "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark" a lot but not any of the other songs from the album!
These songs should get played!...Arg! Anyhew...I have to say that I love the last song on the album featuring Elton John "Save Rock and Roll" and every time I listen to this song I always think that I have to listen to the whole album again.
You may or may not have already heard but the sequel to the "Hitman" film has a new title it's not just called Hitman 2 anymore, this is such a relief to me as for months I had been scouring the internet to find any new news about this long awaited follow up movie that's nearly as long as the "Assasin's Creed" movie, that has also had news out this week from Michael Fassbender that he is still attached to star and produce this movie that according to www.kdramastars.com the UK release date for this is 7th August 2015, but according to IMDb.com the UK release date is the 6th August 2015 so I'm a bit confused in this one but hayho...anyway and I wasn't finding anything new or updated about this Hitman sequel but then low and behold my Google search engine popped up with:
Didyou mean "Hitman 2: Agent 47" ?
So once I put this in the search engine bingo! news ahoy about this sequel, but this could change and be renamed to something entirely different closer to the release date as many films do get renamed either in this country or in other countries for the reason that another title for the film goes over better with the type of audience that the filmmakers want to attract to go and see the film. I saw this picture a couple of months ago on IGN's website but didn't put it up on here as I was waiting with baited breath to see if there was going to be any further news such as more pictures from behind-the-scenes or a first trailer but no such luck unfortunately:
This is one of the first glimpses of Rupert Friend (who you may or may not recognise from "Homeland") that was taken from the European set of the new film which will as you already may or may not know also stars Zachary Quinto (who you may or may not recognise from "Heroes" who played the character Cila who stole everybody's powers and then adapts the power to his own power), and Hannah Ware and Ciaran Hinds (who you may or may not recognise from "Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2: The Cradle Of Life" he played the bad guy who wanted the cradle of life and to look into Pandora's box but ended up dead by drowning in boiling black acid), this sequel has thankfully had the screenplay written by Kyle Ward and has beethisn written by Skip Woods (who wrote the original film starring Timothy Olyphant) and Michael Finch, and will be directed by Aleksander Bach.
So, fingers crossed this film will be a) as action packed as the first film, and b) that it will be as cleverly written as the first film. But it is a shame that not only didn't they get Timothy Olyphant back for the new film,- and in my opinion he was really good as Agent 47-, but they didn't get Olga Kurylenko back to reprise her role either as Mia...but then again if you are like me and have the DVD of this film you might have seen the featurette where there is an alternative ending where Mia gets killed off...so it would probably be no point in reprising her role.
At this years ComicCon 2014 "Hitman: Agent 47" had a panel with the first trailer for this film being shown,-I'm rather annoyed that I can't find this trailer anywhere online so as to put up here-, and the description that I read of this sounds like the film will be high octane action,-tick from me-, but also maybe that there's going to be some sort of story to this with Total Film describing one point of the movie as:
"The trailer opens with a remixed version of 'Voodoo Child', with Friend's antihero cuffed to the table in an interrogation room. The back of his head (which is stubbly, as opposed to clean-shaven) bears the trademark barcode tattoo, albeit in a slightly redesigned form..."
this suggests to me maybe Agent 47 has maybe been out of the game for a bit/tried to get out of the hitman game and judging by these pictures he has to come back.
The UK release date for this film is as according to IMDb.com 20th March 2015.
I saw this today and as I am a HUGE fan of the series of Fast and Furious films this got me very excited as I can't wait for this to be released in cinemas!
From the little snippets of info I've already heard about this next film that according to Air Herald "...the filming is completely done and they finished everything on Thursday..." from Universal Pictures saying they aren't going to kill off Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor as they (all involved with these films) didn't like the idea of "retiring" his character, to Universal Pictures used Paul Walker's brothers Cody and Caleb to body double for him, use them coupled together with CGI and voice over's to double for Paul Walker, has got me really excited to see this next film and I'm especially excited to see what if any kinds of cars, new cars and what kind of car chases are in this film as according to IMBb.com Fast and Furious 7 is going to be about Jason Statham's character Ian Shaw is going to try and get revenge on Dominic Torreto for killing his brother...so this sounds like coupled together with the sneak peak behind-the-scenes pictures I put up on here a couple of months ago the film has been rewritten and relocated,- I say this as I heard that at the time of Paul Walker's death he was shooting scenes for "Fast and Furious 7" in the Middle East, and now I think about it this relocation sounds a lot safer for all involved as of what is going on in the Middle East at the moment- to California...so it also looks like Vin Diesel might've got his wish as according to Empire Magazine's website that did an interview with Vin Diesel on 22nd of May last year he said:
"...We have to go back home...(the audience) want to see it's all that our character's expected and how they may acclimate now in their new matured state..."
but now that I think about it this new location of California for the film may just fit better into the story as in "Fast and Furious 6" everyone including Letty were back in America at Domninic's and Mia's family home where it all began having a barbecue like they did in the first "Fast and Furious".
