Three bows put Warner Bros. run into back on top overseas
As the summer season comes to a close, klieg lights are shining on a clutch of films before vacation periods end and the trek back to school day begins. Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight" regained the overseas lead -- fifty-fifty as it relinquished the No. 1 domestic position after a four-week pedestal -- reaching a foreign gross of $328.6 million with its weekend take of $42.4 from 7,775 screens in 61 markets.
Universal's "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor," the international champ for two successive weekends, eased into second property, but maintained a hot pace by grossing $29.1 zillion and lifting its cume to $193.5 1000000.
Universal's musical entry "Mamma Mia!" passed the $200 million sign as it pulled in $17.6 million from 2,679 playdates in 25 countries. Disney/Pixar's "WALL-E," meanwhile, added $13.2 million and raised its international gross to $145.8 million.
Joining the top of the inning foreign grossers this weekend was Sony's Adam Sandler starrer "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," which racked up $11.2 million thanks to key dates in the U.K., Germany and Brazil.
Warner Bros.' "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," the CG-animated effort from George Lucas, opened to $7.4 million from $3,260 in 22 markets, arriving No. 6 in the U.K. with $1.6 million from 419, No. 2 in Mexico with $1.2 million from 678 and No. 4 in Australia with $1.2 meg from 267.
For "Knight," it was a vindication of its ability to appeal foreign moviegoers. The c. H. Best the Caped Crusader antecedently had done overseas was $166.5 million for 2005's "Batman Begins."
"Knight's" return to foreign laterality was fueled by cover bows in France ($9.5 1000000 from 850 screens), Spain ($7.1 million from 570) and Russia ($3.5 1000000 from 610). In second-weekend action in Korea, "Knight" ($5.2 million from 373) held off the debut of two local films and reached a cume of $14.3 million. The second weekend in Japan, however, grossed just $1.6 jillion for a cume of $8.7 million.
Japan welcomed "Mummy" in the No. 2 spot ($7 million from 326 screens) behind Hayao Miyazaki's animated tale "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" ($7.7 million from 481), which has henpecked the local boxoffice basketball team weeks in a run-in for allocator Toho with a cume of $90 million.
"Mummy" has reached an international gross of $193.5 million thanks to strong holdovers in the U.K., Germany and Taiwan as well as solid openings in Belgium ($1.2 million from 62) and Vietnam ($177,000 from 18), which Universal hailed as the biggest opening in that country's history.
As "Mamma Mia!" climbed to $205.9 million, Universal trumpeted that it was the first-class honours degree of the studio's films to make it $200 gazillion this year despite the fact that they noneffervescent have "more than than 35 territories in time to release." The film's only novel weekend opening was in Spain, which tallied $4.8 jillion from 352 screens.
"WALL-E" opened in three small markets, with Thailand recording $783,000 from 119 screens, called the second-biggest Disney animated gap in the market. Top cumes to date include the U.K. with $37.9 1000000 in four weeks; France, $16.9 million in two; and Mexico, $16.9 million in six.
"Zohan," which stayed away from the tentpoles in the early region of the summer, opened No. 1 in Germany with $5.1 zillion from 593, No. 3 in the U.K. ($3 million from 392) and No. 3 in Brazil ($880,000 from 121).
New weekend openings included Paramount's "Tropic Thunder," $2.6 million from three markets; Fox's "Mirrors," $661,746 from 11 markets, and Fox's "Taken," $3.3 million from Australia, Italy and Spain.
More weekend military action: "Kung Fu Panda," $5.9 jillion (cume: $363.7 zillion); "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," $5.7 million (cume: $262.2 million); "Wanted," $2.5 million (cume: $126.5 million); "Hancock," $3.8 million (cume: $339.4 million); "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," $3.5 one thousand thousand (cume: $36.5 one thousand thousand); "Meet Dave," $2.6 million (cume: $22.7 million); "Get Smart," $1.8 billion (cume: $76.7 million).
