Justin Timberlake’s the man this week as the Jive/ZLG superstar’s new album is flirting with 700k this week, far and away the top-selling album in the country. Jessica Simpson’s ex, John Mayer, is poised in the #2 spot, with his Continuum album on
Football was big at the movies as Sony’s Gridiron Gang, with the Rock, took in $15 million to lead a lackluster moviegoing weekend. Receipts totaled $75 million, down almost 12% from the previous year. Nevertheless, Sony Pictures broke its own record with its 10th opening #1 box office film over the past year. Brian De Palma’s controversial The Black Dahlia took the No. 2 position with $10.4 million in ticket sales, a disappointment for Universal. Meanwhile, the New York Times weighed in with the polarized critical reaction to De Palma films here. Another sports-themed movie, Everyone’s Hero, an animated baseball tale with Babe Ruth and a talking bat championed by the late Christopher Reeve and wife Dana, who also died, finished third with $6.2 million for 20th Century Fox. The Zach Braff-starring The Last Kiss brought in $4.7 million for fourth place, while last week’s topper, Sony’s horror film, The Covenant, finished fifth with virtually the same total. Even with the competition from the Gridiron Gang, Mark Wahlberg’s Invincible held sixth place, finishing its fourth week with a $50.9-million total. Indie word-of-mouth hits The Illusionist and Little Miss Sunshine continued to draw crowds, grabbing the seventh and eighth spots, respectively, at the box office. The neo-noir Hollywoodland fell to ninth place with $2.7 million for a paltry two-week total of $10.5m, just ahead of the amped-up action movie Crank. Total box-office receipts stand at $6.8 billion for the year, up 6.2% over last year.
TONY TONY TONY: After recently celebrating his 80th birthday, Tony Bennett releases his new Columbia Records album, Duets: An American Classic, on Sept. 26, which could be one of Q4’s dark horses. The legendary crooner joins with superstars like Billy Joel (“The Good Life”), Tim McGraw (“Cold, Cold Heart”) and Stevie Wonder (“For Once in My Life”). The album will be premiered this week, starting tomorrow through Sept. 25, on 125 Clear Channel radio websites. Log on to www.clearchannelmusic.com for more.
MOGULING: The L.A. Times explores the marvel of old-line media moguls Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch here, openly wondering if their young wives, half their ages, have anything to do with their vitality here.
WHO KILLS DORIS
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ON THIS
In 1964: The Beatles were in a bomb scare as a phone call said there was an explosive on their flight to
In 1967: The Beatles shot the striptease scene for The Magical Mystery Tour.
In 1970: Jimi Hendrix died in
In 1971: Pink Floyd became the first rock group to play the Classical Music Festival in
In 1972: In
In 1974: John Lennon was the guest DJ on
In 1976: At Don Kirshner’s Rock Music Awards, Fleetwood Mac won Best Group and Best Album for Fleetwood Mac. Peter Frampton was awarded Rock Personality of the Year.
In 1980:
In 1983: Kiss unmasked on MTV. The band appeared on the channel for the first time without their makeup.
In 1997: The Rolling Stones played
In 2000: matchbox twenty's Adam Gaynor offered a reward after his favorite guitar was stolen from the side of the stage in
In 2000: Rick Springfield was arrested for alleged spousal assault after police discovered "minor injuries" on his wife.
In 2002: Blur’s Damon Albarn and Massive Attack’s 3D delivered an open letter to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair protesting war moves against
In 2004: Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young performed at the 19th Annual Farm Aid in
In 2004: Britney Spears and dancer Kevin Federline married in
THE COUNT: COLDPLAY IS HOT, COUNTRY'S COOKIN' IN THE U.K.
The latest tidbits from the bustling live sector (3/28a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
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