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!
Michael Jackson’s Shocking Dead Body Photo Shown By Prosecution
Posted on Sep 27, 2011 @ 11:00AM - 17 comments
By Alexis Tereszcuk
Senior Radar Reporter
In the opening statements in the Dr. Conrad Murray trial, the prosecution showed for the first time a shocking photo of Michael Jackson on a hospital gurney, presumably dead.
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jackson's Ex Manager Frank Dileo Hospitalized, Fighting For His Life
Posted on Mar 30, 2011 @ 11:47AM - 2 comments
Michael Jackson’s one-time manager Frank Dileo is in a Los Angeles hospital fighting for his life after having heart surgery and subsequently experiencing complications, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
Sources close to the situation tell RadarOnline.com that Dileo had bypass surgery on his heart last week and then suffered from complications the next day.
EXCLUSIVE COURT DOCUMENTS: Kenny Ortega Demands To Be Removed From Michael Jackson Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Posted on Jan 29, 2011 @ 01:30PM - 3 comments
Kenny Ortega is continuing his battle to be dropped as a defendant in Katherine Jackson's lawsuit against AEG, and RadarOnline.com has his detailed legal filing.
DVD Releases for January 26, 2010
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Saw VI (R)
The terror just gets more terrifying with every new film in this blockbuster franchise. In the sixth (!) installment, Detective Hoffman becomes the successor to the Jigsaw legacy. As the FBI move in, he sets things in motion that reveal the Jigsaw's grand scheme. (Tobin Bell [Jigsaw/John], Costas Mandylor [Mark Hoffman])
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Surrogates (PG-13)
Set in the near-future, this noir-style thriller presents a world occupied by comely robotic surrogates, while humans stay at home in their bathrobes, controlling all the action outside. But when FBI agent Tom Greer gets involved in an unusual murder case, he unwittingly becomes involved in the future of humanity. (Bruce Willis [Tom Greer], Radha Mitchell [Agent Peters])
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This Is It (PG)
This ode to Michael Jackson was created entirely with behind-the-scenes footage shot during the months of preparation for the London concert series planned for last summer. The DVD edition includes more than an hour and a half of extra segments and interviews with the people who worked closely with the late pop star to make the would-be series a reality. (Kenny Ortega [as himself], Travis Payne [as himself])
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Whip It (PG-13)
Drew Barrymore's directorial debut follows the evolution of small-town teen Bliss Cavendar from trudging through beauty pageants and a dreary, after-school job to discovering passion in roller derby. As she laces up and hits the skate track, she learns more than simply how to win. (Ellen Page [Bliss Cavendar/Babe Ruthless], Marcia Gay Harden [Brooke Cavendar])
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DVD Review: This Is It
Posted on Jan 26, 2010 @ 03:44PM - Add a comment
When Michael Jackson’s This Is It arrived in theaters last fall for a limited-run release, its presentation of the late pop star was an exercise in duality. The film undeniably reaffirmed Jackson’s unparalleled talent and reinforced his seat atop the global pantheon of performers. But it also offered a glimpse of a seemingly frail man who was not only aesthetically disfigured, but whose fame had so totally eclipsed -- or perhaps defined -- his identity that it was tough to find the person within.
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.”
