Crowd Went Wild At Michael Jackson's This Is It Premiere
Posted on Oct 28, 2009 @ 12:00AM - 6 comments
This Is It director Kenny Ortega introduced the movie at the Nokia Theater in Downtown Los Angeles Tuesday evening and said that Michael Jackson was "all about love."
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The film started at 6:15 pm and opened with Michael's dancers explaining how much MJ meant to them. The crowd went wild with shouts of Michael Jackson we love you!
Debbie Rowe Watches Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Posted on Oct 28, 2009 @ 07:50PM - 7 comments
Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson’s ex wife and mother to two of his three children, took in an afternoon showing of Michael’s new movie This Is It, Wednesday in Calabasas, CA.
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Rowe was a no show Tuesday evening at the Los Angeles world premier of the movie, which is a montage of footage shot during the late singer’s preparations for his London tour.
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Rowe was spotted leaving the movie theater with Marc Schaffel, a former Michael Jackson advisor.
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The crowd went wild at Tuesday night’s premiere, and feedback has been positive regarding the movie, with box office records expecting to be set. The official opening is October 30th.
This Is It Director on Michael Jackson: “I Wasn’t His Caregiver”
Posted on Oct 28, 2009 @ 05:23PM - 4 comments
Kenny Ortega, the director of Michael Jackson’s new film This Is It, rejects the idea that the star was too weak for the demands of tour rehearsals prior to his death.
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“Really? ... you really thought he looked frail? You’d use that word?,” Ortega asked RadarOnline.com, in response to a query regarding Jackson’s appearance in the movie.
“I’ll tell you when he looked frail,” Ortega said Wednesday. “When the media was beating him up. He looked frail when he was being persecuted without having been tried. He looked frail during that time in his life. He was nourished, invigorated [during rehearsals]. He was turned on, he was so excited about this project, this was his love project. The only other thing that meant more to him were his children, honest to God.”
Crowd Went Wild At This Is It Premiere
Regarding Jackson’s physical health during This Is It preparation, Ortega also discussed his view of his role as director. “Did I worry about him?,” he asked. “All the time. I’m a director. To get to the end of your goal you have to make sure that everybody’s in one piece, so I wouldn’t want him to fall off the stage, and I also encouraged him to take care of himself. ‘Please eat. Please sleep. Please drink. Stay hydrated.’ You even hear me [in the movie] at one point on the stage going, ‘Get some water.’ We were always like that.
“But at the same time, Michael’s 50 years old. A father for 12 years. A man who made the choice to do this in his life, believed that this was the right time to do it. I wasn’t his caregiver.”
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Michael Bearden, the tour’s music supervisor, also reframed media reports about Jackson’s sleep deprivation in the weeks before his death.
“Everybody takes it [sleeping problems] as something negative,” he told press. “When you’re creating, and trying to make this the biggest, best thing for ... the fans ... it’s difficult for anybody to sleep. I couldn’t sleep, we couldn’t turn if off.”
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Chuckling at a suggestion that This Is It rehearsals were “nine to five,” Bearden explained that prep days lasting 20 hours weren’t unusual, and that he and choreographer Travis Payne would often get feedback from Jackson at all hours of the night.
“But it was a good thing,” Bearden said, “because we were just so excited about what we were creating, and what the world was going to see and what MJ was capable of doing, still, at age 50. It was difficult to sleep because it was so exciting. It’s hard to turn that off, that adrenaline. ... Our muses often came at night ... so, insomnia: people have been talking about that. ... But it wasn’t really that. It was more that we were up, juices were flowing, we were creative.”
New Moon Soundtrack Tops The Charts
Posted on Oct 28, 2009 @ 04:01PM - Add a comment
The Twilight mania has again extended past the cinemas. The indie-rock soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: New Moon has taken over the number one spot on the U.S. album charts.
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While industry insiders believe that the companion soundtrack to Michael Jackson's This Is It documentary will soon reign supreme, the tunes of Twilight is expected to maintain strong sales figures. After debuting at number two last week, it sold 155,000 copies after three days in store.
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The soundtrack features songs from Death Cab for Cutie, The Killers, Grizzly Bear and other smaller acts. Unlike the cd for the first film, Robert Pattinson is not featured on any of the tracks:
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New Moon hits theaters on November 20.
“This is It” Soundtrack : Buy It Or Leave It?
Posted on Oct 28, 2009 @ 03:56PM - Add a comment
With all the excitement surrounding the two-week run of This Is It in theaters, it only seems fitting that fans will want to pick up the two-disc soundtrack as a keepsake of Michael Jackson’s final encore.
