James Bond’s Casino Royale has topped the UK’s first “culture chart”, bringing together sales of DVDs, books, CDs and computer games in one rundown. The Casino Royale DVD sold 2.3 million copies in the first half of 2007, ahead of The Queen DVD in second place. James Bond is by far the best selling movies of all times, even if the recent reports that the movies of Harry Potter have sold more it ticket sales and out placed James Bond from the number one slot of all time box office sales, one thing that the people who have made this report would not have taken into consideration is that the first Harry Potter movie was released after 2000 and James Bond – the character and the movies series has being there for more than 40 years. To remain such an iconic movie for such a long duration and to be accepted to a wide generation of cinema goers is what gives the edge to James Bond in my opinion.
It was a money making plan that has has gone horribly wrong for J Lo’s ex Hubby and probably she has profited from the whole episode. Jennifer Lopez has been awarded nearly $545,000 in a lawsuit against her first husband, Ojani Noa, over his plans to publish a tell-all-book claiming she had several affairs. He wanted to make money by revealing a lot many things about her but instead has ended up paying make his bank balance to her. This will be a bumper profit for after the success of her new movie El Chante in which she is starring with her husband of now Marc Anthony. The court ordered arbitrator made the decision in April in Lopez’s breach-of-contract lawsuit against Noa. So these are the benefits of a pre-nuptial agreement there can be no disclosures about personal lives and pre-agreement on money matter if there is a divorce. J Lo has proved she is a master mind in this way and surely there might be a similar agreement with Marc as well.
In a recent interview J.K. Rowling, famous for creating Harry Potter and his clan of friends and enemies admitted that she cried while writing the ending to her series. She sat alone in a hotel and absolutely bawled while drinking a bottle of champagne from the mini bar. The Deathly Hallows will be the seventh and final piece in the series. Fans are awaiting it with mixed stress and sorrow. Rowling’s books have sold so well that she has been made the first billionaire author in the world but perhaps her greatest achievement is knowing when to bring it to an end before all of the wonder and the glory fizzle out. Harry Potter will go down in history as a legendary story accompanied by a brilliant set of feature films. Rowling has fulfilled the dreams of millions of authors around the world and even though she goes home crying at the end of the day, she had better know how lucky she is.
Actor Nicolas Cage is teaming up with his teenage son to launch their own line of comic books. The Ghost Rider star and 16-year-old Weston Cage are releasing their six-issue illustrated series Voodoo Child through Virgin Comics on July 11. When renowned comic fan Cage senior was approached with the idea of starting his own animated series books, he suggested his own son come on board. Voodoo Child is set in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, and follows a detective as he investigates the disappearance of several young girls. The title character is Gabriel Moore, a child murdered by secessionist soldiers in the 19th century, who is resurrected by a voodoo priest. Good they can give any money they make to the victims of Katrina do you think they’ll do that? Or run all the way to the bank laughing. Like the hurricane thing was a disaster and then the story is having a detective looking for lost girls and he plans to make a comic series on the subject. I do not where they are heading and in which direction.
After a long and successful career Paul Neman (now 82 years old) told “Good Morning America” that he has to give up acting. His exact words were:
““I’m not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to. You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that’s pretty much a closed book for me. I’ve been doing it for 50 years. That’s enough.”
Paul Newman sore had an acting career others can only dream about. He starred in successful movies like “Cool Hand Luke” or “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and won an Oscar in 1986 for his role in “The Color of Money”. The last role Paul had was in “Cars”. He was the voice of Doc Hudson. Newman will now focus on his new restaurant and his camp for ill children. We wish him all the best!
