Showing posts with label history with Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history with Hollywood. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Kandi Burress was Slain in a Fight last Saturday




The former fiance of one of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" was killed in a fight outside his strip club in Georgia, authorities said Saturday.
Kandi Burruss, the newest member of the hit Bravo reality show, posted on her Twitter page about the death and asked for prayers for Ashley (A.J.) Jewell's six children.
Homicide detectives arrested the suspect, Fredrick Richardson, who has been charged with voluntary manslaughter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Jewell, 34, known as A.J., appeared regularly on the hit reality show, often clashing with Burruss's mother. He died of massive head injuries sustained while in a fight in the parking lot of an Atlanta strip bar called the Body Tap Club.
"Kandi is devastated as she is also mourning the death of her uncle, Ralph Leslie, and is attending his funeral today," TreMedia said in a statement on behalf of the reality star Saturday. "She has no statement to make at this time and asks for privacy. There are no final details on the death of AJ."
Jewell, who made several appearances with Burruss on the show, suffered massive head injuries during a fight late Friday outside the Body Tap Club in Atlanta, according to police.
Police arrested Fredrick Richardson hours later and charged him with voluntary manslaughter, officials said. Witnesses told Atlanta police Jewell fought with Richardson outside the skin palace.
Richardson also was injured in the fight but will be charged once he is released from Grady Memorial Hospital. A spokesman for the Atlanta cops said it was not clear what prompted the brawl.
Richardson was hospitalized with injuries he received during in the altercation, but will be jailed once he's released by medical staff.
Authorities are "trying to figure out [what happened]," Atlanta police spokesman Officer James Polite told the newspaper. "We had a pretty good number of witnesses that are being cooperative."

Friday, September 4, 2009

Blockbuster shares fall Studios might use Great Independent Filmmaker

Blockbuster shares fall Studios
LOS ANGELES, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Shares of movie rental
companies Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and Blockbuster Inc (BBI.N) fell
on Thursday, dragged down by news that online video site. YouTube is talking with several major movie studios about
renting movies, analysts said.Shares of Netflix fell about 4 percent to $40.10 while
shares of Blockbuster declined about 10 percent to $1.08.A deal between YouTube, owned by Internet search giant
Google Inc (GOOG.O), and studios could pose stiff competition to Netflix's online streaming service and movie rental retailer, Blockbuster.
"The thinking is if you're going to rent a movie from YouTube, you're not going to rent from a Blockbuster store or Netflix," said Edward Woo, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities.

Woo said that a deal would likely hurt Netflix more, since the subscription-based company has a much deeper digital streaming service.
As the winner of the competition, Mr. Flores, 28, will receive a prize package valued at more than $350,000 to produce "Touchback." The award includes a $150,000 cash production grant funded by Netflix, a camera package donated by Panavision, 25,000 feet of Kodak Color Negative Film or 10,000 feet of Kodak Color Intermediate Film courtesy of Kodak, dailies and release prints donated by Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, and a digital intermediate package provided by EFILM Hollywood, a division of Deluxe. FIND will provide advice and mentorship to Mr. Flores.
YouTube has had a contentious history with Hollywood, beginning with its roots as a repository for illicitly copied television and movie content. It pinged the entertainment industry's radar in 2005 when "Lazy Sunday," a short "Saturday Night Live" clip, was posted on the site and racked up millions of views before being removed.