R&B superstar Ne-Yo has written a script for a new movie – and used the film’s storyline to inspire his next album. The “So Sick” hitmaker is in talks with Hollywood bosses to turn his screenplay into a big screen picture, and is hoping to release an album and graphic novel based on its plot.
He tells Britain’s Daily Star, “I developed a script and I’m in the process of getting a Hollywood studio to turn it into a movie. My new album is a series of songs inspired by the script that I wrote, but it’s not a musical.”
“I’ve got a few friends in the graphic novel business, so we will storyboard it but release it as a book first. The underlying question is about your moral fibre. Is love, money and fame more important to you? The movie is really me and my friends answering that question.”
There’s joy in Hollywood tonight, the 138 acres behind the Hollywood sign will go into a public land trust. The hotly contested land on Cahuenga Peak is zoned for luxury homes and there was fear that it would be sold to developers if $12.5 million wasn’t raised to buy and protect the land. And here’s where good old Hugh steps in. Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner made a $900,000 donation at the last minute so that the conservation group “Trust for Public Land” could buy the land. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said that Hefner was the final donor. Schwarzenegger was quoted in the LA Times praising the donation and result as “the Hollywood ending we hoped for.”
Hefner released a statement calling the Hollywood sign Hollywood’s Eiffel Tower and “an important cultural landmark.” Other donations came from Arianne Getty, Tiffany & Co. jewelers, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The sign itself is owned by Los Angeles but the land behind it belonged to investors who could have sold the rights to build four luxury mansions along the ridgeline for a tidy fortune (they were hoping for $22 million). The land will now be become part of the 4,200-acre Griffith Park sprawl. Recently the conservation group covered the Hollywood sign so that it instead read “Save the Peak.”
As most of the globe anxiously awaits the new Sex & The City feature film, a 2nd trailer with new footage was released today to titillate those of us waiting. In it we see Adian makes an appearance, sexual Samantha is back, and of course the fashion. Take a look at the trailer below:
Are you ready to see the #1 movie actor in the world Will Smith reprise his role as Captain Steven Hille? Well your movie wish just may come true as it seems the long delayed and much talked about Independence Day sequels may finally get production started.
IESB confirms: “Independence Day” sequel(s) is closer to happening than ever before with plan to shoot them back-to-back. Sources also told the site that the principal photography could start as early as 2011.
The original became the highest-grossing film of 1996 with worldwide revenue of $817 million.
