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Dierks Bentley to Take Part in the CMA Songwriters Series

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Rebecca Murray
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Dierks Bentley CMA Songwriter Series

Dierks Bentley will be joining Jim Beavers (“Felt Good On My Lips” recorded by Tim McGraw), Jaren Johnston (“You Gonna Fly” recorded by Keith Urban), and Bob DiPiero (“You Can’t Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl” recorded by Brooks & Dunn) at the CMA Songwriters Series taking place on September 13, 2012 at New York City’s Joe’s Pub. DiPiero is hosting the series which gives music fans a look behind the scenes at the stories that inspired some well-known songs.

“The CMA Songwriter series is a really cool gig,” said Bentley. “Joe’s Pub is so intimate and the audience is a huge part of those shows because they’re so close. It’s like everybody in the room is in on a secret or something. You’ve got four guys with guitars, telling stories and drinking whiskey…anything can happen!”

More on Dierks Bentley [Courtesy of CMA]: CMA Award-winning singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley has forged his own brand of Country Music combining classic Country songwriting, influences of bluegrass instrumentation and the energy of rock & roll. He recently made plans to toast the end of summer with the release of a four-song EP titled Country & Cold Cans available Aug. 21 on iTunes, while simultaneously kicking off tailgating season with a limited Country & Cold Cans: Back To College Tour.

The new music follows Bentley’s sixth studio album Home, released earlier this year, which debuted at No. 1 and has spawned three chart-topping hits marking 10 career No. 1 songs as a singer and songwriter. His five previous studio albums have sold over five million copies and garnered an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry.




The Walking Dead Season 2 DVD – New Clip

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Rebecca Murray
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This new clip from the upcoming Blu-ray/DVD release of The Walking Dead season two has comic book creator Robert Kirkman discussing the differences between his comics and AMC’s successful TV series. The 4-disc DVD set is hitting stores on August 28, 2012 with all 13 episodes from the second season as well as behind the scenes featurettes and audio commentaries.
 
Watch the clip:
 

 
Season 2 Plot:
 
When we last left the The Walking Dead, the characters were in the midst of a high-intensity struggle to survive, fleeing the CDC as it burst into flames. In Season 2, they are still fighting zombies–and each other– facing more threats and obstacles than ever before.
 
Based on the hugely successful and popular comic books written by Robert Kirkman, AMC’s The Walking Dead captures the ongoing human drama after a zombie apocalypse. The series follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, played by Andrew Lincoln, who are traveling in search of a safe and secure home. However, instead of the zombies, it’s the living who still remain that may be the biggest threat.
 
Source: Anchor Bay Entertainment
 

H+ The Digital Series Premieres on YouTube

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Rebecca Murray
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H+ The Digital Series
A scene from 'H+ The Digital Series'

Bryan Singer – the filmmaker behind the first two X-Men films as well as The Usual Suspects – has turned to the web for his newest project, H+ The Digital Series. The online live-action series features Alexis Denisof, Hannah Simone, David Clayton Rogers, Sean Gunn, and Samuel Vauramo, and is currently available on Youtube. Singer produced the series with Stewart Hendler directing and John Cabrera & Cosimo De Tommaso handling scripting duties.
 
“This multifaceted, sci-fi series is perfect for the Internet as it tells the story from different characters’ perspectives – jumping from time, place and viewpoint as the narrative comes together,” said Bryan Singer. “These short, addictive episodes each end with a cliffhanger. As more episodes debut, the audience has the unique ability to rearrange them sequentially or by characters’ storylines or locations, so that they can retell our story in their own preference.”
 
The Plot:
 
H+ The Digital Series takes viewers on an episodic, apocalyptic journey into the future where consumers are rapidly installing a chip called “HPlus” into their nervous systems that allows them to access the Internet 24 hours a day – by just thinking it. One day, a virus is released – causing a third of the world’s population to die instantly. The series deals with the massive political and human changes that take place, the fight for survival and the mystery to discover who is behind this atrocity.
 
Source: Warner Bros Pictures
 

Do You Have Perfect Pitch?

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Rebecca Murray
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Pitch Perfect Contest

If so, Universal Pictures wants you to enter their official Pitch Perfect Music Video Contest. In support of the upcoming release of the music-driven comedy, Pitch Perfect, Universal’s hosting a contest where fans will have the opportunity to star in a music video with the cast and YouTube stand-out Mike Tompkins. And what will you be doing in this music video? Why, you’ll be singing an a cappella cover of “Starships” by Nicki Minaj.

The Scoop:

Submit your best vocals, signature moves, beatbox and/or guitar, bass, synth, and back-up sounds to accompany a cover of Nicki Minaj’s worldwide smash “Starships” and you could be featured in the music video. The deadline is August 22, 2012 so hurry!

· Fans can submit their entries at pitchperfectmovie.com/musicvideo

· Winners will be included in the music video, debuting on Mike Tompkins’ YouTube channel, which currently has more than 550,000 subscribers.

· The video will also be featured on Blu-ray DVD release of Pitch Perfect!

