Seacrest: Voting record for the finale of "American Idol"

LOS ANGELES - Ryan Seacrest, said that the "american idol" competition between two teenage country singers has attracted a record number of votes.

More than 122 million votes have been issued for Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery, host of "American Idol" Seacrest said that the final got underway on Wednesday evening.

More than three-quarters of a billion votes were cast during the season, said Seacrest.

The final vote count perhaps reflects interest in the first final of the countries of the show. Alaina of 16 years and 17 years McCreery are also the youngest pair of finalists.

Nighy in talks for "Total call" remake

LOS ANGELES  - Bill Nighy is negotiating to join the cast of "Total recall," remake directed by Colin Farrell Colombia - 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger action film.

The film, which began filming June in Toronto and will be directed by Len Wiseman, stars Bryan Cranston as the wicked and Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel as the female leads. Ethan Hawke is on board for a cameo.

Film ditches of the Martian storyline of the original film, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and involves instead of nation States Euromerica and new Shanghai, with Douglas Quaid (Farrell), a worker of factory in the latter case that begins to believe that he is a spy - although he knows not which side.

Nighy will play Quatto, the leader of the resistance. (In the 1990 film, the character, called Kuato, played by Marshall Bell with the conceit that the Chief was in fact a small living mutant outside human.)

Nighy made a name in the community geek playing a vampire leader in the films "underworld" and Davy Jones in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise. It can then be seen on the big screen as Minister Rufus Scrimgeour in "Harry Potter and the Deathly hollow part 2"

Final Winfrey devoted fans, the "safe harbor"

CHICAGO - there is no free cars or vacations. No things favorites or makeovers. No celebrities on stage - although there are many in the audience.

The final of the Oprah Winfrey Show, recorded Tuesday and was released Wednesday, was all about the thing that makes elle a billion dollar success: the unique connection, elle made with millions of viewers for 25 years. In what it calls its "love letter" fans, she clarified that he, all these friendships TV went in both directions.

"Something in me connected with each of you in a way that allowed me to see me in you and you in me", said Winfrey. "I listened to and grew up, and I know that you grew up with me.".

Winfrey was the only person on stage with little background music and clips short flashback. The show went to ads with "twenty-five years", a gentle song that musician Paul Simon wrote and recorded for it.

It calls its "safe harbor" fans and became tears in their eyes when reflecting on his upbringing in rural Mississippi.

"It is no coincidence as a lonely girl," Winfrey said, suffocation, "who did not believe much of love, even though my parents and grandparents did the best they could, it is not by chance if I grew to feel kindness véritableaffection" "".trust and validation of millions of you around the world. ?

Winfrey said viewers that sometimes she was a teacher, but more often its viewers told him. She called episode on Wednesday his "class from this last stage".

At one point, she thanked the viewers for sharing his "blessings yellow brick road" - something she said back in November 2009, when it announced that it would end his show. The programme gave rise to an empire of media, including a magazine and the cable network of Winfrey, which it launched in January.

Wednesday show was the last piece of a sendoff for long months, but as time wrapped, Winfrey continued to say goodbye.

"I will not say goodbye." "I just say, until next time," she said.

She hugged and kissed his long partner date Stedman Graham and tight hand with members of the public before walking through the corridors of Harpo Studios in Chicago hugging and crying with his staff. She shouted, "we did it!"

The last kick of the final showed Winfrey walking away with his Spaniel cocker, Sadie.

Some fans across the country were parties to the final. Sharon Evans, 53, Chicago had pancakes with her mother and friends.

"It was very controlled today and I appreciated that she took this last hour not step to present any celebrities or favorite things", said Evans. "It is really what it says, a letter of love for us."

Amy Korin, 32, of Chicago, was in the studio room when issuing registered Tuesday. It describes the monologue as Winfrey with the feeling of opening graduation speech. "It was just incredible testify", she said.

Celebrities in the audience included Tyler Perry, Maria Shriver, Suze Orman, and Cicely Tyson. None of them joined Winfrey on stage. A week earlier, Hollywood A-listers and 13,000 fans farewell Winfrey in a large celebration of the double-episode at the United Center in Chicago.

In the final registration bare bones, there were just 404 members of the audience, according to Harpo Productions. The show received requests for ticket from 1.4 million in its last season, the company said.

Winfrey has become famous over the decades of establishment of hard-to-get celebrity and shows interviews his annual gift, where she gave members of the audience with these amazing gifts such as cars and vacations Australian.

