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Photo Recap: Detour Festival - Downtown - Los Angeles, CA

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:04:01

With last year's neon epidemic subsiding, LA Weekly's Detour Festival took on a notably different look and sound than the dance-crazed iteration of yesteryear. While the crowd still skewed more towards the tween demographic than the average fest, a majority of this year's youth dawned black Mars Volta shirts and Converse, as opposed to luminescent ...more
Interview: Marc Broussard

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:36:59

Somewhere on the road right now, there's a good chance that Marc Broussard is golfing. "Every day that we have off, we play golf, so that's always a good time. No, I'm a terrible golfer, but I do enjoy the game. It's a good time," he laughs. In between perfecting his swing, the New Orleans native has been touring relentlessly behind his latest ...more
George A. Romero Revisits Zombie Territory

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:57:14

Horror master George A. Romero is currently shooting an untitled horror film featuring his signature flesh-eating zombies. The director wrote the script and began shooting in Ontario last week. The story is vintage Romero, centering on a group living on an isolated island off the coast of North America. Their relatives rise from the dead only ...more
Andrew Bird Reveals Two New Records

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:52:25

Andrew Bird has released a new live record through his Web store, http://www.andrewbird.net/shop.shtml. Captured at La Tulipe last September, Live in Montreal features a backing band of Martin Dosh (a.k.a. Dosh) and Jeremy Ylvisaker. In other Bird news, the whistling singer/multi-instrumentalist is currently on tour and recently wrapped up a new ...more
Helen Mirren Joins The Mossad

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:44:24

Regal actress Helen Mirren will play an agent in the Israeli Mossad in The Debt, which will be directed by John Madden. Miramax will distribute the film, an English language remake of the Israeli thriller Ha-Hov, worldwide. The film follows three Mossad agents who have been hunting and tracking a Nazi war criminal for over 30 years. Filming ...more
Ben Folds Launches Special iTunes Series

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:38:03

Ben Folds has announced a partnership with iTunes called "The Sounds of Last Night … This Morning," a tie-in with his current North American tour and a forthcoming live album. Here's how it works: Folds will release one live cut from 10 different cities the morning after his show, with each song including cover art from Apple's Photo Booth program. ...more
Guillermo del Toro, Author

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:38:03

Guillermo del Toro can't slow down. The famed director, whose directing and producing schedule is booked well into the next decade, has signed a publishing deal with William Morrow, an imprint of the HarperCollins publishing house. Del Toro will write a triology of vampire thrillers along with author Chuck Hogan. The Strain is the first book of ...more
John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers Headed to Paris

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:29:05

John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers are partnering up. The duo will star in the thriller From Paris With Love, which is currently shooting in a French suburb outside of the City of Lights. Europa Corp is producing, with Pierre Morel directing. The film is about a young embassy employee and an American secret agent who are working on a ...more
Cat Power Announces Yet Another Cover Song Collection

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:27:52

Cat Power has confirmed the details behind Dark End of the Street, a digital/double 10'' EP of cover songs cut during her Jukebox sessions. Four of the six tracks are previously unreleased, including songs by the Pogues ("Auld Triangle"), James Carr ("Dark End of the Street"), Fairport Convention ("Who Knows Where the Time Goes"), and Aretha ...more
Steven Spielberg May Direct Chocky

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:04:26

Steven Spielberg, who recently made headlines for his support of gay marriage, may adapt and direct Chocky. The director's DreamWorks, which just announced the terms of its surprisingly amicable split from parent company Paramount, acquired the rights to the sci-fi novel from the literary estate of author John Wydham. It's yet to be determined if ...more
Interview: Simon Pegg

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:55:40

Simon Pegg is a master satirist, having skewered popular genre conventions in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz to the delight of fanboys (Peggheads?) who devotedly follow the British actor's every career move. In How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, he takes aim at the Perez Hiltons of the world, pseudo-celebrities who are seduced by Hollywood's ...more
ARTISTdirect.com Free iPod Video Winner Announced

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:19:34

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Interview: Benji Hughes

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:13:53

"Speak softly and carry a big hook" should be Benji Hughes's motto. The burly singer's soft-spoken nature belies the fact that he can carry a melody to the heavens and back. The man knows how to write a catchy tune, and his two-disc debut album, A Love Extreme, is packed full of them. On the album, the Charlotte, North Carolina native muses upon ...more
Sci Fi Channel Remaking Children of the Corn

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:45:55

Another day, another horror remake. The Sci Fi Channel is remaking Children of the Corn, the 1984 horror movie about Satanic children running rampant in a rural, breadbasket town. Both films are based on a novel by horror scribe Stephen King. The Sci Fi Channel's version will be a two-hour telefilm, with David Anders and Kandyse McClure joining the ...more
Anne Hathaway Finds the Opposite of Love

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:37:00

Anne Hathaway, currently earning rave reviews for her performance in the indie flick Rachel Getting Married, has signed on to star in The Opposite of Love for 20th Century Fox. Hathaway will portray an attorney who is afraid of commitment. Her regimented life begins to unravel after she rejects her boyfriend's marriage proposal. The film is ...more
Oprah Winfrey Lending Voice to Disney Feature

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:18:30

The reigning queen of daytime television, Oprah Winfrey, is lending her famous voice to the forthcoming Disney animated feature The Princess and the Frog. The divine Miss O, who has exercised her vocal talents in other animated films, including Bee Movie, will voice the character of Eudora, mother of Princess Tiana, the film's main character. Tiana ...more
Billy Crystal Returns to the Screen

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:06:40

Comedian Billy Crystal is making his return to the big screen in a live role for the first time since 2002's Analyze That. Crystal lent his voice to the 2006 animated feature Cars but has taken a hiatus since. He just joined the cast of the Dwayne Johnson comedy The Tooth Fairy for Fox. The film is currently shooting in Vancouver after having ...more