In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
After only one week on store shelves, Grand Theft Auto IV has broken all-time entertainment records for day one and week one sales by dollar value by selling through to customers over $500 million in product in one week; approximately 6 million units world wide.
According to Take-Two, Grand Theft Auto IV sold approximately 3.6 million units on its opening day with a retail value of approximately $310 million globally.
“Grand Theft Auto IV’s first week performance represents the largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment, and we believe these retail sales levels surpass any movie or music launch to date,” says Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two.
“Grand Theft Auto IV makes full use of the power of next generation technology, and offers players an experience unique in the interactive entertainment medium. This game sets a new standard in the industry, with critics hailing it as both an artistic and technological masterpiece,” said Ben Feder, Take-Two’s Chief Executive Officer.
Although the Xbox 360 version outsold the PS3 version by 20% in the UK, likely due to upcoming exclusive downloadable content, the real winner is still Take-Two.
EA announced yesterday that it had proposed to acquire Take-Two Interactive in an all cash deal valued at $2 billion, a 64% premium over Take-Two’s closing stock price on February 15th, only to have it rejected hours later and described as “substantially undervalued.”
“Our all-cash proposal is a unique opportunity for Take-Two shareholders to realize immediate value at a substantial premium, while creating long-term value for EA shareholders,” said EA CEO John Riccitiello in a press release. “Take-Two’s game designers would also benefit from EA?s financial resources, stable, game-focused management team, and strong global publishing capabilities.”
While the proposed 26$ per share offer may be tempting to some, Take-Two was quick to shut it down and called it opportunistic in their own press release.
“Electronic Arts’ proposal provides insufficient value to our shareholders and comes at absolutely the wrong time given the crucial initiatives underway at the Company,” said Strauss Zelnick, Executive Chairman of the Board of Take-Two referring in part to the all important April 29th Grand Theft Auto launch date.
Some would argue that the merger would give EA a monopoly in the sports video game category as it would be eliminating its biggest competitor, the 2K sports series.
While Take-Two doesn’t believe the current offer is enough, they are willing to begin negotiations April 30th, the day after GTA IV is released.
Today, Take-Two Interactive announced the acquisition of Illusion Softworks, a game development studio based in the Czech Republic.
Illusion Softworks, now 2K Czech, is the studio behind hit video games such as Mafia, Vietcong and Hidden & Dangerous. The studio is currently working with 2K games on Mafia 2, the sequel to the original Mafia which sold more than two million copies.
Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K games, said “The 2K Czech team is responsible for several very innovative and highly-regarded franchises and we look forward to continuing to develop new and existing IP together.”
The feeling seems to be mutual as Petr Vochozka, CEO of 2K Czech, said “We are pleased to become a 2K studio and are confident that this new partnership will strengthen our current and future projects.”
Mafia 2 will allow players to roam freely through the street as they interact with the various crime families of 1950’s Empire City. Daniel Vavra, scripwriter of the original Mafia will be writing the script for the sequel. Mafia 2 will be available for the Xbox 360, Play Station 3, and PC.
