Simon Gets "One Chance"

Simon Cowell is adding movie producer to his resume.

The acerbic American Idol judge is set to produce Paramount's One Chance, the inspiring rags-to-riches story of opera singer Paul Potts, who rose to fame on Simon's Britain's Got Talent.

Simon is producing the flick along with Relevant Entertainment's Michael Menchel and Steve Whitney while The Bucket List's Justin Zackham has been tapped to write the screenplay.

Now a household name, 37-year-old Paul was a down-and-out phone salesman and aspiring opera singer when he auditioned for Talent on a whim in 2007. Winning over Simon, the other judges and fans alike, he became a YouTube hit and has since released a No. 1 album, One Chance.

This will be Simon's first movie producing credit -- but he's aiming for more. His next project Star Struck, about a musical reality show, is in development.




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K.Jarrett,g.Peacock,p.Motian

   
Artist: K.Jarrett,g.Peacock,p.Motian

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 At The Deer Head Inn

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 7

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Noah Maffitt tapped at LiveNation.com

Will oversee e-commerce transformation





Live Nation has appointed Noah Maffitt to executive vp and GM of LiveNation.com. Based in Los Angeles, Maffitt will report to Live Nation CEO of global digital Bryan Perez.
In his new role, Maffitt, a 15-year veteran of the digital space, will oversee the transformation of LiveNation.com into an e-commerce consumer store in preparation of the company's launch into global ticketing in 2009.
Most recently, Maffitt directed e-commerce strategy at Office Depot.

Torture Wheel and Uncertainty Principle

   
Artist: Torture Wheel and Uncertainty Principle

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Split

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 6

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Julie Benz - Benz Bowled Over By Stallones Intelligence

Actress JULIE BENZ loved working with SYLVESTER STALLONE on the latest RAMBO movie - because he was an unexpected fountain of knowledge.

Benz plays Sarah, Stallone's new onscreen sidekick in the fourth installment of the blockbuster franchise.

And Dexter star Benz enjoyed her time on-set with the legendary action man - because he would teach her something new every day.

She explains, "He's incredibly intelligent. Every day he would tell me some random fact. He knows everything about everything."

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Sony Films To Distribute Live Shows At Digital Theaters

Sony Films hopes to expand the utilization of new digital projection equipment in
theaters by launching a new division, Hot Ticket, that will provide live concerts,
plays and sports events in high definition and sometimes in 3D to theaters. The studio
said that its first presentation will be Delirium, a Cirque du Soleil production,
in August. The following month it will present the musical Rent on its closing
night on Broadway. Sony distribution chief Rory Bruer told today's (Thursday) Los An
geles Times that the company plans to present about 10-12 such events a year.
"In the beginning this business is not going to be a huge moneymaker," Bruer said,
"but this is a long-term play."

22/05/2008

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AR Rahman and Andrew Lloyd Webber

   
Artist: AR Rahman and Andrew Lloyd Webber

   Genre(s): 
Soundtrack
   

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Discography:


   
 Bombay Dreams

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 19

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R Kelly trial: Day 16

Eddy Grant plots summer tour for 'Reparation'

Veteran reggae singer/songwriter Eddy Grant [ tickets ] will mount his first North American tour in more than 20 years this summer behind a new best-of album.The British-raised, Guyana-born musician--whose best-known hit in this country was 1984's "Electric Avenue"--will launch the run Aug. 1 in Toronto. The trek will hit 20 cities, winding down with a West Coast swing at the end of August. Details are below.Before hitting American soil, Grant returns to the road in the UK later this month for the first time in years, an early summer stretch that will run through late July. Those dates can be found at Grant's MySpace page."The Very Best of Eddy Grant - The Road to Reparation," due in stores July 8, collects 11 tracks spanning Grant's career from 1979 to 2005, including his two biggest hits in the US--the aforementioned "Electric Avenue" and the 1984 title song for the action-comedy movie "Romancing the Stone"-- as well as three UK Top 40 hits: "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna," "Do You Feel My Love" and the UK No. 1 "I Don't Wanna Dance."Grant's most recent studio album is 2006's "Reparation," which he self-produced.The singer's musical career began in the mid-'60s, when he founded multicultural pop outfit The Equals. His first solo hit came with 1979's "Walking on Sunshine," which spawned the hit "Living on the Frontline."