The Plot:

Beca (Anna Kendrick) is that girl who’d rather listen to what’s coming out of her headphones than what’s coming out of you. Arriving at her new college, she finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together, in the new out-loud comedy Pitch Perfect.

When Beca takes this acoustic singing group out of their world of traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new mash-ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of the cutthroat world of college a cappella. This could wind up either the coolest thing they’ll ever do or the most insane, and it will probably be a little of both.

Loaded with new takes on old favorites to hits of right now that are seamlessly mixed together, mashed-up and arranged like you’ve never heard before, Pitch Perfect is directed by Jason Moore, who opened our eyes to the very misbehaved life of puppets in the surprise Broadway sensation Avenue Q.




Abby Lee Miller Gets a New Reality Show

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Rebecca Murray
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Abby Lee Miller from Dance Moms
Instructor Abby Lee Miller stars in the hit Lifetime reality series Dance Moms (Photo by Scott Gries Copyright 2011)

Hello, my name is Rebecca and I’m addicted to Dance Moms. And now Lifetime’s feeding into this obsession with a new series featuring Dance Moms‘ Abby Lee Miller.

The network says Miller will be the lead judge on the new reality competition series Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition. Joining Miller on the judging panel are Pussycat Dolls’ founder Robin Antin and dancer/choreographer Richard Jackson. Kevin Manno’s been tapped to host the series, which will air this fall.

The 10-episode first season will feature 12 talented boys and girls who’ll be competing for $100,000 and a scholarship to the Young Dancer Program at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York.

The Details [Courtesy of Lifetime]:

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition will begin by following a dozen aspiring dancers — ages six through 13 – who will learn new routines and compete in a number of challenges designed to test their skills when they perform before Miller, Antin and Jackson, as well as a live audience, at the historic Los Angeles Theatre. Along the way, each competitor will be accompanied and coached by his or her own mother, who will make critical training, costume, music and choreographic decisions for their child while also navigating the precarious waters of the other highly competitive parents.

As Miller, Antin and Jackson must make the sometimes easy and other times difficult decision to eliminate one dancer each week, the intense on stage competition and stakes between dancers and mothers increase throughout the season – culminating with a finale performance that assuredly will change the winning dancer’s life forever.




‘Animal Practice’ Season 1 Preview: Cast, Plot, and Trailer

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Rebecca Murray
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Animal Practice Cast
Kym Whitley, Joanna Garcia Swisher, and Justin Kirk in 'Animal Practice' - Photo © NBC

Justin Kirk leads the cast of NBC’s half-hour comedy series Animal Practice. Kirk stars as a veterinarian in the new series debuting on September 26, 2012.

Joining Justin Kirk in season one are JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Dorothy Crane, Tyler Labine as Dr Doug Jackson, Bobby Lee as Dr Yamamoto, and Kym Whitley as Juanita. Betsy Sodaro plays Nurse Angela and Crystal is Dr Rizzo.

The Plot: Animal Practice is a new comedy centering on Dr. George Coleman (Kirk), a top veterinarian with an impressive list of famous animal patients at the Crane Animal Hospital – a bustling New York City veterinary practice where it often seems as if the patients are running the place. Despite his unorthodox style, George has an undeniable gift with animals of all kinds – except the human kind.

Much to his chagrin, George recently learned that his ex-girlfriend, Dorothy Crane (Swisher), has inherited the family business and is now George’s boss. Whip-smart and ambitious, Dorothy shakes up the hospital as she brings order to the chaos and butts heads with George’s animal-friendly administration.

Zombies Terrorize Park Visitors During Halloween Horror Nights

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Rebecca Murray
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Terror Tram Invaded by The Walking Dead

Zombies are the new vampires. The flesh-eating creatures are everywhere, and this year they’ll even be terrorizing park visitors during Universal Studios Hollywood’s annual Halloween Horror Nights. Universal Studios announced that hordes of groaning walkers will be part of “Terror Tram: Invaded by The Walking Dead” taking place this October.

Per Universal Studios: “Terror Tram: Invaded by The Walking Dead will expose guests to a legion of plagued zombies in the aftermath of the disease’s cataclysmic spread to the West Coast. The world of television fantasy will collide with grim reality when Terror Tram: Invaded by The Walking Dead pits guests face-to-face with a swarm of living corpses doomed to stalk Universal Studio’s famed backlot—the heart of the world’s most famous horror moviemaking studio.”

Announcing the flesh-eating horde, John Murdy, Creative Director, Halloween Horror Nights, said: “The Terror Tram is one of the most popular Halloween Horror Nights attractions since it’s the only time people can walk on the historic Universal backlot where the horror film genre was born. The juxtaposition of the backlot’s rural setting amid a small town devastated by a horrific plane wreckage complements the TV series’ sets almost to a tee and provides the ideal backdrop to showcase the ‘walkers’ from AMC’s The Walking Dead on a grand scale.”

Halloween Horror Nights begins on Friday, September 21, 2012 and continues on select nights through Wednesday, October 31. The dates are September 22, 28, 29 and October 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 31.

