Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Ron Weasley Gets His Girl
The search for Ron Weasley’s girlfriend, Lavender Brown, is over and the lucky girl to star in the next Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, is 20 year old Jessie Cave.
The choice got the thumbs-up from Rupert Grint, who plays Ron. In an interview with CBBC’s news programme, Newsround, in the UK, Rupert said, “I was involved in the audition and Jessie is really cool and it’s going to be really fun.”
Co-star Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger, added “Jessie seems really sweet and perfect for the role of Lavender. The casting is so good and I am looking forward to her scenes with Ron. I think it’s going to be quite a comic film.”
Apart from her future role in Harry Potter, Jessie has appeared with Helen Mirren in Inkheart and she also stars in an upcoming BBC drama, Summerhill.
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince is due to be released in November 2008.
Hannah Montana: The Movie Starts Shooting Soon
Fans of Hannah Montana rejoice! Hannah Montana: The Movie is set to begin shooting in late January 2008, i.e. once Miley Cyrus' Best Of Both Worlds live concert tour ends. This movie, like High School Musical 3 will be debuting in cinemas and not the Disney Channel. The movie script has yet to be finalised
My Dad's Weird, Says Miley Cyrus
All you dating teens out there, be very thankful you don’t have a dad like Billy Ray Cyrus. In an interview with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus said her dad gets weird when it comes to her dating. “The other day I had one of my guy friends over and my dad was... hiding in the kitchen,” Miley tells Oprah. “We were outside just like hanging out and I look around and my dad's standing there. He's standing there with his German shepherd dog watching us and I'm like, 'Dad, you're gonna scare him. I'm not going to have any more friends.' "
Daddy Cyrus apparently can’t bring himself to accept that his 14 year old daughter is at that dating stage. He tells Oprah that he’s being like any other dad with a teenage daughter. Of the incident, Billy says he was just joking around with Miley’s friend and that he wasn’t really checking up on her. “They knew I was there. It’s not like I was spying.”
Of course, he didn’t explain why the dog was there.
Casting is complete for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
ComingSoon.net reports that the cast of characters is complete for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Here’s what we’ve got:
Once again heading the cast, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are reprising their roles as young wizards Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, who are facing new challenges and dangers in the wake of Lord Voldemort’s return. They will be reunited with returning “Harry Potter” cast members, including Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Natalia Tena, Julie Walters and David Thewlis, as well as Evanna Lynch, Matthew Lewis and Bonnie Wright.
More casting information after the jump:
Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe) has been set to play Potions Professor Horace Slughorn, who gives Harry an old Potions textbook that had once belonged to the Half-Blood Prince, which proves invaluable to the young wizard. Award-winning actress Helen McCrory (Becoming Jane, The Queen) will play Narcissa Malfoy, mother to Draco Malfoy and sister to the evil Bellatrix Lestrange.
Jessie Cave has won the role of Lavender Brown, who has eyes for Ron Weasley. Nine-year-old Hero Fiennes Tiffin is playing the role of the young Tom Riddle at age 11, while 16-year-old Frank Dillane is playing the teenage Riddle, who is already on the path to becoming the evil Lord Voldemort.
Once again heading the cast, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are reprising their roles as young wizards Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, who are facing new challenges and dangers in the wake of Lord Voldemort’s return. They will be reunited with returning “Harry Potter” cast members, including Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Natalia Tena, Julie Walters and David Thewlis, as well as Evanna Lynch, Matthew Lewis and Bonnie Wright.
More casting information after the jump:
Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe) has been set to play Potions Professor Horace Slughorn, who gives Harry an old Potions textbook that had once belonged to the Half-Blood Prince, which proves invaluable to the young wizard. Award-winning actress Helen McCrory (Becoming Jane, The Queen) will play Narcissa Malfoy, mother to Draco Malfoy and sister to the evil Bellatrix Lestrange.
Jessie Cave has won the role of Lavender Brown, who has eyes for Ron Weasley. Nine-year-old Hero Fiennes Tiffin is playing the role of the young Tom Riddle at age 11, while 16-year-old Frank Dillane is playing the teenage Riddle, who is already on the path to becoming the evil Lord Voldemort.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Music > News & Features
Music > News & Features
Tuesday November 27, 2007
Fab five
The boys of TVXQ rocked Stadium Merdeka at their second Asian tour concert last Saturday.
Top South Korean act TVXQ was in town as part of its second tour of Asia. I saw the guys in concert during their first Asian tour last year and nothing could have kept me away from another performance. Known as Dong Bang Shin Gi in Korea and Tohoshinki in Japan, TVXQ is the acronym for Tong Vfang Shen Qi, which means Gods Rising from the East.
Cassiopeians (TVXQ fans) poured into Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur in a sea of pearl red on Saturday evening. The 12,000-strong audience was double that of the first concert last year. The speakers were booming and the earth shook under my feet.
Fans of all ages were screaming, “Dong Bang Shin Gi, saranghae.” (TVXQ, I love you, in Korean.)
TVXQ opened the concert with a bang, rocking the stadium with a succession of fast dance numbers like Phantom, Million Men, The Way U Are and Rising Sun. Well-known for their dancing prowess and choreography skills, the boys and their dancers dazzled fans with their funky moves.
The show’s anti-war theme was illustrated with black-and-white images of war and terrorism shown on the screens, in between songs. It was an amazing pyrotechnic-fest, too, as every song was punctuated with fireworks.
