Ashley Tisdale "Cranks It Up" In New Music Video

The 24-year-old pop songstress Ashley Tisdale just premiered the new music video to her new single "Crank It Up" on Warner Bros. Records. Followed her lead single, "It's Alright, It's OK", it's the second release from the pop singer/actress' second studio project "Guilty Pleasure" which has been in stores since June. Tisdale's music is predominantly pop and has included ballads and rock. She decided to move to a pop rock style in her second album.
"Crank It Up" is the second single from her second studio album, "Guilty Pleasure". The song was written by Niclas Molinder, Joacim Persson, Johan Alkenäs, and features Sweden singer/songwriter David Jassy lending his vocal, will be released on October 17 as the album's second single. The music video debuted on Monday Germany via VIVA. The song is included in the German compilation album Popstar Hits. She performed the song on the German reality show Popstars. The German Maxi CD single includes two non-album tracks and will be released on October 16. The music video premiered yesterday fans via Ashley's MySpace website.
In less than a week, the 24-year-old singer rehearsed and shot the video in North Hollywood, the new video features Ashley’s good friend Wesley Quinn and was directed by the "High School Musical" alum's boyfriend Scott Speer. Ashley Tisdale is all grown up, and drills in the point that she's no longer than Disney star from 'High School Musical'. She channels her inner "black evil angel" in the video and she is also seen having a pair of black wings on her back. The Sharpay Evans of "High School Musical" series is also captured visiting and partying hard in the club.

Mark Knopfler To Release Album "Get Lucky"

Mark Knopfler, the 60-year-old guitar god and former frontman of the British rock band Dire Straits has announced the tracklisting for his new solo album, "Get Lucky," which is being released today in Europe and tomorrow in the US with 3 configurations.
The Scottish musician with a "Golden Heart" did it again! "Get Lucky" is the sixth solo studio album from the legendary musician and follows 2007's highly successful "Kill To Get Crimson," which Rolling Stone heralded as 'a gem' and USA Today described as, "...yet another unpretentious showcase for his unmistakable gifts as a musician, tunesmith and storyteller."
Recorded at Knopfler's award-winning British Grove Studios in West London, and was co-produced with longtime collaborators, engineer Chuck Ainlay and keyboardist Guy Fletcher and featured Richard Bennett, Danny Cummings, John McCusker, Matt Rollings and Glenn Worf. The 11-track album explores a lifetime of musical roots exemplified by the title track. "The first itinerant person I ever met would sing in soul bands in winter, then work part-time in fairgrounds or 'go pick fruit down south' when the weather turned warm," explains Knopfler. "I was about 15 years old, stuck in school and envious. "Get Lucky" came from him and other traveling characters I went on to meet in places I'd find myself working short-term, like farms, warehouses, building sites, before I got lucky with my songs."
Tt's very difficult to review this album strictly on its guitar aspects. There is a familiar mellowness to his album. He injects an easygoing, campfire vibe into the 11 songs on "Get Lucky." Throughout "Get Lucky," Mr. Knopfler draws on Celtic music traditions for melodic inspiration. The strains of flute, fiddle and whistle that characterize the genre do not fall gently on every ear. His signature finger-picking style is on display throughout and it's even more distinctive and recognizable than his singing voice. This is one you'll take out and enjoy like and with old wine for years to come. According to Knopfler's official web site, he'll begin his tour in support of "Get Lucky" sometime in 2010.

"The Final Destination" (3D) Opens To Theaters

What are hitting theaters this weekend to finish up the 2009 summer movie season? "The Final Destination" or called "Final Destination 4" is franchise’s fourth and reportedly final installment of the gloriously schlocky thriller/horror flick series, and the first of the series in fusion 3D, which was shot over 60 days in New Orleans last summer, and opens today, comes three years after “Final Destination 3” made $113.3m worldwide.
By making sure no one dies of natural causes, director David R. Ellis and screenwriter Eric Bress, who co-wrote "Final Destination 2," have clearly given plenty of ghoulish thought to the visceral thrill of the 3D format, which might give it an edge, and offers a new perspective on the horror franchise, and indeed on ideas of life, death and destiny. It's just as bloody and fun as the previous three films.
IF you have seen any of the previous three Final Destination movies, you probably already know how it all works, or at least you think you do. You won't need a sixth sense to know what is coming. As usual a group of teenagers dodge an early grave when one of them, Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) can see the future and uses the power to help his friends cheat death. They try to escape their fates, but death always catches up, and then pursues them to their ultimate destination. The difference here is that those of you near a digital cinema will be able to see people being sliced in half in 3D, a format that should intensify the visceral experience.
Eat your heart out, this 4th installment brings no fresh ideas to the mix is not a problem; the added dimension is a hugely entertaining carnival ride of elaborate, and more than enough to reinvigorate interest in this enduringly and deservedly popular New Line's series.