New Clip: ‘Sleepwalk with Me’

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Rebecca Murray
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Producer/co-writer Ira Glass and writer/director/comedian/actor Mike Birbiglia are doing everything but knocking on your door and driving you to the theater in order to get you to see the limited release of their comedy, Sleepwalk with Me, as evident in this new clip promoting the film. Originally scheduled to open in 30+ theaters, thanks to an active campaign by Glass and Birbiglia Sleepwalk with Me will now show in 98 theaters.

Birbiglia put together a list of 200 theaters that regularly host films released via IFC Films and called upon his Twitter followers to help get the movie onto more screens using the hashtag #bringsleepwalk. The campaign worked, and the number of theaters dramatically increased. “At this point, we’ve almost tripled our theater count, just through this grassroots campaign,” said Birbiglia.

Sleepwalk with Me features Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, Carol Kane, James Rebhorn, and Cristin Milioti.

Sleepwalk with Me

The Plot:

“I’m going to tell you a story and it’s true… I always have to tell people that,” so asserts comedian-turned-playwright-turned-filmmaker Mike Birbiglia directly to the viewer at the outset of his autobiographically inspired, fictional feature debut. Birbiglia wears his incisive wit on his sleeve while portraying a cinematic surrogate. We are thrust into the tale of a burgeoning stand-up comedian struggling with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship threatening to race out of his control, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.

Based on the successful one-man show, Sleepwalk with Me engages in the kind of passionate and personal storytelling that transfigures intimate anguish into comic art.




New York Comedy Festival 2012 Lineup Revealed

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Rebecca Murray
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New York Comedy Festival

Kevin Hart, Bill Maher, Robin Williams, David Steinberg, Aziz Ansari, and Ricky Gervais are set to take the stage at the 2012 New York Comedy Festival (NYCF). NYCF and Comedy Central just announced the lineup for the event that will take place at various locations throughout New York, including The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, The Beacon Theatre, Madison Square Garden, and Town Hall.

In addition to the above-mentioned funny guys, Adam Carolla, Rob Delaney, Jim Gaffigan, Artie Lange, Patton Oswalt, Brian Regan, and Marlon & Shawn Wayans will be performing along with 175 other comedians.

“I can’t even find the words to describe what I’m feeling right now!,” said Kevin Hart.  “I’m honored to join a group of comedians that will go down in history because of their performances at The Garden!!!  God is good!”

“The New York Comedy Festival continues to solidify New York City’s position as the comedy capital of the world,” stated Caroline Hirsch, founder of The Festival and owner of Carolines on Broadway.

This year’s festival runs Wednesday, November 7 through Sunday, November 11.

The Schedule [Per NYCF]:

Kevin Hart returns to The Festival to become only one of a handful of comedians ever to headline the Madison Square Garden arena when he brings his Let Me Explain Tour to MSG on November 10. Hart shares the rare accomplishment of headlining the famed arena with Bob Hope, George Burns, Eddie Izzard, Chris Rock, Andrew “Dice” Clay and Dane Cook, who in 2006 for the New York Comedy Festival performed two shows in one night. HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher returns to the Beacon Theatre on November 10, to share his unique and hilarious views on the presidential election.

Award-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams returns to the festival with a lively conversation with Emmy Award-winning director David Steinberg (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm) at the 92nd Street Y on November 11. Aziz Ansari, star of NBC’s hit series Parks and Recreation, will perform on two of the city’s biggest stages – the famed Apollo Theater on November 9 and at Carnegie Hall on November 10. Emmy Award-nominated Ricky Gervais will kick off The Festival when he returns with his razor-sharp wit for an in-depth conversation at Town Hall on November 7.




Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Take Their Act to Vegas, Baby

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Rebecca Murray
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Faith Hill and Tim McGraw
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw - Photo Courtesy of The Venetian

The unstoppable Country music team of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill will be the stars of the Las Vegas Venetian’s new show which, according to the resort, will be “the biggest musical event in its history.” McGraw and Hill have signed on to be the stars of “Soul2Soul,” a limited engagement concert series opening on December 7, 2012 and running through April 2013.

Soul2Soul will take place in The Venetian Theater, an 1,815 seat venue. Tickets are set to go on sale on Monday, August 13th at The Venetian box office or by calling 888-TAF-SOUL.

The multi-award winning Country couple’s upcoming Venetian gig marks the first time the two have performed together in the US in six years. The show will feature hits from both artists.

“We are creating a show that will be completely different from what we’ve done before — and might ever do again,” said Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. “In arenas and stadiums, you’re always faced with the challenge of finding ways to make people feel closer to the action, no matter where they might be sitting. Now everyone will be close, so it opens up all kinds of creative possibilities and we’re looking forward to exploring those so that we can really give our fans something truly special.”

“It’s not every day that Las Vegas welcomes such stellar star power to the Strip,” said John Caparella, president and chief operating officer of The Venetian, The Palazzo & Sands Expo. “Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are country music’s first couple and we are proud to have such extraordinary talent. When they hit our stage in December it will surely be the hottest ticket in town.”




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