Guillermo Del Toro - Del Toro Signed For Frankenstein And Jekyll Hyde Remakes

Guillermo del Toro testament direct new films based on Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Slaughterhouse Five, it has been confirmed.

Universal Studios has set plans in motion for the Mexican music director to shoot four films, taking their relationship through to 2017.

Work on the quartet of projects - the fourth being Drood, an adaptation of an as-yet-unpublished novel by Dan Simmons - will not begin until the Pan's Labyrinth music director has realised work on The Hobbit films, to which he has attached the succeeding five years.

Del Toro has already begun writing deuce films based on the JRR Tolkien classic with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.

"No one expected The Hobbit to come nigh; it was the most marvellous monkey wrench tossed into my life," del Toro told Variety.

"I weigh [the new deals] the renewal of my matrimonial vows with Universal."

Universal production president Donna Langley said the four-picture make do was a demonstration of the studios' "long-term dedication" to del Toro.

"Guillermo is in the most prolific time of his life," she explained.

"Joe Johnston on [upcoming repugnance] The Wolf Man showed us the importance of entrusting the Universal enfranchisement monsters to experienced filmmakers with voices.

"That was a big impulse for our decision to go with Guillermo to put his creative seal on these properties."

Drood, a Little, Brown novel set to be released in February sees Simmons imagining that surviving a train crash fundamentally altered Charles Dickens' personality and potentially turned him to hit before he wrote his final book, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

According to Langley, the "fantasy and gothic repulsion" format of Simmons' tome is a perfect jibe for del Toro and is likely to be his first base project after completing The Hobbit.

The director that he plans to stick closely to Robert Louis Stevenson's source material for the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde celluloid while Frankenstein is somewhat of a passion project.

"To me, [it] represents the essential human question: 'Why did my creator throw me here, unprotected, unguided, unaided and lost?'" he said.

"With that i, they volition have to pry it from my cold dead hands to prevent me from directing it."

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Nebraska To End Practice Of Offering Different Health Insurance Options To State Employees Based On ZIP Codes

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The Nebraska government by Jan.1, 2009, will end the exercise of offering state employees different wellness insurance plans based on the ZIP codes in which workers live, the AP/Sioux City Journal reports (AP/ Sioux City Journal, 8/10). A lawsuit was filed last year in the Lancaster County, Neb., District Court alleging that state employees living in predominantly black ZIP codes were offered inferior health insurance coverage. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Sandra Cartwright, world Health Organization works for the state Health and Human Services System in Omaha.

The state changed its health insurance policy packages in 2007 by restricting employees' options based on where they lived. Employees living in one of iII ZIP codes in Lincoln and Omaha, where 96% of the state's black employees reside, had a choice of two Mutual of Omaha plans and two Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska plans. Both sets of options offered employees inferior insurance coverage, according to the cause. Employees living outside of the three ZIP codes had the option of a "importantly better wellness insurance plan" from BCBS that offered more extended coverage, more than in-network doctors and access to sealed national facilities. The Nebraska Association of Public Employees filed a grievance when the changes were made, but the grievance did not resultant in whatever changes to the plans (Kaiser Health Disparities Report, 11/5/07).

In July, Lancaster District Court Judge Paul Merritt dismissed the lawsuit and ruled that Gov. Dave Heineman (R) and other individual state officials named in the lawsuit own sovereign granting immunity against the allegations.

Meanwhile, the state decided to change its insurance package plan by making BCBS the sole health indemnity provider for the state beginning Jan. 1, "essentially stopping the use of ZIP codes," the AP/Journal reports. Roger Wilson, lag state health benefits administrator, said the change was a matter of cost savings and was not caused by the pending lawsuit alleging discrimination.

Lincoln attorney Kathleen Neary said, "Of course they're not going to admit our lawsuit played a role, but of course it motivated the change," adding that the new agreement with BCBS will see that "our client and other African-American state employees will be treated the same." An amendment to the case filed on Wednesday contains the same discrimination allegation, but adds that country officials should not be immune to the case because they knew or should take known that the policy was discriminatory. A spokesperson for State Attorney General Jon Brunin (R) aforementioned the office will once again ask the court to dismiss the case based on independent immunity. Neary said the plaintiffs have not distinct whether to follow through and through on the lawsuit at present that the practice testament end (AP/Sioux City Journal, 8/10).


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New film for Intermission director

'Intermission' and 'Boy A' director John Crowley is bringing a bestselling novel to the big screen.

Variety reports that Crowley will direct the film version of Carolyn Parkhurst's novel 'The Dogs of Babel'.