Already a journalist for television, Winfrey arrived in Chicago in 1984 to WLS - TV morning talk show, "Chicago h." A month later, the show was no. 1 on the market. A year later it was renamed "the oprah winfrey Show".

Open Winfrey Harpo Studios the neighbourhood of West loop of Chicago in 1990. On 1 January this year, it launched the Oprah Winfrey network, which is based in Los Angeles.

Actors mark final show of Oprah with punch lines

NEW YORK - While many have responded to the final episode of "the oprah winfrey Show" with tears and emotion, of actors found punch lines.

On "Jimmy kimmel Live," Kimmel sings goodbye by performing the song "End of the road" with the Group R & B Boyz II Men. The melody has been renamed "it's So Hard To Say Goodbye (to Oprah Winfrey)."

David Letterman, whose tumultuous relationship with Winfrey as has long been the Chronicle, lamented previously not invited to the gala farewell to Chicago.

"" "Honest to God," said Letterman, "every day I get out of bed and think:"What can I do to aspire to Oprah?"".

Many have turned to social media to contemplate a world post-Oprah.

Among the notable observations on Twitter are the following:

? "Apparently Oprah is responsible for the life on our planet as we know it."-Kevin Nealon.

? "Miss Oprah and Osama." Is there a way to their couples for something? "- Michael Ian Black.

? "Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that it the Rapture postponed after its final show airs." - Joan Rivers.

? "It seems unfair!" "Without Oprah, how publishers will continue their business plan cross-fingers/hope-to-win-the-lottery?"-John Hodgman.

? "Jesus will probably surprise guest." "He began."-Paula Poundstone.

? "What can I say about Oprah she has not already says about itself?" - Justin Stangel, producer sitcom "Late Show CBS".

Review: A dreamlike, ambitious ' tree of life "

Beautiful and ambitious, pretentious and disconcerting, closely controlled yet free flow, "the tree of life" is contrary to what it is that you've never seen before. Yet it is very well developed highlight of Terrence Malick quite far - all four characteristics, il is made over the past four decades.

All its aesthetic and thematic signatures are previous films such as "badlands" and "the thin red line": yet dreamlike details, an obsession of metaphysics and the emotional, an ability to create suspense in a peaceful atmosphere.

It is simultaneously haunting and complicated because it encompasses nothing less than the nature of existence itself. As writer, Director, Malick varies by far of intimate moments with a growing family in the 1950s in Texas at the dawn of time – complete with impressive images of the cosmos, and Yes, these dinosaurs you have certainly heard - and vice versa.

"The tree of life" is deeply spiritual, but Malick is not to preach. Instead, it gives you the feeling that it is really asking questions whose answers can be unknowable - it is their there for himself and for us all. Of course, we will never know his intentions: Malick is notoriously vague, which is admirable from the point of view artistic, but probably frustrating for those who would like to know what the hell it means by this.

But if you are open to allow scrubbing of imaging on you, allow yourself to get swept in the rhythms and undulating fluidity, the film tones you will be seduced. And even if you are not a spiritual person yourself, given the type of search alienating frequently marks voices of the characters in "the tree of life", you're unlikely to find religious themes of the film.

"Lord, why?". "Where were you?"asked the mother of the family, played as a vision idealized maintain femininity by Jessica Chastain. "Who are we for you?" To respond to me. ?

Malick offers a fascinating contrast between the heavy, eternal concepts and down-to-Earth childhood memories: extracts from the lights, scintillating sounds, trees and sky and grass, the voice of the mother. (The technical elements here are simply staggering, including Emmanuel Lubezki, production of Jack Fisk design images and Alexandre Desplat scores). These moments are deliberately impressionistic - and "the tree of life" feels lost plotless and sometimes complaisant - but they all represent a representation specifies how our early memories may return to us in fragments. Some are idyllic, while others are scary.

Finally, "the tree of life" became rooted in the reality of the family O'Brien: a father (Brad Pitt), mother (Chastain) and three boys. Pitt makes the character a daunting figure, an arbitrary mixture of toughness and tenderness, and it is probably the best work of his career. Chastain, a newcomer to the screen, balances out it with sweetness and grace, but with a playful character and a face open, expressive; also you have the feeling that she wants happiness for her children, in any form that it is for them.

