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| Paul McCartney posts wedding banns in London Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:22 AM PDT  Paul McCartney (L) and Nancy Shevell arrive for the fifth anniversary celebration of 'The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil' show at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in this file photo of June 8, 2011. McCartney posted wedding banns this week at Westminster Register Office in Marylebone, central London. – Reuters pic The banns allow McCartney to marry New York business woman Nancy Shevell any time 16 days after the Sept 14 posting at the Register offices. It will be McCartney's third marriage. Shevell, 51, who is divorced, and McCartney, 69, are believed to have begun dating after the Fab Four singer's bitter split with second wife, former model Heather Mills. The banns list the couple as "James Paul McCartney" and "Nancy Shevell" and say he has had a previous marriage dissolved. He gives his profession as "business executive" and his multi-millionaire future wife is listed as an "executive". McCartney was happily married for 29 years to American photographer Linda Eastman until her death of breast cancer in 1998. He said at the time that he and Linda had spent just 11 nights apart during their marriage. McCartney's partnership with John Lennon in The Beatles in 1960s Britain produced some of the most famous and enduring pop songs of the past 50 years. The "Long and Winding Road" singer has five children – four from his marriage to Linda Eastman, and one from his brief union with Mills. Shevell has a teenage daughter. – Reuters |
| ‘Captain America’ finds an audience in China Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:15 AM PDT
Captain America: The First Avenger picked up 32 million yuan (RM15.37 million) over its opening weekend in China, according to Marvel Studios, and while no other box office figures for other releases have been made available, that's pretty impressive for a film with a name deemed so potentially sensitive that its makers offered to dump the Captain America for fear of putting off foreign audiences. There's also the matter of political sensitivities in a country known for its own fierce patriotism – a point which also makes the Chinese government's apparent enthusiasm for the latest blockbuster to come out of Taiwan even more puzzling. Warriors of Rainbow: Seediq Bale – the Taiwanese production which made its world premiere at the just-finished Venice Film Festival – not only collected more than NT$140 million (RM14.52 million) over its opening weekend, it could also be in line for a mainland China release. According to media reports in Taiwan, a spokeswoman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said they were "willing to make it happen", a move rather unexpected given the political tensions that have historically existed between the two nations and, of course, considering the film's subject matter. Seediq follows a native Taiwanese uprising against the Japanese in the 1930s and has touched a nationalist nerve in the island nation, which is set for a presidential election in January. Local productions fared best in Asia's two other largest film markets over the past week. In Japan, the odd-couple cop flick Tantei wa bar ni iru (The Detective is in the Bar) made US$2.2 million (RM6.80 million) over its opening weekend while South Korea remained in the thrall of the war epic Choijongbyunggi Hwal (The Last Weapon) which took in US$3 million (RM9.27 million) for a four-week grab now of more than US$36 million. There was a touch of local flavour, at least, to the box office champ in Hong Kong, too. Steven Soderbergh's sneeze-and-you'll-snuff-it thriller Contagion was partly shot and set in Hong Kong, and the city seems to have recovered well enough from its own recent health scares not to worry about the subject matter, as reflected in the US$394,758 the film picked up to top the charts. – AFP |
HONG KONG, Sept 16 – The Chinese film industry has thrown up a few surprises this week, not least of which has been the way local audiences have warmed to a production many doubted they would ever see.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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