Masters At Work

   
Artist: Masters At Work

   Genre(s): 
R&B: Soul
   

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Discography:


   
 Nuyorican Sou

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14

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The couple of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Cola" Gonzalez are the preeminent production/remix team in firm music, their nom de primp Masters at Work standing behind wads of the biggest club hits and remixes of their time. Effectively soundtracking the freewheeling American nightclub conniption of the nineties, Vega and Gonzalez blended their love of the disparate music advent from New York's underground clubs during the 1980s -- disco, the carefree garage scene, rising house and hip-hop styles, Latin freestyle -- to staggeringly influence the mainstream dance sound as it consolidated during the following decade. Besides their productions, remixes and appearances as Masters at Work, Vega and/or Gonzalez are as well involved in a skillful twelve other projects (including Nuyorican Soul, KenLou, the Bucketheads, and the Untouchables), many of which seem on the duo's have MAW Records judge.


Both Vega and Gonzalez were born to parents living in New York (the Bronx and Brooklyn, respectively), though of Puerto Rican inheritance. Consequently, both were former influenced by the Big Apple's prolific salsa scene during the '70s. (Vega's uncle is the celebrated salsa vocaliser Hector Lavoe, and his father played sax in Latin groups for over 30 years, while Gonzalez' father Hector Torres is besides a salsa expert.) During the early '80s, both were noted DJs around New York, though Vega immersed himself in family and freestyle piece Gonzalez entered the rap prospect. (The break up interests came in handy later, as dance fan Vega concentrated on songwriting and groove-making spell hip-hop head Gonzalez programmed beat generation and samples.) The mate were besides operative separately as producers, and Vega had already made a call for himself on the job on oodles of freestyle tracks and remixes by Nice & Smooth, Information Society and India. Gonzalez, working as a mobile DJ with a team vocation themselves the Masters at Work, founded his own Dope Wax Records and worked on production for all of the major New York dance labels: Strictly Rhythm, Nervous, Cutting and Big Beat. In 1987, he loaned knocked out the key Masters at Work to Todd Terry for the 1987 single "All right Alright" (a immense club hit), then Terry returned the party favour one year later by introducing him to Vega.


After comparison notes, the geminate decided that compounding their wide range of influences could be an interesting experiment. They released their first Masters at Work single, the appropriately titled "Blood Vibes," on Cutting Records. Since Vega still had remixing contracts from his solo years, the pair off distinct to apply the MAW handling first to Debbie Gibson's "One Step Ahead." The dance community was reasonably appalled to find out a disposable pop creative person granted a respectable, even exciting, dance profound.


House production teams rarely released albums of their possess productions under their possess constitute, merely a Masters at Work LP appeared in 1993, on Cutting Records. The album assorted elderly singles with newer productions, and featured invitee slots for vocalists like Jocelyn Brown and India (the latter of whom is besides Vega's married woman) asset producers like Todd Terry and Maurice Joshua. The reputation of Vega and Gonzalez grew shortly and they standard pleas from to the highest degree of the major labels to chip in remixes, adding to their resume Michael Jackson, Donna Summer, Madonna, St. Etienne, George Benson, Brand New Heavies, Lisa Stansfield, Deee-Lite, Everything But the Girl, Chic, Soul II Soul, Neneh Cherry, Ce Ce Peniston and tons more.


Though Masters at Work were still a relatively metro phenomenon in 1993, simply the success of singles like "The Nervous Track" (as the Latin-vibed Nuyorican Soul), "Love and Happiness" (as River Ocean), "I Can't Get No Sleep" and "When You Touch Me" -- each with vocals by Vega's married woman, India -- caused their associated label Strictly Rhythm to give them their possess MAW Records subsidiary. The discofied Gonzalez side-project known as the Bucketheads reigned the dance charts during 1995-96 with iI number one singles, "The Bomb (These Sounds Fall into My Mind)" and "Got Myself Together."


In early 1997, the MAW duet issued the most high profile release of their career (at least in damage of the euphony organisation), a self-titled full-length as Nuyorican Soul. Recorded with remark from a host of nothingness and Latin past-masters (George IV Benson, Roy Ayers, Tito Puente, Charlie Sepulveda, Dave Valentin), the album spawned several ball club hits, including "Runaway" and "It's Alright, I Feel It." The next year, Masters at Work compiled some of their best productions for Masterworks: Essential KenLou House Mixes and Maw Records: The Compilation, Vol. 1. Two old age afterwards, BBE trumped both with the acquittance of the four-disc box Tenth Anniversary Collection, Pt. 1 (1990-1995). [Control Also: The Bucketheads, Nuyorican Soul]