Madonna Reveals "Celebration" Album's Tracklist

The American sex symbol, 'Queen of Pop,' Madonna has finally revealed the final complete track list for her upcoming 3rd greatest hits album "Celebration", which has confirmed by Warner Bros. Records, her record company since 1982. The release will follow her two previous greatest hits albums, "The Immaculate Collection" (1990) and "GHV2" (2001).
The song list was selected by Madonna and her fans, have all been exquisitely remastered. The Material Girl is set to release her forthcoming best of compilation in the US on September 28, which will be made available in a 2-CD set, a single CD and a DVD packaging. Artwork for the packaging was designed by renowned street pop artist “Mr. Brainwash.”
The Ultimate Celebration CD set includes 36 hit songs spanning her entire career unedited and unreleased footage with 2 new tracks: "Revolver" (featuring Lil Wayne) and her new single 'Celebration'. The Celebration DVD collected 47 videos, includes 18 never-before-seen videos and will boast unseen footage (from "Justify My Love") and some all new videos ("Celebration", "Give It 2 Me" and "Into The Groove").
Madonna clearly continues to rule the dance floor with her latest single. Her title track “Celebration” Remix EP, (was released digitally on July 31) is #1 on iTunes Dance Album chart, and #1 on the Masterbeat overall chart. The music video for the song will premiere worldwide on music channels on September 1st, which coincides with the release of the video on iTunes.
Meanwhile, Madonna continues her "Sticky & Sweet" tour throughout Europe now. The multi-Grammy winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer with the highest grossing tour in history for a Female Artist, is scheduled to end her tour in Israel on September 2nd.

"Inception" | The Teaser Trailer Debuted Online

Yahoo! Movies has just officially premiered the teaser trailer online today for "The Dark Knight" and "Batman Begins" director Christopher Nolan's upcoming sci-fi thriller film, "Inception". Just a few days after an IMDB report which described it appeared online that it involves "A CEO-type involved in a blackmail scandal." and after playing before "Inglourious Basterds" in some theaters during the weekend, we now have the first look for ourselves!
It's just a teaser in every sense of the word running about one-minute long with only a few snippets of footage. You won't get much else from it, and certainly nothing that tells you anything about a plot. The tagline says "Your mind is the scene of the crime," and Nolan himself has called it "a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind." It all looks wild though, particularly the glimpses we get of a fight sequence in a hallway, a very Dark Knight, chilling and Matrix-style.
In fact, with Nolan on board as the driving force, an estimated budget of $200 million, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy and Michael Caine. While we still don't really have much of an idea of what the film is about, the teaser is certainly intriguing. The movie is due for release on July 16, 2010 by Warner Bros Pictures, and could be the dark horse of summer 2010, so keep your excitement to a minimum for now.

"The Time Traveler's Wife" Opens In Theaters

Fall in love again? The gifted Rachel McAdams melted our hearts in "The Notebook" and "Wedding Crashers" returns for this summer's biggest remantic movie, and tries to keep Eric Bana’s heart in "The Time Traveler’s Wife," which coming out today in local theaters near you.
"The Time Traveler’s Wife," a romantic drama with Sci-Fi twist, is directed by Robert Schwentke of "Flightplan" and adapted by Bruce Joel Rubin of "Ghost", based on the 2003 best-seller novel by Audrey Niffenegger, about a Chicago librarian Henry (Bana) who has a genetic disorder that causes him unable to control his abiliy to vault through time, and the impact that has on his marriage with a young heiress Claire (McAdams), a long-suffering woman who can't stay away from him. Basically this is a glad-to-be-sad romance of two people who can’t bring themselves to part but can never really be together.
It's never easy to compare movies from different times and genres. All time travel stories have one thing in common, they require a total suspension of disbelief. If you start thinking about the lapses in logic, everything falls apart. Time travel serves as a metaphor for love, absence, aging and death, but once you see it on screen, it becomes real. This adaptation of the 2003 bestseller is meant to be supremely romantic, but why does this love go so bad? Only time will tell. Timing is everything, especially when it comes to love. "The Time Traveler's Wife" takes this expression quite literally. The film is a tale of highly-praised reality-bending romance, but early reviews of the film show an uphill battle since it doesn't fulfill its destiny. One thing for sure is it seems no question that tears will flow and hankies will suffer terribly. This dramatic fantasy film has held up well, and is honest assessment of how difficult and magical a true and lasting love can be.