But we the audience will just have to wait to see how this film will live up to the high octane car chasing action packed storylines of the other "Fast and Furious" films as of Justin Lin who directed the other films stepped down and James Wan took his place in the director's chair and there is the obvious hole will be left by Paul Walker not actually being in this film as of the car accident which he died...so I guess we will just have to wait to see if this film does live up to the previous films high octane car chases, action packed storylines... and now the countdown begins:
for the release date which is...drumroll please.....3rd April 2015! All fans of this franchise including those who are petrolheads like me and love their car movies or love a good old fashioned car chase put this in your diaries and remember this,-this is the release date for the UK only if you are in a different country please go to IMDb.com to check-.
Also before I forget that there will be a cameo in this film by Iggy Azelea the singer as well as grammy nominated singer songwriter Romeo Santos.
I have to say before I can say anything about this album, that I am such a huge fan of Ed Sheeran that this might just be a little bit of a biased review, and that as I am a huge fan I of course had to pre-order this album in the deluxe edition of course even if there was five like 5 additional songs that include "I See Fire" (which if you don't already know was recorded for the film "The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug", and I'm also a fan of this series of films), and "All Of The Stars" (which if you don't already know was recorded for the film "The Fault In Our Stars").
And I have already heard some of the songs from the album...well it's impossible not to when "Sing" has already been released and is on the radio and that it seems like every other day leading up "X"'s release date of the 23/06/2014 Ed Sheeran has posted on his own Facebook page other songs from the album which if you ask me is good in a way as listeners can hear other songs off the album and make up their minds if they like those songs that get posted to this Facebook page and then buy the album which comes in either normal format, deluxe edition, boxset, download or in vinyl.
I of course liked "Sing" that he wrote with Pharrel Williams who you may or may not recognise from N.E.R.D or from more recently from his song "Happy" where he seems to have taken the world by storm with wearing that misshapen Vivienne Westwood hat in the video.
This is just in case you hadn't seen it or if you like this song and just want to listen to the song again
I was as I had pre-ordered this like a kid at Christmas,-very excited-, and couldn't wait to get it come through my door and have the first listen to it and get to hear this song along with another song off this album which I love "One", (this may sound silly but I really like the floaty quality of the chorus in this song):
I have to say though that this album I thought does sound different to "+" as I thought that on that album the songs varied from sounding more just him and the guitar sounds, more acoustic sounding to songs that sounded a bit beefier with some production on like:
But I do realise that that is what makes Ed Sheeran so great, is it has always just been about his voice and his acoustic guitar and he is so great because that's all he really needs to make a song so great he can even beatbox or rap on the track and it'll sound of course acoustic because it is just a voice and a guitar but he has the ability to make the song so amazing just like that and there is no need to put any additional production on it or any additional instruments like you hear on other records because that alone sounds great, tracks like these:
I don't want to put the whole of Ed Sheeran's "+" on here because you probably get the point, but also I don't want to put the whole of this album on here as if you haven't got it by now why not, well it's no matter these songs will just give you hopefully a little taster and hopefully it'll give you a reason to go out and buy it or download it now.
But, I thought with this album "X" or multiply that it maybe sounded like it had a more R'n'B vibe and that there was more production on these tracks and that there was more of a sound like there was additional instruments used on the tracks like:
But there are still songs that are still just Ed Sheeran and his guitar like:
But there are others depending on if your like me and have either pre-ordered the deluxe version, vinyl or the boxset version of "X" that have a different sound to them that you'll like just as much, but yet again I'm only putting these songs from the album up as you should really go get the album and these are pretty big reasons why with of course having the hobbit song on and the song to the film "The Fault In Stars", and of course the main reason that this is an Ed Sheeran album so you know it's going to be good.
And I also have to say that this is a well worth the wait album as I instantly love this album, and once you get it you'll want to listen to it all the time like me...probably but this album also does make good background music.
