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Thanks and Farewell

Repeating what I first reported last month -- thanks to all of you who have followed me here on the blog and on Twitter @Entertainment2u. It's been a pleasure keeping you updated on the latest movies, television, music, online and other entertainment news over the past couple of years. I started all of this back in March 2009 as a hobby -- and it quickly became a passion. But due to a real full-time job and mounting pressures on my time, I can no longer do it all!

You may have seen hints that this was coming -- as my movie reviews ended earlier this year, the weekly music blog posts become monthly, etc. So today, I have ended the Twitter entertainment feed and the blog altogether. I do hope you were able to celebrate this milestone with the special contest I ran over the past month -- just my way of thanking you for all your support.

Thanks again, and farewell -- for now!


(PS: links to iRazoo, SuperPoints and other earning sites remain valid)

Spielberg to make mini-series about Napoleon

 
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg is to make a television mini-series about Napoleon, based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, he told a French broadcaster.
The 66-year-old "Schindler's List" and "E.T." filmmaker is working on the basis of a five-decade old script by Kubrick, who directed classics including "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"I've been developing Stanley Kubrick's screenplay for a mini series, not for a motion picture, about the life of Napoleon," Spielberg told broadcaster Canal Plus, without saying if he would direct or just produce the project.
"Kubrick wrote the script in 1961, a long time ago," he said, noting that he and Kubrick were both involved in the development of "A.I. Artificial Intelligence," which came out in 2001.
Kubrick, famed for his obsessive perfectionism, abandoned the Napoleon biopic project in the 1970s because of budget and production challenges, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
In a draft 1971 letter to studio executives, Kubrick -- who died in 1999 aged 70 -- said of the project: "It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made," the industry journal said.
Kubrick wrote to actor Oskar Werner offering him the title role, and received a polite refusal to his offer to Audrey Hepburn, it said.
He initially asked British "Clockwork Orange" author Anthony Burgess to write a book about Napoleon, which he would use as the basis for his film. But he was reportedly disappointed by the manuscript.
Spielberg was named last week as jury chairman for this year's Cannes Film Festival. His appointment came days after his presidential drama "Lincoln" won a disappointing two Oscars, after being nominated in 12 categories.

Priyanka Chopra becomes Bollywood’s ‘item queen’

 
NEW DELHI: Following in the footsteps of Maliaka Aurora, Katrina Kaif and Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood starlet Priyanka Chopra will be appearing as an item girl in the song titled ‘Babli Badmaash hai’ for Sanjay Gupta’s flim ‘Shootout at Wadala’.
It has been reported that Priyanka will be paid Rs28 million for the song making here the highest paid actress for a single song.
The song has been composed by Anu Malik and has been inspired from club music from the 70s.

'Jack' slays N. America box office

  LOS ANGELES: Big-budget action-adventure "Jack the Giant Slayer" crushed all rivals in its debut weekend, easily topping the North American box office, industry estimates showed Sunday.
"Jack," which stars Nicholas Hoult in the title role as a young farmhand battling giants to save a princess, raked in $28 million in its first three days of release, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
It easily unseated the comedy "Identity Thief" starring Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, which dropped back to second place with $9.7 million in box office receipts. So far, "Thief" has taken in $107.4 million.
Debuting in third place was comedy "21 & Over," about a medical student who goes out partying with his buddies for his 21st birthday on the eve of a major med school exam. The film took in $9 million from Friday to Sunday.
In fourth place was horror sequel "The Last Exorcism Part II," which earned an estimated $8 million in its opening weekend.
Action film "Snitch" starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson dropped from second to fifth place with $7.7 million, followed by animated kids movie "Escape from Planet Earth," in sixth with $6.7 million.
Romantic drama "Safe Haven," the latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel, was in seventh place at $6.3 million.
"Silver Linings Playbook," whose star Jennifer Lawrence took home the Oscar for best actress finished in eighth place with $5.9 million. It has so far taken in $115.5 million in box office sales.
"A Good Day to Die Hard," the latest "Die Hard" action film with Bruce Willis reprising his role as supercop John McClane, finished in ninth place despite less-than-flattering reviews with $4.5 million.
Rounding out the top 10 was science fiction horror movie "Dark Skies" with $3.6 million.
Final figures are due on Monday.

Know about Modern Indian Art

A human mind is never satisfied, he is continuously looking for change and new things. And this goes also for modern Art. An artist is never content with his own work; he/she is trying to do new innovations in art forms. Through the following article, let's take a look at modern Indian art.


