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McFly give away new album

Posted by Tom Watson

McFly are to give away their new album with the Mail on Sunday, the pop four-piece have revealed.

Copies of Radio:ACTIVE, the band's fourth studio album, will come free with the newspaper on July 20 - more than a month before its retail release.

Band member Tom Fletcher told the BBC: "We get to put [the album] into almost three million homes, which is an incredible opportunity for us. Hopefully the three million people will all enjoy the music and they'll decide to see us when we go on tour."

McFly are not the first act to distribute a new album with the Mail on Sunday. Last year Prince enraged music retailers by giving away copies of his Planet Earth album with the newspaper before it was available in the shops.

Radio:ACTIVE will not be available on the high street until September, when it will be released as a 'deluxe edition' featuring four new songs, a bonus DVD and a 32-page booklet.

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McFly album ACTIVE to be given away free...

Posted by Tom Watson

Multiplatinum-selling pop group McFly are to become the latest music act to give their new album away for free after signing a deal with the Mail on Sunday.

Readers of the mid-market Sunday newspaper will get a free CD of McFly's new album Radio: ACTIVE when they buy a copy of the Mail on Sunday on July 20.

The McFly deal is being seen as significant as the group is the first current major pop chart act to give their music away as a newspaper cover mount.

This follows the deal by Prince to give his new album, Planet Earth, away with the Mail on Sunday on July 15 last year - a move that saw the newspaper put on around 600,000 sales and kicked off the current trend.

McFly - Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd - decided on the deal after leaving record giant Universal and setting up their own self-funded independent label, Super Records.

"This new freedom has given the band the opportunity to pursue new ways of getting their music into the public domain," a source close to the band said.

"It's a big deal as no act of their genre, ie a relevant big selling current pop act, has ever given away a brand new album before."

Fletcher, the band's singer and guitarist, added: "We want to get our music out to the widest audience possible and working with a massive paper like the Mail on Sunday will definitely help us achieve that.

"We're very excited about this great opportunity. Setting up our own label allows us to rip up the rulebook and find new ways of reaching an audience."

Stephen Miron, the managing director of the Mail on Sunday, said: "As part of the Mail on Sunday's ongoing innovation in bringing new music to the masses and exactly a year since we created a world first with Prince's new album, we are absolutely delighted to be involved with one of the UK's biggest selling pop acts, McFly.

"We're very excited to be giving away the new album free with the paper on July 20 and are confident that millions of our readers will love the new album."

A deluxe version of Radio: ACTIVE will be released as a CD by Super Records through retailers in September, featuring four extra new songs, a bonus DVD and a 32-page booklet.

The four-piece, aged between 20 and 22, became the youngest band to see their first album, Room on the 3rd Floor, debut at number one in the UK charts when they launched in 2004.
McFly's second album, Wonderland, also went straight in at number one in 2005, while their third album, Motion in the Ocean, entered the UK charts at number six in 2006.

Last year, they released a greatest hits compilation, which charted at number four.

The band has scored 13 top 10 UK singles, seven of which reached number one.

The Mail on Sunday's Prince promotion sparked a furious reaction from the record industry, although HMV agreed to sell the paper so its customers could buy the CD.

Despite the Mail on Sunday's sales soaring to 2,800,846 copies the week of the Prince giveaway, it appeared to lose most of the extra 600,000 sales the following week.

However, the paper said it was still up 31,000 from the week before the giveaway.

As well as the Prince deal, the Mail on Sunday also gave away Paul McCartney's new album, Memory Almost Full, last month, although it had already been released through Starbucks coffee shops.

The paper has also given away releases from Simply Red and UB40.

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Article Courtsey: Guardian.co.uk

The Nativity Story – Open Bible Once Again!

Posted by Tom Watson

A Journey way back to the most significant event in the world history as the greatest tale ever told is made alive in the epic drama - The Nativity Story. The movie DVD has already been out from March 20, 2007, under the New Line Home Entertainment banner. Making into stores during Easter, The Nativity Story is an inspiring story of immense faith and love that takes into account the painful journey of Mary and Joseph, a celestial pregnancy and the miraculous birth of Jesus. The Nativity Story is the only movie ever to premiere at the Vatican City. The Nativity Story is directed by Catherine Hardwicke and stars Keisha Castle-Hughes (as Mary) and Oscar Isaac (as Joseph) as well as Academy Award nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (as Elizabeth). The DVD is available at £4.99 on Stoleit.com.

The writer Mike Rich has adopted the story from details regarding the birth of Jesus found in the Book of Matthew and the Book of Luke. A cinematic journey into the heart of history's one of the greatest story, The Nativity Story has rocked the silver screen for the first time in a major motion picture event. New Line Cinema's The Nativity Story chronicles the arduous journey of two people, Mary and Joseph, a miraculous pregnancy, and the history-defining birth of Jesus.
The dramatic and compelling film traces the perilous journey of a young couple who must travel from their home in Nazareth to Bethlehem, Joseph's ancestral home, to register for a census ordered by King Herod. It is a journey of over 100 miles, through treacherous terrain, made much more difficult by the fact that Mary is nine months pregnant. The storyline starts with Nazareth and King Herod’s treachery on common people. Though the movie caries a biblical overtone throughout, but the real hero of this movie is Joseph, who, as played by Oscar Isaac, may be the most attractive embodiment of goodness and self-giving devotion that we have seen in a movie since Sean Astin played Sam in The Lord of the Rings. The trick to Isaac's performance is that he lets us see Joseph's darker side, even as he plays Joseph bravely keeping it under control. When a stranger meets Joseph and the pregnant Mary, and remarks that there is nothing like seeing your own face in the face of your child, the pained look on Joseph's face speaks volumes: he knows that with this child, at least, this is one aspect of fatherhood that he will never entertain.