The humid Malaysian climate got to the boys, and they were bathed in sweat. They started in all-black outfits with long black trench coats, which they quickly shed after the second song.
After the fourth song, we witnessed the boys diving down from tens of metres above into the “water”, where they “swam” down to save a woman in a rescue scene achieved using wires.
Returning for their fifth song, One, they wore white trench coats, to symbolise angels of peace. With the spotlight on them, the boys seemed to glow.
Then they introduced themselves in Malay and English and Korean, before rendering pop ballads Trust and You’re My Miracle.
Up next were individual performances; Xiah, 20, (Kim Jun-su) gave a rousing performance of My Page, which he composed himself. Wearing a metallic gold outfit, he donned a black cap just before the “rain” started falling on him, reminiscent of Korean pop idol Rain.
Micky, 21, (Park Yoo-chun) entertained with Brian McKnight’s One Last Cry.
U-Know, 21, (Jung Yun-ho) rocked to Spokesman, which he composed himself. He was joined by Lee Dong-hae of 13-member South Korean boyband Super Junior, who rapped.
During the fast dance numbers, U-Know sang in a far corner as he had injured his back last month.
Max, 19, (Shim Chang-min) sang When I First Kissed You, an English song by Extreme. Golden-haired Hero, 21, (Kim Jae-joong) delivered Crying, a song by Korean band Flower.
While performing Tri-Angle, the boys were joined by Chinese singer Zhang Liyin. Xiah performed his second piece of the night with pretty Zhang. They did a duet called Timeless.
After that, an anime clip of TVXQ was screened that showed the boys discovering their management company, SM Town. Amid cheers for an encore, TVXQ closed the concert with Unforgettable and Hug which the fans sang along to.
Yes, TVXQ swept us off our feet and stole our hearts. The good-looking guys, who hold the distinction of being the first Korean pop act to stage a concert in Malaysia, performed close to 30 songs in the almost three-hour-long concert.
Kamsahamnida (thank-you) for a wonderfully entertaining evening and I hope to see TVXQ again next year.
Tuesday November 27, 2007
Fab five
The boys of TVXQ rocked Stadium Merdeka at their second Asian tour concert last Saturday.
Top South Korean act TVXQ was in town as part of its second tour of Asia. I saw the guys in concert during their first Asian tour last year and nothing could have kept me away from another performance. Known as Dong Bang Shin Gi in Korea and Tohoshinki in Japan, TVXQ is the acronym for Tong Vfang Shen Qi, which means Gods Rising from the East.
Cassiopeians (TVXQ fans) poured into Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur in a sea of pearl red on Saturday evening. The 12,000-strong audience was double that of the first concert last year. The speakers were booming and the earth shook under my feet.
Fans of all ages were screaming, “Dong Bang Shin Gi, saranghae.” (TVXQ, I love you, in Korean.)
TVXQ opened the concert with a bang, rocking the stadium with a succession of fast dance numbers like Phantom, Million Men, The Way U Are and Rising Sun. Well-known for their dancing prowess and choreography skills, the boys and their dancers dazzled fans with their funky moves.
The show’s anti-war theme was illustrated with black-and-white images of war and terrorism shown on the screens, in between songs. It was an amazing pyrotechnic-fest, too, as every song was punctuated with fireworks.
The humid Malaysian climate got to the boys, and they were bathed in sweat. They started in all-black outfits with long black trench coats, which they quickly shed after the second song.
After the fourth song, we witnessed the boys diving down from tens of metres above into the “water”, where they “swam” down to save a woman in a rescue scene achieved using wires.
Returning for their fifth song, One, they wore white trench coats, to symbolise angels of peace. With the spotlight on them, the boys seemed to glow.
Then they introduced themselves in Malay and English and Korean, before rendering pop ballads Trust and You’re My Miracle.
Up next were individual performances; Xiah, 20, (Kim Jun-su) gave a rousing performance of My Page, which he composed himself. Wearing a metallic gold outfit, he donned a black cap just before the “rain” started falling on him, reminiscent of Korean pop idol Rain.
Micky, 21, (Park Yoo-chun) entertained with Brian McKnight’s One Last Cry.
U-Know, 21, (Jung Yun-ho) rocked to Spokesman, which he composed himself. He was joined by Lee Dong-hae of 13-member South Korean boyband Super Junior, who rapped.
During the fast dance numbers, U-Know sang in a far corner as he had injured his back last month.
Max, 19, (Shim Chang-min) sang When I First Kissed You, an English song by Extreme. Golden-haired Hero, 21, (Kim Jae-joong) delivered Crying, a song by Korean band Flower.
While performing Tri-Angle, the boys were joined by Chinese singer Zhang Liyin. Xiah performed his second piece of the night with pretty Zhang. They did a duet called Timeless.
After that, an anime clip of TVXQ was screened that showed the boys discovering their management company, SM Town. Amid cheers for an encore, TVXQ closed the concert with Unforgettable and Hug which the fans sang along to.
Yes, TVXQ swept us off our feet and stole our hearts. The good-looking guys, who hold the distinction of being the first Korean pop act to stage a concert in Malaysia, performed close to 30 songs in the almost three-hour-long concert.
Kamsahamnida (thank-you) for a wonderfully entertaining evening and I hope to see TVXQ again next year.
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