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Brian Tyler: Law Abiding Citizen

16 July 2009 5:34 AM, PDT | From Upcoming Film Scores | See recent Upcoming Film Scores news

According to the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency, Brian Tyler is attached to F. Gary Gray's thriller Law Abiding Citizen, starring Gerard Butler, Michael Gambon, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb and Christian Stolte. Gray previously worked with composers Anne Dudley (American History X, A Man Apart) and John Powell (The Italian Job, Be Cool); Law Abiding Citizen is his first with Brian Tyler. The script is by Kurt Wimmer, telling the story about a man who takes justice into his own hands targeting the district attorney who is reponsible for setting the killer of his family free. Brian Tyler has also done the music for George Gallo's Middle Men, starring Giovanni Ribisi, Luke Wilson and James Caan. His other recent scores include Dragonball: Evolution and Fast & Furious, and coming soon is The Final Destination.

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Long Blasts Singers-turned-Actors

15 July 2009 9:11 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Nia Long has slammed pop stars who launch a movie career - insisting they should stick to singing.

The Big Momma's House actress has hit out at multi-talented stars like Beyonce Knowles who have swapped the recording studio for a film set.

She is adamant it's wrong for singers to make the move into cinema - because they're simply utilised to draw a bigger audience.

Asked by British magazine Pride what she thought of Knowles' acting abilities, Long said: "I didn’t see Obsessed, so I can’t comment, but it’s just not about how talented you are anymore. It’s about, ‘How much box office revenue will this person generate?’ When you see certain people - we won’t name names - they just don’t have the skill, and no one in their team has said, ‘You need acting classes'.

"If you’re a singer not an actress, you should sing. If you’re a rapper, you should rap. If you take time to develop your craft, God bless you. Jamie Foxx is an example of both (actor and singer).”

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Drake Recalls Family Turmoil, Making 'Successful'

15 July 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | From MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news

Plus: We list 25 essential songs midway through 2009, in Mixtape Daily.

By Shaheem Reid

Drake

Photo: Young Money

Man — 2009 is halfway over already? The years go by so quick. As always, though, we're here to document everything. All this week, in addition to our regular coverage, we're going to be highlighting all the impact players in the mixtape circuit so far this year. Who had the biggest mixtape? What Mc was the most consistent? What albums have we kept in rotation? Rappers, DJs, producers, shows — we've got the best of the best of this year thus far. Today, we take a look at the making of "Successful," as well as listing other essentially dope records of the year (up to this point.). Stay with us all week.

Mid-Season Salute: Drake's "Successful"

Drake's "Successful" is one of our favorite songs of the year thus far. Guest Trey Songz's hook expresses the

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Foxx 'upsets Rihanna at nightclub'

10 July 2009 8:56 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Jamie Foxx has reportedly upset Rihanna during a night out at a club. The Academy Award winner allegedly berated Rihanna at a party at Las Vegas nightclub Tao, according to the New York Post. "Jamie took over the microphone and started doing a show. Halfway through, he asked Rihanna to join him on stage," a source said. Rihanna, who was at the bash with rapper Jay-z, reportedly appeared "annoyed" by the request and was further irritated when the DJ played her song 'Umbrella'. (more)

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Foxx Antics Get Rihanna Riled

10 July 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Jamie Foxx is at it again. The actor, who recently ridiculed Miley Cyrus on his radio show, laid into Rihanna during a party at Tao in Las Vegas the other night. "Jamie took over the microphone and started doing a show. Halfway through, he asked Rihanna to join him onstage," said our spy. She was there with Jay-z and looked "annoyed" at the request, said our tipster. "Rihanna declined, but Foxx continued to badger her." The deejay played "Umbrella" and "that was the last straw" for the Barbados-born beauty. "She got up to leave,

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Hollyscoop Part Round Up: Independence Day

10 July 2009 7:16 AM, PDT | From Hollyscoop.com | See recent HollyScoop news

Fourth of July is all about celebrating Independence Day. That was exactly what was on Chris Brown's mind as he attended the Malaria No More annual white party hosted by P Diddy, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Sources tell Hollyscoop Chris kept a low profile at the event as he partied alongside Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Khloe Kardashian among others. Chris Brown’s ex girlfriend Rihanna was miles away in Sin City partying with Jay Z, Lebron James and Jamie Foxx at Tao nightclub. Rihanna looked super fierce sporting a black blazer and nothing underneath but silver sequined pasties. ...