It tells the story of a linguistics professor world Health Organization finds his wife dead in their home; in his attempts to find out what happened he tries to teach their dog - the only witness - to talk.

Commenting on Crowley's hiring, the film's producer, David Heyman, said: "His passion and sensitivity for this real makes him the thoroughgoing choice to direct."

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Kinski

   
Artist: Kinski

   Genre(s): 
Rock
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Discography:


   
 Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 8


   
 Alpine Static

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9


   
 Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5


   
 Kinski Spricht Oscar Wilde 1

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 6


   
 Kinski spricht Jack London and Stephane Mallarme

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 6


   
 Kinski spricht Hauptmann and Nietzsche

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 17


   
 Kinski singt und spricht Brecht

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Airs Above Your Station

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Klaus Kinski Und Ensemble - Shakespeare - Romeo Und Julia

   Year: 1964   
Tracks: 10


   
 Sechs Gramm Caratillo und Die Nacht Allein

   Year: 1960   
Tracks: 8


   
 Klaus Kinski Und Ensemble - Wiedersehen Mit Brideshead

   Year: 1956   
Tracks: 5

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While debating the merits of analogue vs. digital recording in a Seattle pothouse, guitarist Chris Martin and bassist Lucy Atkinson were fitful by the mixologist, drummer Dave Weeks. He aforesaid, definitively, that parallel was superscript; so Kinski came into being. This same spontaneity would come to limit their multi-layered noise-rock, redolent of Sonic Youth at their nigh experimental. Kinski began playing live in 1998. By the summer of 1999, the trio had released its first platter, Space Launch for Frenchie. With six songs clocking in at 45 minutes, it ineluctably sparked some contend of its own: EP or LP? Later that year, the ring explored newer textures in their alive set, and friend Matthew Reid Schwartz (guitar, keyboards) was added to the lineup. Kinski has toured with Mainliner (Japan), Hovercraft, and Silkworm. In 2001, their followup, Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle, arrived. Two years afterwards, the group returned with their Sub Pop debut, Airs Above Your Station. A split release with Acid Mothers Temple was besides issued in 2003. A West Coast tour of duty encouraging Mission of Burma coincided with Kinski's fourth album, Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water, in saltation 2004. Alpine Static followed in 2005. 2007's Down Below It's Chaos added a '70s voiceless rock vibration and vocals to their vivid drones.





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The Fallout Project

   
Artist: The Fallout Project

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Architecture Breeds Rust

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 6

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Alanis Morissette - Morissette Battled Eating Disorder

Singer ALANIS MORISSETTE was once so overwhelmed by the pressure to look thin, she succumbed to an eating disorder.

The Ironic hitmaker, 33, was told she would have to slim down if she wanted to succeed in the music industry - and as a result, the Canadian star became both anorexic and bulimic.

Morissette recalls a record executive once "suggested I was getting too fat, saying, 'You need to go on a diet.' My response was, 'But I'm a singer.' He said, 'Yes, well, you need to get small again.'"

She adds, "That started a whole cycle. Two days later I was sticking fingers down my throat."

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Jodie Ill Buy A Thank You Card For The Whole Country

Jodie Prenger, the winner of I'd Do Anything, says she owes her victory to the whole country.

The Blackpool girl, 28, won the chance to play Nancy in Sir Cameron Mackintosh's upcoming revival of Oliver! after a public vote, despite fears over her weight and said: "The only thing I really want to buy is a massive, massive thank you card for the whole of the UK."

After her renditions of Son of a Preacher Man, As Long As He Needs Me and I Have Nothing on Saturday night's live final helped her secure victory over Irish rival Jessie Buckley, Prenger has vowed to prove to Sir Cameron she is the ideal fit for Nancy.

It had emerged last week that Sir Cameron thought Prenger was "too big" for the role and when he and Sir Andrew both said they believed 18-year-old Buckley was the right choice, Prenger's fate had seemed uncertain.

But the size-14 singer - who won Living TV's Biggest Loser by losing eight-and-a-half stone in six months - said the West End impresario's comments had inspired her.

"It gave me more fire in my belly," she told the Mirror newspaper. "I'll fight to prove to Cameron that I can be his Nancy and that I will give him the best Nancy he has ever seen."

In response to Sir Cameron's alleged worries about her size, Prenger replied: "I'm a size 14, an average woman. Nowt special. Whatever size you are, it doesn't matter as long as you're healthy and happy.

"But I've been through it - I've been size 26 and have gone through turmoil. But I don't want to make a huge issue out of it. That's what upsets women."

She added: "Ok, I'm never going to be a size zero - the closest I'll get to that is my shoe size. But before I came into this I was jogging five miles every other day. I can do it, don't worry."


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