"Gloriana" Takes Walk On Country's Mild Side (Album)

Need some new country music, but Rascal Flatts is just a little too hard-core for your liking? Gloriana is the answer to your prayers. The young foursome, consisting of 20-something brothers Mike and Tom Gossin and teenage belters Rachel Reinert and Cheyenne Kimball - who all look and sound like they arrived from Nashville central casting for the next Lady Antebellum or Sugarland, there are reasons to be skeptical about the "realness" of the group and their self-titled debut Album "Gloriana", which will be released tomorrow.
Gloriana's self-titled debut starts off solidly with the "How Far Do You Wanna Go," a sunny open-road ode, and "Wild at Heart." But, aside from the infectious breakup song "Even If I Wanted to" and the angsty roots-pop of "Time to Let Me Go", the remainder of the album is more or less unremarkable. You can all 13 tracks at AOL's Full CD Listening Party. "Gloriana" reflects both the sheer talent of this up-and-coming country music group founded last February when brothers moved to North Carolina for college, and the level of commitment that they have put into making every note count. Gloriana's soaring four part harmonies have been compared to music icons such as The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac.
The group hasn’t wasted time — "Wild at Heart" Gloriana’s debut single has enjoyed some chart success — sold nearly 100,000 copies since mid-April, they’ve been on the road with country-pop superstar Taylor Swift as an opening act, and with Kellie Pickler, on her Fearless arena tour. Swift, and Gloriana, will be at Dallas’ American Airlines Center on Sept. 25.

Ashley Tisdale's Busy Week Includes New Album, Movie

For anyone wondering how Ashley Tisdale is charting her post-"HS Musical" career, all they have to do is look at this week. Tisdale not only has a new album, "Guilty Pleasure," hit shelves Tuesday, but also a new flick from the 20th Century Fox, "Aliens in the Attic," out Friday.
"They are both so different," she told MTV News about her music and her movie. "I want them(fans) to hear one and see the other. They are completely different. My music career is being who I am and connecting with the fans in that way." If you think it's a lot of pressure to have two big releases out in the same week, think again. The 24-year-old Actress/Pop Media princess said in interviews that "I don't put pressure on myself, and I don't like working under pressure. Listening to what I did, putting all that hard work in, I'm really proud of it. I think it's important for me to be happy with what I did." If fans really like "Aliens in the Attic" and "Guilty Pleasure", maybe Tisdale could end up at the top of the box office and the Billboard albums chart all in one week.
Tisdale's new sophomore album, "Guilty Pleasure" breaks out of 'High School' mode, and aimed at a more mature audience. The New Jersey native says she's taking her career to the next level, and the album was set on an edgier rock vibe. The cover features her in a tight black skirt and semi-revealing top, and her inspirations for the album's music. "Guilty Pleasure" might be "American Idol." Not only has Tisdale talked about her obsession with "Idol," but several of the songs on the album show a strong Kelly Clarkson influence.

"Whiteout" Movie Trailer Officially Arrives

The brand-new official trailer for the upcoming Kate Beckinsale's new ice-cold thriller 'Whiteout' has finally surfaced on IGN. The Warner Bros's new thriller, based on the 1998 graphic novel, directed by Dominic Sena, Shooting in Quebec, Canada has been one of the most weirdly under-publicized movies of the year since early summer of 2007, and will hits theaters on September 11.
Kate plays a lone U.S. marshal, Carrie Stetko, who is as anxious as anyone to be going home, but the only one assigned to Antarctica's South Pole research base, where “nature never intended you to survive, the most isolated landmass on the planet, no permanent population, 120 Below zero temp, 200 mph of wind, no horizon, no shadows, there is only...WHITE!" to investigate the continent's 1st homicide. However, more importantly, “Nature is not the only thing to fear…” Now with only 3 days until the onset of a 6-month winter, and everyone around her packing up and getting out, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into 6 months of darkness winter, and she is stranded with the killer on a land where nothing comes in and no one gets out. 'Whiteout' definitely ratchets up the suspense a notch or two. Enjoy!