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Rise 'n' Shine: Jon Gosselin Wants a Chick With Symmetrical Hair

10 July 2009 5:59 AM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

•  Jon Gosselin (or, rather, his doppelganger) is just looking for someone to sit on the other side of his couch and not care that he possibly started the rumors about Kate Gosselin hooking up with that bodyguard. •  Rihanna has (negative) feelings for Jamie Foxx. •  Jerry Seinfeld "loves the creative process of making commercials." Right. •  Lady Gaga is totally broke because she's spent every penny she's earned on those totally broke outfits she wears. •  Keira Knightley is a hungry fairy princess. •  Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld finally gives his Heidi Klum bashing a rest, but moves on to the equally...

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Foxx Embarrasses Rihanna At Party

10 July 2009 5:11 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx has made another celebrity enemy - he has upset Rihanna by embarrassing her in front of revellers at a Las Vegas nightclub.

The Ray actor was cracking jokes for fellow party-goers at Sin City's Tao hotspot when he spotted the R&B star and repeatedly asked her to join him on stage and take the mic.

She refused, and Foxx prompted the DJ to blast out her hit Umbrella over the speakers, according to New York Post gossip column PageSix.

Foxx saw the singer preparing to depart and ordered her to stay - reportedly leaving her "fuming".

A source tells the tabloid, "Jamie took over the microphone and started doing a show. Halfway through, he asked Rihanna to join him onstage. Rihanna declined, but Foxx continued to badger her.”

When the DJ began to play Umbrella, the source adds: "That was the last straw. She got up to leave, and Jamie told the DJ to stop the record. (He shouted) 'You can’t go while your song is playing. Relax.'

"Rihanna stayed and pretended to enjoy herself, but it was so obvious she was fuming. As soon as the song was over, she got the hell out of there."

Foxx sparked outrage in April during a U.S. radio interview when he urged 16-year-old Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus to take heroin and make a sex tape.

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Drake Explains His Balance Between Rapping, Singing

9 July 2009 12:23 AM, PDT | From MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news

'It allows people a break from just constant rapping, rapping, rapping,' he says of crooning on his tracks.

By Shaheem Reid

Drake

Photo: MTV News

While Drake works on his debut LP, Thank Me Later, the Toronto Mc said there is no method to any of his madness. If he gets inspired to spit rhymes on a track, he'll get to it. If he wants to croon to a beat, that's what it will be.

"The balance of singing and rapping has been blurred ever since I did So Far Gone," he said of his breakthrough mixtape. "I mean, I don't really have a formula for that. I don't say, like, 'Ok, I can only sing this hook or I want to rap this.' I just really hear a beat, and it's like, 'If I can write to it on a hip-hop level, if I can pen some raps to it,

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Watch Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service Here

7 July 2009 8:50 AM, PDT | From MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news

Twelve days after his death, memorial services for Michael Jackson are taking place today in Los Angeles. The family met at 11 a.m. Eastern in a private ceremony at Forest Lawn Cemetery and then will move on to the public event, which is scheduled to begin at the Staples Center at 1. Jackson’s body will reportedly taken to the Staples Center ceremony, which will feature Mariah Carey, Usher, Stevie Wonder, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Jamie Foxx, Justin Timberlake and a host of other friends, family members and collaborators. Notable Jackson associates who will be absent include friend Elizabeth Taylor and surrogate for Jackson’s two oldest children Debbie Rowe.

While you watch the live stream here, you can also follow all of the action on the Newsroom’s live blog and track the whole event on Twitter here.

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Justin Timberlake, Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifah To Appear At Jackson Memorial

7 July 2009 7:19 AM, PDT | From MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news

List of Staples Center celebrity attendees grows, but performers have not been confirmed.