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Sunday, 10 August 2008
B Howlin' Wolf
Artist: B Howlin' Wolf
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Going Down Slow
Year:
Tracks: 21
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Rolf Harris honoured by ARIA
After seven years faking an English accent while seeking fame in London in the 1950s, Rolf Harris' life changed forever when he first sang the now famous line "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport". Last night, almost 50 years later, he will perform the old favourite again as he is inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Nick Cave
Artist: Nick Cave
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Metal
Discography:
Abattoir Blues and Lyre Of Orpheus (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
No More Shall We Part
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
The Secret Life Of The Love Song
Year: 1999
Tracks: 2
Murder Ballads
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Unknown and Unreleased
Year: 1994
Tracks: 6
I Had A Dream Joe
Year: 1992
Tracks: 4
Henry's Dream
Year: 1992
Tracks: 9
The Good Son
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Tender Prey
Year: 1988
Tracks: 11
Your Funeral My Trial
Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
Kicking Against The Pricks
Year: 1986
Tracks: 14
The First Born Is Dead
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
From Her To Eternity
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
After goth pioneers the Birthday Party called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Bad Seeds, a post-punk supergroup featuring sometime Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, dying, dear, America, and violence with a outlandish, sometimes self-consciously eclecticist hybrid of vapours, gospel, rock 'n' roll, and arty post-punk, although in a more subdued fashion than his work with the Birthday Party. Cave besides allowed his literary aspirations to come to the forefront; the lyrics ar story prose, heavy on literary allusions and myth-making, and take some divine guidance from Leonard Cohen. Cave's gloomful lyrics, dark musical arrangements, and deep baritone horn voice recall the albums of Scott Walker, world Health Organization likewise obsessed over death and honey with a terrorisation passion. However, Cave brings a brawny amount of post-punk experimentalism to Walker's epic dark pop.
Spelunk released his commencement album with the Bad Seeds, From Her to Eternity, in 1984, which contained a noteworthy cover of Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto," foreshadowing much of Cave's style and topic topic on the followup The Firstborn Is Dead. Kicking Against the Pricks, an all-covers record album, bust the dance orchestra in England with the aid of "The Singer," which rack up number one on the U.K. independent charts. The record album too reinforced Cave's reputation as an original interpreter and a vocal styler of note.
Following 1986's Your Funeral...My Trial, Cave took a two-year foramen from recording, partially to appear in Wim Wenders' 1987 photographic film Wings of Desire, and then returned with Fond Prey, which featured Cramps guitar player Kid Congo Powers and Cave's strongest vocal performance up to that point. Cave's productivity picked up vastly over the next two years subsequently he kicked a heroin habit. He had deuce books (1988's King Ink, a assemblage of lyrics, plays, and prose, and 1989's And the Ass Saw the Angel, a novel) promulgated; appeared in the 1989 Australian photographic film Ghosts...of the Civil Dead as a captive; recorded a soundtrack to the plastic film with Harvey and Bargeld; and released 1990's The Good Son, his most relaxed, quiet album. Cave received his ascribable as one of the ahead figures in alternative rock when he was invited to perform on the 1994 edition of the Lollapalooza turn to raise his Let Love In record album. Early in 1996, he released Remove Ballads, a assemblage of songs about murder. Mangle Ballads became Cave's most commercially successful album to date, and, with typical contrariness, he followed it with the introverted and personal The Boatman's Call in early 1997. A spoken word release, Privy Life of the Love Song, followed in 1999. Two years later, a rejuvenated Cave teamed up with the Bad Seeds once again for the piano-laden No More Shall We Part. Nocturama was released in 2003, and the double-album Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus followed by the end of 2004.
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Friday, 13 June 2008
Asva
Artist: Asva
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Split
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Gladys Knight - Soul Divas Knight Labelle Hate Make-up
Friday, 6 June 2008
Sunday, 25 May 2008
Downtown Hoedown Heats Up Weekend with Music and Family Fun at Hart Plaza with Chrysler Jeep Superstores Title Sponsorship
World's Largest Free Country Concert May 9-11, 2008 In Downtown Detroit
Brings Top Talent To The Motor City
26th Anniversary Event Reaffirms Chrysler Jeep Superstores As Premier
Sponsor Of Detroit Summer Family Fun Events
DETROIT, May 7 -- The world's largest free Country Music
Concert is set to heat up Hart Plaza the weekend of May 9 - 11, 2008 in the
heart of Downtown Detroit with the help of title sponsor Chrysler Jeep
Superstores.
