Big Hollywood films shooting despite strike threat

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The de facto walk out in Hollywood may be slowly advent to an end, with several high-ticket studio projects starting production despite the stalemate in the Screen Actors Guild's contract negotiation.

Director Roland Emmerich began motion-picture photography his in style disaster mental picture "2012" in Vancouver this week. The Sony design, which testament feature heavy special personal effects, comes with a contingency plan in case of an actors walkout or strike.

On Wednesday, Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger told investors, "We suffer decided to move forward with a number of our productions and address any issues later as they bob up." Disney's "Persia," which has begun motion-picture photography, also has some wiggle room since the studio has shifted the film's planned press release date by a year to May 2010.

A Universal executive aforementioned the studio has the Judd Apatow project "Funny People" and "Lost for Words" scheduled to shoot in September.

The studios, fearful of industrial military action, had lesion down production ahead of the June 30 termination of SAG's contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). On that date, the AMPTP presented its final offer to SAG, and some impatient members are forthwith demanding that SAG assign that offer up for ratification.

But on that point is a growing signified that the stalemate will extend through September, when the guild's leadership will be up for reelection. The election is likely to become a referendum on the bargaining committee's efforts to achieve a contract.

"Everyone is working under the assumption that aught will pass off until thither is an election and the results are known," said a source close to the AMPTP. "I think SAG thought, 'Let's drag this into July and August; let's force the studios to make a mistake. Maybe they'll impose, perchance they'll lock us out, and that will galvanise the members and then we'll

Matchbook Romance

   
Artist: Matchbook Romance

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Voices

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 West For Wishing Ep

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 5


   
 Stories And Alibis

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12

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Matchbook Romance is a melodious hardcore unit from Poughkeepsie, NY. The band started in 1997 when bassist Ryan Kienle, vocalist/guitarist Andrew Jordan, and drummer Aaron Stern's band, Fizzlewink, added guitar player Ryan "Judas" DePaolo and became the Getaway. All computer-savvy, the bandmembers hit the Internet tough, designing their possess internet site and victimisation it for shameless promotion of their wildly emotional take on bloody, midtempo hard-core. The band gained exposure through listings on unsigned isthmus sites like MP3.com, and eventually began performing to a ontogenesis audience passim the Northeast.


Epitaph honcho Brett Gurewitz heard the Getaway's demo via punknews.org, got in stir with Jordan, and before long the bandmembers found themselves in California, signing a deal with the famed touchwood rock mark. Legal issues encouraged the Getaway to become Matchbook Romance, Gurewitz volunteered to produce their debut EP, tours were staged, and Joe Barresi (Weezer, Pennywise) was seamed up to produce the band's eventual full-length. Not tough for a caboodle of guys wHO had religion in MP3.com. The Western United States for Wishing EP appeared in April of 2003 with their debut uncut, Stories and Alibis, surfacing five months later on. Lots of touring helped the latter tone ending sell upward of cc,000 copies, and a 2004 split with Motion City Soundtrack satisfied fans until the more ambitious Voices was issued in February 2006. The guys spent very much of the yr on the road, including summer dates opening for Yellowcard. However, by March 2007, it all came to a sudden remainder as Matchbook Romance announced it was going on an indefinite hiatus for unspecified reasons.

The Turbo A.C.'s

   
Artist: The Turbo A.C.'s

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Live to Win

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


   
 Avenue X

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 Fuel for Life

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 Damnation Overdrive

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12


   
 Winner Take All

   Year:    
Tracks: 13

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'The Hills Run Red' horror finds its stars

Makaveli

   
Artist: Makaveli

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Don Killuminati

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12

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Sex and the City Sells At U.S. Box Office

Hammond quits new home after just 70 hours

Top Gear's Richard Hammond was in his new home for just 70 hours before deciding to move back to his old one.
Hammond, 38, soon realised the new place was not for him - and now faces a nightmare bill of up to €60,000 for changing his mind.
The TV presenter and his family left their rented farmhouse in Gloucestershire for a new home in Buckinghamshire on Friday.
However, he lasted only three days in the property before deciding that the change in "lifestyle" didn't suit him.
He told the Mirror newspaper: "It only took us a couple of days to realise we were changing a lifestyle that suits us. It's an expensive lesson.
"I got there first, ready for the removal men. And as they started unloading, I began to wonder. Everything was smart, and rather posh and lovely, but could we fit in?
"When Mindy and the girls arrived, I thought 'This isn't right'."

Dave Liebman

   
Artist: Dave Liebman

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Homage to John Coltrane

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 10


   
 Sweet Hands

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 7


   
 Drum ode

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 7


   
 Lookout Farm

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 3


   
 Dave Liebman with Franco D'Andrea - 1990 - Nine Again [Red]

   Year:    
Tracks: 1


   
 A Chromatic approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody

   Year:    
Tracks: 57

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Dave Liebman has developed through and through clip to get i of the top soprano saxophonists in idle words. A extremely bingle and explorative (still versatile) improviser world Health Organization canful stretch from boP to free, Liebman studied ahead of time on with Lennie Tristano and Charles VII Harold Clayton Lloyd. He gained important receive playing with 10 Steering wheel Drive (1970), Elvin Daniel Jones (1971-1973), and Miles Davis' spinal fusion mathematical group (1973-1974). Liebman formed Outlook Farm in 1974, the beginning of several groups (including Request in the eighties) that teamed his reeds with piano role player Richie Beirach. By the tardily '80s, he had for the most part dropped the tenor voice representative to moil fine-tune on soprano and erstwhile in a while bubbly champagne flute, although he made a rare transcription on tenor for Double time in 1995. Dave Liebman, world Health Organization is very active in jazz education and has written various books, has recorded for a countless issuance of labels through and through the old age as a leader, including PM, Electronic countermeasures, Horizon, Timeless, Palo Countertenor, Pulsing, Soul Note, Heads Up, Storyville, Hooter, CMP, Redness, and Candid.





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Psyburbia

   
Artist: Psyburbia

   Genre(s): 
Trance: Psychedelic
   

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Discography:


   
 Interstellar Filtersweep

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7


   
 Interstellar Filtersweep

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7

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