There are some factors that parents need to consider before watching this movie with the children together. The Nativity Story is rated PG for some violent content (e.g. Herod's soldiers kill the babies in Bethlehem; Jewish rebels are pursued by soldiers and later seen crucified).Although both the above mentioned violent scenes are kept out of movie during theatrical screening. There are also two scenes of childbirth and one scene in which a baby boy is circumcised, and parents may need to give explanation to very young children why the people, who lived in Nazareth, had ostracized Mary and her family for her pregnancy. The film is probably too mature for preschoolers and young elementary age, but should be suitable for ages 8 or 9 and up.

Steven Isaac (Plugged In) says, "Straightforward. That's perhaps the best word to describe The Nativity Story. Sweet and respectful work, too. But never grand or ambitious, as fans of biblical epics might wish for. A few too many British-leaning accents, a few too few visual effects and a script that serves its purpose well but doesn't burst into colour onscreen all conspire to push the film into that 'just another Bible movie' category. … They almost succeed. But not quite." In the end we can conclude as The Nativity Story is almost a good movie to keep a copy of.

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Slumdog to Stardom – Love, Luck and Lucre

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"It was an inspired idea by Vikas Swarup to write Q & A...A broad and sympathetic humanity underpins the whole book." This was the acknowledgement from The Sunday Telegraph, London on Vikas Swarup’s debuting novel, Slumdog Millionaire. Before the release of its movie version, neither Vikas Swarup nor his so-called spectacular debut novel was popular among readers.

Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy have together pictured and presented the movie in spectacular manner and have made the movie a great success in 2008. After winning 8 Academy awards from all total 11 nominations, Slumdog Millionaire is an international box office super hit.

After an excellent premiere in China, Slumdog Millionaire returned to the top of the foreign box office over the weekend, posting $12 million from 50 markets. In China, Slumdog Millionaire has started with a staggering opening of $2.93 million and the debut in China was the movie's most notable performance, ranking as the biggest launch in the past ten years for a non-Chinese or non-American movie. How someone would describe the success of Slumdog Millionaire: as Danny Boyle’s thoughtful direction or as Vikas Swarup’s realistic depiction of poor, downtrodden lad’s struggle and success? Whatever may be the reason both Danny and Swarup are genius and the success of the movie scripts the real exploration and amalgamation of both of these two.

Here follows a detailed overview of Slumdog Millionairen (Courtesy: IMDb)
User Rating: 8.5/10 (123,020 votes)
Directors: Danny Boyle
Loveleen Tandan (co-director: India)

Writers: Simon Beaufoy (screenplay) and
Vikas Swarup (novel)

Release Date: 23 January 2009 (USA) more
Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance more
Tagline: Love and money... You have mixed them both.
Plot:
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

Awards:
Won 8 Oscars. Another 87 wins & 33 nominations more

Cast (Cast overview, first billed only)
Jamal K. Malik (Dev Patel)
Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor)
Sergeant Srinivas (Saurabh Shukla)
Director (Rajendranath Zutshi)
Vision Mixer (Jeneva Talwar)
Latika (Freida Pinto)
Police Inspector (Irrfan Khan)
Youngest Salim (Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail)
Youngest Jamal (Ayush Mahesh Khedekar)
Mr Chi (Sunil Kumar Agrawal)
Airport Security Guard #1 (Jira Banjara)
Airport Security Guard #2 (Sheikh Wali)
Javed (Mahesh Manjrekar)
Jamal's Mother (Sanchita Choudhary)
Mr Nanda (Himanshu Tyagi)

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Disney’s Narnia Prince Caspian on XBOX 360

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After immense popularity of the movie version of The Chronicles of Narnia among children, the publisher is eyeing on the gaming industry with its latest variant “The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian” for success. One of gamer valued Narnia Prince Caspian as average because of its lack of commentaries. Overall the game is pretty good as the graphics are of great quality.

Disney Interactive Studios has done it once again. Despite every odd, Disney has released a movie-licensed The Chronicles of Narnia game that almost matches up to the source theme. All credit goes to the talents of developer Traveller's Tales. Some of the best known games from Traveller’s Tales are LEGO Star Wars, Lego Indiana Jones, Transformers: The Game and LEGO Batman. This Prince Caspian edition of The Chronicle of Narnia game series follows in the foot prints of 2006's The Lion version. However, there are some limitations in both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. These include the game's lack of creative imagination as well as a ambiguous narrative and some oddly dim visuals. Disney has launched this game (i.e. The Chronicle of Narnia – Prince Caspian) on all gaming platforms: PC, PS2, PS3, X360, DS and WII.

The special features of this game are:

  • Up to 20 playable characters with different strengths and abilities;
  • Non-linear missions;
  • Team up play with your favourite Narnian creatures;
  • 2-player drop-in-drop-out game play;
  • Real-time battles;
  • Go beyond the film with a special cut scene starring Prince Caspian himself; and
  • An exclusive level not seen in the film!
Thus the above special features have made this game a must-buy option for game lovers and kids. You can obtain the XBOX 360 version of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian from Stoleit.com.

Prince Caspian version of The Chronicles of Narnia series is pretty simplistic to play. All game levels focus entirely upon combating and finicky busywork where you pull levers, push buttons, or slap machinery together. You also switch back and forth between characters with special abilities, such as throwing a grappling hook or firing a bow. A second player can also join the action at any time and play through the campaign in co-operation mode simply by picking up another controller, though there is no support for multiplayer over the internet. So you're either hacking or slashing through hordes of eternally respawning enemy fighters, or you're looking around for the mysteries that need to be resolved to open up the next level or reveal a quest item.

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