MUSIC/ ADELE & LMFAO CONTINUE TO TOP UK CHARTS: There's no stopping the biggest album of 2011 as Adele logs her 14th week in the penthouse of the UK album charts. The set has now spent 15 weeks on the chart, and all but 1 of those week were at #1. Its been decades since an album held sway for this long in the UK. Adeles debut set, "19," moves down to #3 this week, in its 112th week on the chart. New entries in the album top 20 are "Helplessness Blues" by Fleet Foxes at #2, "Love" by Jennifer Lopez at #6 and "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" by the Beastie Boys at #9. On the singles chart, LMFAO continues at #1 with "Party Rock Anthem". The single is one of the biggest of the year and a new remix with Lauren Bennett and Goon Rock has helped to push sales this week. The 2 new entries in the top 20 singles chart belong to "Where Them Girls At" by David Guetta, Nicki Minaj and Flo Rida in at #3, and "I Can," the Eurovision entry by Blue, which slides in at #16. Hot mover this week belongs to Pitbull's "Give Me Everything," which moves up 13 spots to #12. The single features guest assist by Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer.
According to media reports from Hollywood, Paula Abdul will reunite with Simon Cowell as a judge on "The X Factor". Reports say the deal is done for Abdul to join Cowell and previously announced judges Cheryl Cole and Antonio Reid on the highly anticipated singing competition, which began taping its judges rounds today in Los Angeles and will debut on Fox in September. Cowell has been adamant in several British media interviews that he wanted his former "American Idol" partner on the "X Factor" panel, so it remained a near-sure thing that some kind of deal could be worked out. And, as announced yesterday, "X Factor" will be hosted by UK presenter Steve Jones and former Pussycat Dolls member Nicole Scherzinger.
FILM/ "BEAVER" BOMBS IN DEBUT: Jodie Foster’s "The Beaver," which stars Mel Gibson, bombed at the box office. The film, in which Foster also stars, opened this weekend to a disappointing $104,000 from 22 theaters in top markets. The per screen average was only $4745. Summit was hoping for a per-screen average in the $15,000 to $18,000 range. "The Beaver" did its biggest business by far in Los Angeles, and saw its lowest grosses in Washington, DC, Boston and Chicago. Foster’s film received solid, but not great, reviews. "The Beaver" was supposed to open last year, but its release was delayed because of the controversy surrounding Gibson over tapes recorded by his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, Paramount and Marvel Studios opened 3D tentpole "Thor" to a strong $66 million at the North American box office. Overseas, the 3D pic is already an unqualified hit, bringing the worldwide gross to $242 million. "Fast Five" grossed an estimated $32.5 million for a domestic cume of $139.9 million in its 1st 10 days. And, Sony's "Jumping the Broom" overperformed in its debut, grossing an estimated $13.7 million to come in #3
"Restrepo" co-director Sebastian Junger recalled slain war journalist and collaborator Tim Hetherington esterday, by telling a Hot Docs festival audience in Toronto that he may never set foot in a war zone again. “I don’t think so. Tim took the wind out of my sails,” Junger said after a special screening of the Oscar-nominated Afghanistan war film "Restrepo" to honor Hetherington, the photojournalist-filmmaker killed on April 20 in Libya. “I’m 49. I’ve made my peace with almost getting killed. What I didn’t realize, and what I’ve now experienced, is losing someone close to me,” Junger said. The journalist, who reports extensively on conflict for Vanity Fair, said he expected to find other ways to cover global tensions and politics without being shot at. Junger, who is pictured to the left of Hetherington, said he has yet to view "Restrepo" since his friend's death.
FILM & TV/ DANA WYNTER DIES AT 79: Dana Wynter, an actress best known for her role in the 1956 science-fiction classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," has died. She was 79. Wynter died Thursday of congestive heart failure at Ojai Valley Community Hospital's Continuing Care Center in California. She portrayed Becky Driscoll, the love interest of Kevin McCarthy's Dr. Miles Bennell in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," pictured, director Don Siegel's tale of a small town whose residents were being replaced by emotionless duplicates grown in pods. Film critic Leonard Maltin in his "2011 Movie Guide" said the film was "classic, influential and still very scary." It became a cult classic in part for what Maltin called its "McCarthy-era subtext." Some of her favorite roles were in television programs such as "Robert Montgomery Presents" and "Playhouse 90." She starred with Robert Lansing in the series "The Man Who Never Was," which debuted on ABC in 1966, and appeared on such television series as "Wagon Train," "Cannon" and "The Rockford Files." Other film roles included "Sink the Bismarck!" in 1960. Wynter is survived by her son.
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