"Orphan" | Hits in Theaters Today (Movie)

Devastated by the tragic loss of their unborn child, and struggling to regain some semblance of normalcy in their lives, the couple decides to adopt a child. At the local orphanage, both find themselves strangely drawn to a young girl named Esther. But when an alarming series of events begins to unfold, leading wife, Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther ... Can you keep a secret? You'll never guess her secret ... don't even try it since it may be too late ... for everyone.

Dark, edgy, effective, clever, intense, and blackly comic - one of the best evil-kid movie with a fresh, inventive twist, and the most terrifying horror endings. The experience becomes more entertaining because of what we don't see coming. It's so strongly and brilliantly cast - Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard are top-notch as usual, and 12-year-old Isabelle Fuhrman delivers a title performance so unsettling that it's left Warner Brothers convinced that it has a sleeper hit on its hands. With all that said, "Orphan" proved to be one of the more entertaining movies of the year, though not, I'm afraid, for all of the reasons the filmmakers surely intended.

"WATCHMEN" | Available On Blu-ray And DVD

"Watchmen", Zack Snyder's big-screen version of Alan Moore's beloved graphic novel gets the broad strokes right, telling a sexy, blood-spattered story about a band of discredited heroes who reunite to solve the murder of one of their own. The film is set in a gritty and alternate 1985 America, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated, which begins to lead to a much more terrifying conclusion. The reunited outlaw heroes -- including Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), Silk Spectre (Carla Gugino), Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) and Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) -- unite to defend themselves, and to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot.
Comic books and movies both tell stories with pictures, but "Watchmen" demonstrates that the animating spirit of a rich, fully realized graphic novel may be as hard to transfer to the screen as that of any other type of successful literary work. "Watchmen" shows it's time for the superior superhero. First "The Dark Knight", now the even darker "Watchmen" - is the serious side of comic book heroes the future for movies?

The new "Watchmen" DVD is no change in popularity this week, with Director’s cut, boasts an additional 24 minutes of footage not previously seen in theaters as well as a second disc loaded with special features.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" Opens In Theaters

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”('Harry Potter 6') is the 6th fantasy-adventure film series based on J.K. Rowling’s books, opens in more than 4,200 U.S. and Canadian theaters today at 12:01 a.m., and may take in $155 million in its first five days, estimates Jeff Hartke, an analyst at Los Angeles-based Hollywood Stock Exchange, which forecasts film performance.

The 6th movie was originally scheduled to open last November, but was pushed into this summer to fill in the gap left by last year’s Writers’ Guild strike. That created a two-year space between films that has been the longest of the series. Unlike the books, “Half-Blood Prince” is not the next-to-last movie. For the final installment, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the filmmakers are going back to their old idea and splitting the massive book into two movies coming in 2010 and 2011. Interestingly, after two PG-13 movies, “Prince” is rated PG, but from the looks of the new trailer, it stands to be as action-packed and emotional as any of the previous films.

As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past. Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was.

How Crazy Are Harry Potter Fans? Do you really need me to answer that question? Do you still remember the 1st film in 2001? Actually, the Harry Potter books might have ended two years ago, but as the Harry Potter Alliance illustrates, its rabid fans aren't going anywhere... I'll say that 'Harry Potter 6' is possibly one of the only, if not the only, movie in the series that stays true to the novel on which it is based.

Ashley Tisdale | "It's Alright, It's OK" (Video)

"It's Alright, It's Ok" is lead single by pop singer and Disney star Ashley Tisdale (born July 2, 1985) for her new sophomore album "Guilty Pleasure", which will drops in North America on July 28. The single package comes with the song and music video. This music video was shot on March 24 in a Beverly Hills mansion and directed by Scott Speer.



The track is a bit of a departure from what we’ve come to expect from the High School Musical star – it’s a little edgier with a slightly heavier rock sound. I think it’s great that she’s trying to experiment with a new sound and expand her talents. The most songs I liked by Ashley were "Time After Time" and "Unlove You". But this one a bit different, it sounds amazing, and looks incredible. Please enjoy!!!