What is modern art?
Modern Art is nothing but pure imagination. You get the freedom to paint whatever you fancy. Feel free to get inspired from heritage, yet give it your own style. In the words of great Italian artist, Lenardo da Vinci,"painting is poetry that is seen" poetry is nothing but pure emotion similarly art interlace emotion and expressions in its work. Modern Art is towards weaving these various emotions, appearances, passions and feelings. This means, any artist can convey his own vision in his/her piece of work like a poet gives meaning to his own lines.
What is Indian art?
The origin of Indian art can be traced back to the time of Rigveda. The artists of that time used to draw inspiration from nature. The artists of ancient times used to find human eyebrows akin to two leaves and bud. While a woman's hip remind them of an elephant's trunk. If you carefully notice ancient Indian art, you can observe more natural curves used than what is of today.


If you visit the caves of Ajanta and Ellora, you get scattered parts of Indian art. Earlier the emphasis was on character, supreme power, cultural and romantic lives of the people of the century. The cave paintings provide a reflection of the views and mindsets of the people of those times.


What is modern Indian art?
With the change of rulers, Indian art have been profoundly influenced. Check out any Indian art magazine and see the influences of Mughal and Rajput art forms in the paintings. The modern Indian art was started by the revivalists. This group revived the Indian's past through their art.
Some prominent revivalists include Abanindranath Tagore, Raja Ravi Verma and many other personalities.
Today, the modern art has reached new heights. Many well-known artists of the modern era such as Jamini Roy Amerita Shergill , Hussain and others has taken Indian Art to the world stage and made it International. Take for example; Hussian's art which is a combination of humane as well as expression. It gives the message of being eternal.
Modern Art is nothing but the present depiction of contemporary society. In modern art you witness, what is going around you. In art, the greatest influence is society. An artist thought is encouraged or discouraged by what he/she observes from society. Modern age gives birth to modern art.
If you are really interested about Art, you can check out latest Indian Art News from any magazine or other source. Many news refer to particular art or painting, which have got recognition among international audience.

Proper Size of Room is Important for Recording Studios

To create a complete recording studio is good option of business and for this you have full knowledge of all requirements of space and equipments. The magic of the recording studio has often mystified even the most seasoned professionals. With all the knobs, switches and buttons on various gear and large format consoles fulfill all the requirements at a single place and no need to visit different - different place for an album artist. Many people, especially artists, composers, producers, and engineers, will end up putting together their own studio for writing and pre-production, with some eventually deciding to create a full-fledged recording studio that is capable of recording major albums. And also provide the facilities of rehearsal rooms, band photography, cd duplication, and album release. This article will try to shed some light on the considerations to take into account when making a studio, be it a small home studio or a professional recording studio. 

Size of studio is important thing important. The dimensions of the recording studio are very important. A room too large may become over-reverberant or may become the reason of unwanted echoes. A room too small may sound tight and unnatural. So it is important that the room size and room sound is relevant to the type of music you are recording. Big room sounds can be achieved by adding external reverb effects at a later time when necessary. It is best to find the appropriate room that suits the sound you are trying to achieve from the beginning of the recording process. Small size rooms can be good for vocals, guitars and percussion if you are going for a tight clean sound. In larger rooms the sound will take a longer travel time for the sound wave to move. The decision size of room and sound has to be made early on before the recording starts for album. Mastering of tracks is another important task after recording and a good recording studio should contain all the required equipments for mastering.  

One advantage that a big room will have is the ability to be scaled down by closing up the room using modular baffles or gobos. Gobos are work as partitions of room that help to block sound by placing them in between the musicians, instruments, and microphones. Placing the gobos around the microphone at a close distance will help a large room with too much ambiance sound smaller. This will eradicate the problem of reflections coming off of the walls that are further away. Small rooms can produce big heavy tight sounds with the absence of the decay from the reverb that is caused from big rooms. A good engineer in recording studio can sound amazing with a little adjusting in any size of room. A poor sounding room can be manipulated to sound good, although it requires much more work, energy, and time. But in reputed recording studios engineers provide proper setting of room and equipments.

Sometimes one side of the room sounds bad try and at different spot or move around into a corner may be improve the sound. Experimenting with different sections of the room also keeps the sound fresh when recording many instruments. This gives clarity on the final mix of track. If you are trying to build-up your own recording studio, remember one thing that the bigger the studio the higher amount the bills will be.