But Hunter McCracken, the young actor playing Jack, the eldest of three sons, has a presence surprisingly confident and impressive, particularly given that this is his first film. McCracken holds more than his own opposite Pitt, with whom he has repeatedly clashes: it really is the star. Jack will grow up to be played by Sean Penn, an architect of Houston, which is still shaken by a family tragedy in decades later. It is one of the weaknesses head here: Malick has set Penn at his disposal, and all what he does is ask walk around moping in costume Armani.

Yet, "the tree of life" has changed my mood for the rest of the day, too - and when you see many movies, more likely to flee your memory, leaving a trace on your heart and mind, which is rare nary. And it cannot easily be dismissed.

"The tree of life," a Fox Searchlight Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for some thematic material. Length: 138 minutes. Three years and a half stars out of four.

Gaga blitzes the market benchmark campaign

NEW YORK--the release of the album for a pop star usually comes with the typical splash of cross-marketing - strategic magazine covers, a few major television appearances and expected perhaps a cosmetic or deal mode to remind the public a new project.

And yet the blitz of powered by media social related to the fall of the third album by Lady Gaga week, "Born This Way", is bordering on epic, with partnerships from Starbucks to FarmVille and virtual gifts of 17 titles for the album. It also represents the type of fat model, new businesses which can help to rejuvenate a deflated music industry.

Gaga has already had a series of magazine covers, Rolling Stone of Vogue and appear on each show high level of Oprah Winfrey for "American Idol" to "Saturday Night Live," and his own HBO special concert.

But it has not ceased to y. Starbucks - houses usually easy-on-the-ears artists as Emmylou Harris - is his album sales as well as launches a "digital hunting" goods inspired Gaga; Google Chrome starts with Gaga commercial with the song of the album. the mode output online Gilt group in partnership with Gaga to offer clothes Gaga inspired and representations a VIP; Best Buy is giving the album to anyone who buys a mobile phone with a contract; and Zynga, creator of the popular online game "farmville", created "GagaVille", which allowed fans of Gaga songs exclusive access.

As if this were not enough, Monday, Amazon.com sold "Born This Way" for only 99 cents as a promotion for his new music cloud service, creating a demand so strong that it disrupted the servers of the retail giant online for some time.

And it seems that the campaigns bear fruit: Gaga album is estimated to sell anywhere between a half a million when the top album rankings are revealed next week.

"He was really on expanding of the distribution on this album and will in greater numbers of non-traditional retail partnerships and non-traditional marketing partnerships as possible," Manager of Gaga, Troy Carter, told Associated Press on Tuesday. "Just with decreasing music labels, you want to find quality partners where you know that you can reach new audiences and be able to push the limits as well."

Among promotions connected with "Born This Way" is Disney Mobile Tapulous Tap Tap Revenge game, giving fans access to the entire album and others contained if they buy the game, "Born this way revenge," for $4.99. This is the first time Tapulous has developed out of 17 tracks with a game for this award.

Tim O'Brien, Vice President of the Disney Mobile business development, said that this was the third deal with Gaga, resulting from the total sale of five million songs so far.

While they have worked with other pop artists with their Tap Tap Revenge app, it says Gaga - which has 10 million twitter followers and was recently crowned most influential celebrity Forbes in part because of its tens of millions of followers online - is an act of single call.

"I've never seen anything as powerful when Gaga hits its channels of social media from all other persons that we have worked with," he said. "I have never given something like it in terms of how it is using social media.".

History of pop, have had a lot of advertising for debut albums: who can forget the huge statues Jackson had built for himself and placed around the world for his album "History", or when the Backstreet Boys hit six continents in four days to promote "black and blue"? And then there was Jay - z, who played in seven cities in 17 hours for his album comeback, "kingdom Come."

But Bill Werde, Billboard Editorial Director, calls the promotional efforts of Gaga "more of a landmark campaign" for the new music industry.

"There is nothing Gaga is subtle, so I do not see why his marketing campaign would be different,", he added.

One of the more unusual promotions was the decision of the Amazon to sell version MP3 from the album Gaga for 99 cents on Monday, the day of its release, in its drive of clouds in the Amazon, the personal digital storage space which gives consumers on a remote network or a cloud; 20 GB of space cloud came with the album. However, there was such a request, that it caused delays for customers of Amazon, said a spokesman.

Although some people questioned the decision to essentially give away, Carter album not concerned, calling the idea promotional "incredible."

"I am more concerned about people stealing music and piracy." If you can get someone to experience music at such a price for one day only, I think it gets much attention for the album, ", he added.

