Hip Hop Kung Fu!
NEW YORK (Outkast Fan Website) - Andre 3000, Snoop Dogg, and Method Man will lend their voices to a newly dubbed version of a South Korean kung fu flick entitled "Volcano High". The film was originally released in 2001 and features high-flying martial arts action. Also on board to provide voices to ...
| Atlantic releases 'In America' soundtrack
NEW YORK (Atlantic Records announcement) - Atlantic Records has announced the release today of "In America: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," the musical companion to the Fox Searchlight Pictures film from acclaimed director Jim Sheridan. The album features music written and performed by Gavin Friday ...
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Stripes' White scales 'Cold Mountain'
NEW YORK (Cold Mountain movie Website) - The White Stripes� male half, Jack White is taking on the big screen � sort of. The frontman will toss five songs to a Civil War drama flick named Cold Mountain. The soundtrack drops on December 16th and will include tracks "Never Far Away" and "Christmas Time ...
| Grammy-winning composer Michael Kamen dies at 55
NEW YORK (Soundtracks online magazine) - "Licence To Kill" composer Michael Kamen has died aged 55 from a heart attack, after suffering from multiple sclerosis. He leaves behind his wife and two daughters in London, England. Michael Kamen was born on 15th April 1948 in New York, USA, and was educated ...
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A 16-hour Elvis film has been banned by US court
NEW YORK (Elvis Presley Fans Website) - A 16-hour Elvis Presley documentary has been banned by a US appeals court that ruled it had violated copyright. The Definitive Elvis video sold for $99 (�63) and included various TV appearances by Presley. Elvis Presley Enterprises and Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, ...
| Outkast goes hollywood
LOS ANGELES (Outksat Fans Website) - Outkast's "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" looks set to go Platinum in the U.S., but the critically acclaimed hip hop duo aren't stopping there. The pair begin shooting a feature-length Outkast film in January. Meanwhile, Andre 3000 has a couple of other film roles coming ...
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Jack White debuts December in the film 'Cold Mountain'
NEW YORK (White Stripes Fans Website) - White Stripes singer and guitarist Jack White makes his major motion picture debut this winter in the film Cold Mountain. The Civil War drama, based on a best-selling novel, also stars Nicole Kidman and White's current girlfriend, Renee Zellweger. Jack White is ...
| The special presentation of 'The Grateful Dead Movie' at US
LOS ANGELES (G.Dead Fans Website) - The Grateful Dead will be truckin' onto movie screens again on Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. in a special presentation of The Grateful Dead Movie at select Regal Entertainment Group theatres across the country. The special One Night Only movie event will ...
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Jewel is preparing for 'Waves' film
LOS ANGELES (Gravitas Entertainment press release) - Jewel has caught the acting bug for real. Since making her first film debut in 1999's Ride With The Devil, the singer has taken on more responsibility as an entertainer. She will star in, develop, and produce the upcoming independent feature called ...
| Beyonce 'Fighting temptation'
LOS ANGELES (Beyonce Fans Website) - Beyonce Knowles will star in a new film, "The Fighting Temptations", as a nightclub singer who turns to gospel. Beyonce has also completed a collaboration with Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free that will be the first single from the film's soundtrack. The film's soundtrack ...
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Mya has a supporting role in 'Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights'
NEW YORK (Mya Official Website) - Mya has landed a supporting role in the forthcoming film Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, a sequel of sorts to the smash 1987 film Dirty Dancing. Patrick Swayze reprises his role as Johnny Castle in the film, which now takes place in revolutionary-era Cuba. The Washington, ...
| White Stripes on the silver screen
NEW YORK (White Stripes Fans Website) - The White Stripes, Iggy Pop, and Tom Waits will all be teaming up for an all-star film project directed by New York's indie film-maker Jim Jarmusch to be called "Coffee and Cigarettes". Meg and Jack White will play themselves in the film. Jack's acting debut, ...
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Madonna's Bond Bomb
NEW YORK (James Bond Movie Fans) - Just weeks after Elton John made disparaging remarks about Madonna's "Die Another Day" single--calling it the "worst Bond tune ever"--the man who composed the film's score has added more fuel to the fire. Composer David Arnold not only agrees with John, but also calls ...
| '8 Mile' Actor Shot Outside Of Detroit Theater
DETROIT (Eminem Fans Website) - Ali Miyzaan, a Detroit rapper who had a small non-speaking role in Eminem's new movie 8 Mile, was shot in the stomach outside of the movie's premiere at Detroit's Phoenix Theatre on November 9. Miyzaan, who was attempting to break up a fight outside the theater when he ...
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Eminem's 8 Mile Debuts At No. 1 At The Box Office With $54.5 Million
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Eminem's 8 Mile debuts at No. 1 at the box office with $54.5 million in first weekend sales, making him the second artist to have a No. 1 album and a No. 1 movie in the same week. Last week, the soundtrack to the semi-autobiographical movie, which features new tracks from ...
| Madonna's Swept Away Won't See British Release
NEW YORK (Madonna Fans Website) - After Madonna's new film, Swept Away, bombed terribly in the U.S. last month, the movie will not be shown in Britain, home country of her director/husband Guy Ritchie. "Following the disappointing box office results in the U.S., Guy Ritchie's Swept Away will not be ...
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8 Mile Delivers
NEW YORK (Eminem Fans Website) - Director Curtis Hanson's latest project, the Eminem film 8 Mile, could be dubbed Rocky for the rap set. A dark-haired Eminem stars as Jimmy Smith Jr., a factory worker and fledgling rapper who lives in his trailer park home with his unstable mother (Kim Basinger). (Sound ...
| Jewel On The Big Screen In The 'Wave'
LOS ANGELES (Jewel Fans Website) - Singer-songwriter Jewel's next role on the big screen will likely be in the new film, Wave. Earlier this year the songwriter's production company, Magic Lantern Entertainment, purchased the Wave script, which was written by David Rothmiller and centers on the reunion ...
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Madonna's Swept Away Sinks
LOS ANGELES (Madonna Fans Website) - Sinks, drowns, belly-flops ? pick your pun, Madonna/Guy Ritchie's Swept Away bombed at the box office this weekend. The movie - starring Madonna and directed by husband Ritchie, who was critically praised for Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch -- made ...
| Eminem Steps Into 'Rabbit' Role On 8 Mile Soundtrack
NEW YORK (Eminem Fans Website) - In addition to Eminem's latest radio success, "Lose Yourself," the soundtrack to his debut film, 8 Mile, will feature tracks from Jay-Z, Xzibit, Macy Gray, D-12, 50 Cent, and others. The 16-track soundtrack is due Oct. 29 on Shady Records/Interscope Records, while the ...
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