"Dark Knight" reigns as new Imax king

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Imax-format release of Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight" has blown past "The Polar Express" as the giant-screen exhibitor's top first-run button.

Imax also touted the Batman sequel's having passed an average tally of $400,000 per screen on the company's 139 universal screens.

"The Dark Knight has shown the power of the Imax experience when partnered with a film producer and a studio that get it," Imax Filmed Entertainment chief Greg Foster said.

Directed by Christopher Nolan and prima Christian Bale, "Dark Knight" has rung up more than $925 million world-wide including $55 million in Imax grosses. That compares to the $45 one thousand thousand fetched by the Imax 3-D translation of Warners/Imax's seasonal favorite "The Polar Express," which was distributed in both conventional and Imax 3-D formats in 2004.

That first base worldwide theatrical run for "Polar" capped off at about $285 million, only the Tom Hanks-starring movie has been re-released in Imax 3-D every vacation season. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, "Polar" will unspool in about two dozen Imax 3-D venues over Thanksgiving, with its four-year cumulative corner office grosses in Imax 3-D coming $70 gazillion.

"Dark Knight" was released in July simultaneously in conventional theaters and Imax 2-D venues worldwide and continues to play on ci Imax screens in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in 38 international venues. Foster aforementioned he would welcome any Imax re-release of the Batman blockbuster in future years, should Warners see merit in such a plan.

"That sounds like a really expectant idea," the Imax eXEC said. "Ultimately, it's a decision that Warner Bros. has to make. We'd certainly support that."

Warners distribution president Dan Fellman aforementioned there was "a existent possibility" of such a re-release. Imax's imminent conversion of many of its venues to digital distribution would make cost considerations of such a move more negligible, though Fellman stressed that no decisions have been made regarding an eventual "Dark Knight" re-release.

/Hollywood Reporter

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Mp3 music: Astralasia

Artist: Astralasia: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other     Astralasia's discography:      The Seven Pointed Star    Year: 1997    Tracks: 9 The bass ambient-dub and tribal house social social unit known as Astralasia fits in with other British electro-hippie mystics such as Eat Static, Banco de Gaia and frequent collaborators Suns of Arqa. After a self-titled debut record album on the miniscule Fungus label, Astralasia stirred to the Magick Eye label, which issued as its first gear release the band's review, 1992's The Politics of Ecstasy. Three albums down the road, Astralasia released the compiling Astralogy, and then sign an American deal with the industrial pronounce Cleopatra, which issued The Space Between in late 1996 and then 2 albums in 1997: Septenary Pointed Star and Septet by Seven. One year later, Astralasia released their eighth album in as many years, White Bird.

Soul Motion

   
Artist: Soul Motion

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Gentle Waves

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 1

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Jessica Gibson's BF: Let's Rob Rob!

If threatening to beat up your girlfriend's boss isn't love, then what is?

Attorneys for Rob and Sheryl filed emails between Jessica Gibson and her boyfriend. In one, Jessica's lovely BF offers, "You want I come over and beat her up and trash the house and steal her jewelry and then we run away to mexico and change our names to juan and juanita." Drop the chalupa dude!

Jessica responded in the negative and Man of the Year wrote back, "It was just an idea." Muy mal, we might add.



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Bryan Ferry

   
Artist: Bryan Ferry

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Rock: Glam Rock
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Discography:


   
 Dylanesque

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 Platinum Collection (CD 3)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 Platinum Collection (CD 2)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 Platinum Collection (CD 1)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 Frantic

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Bete Noire

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 These Foolish Things

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 The Bride Stripped Bare

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 Slave To Love: Best Of The Ballads

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 18


   
 Hit Collection 2000

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 18


   
 Grand Collection

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 21


   
 In Your Mind

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


   
 Boys and Girls

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 As Time Goes By

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 15


   
 Another Time, Another Place

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Mamouna

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Ultimate Collection

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 15


   
 TAXI and Boys and Girls

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 Taxi

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 Lets Stick Together

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Ultimate Collection

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 14


   
 Street Life: Greatest Hits

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 20


   
 The Bride Stripped Bare

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10


   
 Let's Stick Together

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 11


   
 These Foolish Things

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 13

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While his incumbency as the frontman for the legendary Roxy Music remained his soaring achievement, isaac M. Singer Bryan Ferry likewise carven out a successful solo career which continued in the lucullan, sophisticated mode perfected on the group's final records. Born September 26, 1945, in Washington, England, Ferry, the son of a coal mineworker, began his musical calling as a singer with the rock music turnout the Banshees spell perusing nontextual matter at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne under pop-conceptualist Richard Hamilton. He by and by united the Gas Board, a soul grouping featuring bassist Graham Simpson; in 1970, Ferry and Simpson formed Roxy Music.