Said Werde is essential at a time where the sales of the album are corrected and serve more as a promotional tool for the artist of other projects to make money, including on tour, in a more dedicated industry on what is called the 360 model to generate revenue.

"It is one of the first output of big superstar that really captures the potential of the new music business that everyone speaks," he said. "For an artist to superstar as a Gaga, the sale of recorded music - not the quality of the music, mind you, but the sale of recordings music_ really gets kind of assumed as a marketing cost to drive this engine 360."

Carter says that its data indicate that Gaga can sell over 500,000 copies in the first week and perhaps 700 000; Werde said "Born This Way" could go up to a million.

But Carter said the marketing tools unique used leading to and during the release of the album is not just for sales of monster in the debut of the album.

"Nobody ever pays attention in the second week," he said. "For us it is for this album for the next 18-24 month cycle."

It seems Gaga-mania Won't be easing soon.

First of all, Oprah says she thought the end of the show in 2006

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Some 25 years after "the oprah winfrey Show" made its debut, the day of game changing smash ends as talk legend reflects candidly on his legacy, how it makes decisions and why his voice used to be higher.

THR: How strategic were you get (show) to work so fast?

Oprah: If I ever write a book, people would be surprised at how na?ve and unsophisticated, I was. Back in the beginning of the 1990s, I saw an article in USA Today where Larry King said that he wanted, he was my publicist. I laughed because my publicist was the intern on "AM Chicago." I asked, it would help me with mail? I was going to pay her $1 per letter, and then I started to do so much mail, I couldn't pay him more. She said: "Well, I can be your publicist." We would get all these offers magazines, and she would say: "Good Housekeeping called." My mom says you should do so because they have the stamp of approval. ?

THR: What was the greatest challenge of launch of the show?

Oprah: We have tried and tried to make the stars, and nobody would come. It's like, "who are you?". People said, "" Ofrie Okrah, what? "" My real name is Orpa. Thank God who got screwed. It is just a horrible sound, "Orpah." The first show featured an unknown woman which you guaranteed to find the ideal partner. People immediately responded to the message we tried to make. I was recently looking for the band, and in that first five minutes I indicates what is intended. I say, "we wanted to do the show for you, because we wanted you to know that you are not alone". All the things I considered the show to be reached.

THR: Is there a guest that stands out the most?

My favourite is a woman named Tererai Trent. She was born in the Zimbabwe in a village and was 11 years old, married and has three children at the time she was 18 and had buried his dream in a box of preserved under a rock. The dream was to come to America and to learn, and she recently completed her PhD last year. For me, this story expresses hope and perseverance - never give up believing in yourself. It symbolizes and embodies everything that I have tried to say on this show for 25 years.

THR: When did you first of all to the end of the show?

Oprah: I started to think to ending with the 20th year because I have hung in numbers; It is a bit toc. I like always even numbers and strong, because I grew up with a father who would say, when I asked, "can I have a sum of money." He will say, "sorry, my money is of the not even". So I began to think seriously for the 20th anniversary. And then Mattie Stepanek, a boy of 12 years of muscular dystrophy, sent me a letter from his hospital bed to give me all the reasons why I should wait until 25. It has a huge influence on me. ?

THR: You feel emotional now that the spectacle of the end?

Oprah: I keep asking, "is there something wrong with me that I am not only emotional." Everybody around me for the past 20 performances was so emotional. I had a time favorite unprecedented emotional after my last real concert the other day with my guests. I am emotional I feel a sense of relief and completion this effort was well done. I feel really well on this subject. I have not a single regret.

THR: Not even to have James Frey as a guest, when you have learned later that he embellished his memoirs, "A Million pieces?"

Oprah: Eckhart Tolle changed my thinking about what is the ego. It is transforming to life. I could call Frey and apologize.

THR: You said that you have no regrets. What problems that occurred at your school in South Africa, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls?

Oprah: I regret that I take the time to build the infrastructure of first. But I learned a big lesson from that: schools are not subject of bricks and mortar. It is not useful to rush to come without the infrastructure in place. You are nowhere without leadership fort.

THR: Which, what is your position by replacing the former own CEO Christina Norman?

Oprah: Peter Liguori, who is the head of the operation of all discovery channels, is acting Director General. I'll take my time and find the person or persons - I am now thinking that it is not only a person - who are the best in alignment with the vision we want to grow. One of the lessons I learned from my school is that the same person, it takes to build a school is not the same person on the school. I am extremely grateful to Christina and his sacrifice for obtaining launched. We are now in the next step.