You may or may not have already heard but Maroon 5 are back with a new song "Maps":
This song sounds like a poppy song to enjoy this summer, as all their other songs from their albums that came after "Songs About Jane" in my opinion are poppy, which could be a good starter for their new album "V" which according to the Metro Online is released on 1st September (UK release date, according to MTV the release date for this is 2nd September), but I just hope that it isn't like "Overexposed" where in my opinion there were some tracks that you liked more than others on the album, such as for me:
which I have to say did leave me feeling a little disappointed as I heard "Payphone" and I thought as this song was so catchy that there would be other tracks on the album that would be the same really good, catchy and likeable,- this may sound like I didn't know what I was expecting with having heard their other songs but I did know what I was going to get and I was really excited when I first bought "Overexposed" because I heard "Payphone" and "Moves Like Jagger" and liked them, as when I first heard other songs of theirs like "Goodnight, Goodnight" and "Makes Me Wonder" ,but I heard this (see below) which put me off buying their second album thus I only have two albums of Maroon 5's so I was just hoping that it would be better than this-.
Anyhew....Maroon 5 have teamed up with Ryan Tedder again from OneRepublic to write this song, and I have to say when I first heard about this new song of theirs I was really looking forward to hearing the voice of Gwen Stefani on the track as I read a headline saying that she would be on the track but it sounds like to me she is nowhere to be seen on the actual track...maybe she might be on the radio edit version? who knows.
The album was produced by Ryan Tedder (so this sounds like the album might sound really good), Benny Blanco, Max Martin and Shellback.
I read this on ryanseacrest.com and I have to say it piqued my interest.
According to ryanseacrest.com Lifetime TV will be filming over the summer and has fingers crossed pencilled in an upcoming autumn release date, according to ryanseacrest.com a biopic of the R 'n' B singer Aaliyah who's songs include these that you may or may not recognise:
Also she also sang many other songs which include:
And:
This video of "Rock Da Boat" was actually the video that Aaliyah had just finished production on hours before she died in a plane crash and died at the age of 22, at the moment this biopic has the working title of "Aaliyah: The Princess of R 'n' B" which will be based on the Christopher Farley best selling biography of her called "Aaliyah: More Than A Woman", and this film will document her life starting from where it all began on Star Search to her death in 2001...and the person they've cast to play this role is another Disney actress Zendaya Coleman who you may or may not recognise from the Disney series "Shake It Up" or you might have even seen her on series 16 of "Dancing With The Stars",-I've just thought that maybe the powers that be have given her this part in this role hoping that this could be her big breakout role so that she might be another Selena Gomez and make it big,-.
And it looks like I'm not wrong because according to ryanseacrest.com like all the Disney or Nickelodeon actresses Zendaya Coleman has tried to break into the music industry with according to ryanseacrest.com having a first song "Replay" that was a hit over in the USA spending 21 weeks on the Billboard Chart Top 100.
But this isn't the only biopic that Lifetime will be producing, it didn't take long for their to be a film done about the life and hits of Whitney Houston, and now Lifetime has done it according to ryanseacrest.com Lifetime has already started production on a movie that documents the life of Whitney Houston who will be played by Yaya Dacosta .
How many more old aged action stars can you put into a film written and starring Sylvester Stallone?...quite a lot more it seems. No your eyes are not deceiving you, yes there is a 3rd Expendables film getting released that will of course star Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham along with some of the other ex-action heroes from the last two films Dolph Ludgren, Jet Li and of course Arnold Schwarzenegger...but with some new and old faces such as:
Wesley Snipes, this will be his first film since going to prison for serving a two year prison sentence for tax evasion, Antonio Banderas who's most famous role to date has to be for me Puss In Boots, Harrison Ford who you may or may not recognise from Star Wars as he played the part of Hans Solo and more recently in Anchorman 2:The Legend Continues as he played the role of Mack Tannen, Mel Gibson,-hopefully this latest movie role will mask over his recent outbursts-, Kelsey Grammer who you may or may not recognise from Frasier.
And some new faces:
Kellan Lutze who you may or may not recognise from the Twilight Saga of films who played Emmett Cullen and has been more recently in the newest film about Hercules, Terry Crews who you may or may not recognise from Brooklyn Nine-Nine who played Sergent Terry Jeffords and a mixed martial artist hopeing to become another Gina Carrano Ronda Rousey.
Here is the trailer for it:
The plot for this is that Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and his team known as "The Expendables" come up against Mel Gibson's character Conrad Stonebanks who co-founded "The Expendables" but is now a ruthless arms dealer and is also determined to break the team up.
Thus I think it looks like from this trailer gives the perfect exuse to get more old guys involved in this movie including new actors to help take Mel Gibson down.
In my opinion now that I've seen this trailer that this film has been kept the same as the other films as with the whistling in the trailer it feels very jokey a bit like M*A*S*H, not taking it very seriously, like their saying "here comes another one, just when you thought they ucklecouldn't come back their back with some new faces and even more action than before".
This film is set to be released on 14th August 2014 so buckle up and get ready to see even more Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jason Statham!