This year's Downtown Hoedown, the 26th anniversary of the event, brings
superstars Jewel, Josh Gracin, Little Big Town, Trisha Yearwood, Lonestar,
Gretchen Wilson and a jam-packed lineup of many other country favorites to
Downtown Detroit for three days of music, food and family fun.
The event marks the beginning of an entire season of summertime fun
events sponsored by Chrysler Jeep Superstores.
"Chrysler Jeep Superstores are especially happy to be a major part of
another great weekend in downtown Detroit as title sponsors for the 2008
Downtown Hoedown," Chrysler Jeep Superstores Advertising Association
President Jim Schebil said.
"It's great to support exciting and fun-filled family entertainment
events in the summer. We are already starting preparations as the title
sponsor for the 100th running of the unlimited hydroplane "Gold Cup" races
on the Detroit River July 11-13," added Schebil. "We're also sponsoring the
84th running of the Bayview to Mackinac boat race during that same time
frame, and we are the title sponsor of the Thunder Over Michigan airshow
August 9 & 10 to benefit the Yankee Air Museum."
Further details of the Hoedown Lineup and special guests are available
at 99.5 WYCD Detroit's Best Country Web site at http://www.wycd.com .
The Detroit Downtown Hoedown was established in 1983 and is widely
recognized as the largest Country Music show of its kind in the world.
The Chrysler Jeep Superstores Advertising Association is made up of the
39 independently owned Chrysler Jeep Superstores in Southeastern Michigan
from Monroe to Fowlerville and from Clinton to Port Huron. For more
information, visit: http://www.chryslerjeepsuperstores.com .
See Also
Brings Top Talent To The Motor City
26th Anniversary Event Reaffirms Chrysler Jeep Superstores As Premier
Sponsor Of Detroit Summer Family Fun Events
DETROIT, May 7 -- The world's largest free Country Music
Concert is set to heat up Hart Plaza the weekend of May 9 - 11, 2008 in the
heart of Downtown Detroit with the help of title sponsor Chrysler Jeep
Superstores.
This year's Downtown Hoedown, the 26th anniversary of the event, brings
superstars Jewel, Josh Gracin, Little Big Town, Trisha Yearwood, Lonestar,
Gretchen Wilson and a jam-packed lineup of many other country favorites to
Downtown Detroit for three days of music, food and family fun.
The event marks the beginning of an entire season of summertime fun
events sponsored by Chrysler Jeep Superstores.
"Chrysler Jeep Superstores are especially happy to be a major part of
another great weekend in downtown Detroit as title sponsors for the 2008
Downtown Hoedown," Chrysler Jeep Superstores Advertising Association
President Jim Schebil said.
"It's great to support exciting and fun-filled family entertainment
events in the summer. We are already starting preparations as the title
sponsor for the 100th running of the unlimited hydroplane "Gold Cup" races
on the Detroit River July 11-13," added Schebil. "We're also sponsoring the
84th running of the Bayview to Mackinac boat race during that same time
frame, and we are the title sponsor of the Thunder Over Michigan airshow
August 9 & 10 to benefit the Yankee Air Museum."
Further details of the Hoedown Lineup and special guests are available
at 99.5 WYCD Detroit's Best Country Web site at http://www.wycd.com .
The Detroit Downtown Hoedown was established in 1983 and is widely
recognized as the largest Country Music show of its kind in the world.
The Chrysler Jeep Superstores Advertising Association is made up of the
39 independently owned Chrysler Jeep Superstores in Southeastern Michigan
from Monroe to Fowlerville and from Clinton to Port Huron. For more
information, visit: http://www.chryslerjeepsuperstores.com .
See Also
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