By James Montgomery

Justin Timberlake

Photo: Chad Buchanan/ Getty Images

With just hours to go before the Michael Jackson memorial service packs the Staples Center, a source close to the event told MTV News that even more big-name artists have signed on to pay tribute to the King of Pop.

Justin Timberlake, Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah will all appear at Tuesday's (July 7) memorial service, joining a previously announced list of Jackson's closest friends, collaborators and mentors, including Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson, Usher, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Motown founder Berry Gordy and John Mayer.

Usher, Mariah, More To Appear At Mj Memorial

Other confirmed participants in the memorial service include a pair of Los Angeles Lakers' greats — Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson — Motown legend Smokey Robinson, Jackson family friend the Reverend Al Sharpton, "Britain's Got Talent" finalist

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Johnny Depp, Jamie Foxx Eyed For Michael Jackson Bio?!?! Nope, Nothing To See Here…

6 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

A few days after Michael Jackson died, the powers-that-be here at MTV rightly scoffed at my pitch to run a feature suggesting who might play the fallen pop star in the seemingly inevitable biopic. They all said “too soon,” an observation I came to agree with after putting the delirium of two marathon-length workdays behind me.

Clearly, someone in a position of Hollywood power is thinking along similar lines. Maybe. It’s not like there’s any attribution to support the claims that both Jamie Foxx and Johnny Depp are being eyed for starring roles in an unannounced Jackson biopic. We usually try to maintain a pretty even-handed tone here on MTV Movies Blog, but I’m going to have to go ahead and call shenanigans.

Word comes from an “insider,” via contactmusic.com, that “there are a number of offers being drawn up with a variety of angles to

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Jackson Insider Gives Memorial Details

6 July 2009 10:12 AM, PDT | From TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news

Flo Anthony, a Jackson insider, talks to "The Insider" about Michael Jackson's memorial details. According to Flo, celebrity guests may include Beyonce and Whitney Houston. She says that Mariah Carey will sing her cover of Michael's classic, "I'll Be There." She adds that she's spoken to Tito Jackson, among others inside the family compound, where she will travel later today. As for Michael's children, Flo says they are also there at the Encino, CA, home. "The Insider" also spoke to Sony/BMG reps, who said they have no official confirmation as to whether Whitney and others, including Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Hudson, will attend.

[Read full story on The Insider]

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Rihanna Celebrates Her Fourth with Bikinis and Stars

6 July 2009 7:46 AM, PDT | From Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news

Rihanna went to dinner in NYC on Thursday before heading to celebrity Independence Day hotspot Las Vegas for Fourth of July weekend. On Saturday she spent her day cuddling up to a guy by the Wet Republic pool in her hot pink bikini. At night, Rihanna changed into a revealing blazer wearing nothing but star-shaped pasties underneath for a party at Tao with Jay-z and Jamie Foxx. Meanwhile in La, Chris Brown was supposedly spotted making out with Amber Rose at Diddy's White Party, which can't make Amber's on again, off again boyfriend and Rihanna's good friend Kanye West all that pleased. View 20 Photos › To see more photos of Rihanna, Jay-z, and Jamie Foxx just read more. View 20 Photos ›

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Rihanna And Jay-z Ring in the Fourth in Vegas

6 July 2009 7:40 AM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

While Chris Brown partied with Diddy in L.A., Rihanna heated up Sin City for the holiday weekend with Jay-z. After watching his performance at the Pearl Theater at the Palms, Rihanna and Jay-z headed to Tao for a late dinner with an entourage of 30, including Jamie Foxx and LeBron James. The songbird was rocking a black blazer with nothing underneath except silver pasties and sequined skintight pants! After chowing down on sea bass and chicken fried rice, the group got a surprise from a generous guest... A customer sitting nearby the celebs sent over 20 bottles of Ace of Spades champagne for Jay-z, Rihanna, Jamie and LeBron! Jamie quickly got on the mic and performed a...