The new release is packed with the original album and single versions of many of his biggest hits from different stages of his career—including Shake Your Body (Down To the Ground), Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’, Billie Jean, Beat It, Thriller, Human Nature, Man In the Mirror, Black and White, The Way You Make Me Feel—which, make no mistake, are incredible to hear back to back, reminding you why Michael became anointed the King Of Pop.
However, the posthumous release offers very little in the way of new material. There are two versions of the memorable title track Is This It, one with back up vocals by his siblings and the other an orchestral version, and the beautiful spoken word poem Planet Earth, where Michael delivers enchanting lines like, “Tender with breezes caressing and whole / Alive with music haunting my soul.”
Movie Review: This Is It
Posted on Oct 28, 2009 @ 12:55PM - Add a comment
Behind his fame, behind his music and, most of all, behind his death: Who was Michael Jackson, really? This Is It, a new film assembled with rehearsal footage from what would have been Jackson’s eponymous, final world tour, doesn’t answer much about the man behind the icon. Instead, the film unfolds more like a feature-length concert movie -- arranged around the artist’s biggest songs and punctuated with wink-wink moments -- than a revealing documentary.
Stars Moonwalk Down The Red Carpet
Posted on Oct 28, 2009 @ 10:45AM - Add a comment
At the Los Angeles premiere of the Michael Jackson concert film This Is It, stars braved the vicious winds to walk the red carpet in style! Jennifer Lopez showed off her A-list figure in a skintight Hervè Leger by Max Azria dress, looking flawless from head to toe!
Also in top fashion form, was Paula Abdul, who rocked a cobalt blue Temperley gown, looking far from Bad!
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What stars were too casual for the carpet? Check out the gallery to find out!
Stars Arrive At Michael Jackson This Is It Premiere
Posted on Oct 27, 2009 @ 09:05PM - 8 comments
It's the hottest ticket in town, a seat at the Michael Jackson This Is it World Premiere.
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The stars flocked to The Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on a blustery Tuesday night.
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Elizabeth Taylor Calls Michael Jackson Film "Brilliant"
Posted on Oct 26, 2009 @ 05:26PM - 4 comments
Elizabeth Taylor is one of the more reclusive celebrities today but she didn't hold back on Monday when giving her thoughts on the upcoming This It It documentary about the last weeks of Michael Jackson's life.
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Taylor, who screened the film last week but was "sworn to secrecy" until now, was effusive with her praise for both the film and her fallen friend. "It is the single most brilliant piece of filmmaking I have ever seen. It cements forever Michael's genius in every aspect of creativity," Taylor wrote on her Twitter page on Monday. "To say the man is a genius is an understatement. He cradles each note, coaxes the music to depths beyond reality."
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The actress was overcome with emotion from seeing Jackson living out his craft. "I wept from pure joy at his God given gift. There will never, ever be the likes of him again. And we have this piece of film to remind us forever and ever that once there was such a man. God kissed him. To say he was a genius seems so little. I wish my vocabulary encompassed what I feel."
Taylor implored her readers to rush out and see the film which hits fifteen cities worldwide for a limited two-week run. "You owe it to yourselves and your loved ones to see this again and again," she said. "Memorize it and say to yourselves, 'I saw genius in my lifetime.'"
Twilight’s New Moon Beats Michael Jackson Overseas
Posted on Oct 20, 2009 @ 05:00PM - 1 comment
While tickets for Michael Jackson’s This Is It movie are selling out, its popularity is being trumped by another highly anticipated flick: New Moon, the second installment in the Twilight series.
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The presale figures for the film have shattered all previous records and servers across Germany crashed due to the deluge of online buyers. After just a few hours after going on sale in Germany at midnight on Saturday, the Summit film exceeded the entire presales figures for Jackson’s film.
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While the film will have its Hollywood premiere on November 16, it will be released nationwide on November 20 and will hit Germany on November 26.
VIDEO: New Concert Footage Of Michael Jackson Rehearsing For This Is It Tour
Posted on Sep 21, 2009 @ 02:05PM - 25 comments
New video of Michael Jackson practicing for what was to be his sold-out concert stint at England's O2 Arena was released Sunday, promoting the film documenting Jackson's final series of rehearsals, This Is It.
In the clip, the late King of Pop, wearing a black outfit and a hat, sings in “half-voice” his 1983 hit, Human Nature.
