Glitz and Celebration of Wealth in The Great Gatsby

Master of over-the-top Hollywood director Baz Luhrmann is bringing opulence back in fashion with its adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, the movie takes us back in the 1920’s where bigger parties, looser morals and mindless spending are worshipped by higher classes of American society.

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Box office still paved with gold for “Oz”

Hollywood already has its first blockbuster of 2013, with the $80.3 million debut weekend of Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful. Of course, the film’s top spot at the box office wasn’t under debate; the discussions were focused on how big it would be.

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Les Miserables Review

Tom Hooper’s version of Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Miserables made an extraordinary appearance on the big screen with its powerful message, exceptional music and cinematography. It comes as no surprise that the movie version of the beloved epic has scooped a total of eight Academy Award nominations, including best picture. Read more

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is Expectedly Good

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now officially in the theatres. Lord of The Rings fans, rejoice!

But don’t be fooled that this movie will be appreciated only by LOTR lunatics. The prequel of the Oscar-winning trilogy will easily impress anyone with its detailed and vivid pictures. The director of The Hobbit, Peter Jackson, used an innovative technology to shoot the movie called 48 FPS. Read more

Black Friday sends Fifty Shades price 58% South

Of the best selling books of 2012

Hot, controversial and captivating, E. L. James’s Fifty Shades trilogy is very much in demand nowadays from New York to Dubai.  Today, shoppers on Amazon can get the Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed 3-volume Boxed Set for a special Black Friday price of $19.99, 58% lower than the original prices of $47.86. Read more

The Arab Spring & the Gulf States: Time to Embrace Change

A personal and deeply powerful manifesto to embrace change

‘Arab men and women need to believe that they are born free and will remain free to think, live, choose the life they like and say what they like – and will be rewarded for hard work within an effective institutional system that meets their expectations and protects their rights. If this does not happen, I do not see a stable future ahead….’ Read more

Top Rated Books for Silver Traders Review

Due to the popularity of the topic – trade silver – we have decided to offer to you kind attention a review of the  five best-selling books for silver traders available for online purchase at Amazon:

  A beginner’s guide to purchasing silver and how to liquidate it by Qianjun Befanis. This book is great for beginner traders, because it employs straightforward and easy to understand language. Moreover it is brief and will save you not only money, but also time to figure out how to trade silver. Read more

The Expendables 2 kicks box office competition

Old faces, new places, lots of guns and some puns

A couple of years ago, Sylvester Stallone and other well-known tough guys joined together for the shooting of the old-fashioned flick The Expendables. The sequel of the movie just hit the theaters worldwide. And believe it or not, but this time it is bigger then ever. Why? Because they are more tough guys, there are more visual effects and intense fights. Read more

Dark Knight Rises expected to be new Box-Office record-breaker

This weekend kicks off the last potential record-breaker of the summer as Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises” comes into the cinemas across the globe. This is four years after the success of 2008′s “The Dark Knight” which set a new opening weekend record with $158.4 million. It is since slipped down to fourth thanks to James Cameron’s “Avatar” and this summer’s record-breaker “The Avengers”.

Could “The Dark Knight Rises” sell more tickets on its opening weekend than “The Avengers”?

Director Christopher Nolan has been among the loudest critics of Hollywood’s rush to 3D, claiming it degrades the creative and viewing experience. “It’s all about the money,” he told the PGA’s Produced By conference in May.

The latest of three blockbuster Batman movies Nolan has made for Warner Bros., “Dark Knight Rises” is expected by industry analysts to open somewhere between $170 million and $195 million. That would make it the best U.S. opening ever– for a non-3D movie.

If so, that “best debut ever” honor would still belong to Disney and Marvel’s “The Avengers,” which bowed to $207 million in the first week in May. ”The Avengers” bowed on 4,349 screens in all, 3,364 of which were 3D, along with 275 Imax. “The Dark Knight Rises” will be in 4,404 theaters and 3,700 will offer midnight Thursday screenings.

“Dark Knight Rises” has certainly built anticipation, evidenced by its huge presales. And the buzz surrounding Nolan’s final entry in his Batman trilogy — “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight” were the first two — has been near fever-pitch for weeks. But the relentlessly dark and gritty tone of the film, which is at the core of its appeal to many adults, might cut both ways at the box office.

The last Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” was a huge financial success. With a production budget of around $185 million, it opened to $158 million in July, 2008 and went on to make $533 million domestically and more than $1 billion worldwide. That was a huge jump from the Nolan’s first Batman film, “Batman Begins,” which made $205 million after opening to $48 million.

Another hurdle facing “The Dark Knight” in its pursuit of “The Avengers” is its running time of 2 hours, 45 minutes, as compared to 2 hours, 22 minutes for the Marvel film. That will cut into the number of times the film can be shown in a theater.

“The Dark Knight Rises” is expected to be among, if not the, most lucrative entry in the eight-film franchise, which has brought in more than $2.6 billion since it began with “Batman” in 1989.

 

Madonna did all the wrong things in Abu Dhabi

Exceptional professionalism and determination

Madonna did all the wrong things in Abu Dhabi, but proved that the title “Queen of Pop” deservedly belongs to her. Flash Entertainment, the organizer of her show, also did few things wrong, but altogether paved the way for more spectacular shows of a similar caliber to be staged in the capital of U.A.E.

Madonna is a superior performer. If we didn’t know her real age, 53, we would never guess it. During the last three decades, she mastered the dance scene and earned fame with a hard work. Read more

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