Inside a few age, Roxy Music had get phenomenally successful, affording Ferry the opportunity to issue his number one solo LP in 1973. Far removed from the group's arty glam john Rock, These Foolish Things conventional the route which all of Ferry's solo work -- as intimately as the net Roxy Music records -- would take on, focusing on graceful synth bolt down interpretations of '60s hits care Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," and the Beatles' "You Won't See Me," all rendered in the singer's distinct, nervelessly dramatic manner.


Roxy Music remained Ferry's principal focus, only in 1974 he returned with a minute solo endeavor, Some other Time, Another Place, another appeal of covers ranging from "You Are My Sunshine" to "It Ain't Me, Babe" to "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." His third gear venture, 1976's Let's Stick Together, featured remixed, remade, and remodeled versions of Roxy Music hits as well as the usual categorisation of covers. 1977's In Your Mind was Ferry's first appeal of completely original material; the following year's The Bride Stripped Bare, a process elysian by his upset romanticism with modelling Jerry Hall, split equally 'tween raw songs and covers.


Ferry did not record some other solo record album until 1985's Boys and Girls, a flowing, seamless cause that was his number 1 "official" solo release following the Roxy dissolution. For 1987's Bete Noire, he was joined by late Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr on the shimmering "The Right Stuff," and toothed his only U.S. Top 40 hit with "Candy kiss and Tell." Another covers accumulation, Taxi, followed in 1993; Mamouna, an LP of originals, appeared a yr later, and in 1999 Ferry returned with a accumulation of standards, As Time Goes By. After a brief circuit in support of As Time Goes By, on that point were rumors of a Roxy Music reunion. The side by side summertime, the practically out of the question came true when Ferry joined Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera for a tour of Europe and the U.S. It was a celebration of hits, and the band's number one jaunt extinct in more than than a decade. In summer 2002, Ferry returned to his solo calling for the thrilling Frantic. Dylanesque, a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed basketball team age later, featuring help from several longtime associates (including Brian Eno, Chris Spedding, Paul Carrack, and Robin Trower).

Kooks star: 'I want sex with Electra'

The Kooks singer Luke Pritchard has claimed that he would like to have sex with model Carmen Electra.

Pritchard said it was a big rock band's right to "go anywhere and do whatever you want", including sleeping with female celebrities.

Electra was on the guest list for a recent Kooks show in America, but did not turn up.

Speaking to Suicidegirls, Pritchard said: "She didn't show up but I heard Carmen Electra was coming to our show.

"Can you imagine f***ing Carmen Electra? How cool would that be?"

When asked whether he would sleep with her, the frontman added: "Of course, man! We all would have [hooked up with her on the night of the gig]!

"Anyone would've! I'd like to f*** Carmen Electra!"



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Valuable Haida artworks recovered in B.C.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have recovered 13 of 15 gold artworks stolen in May from the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology.

Most of the artworks are cultural treasures by the late Haida artist Bill Reid, along with three pieces of Mexican jewelry made of gold coins. The collection together was valued at $2 million. The most highly treasured object, Reid's exquisite gold box with a sculpted eagle on the top, has been recovered intact.

Both of the objects still missing, an argillite pipe and an eagle brooch, are also by Reid. Details of the May 24 break-in have not been made public, but an RCMP news release said that investigators searched two British Columbia residences and took three suspects into custody. It adds that the two objects still missing have probably already been sold to an individual or stolen property dealer. Police ask that anyone with information contact them at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or www.bccrimestoppers.com.

Sheila Farr: sfarr@seattletimes.com

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