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Public Enemies Review

2 July 2009 11:39 PM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news

Public Enemies Directed by: Michael Mann Written by: Ronan Bennett, Michael Mann, Ann Biderman (screenplay), Bryan Burrough (book) Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Dorff, Channing Tatum, Billy Crudup, Leelee Sobieski, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Graham The prospect of Johnny Depp playing a 1930's gangster is probably all that was required to sell most people on Public Enemies, but with director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) at the helm, no one really knew whether to expect a summer action movie or a character-driven art piece. What's more, with the number of great gangster flicks that have been made over the years, Mann had his work cut out for him if he was hoping to create something that could measure up to some of the classics. His last film, Miami Vice, was a bit of a disappointment both critically and commercially despite having the star power of Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx.

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Update on the Sony/Soderbergh/Pitt ‘Moneyball’ Fiasco

2 July 2009 8:46 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Last week started off with the crazy news that Sony Chairman Amy Pascal had pulled the plug on Moneyball, Steven Soderbergh’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, mere hours before the film (which starred Brad Pitt as Beane, no less) was set to start shooting.

Well now that some dust has settled, Pascal is speaking up about the Moneyball fiasco, essentially trying to walk the tightrope of preserving her relationship with Soderbergh and Pitt while still maintaining that she made the right call.

Studio execs-in-training, pay attention and see how it’s done:

 

As Pascal told the L.A. Times:

I’ve wanted to work with Steven forever, because he’s simply a great filmmaker…But the draft he turned in wasn’t at all what we’d signed up for. He wanted to make a dramatic reenactment of events with real people playing themselves.

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'Public Enemies' Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know

1 July 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | From MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news

Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and company share the inside secrets of their new gangster flick.

By Eric Ditzian

Johnny Depp in "Public Enemies"

Photo: Universal Pictures

The outlaw vs. the man of the law. The American folk hero vs. the American federal agent. Johnny Depp vs. Christian Bale. That's the battle taking shape as Michael Mann's "Public Enemies," the true story of tommy-gun-toting bank robber John Dillinger (Depp) and FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Bale), pop-pop-pops its way into theaters, starting on Wednesday (July 1).

Set in the Depression-devastated 1930s, Dillinger forms a gang with some creatively named rule-breakers — Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd — and sets about looting banks that have been foreclosing homes and repossessing goods throughout the Midwest. Along the way, naturally, Dillinger finds time for a little bit of outlaw romance, as he falls head-over-machine-gun for Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard), a vulnerable lounge singer. FBI head honcho

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P. Diddy, Chris Brown Release Music Video for Michael Jackson Tribute Song

30 June 2009 8:30 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

A music video for Michael Jackson tribute song "Better on the Other Side", which is performed by P. Diddy, Chris Brown and The Game, has made its way out. It mostly captures the musicians in studio during a recording session for the track. It also shows random footage showing people paying tribute to Michael by moonwalking on the street and gathering in an open place with flowers in their hands.

Beside Diddy, Brown and Game, other singers lending their vocal to the tribute song are Usher, Mario Winans and Boyz II Men. They debuted the track on June 26, one day after Michael passed away, on Los Angeles radio station Power 106.

"Better on the Other Side" music video aside, 50 Cent has also paid tribute to Michael Jackson by dropping two songs called "Where Are You" and "Respect It or Check It". At the end of the latter song, Fiddy added, "Rest

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BET Beats Broadcast Networks With Awards Special

30 June 2009 2:47 PM, PDT | From Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news

Sunday night's BET awards, which became a de facto Michael Jackson tribute special, attracted 10.2 million viewers. It was the most who have ever tuned in to the Viacom-owned network, which targets the African-American audience. The numbers overshadowed those of the broadcast networks, whose highest-rated program on Sunday, CBS's 60 Minutes, attracted 7.94 million viewers. Nevertheless, the Los Angeles Times observed today (Tuesday) that the awards ceremony "provoked scathing reaction from bloggers and viewers who found some elements of the show, along with host Jamie Foxx's constant self-promotion of his album and upcoming tour, distasteful and offensive."

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