Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Outlander and begins to "plan" its third season

Outlander series of successful Starz, which is passing its second season.

Although this will not end until early July, their leaders and begin preparing what will be his third season.
Ronald D. Moore,  responsible for the series explained via  Twitter  that although nothing is official, expects a renewal so that is already making plans for next season.
The producer responsible for the series based on the novels of  Diana Gabaldon , responded to several fans in the mentioned social network and one in particular has told that the third season presents "fun" and as a "challenge" although as has later added, "this is Outlander".
 

Monday, May 30, 2016

Trump won with his speech to war veterans motorcyclists

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump did not have to try too hard to seduce Sunday a group of motorcyclists war veterans who came to listen to Washington, as part of the commemoration of the day in the United States of fallen soldiers.

"I will protect the smallest part of the Second Amendment" on the right to bear arms, Trump said before several thousand people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial.

"We need to rebuild our army" and "take care of our veterans," Trump also said in a speech about fifteen minutes that was applauded by motorcyclists, dressed in their traditional jeans and leather jackets.

Shortly before the intervention of Trump intervened Jack Bellamy, 41, an ex-marine and motorcycle Northern Virginia, who said he was delighted with the deference toward billionaire ex-combatants.

"The other candidates not do anything for veterans," he said. "We want to get rid of the politicians" who "do not listen to the people" and "put someone else in power".

Trump also questioned the government's decision to Barack Obama on access to bathrooms and locker rooms in the school system according to the genre he has chosen each person and not by sex with which has been identified at birth.

"This is ridiculous, are trying to make us swallow it," claimed Trump, who concluded his phrase stating: "A man is a man and a woman is a woman," amid applause.

The meeting brings together war veterans motorcyclists began in 1988 and is made to coincide with Memorial Day, the national day in memory of the soldiers who died for the United States.

Rock in Rio Lisboa closing its seventh edition with the Swedish DJ Avicii


The seventh edition of Rock in Rio Lisboa, held every two years since 2004, will be closed tonight by the Swedish DJ Avicii and Brazil's Ivete Sangalo, who repeated to replace the loss of the American Ariana Grande.

The Swedish DJ, 26, held in Lisbon one of his last concerts since last March announced his temporary withdrawal to explore other fields and have more time for his private life.

Avicii, whose real name is Tim Bergling, is known for songs like "Levels" or "Wake Me Up" and strengthened his career since 2013 with his two studio albums, "True" and "Stories", with which he climbed to the top positions of the charts in countries like Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.

Sangalo, one of the most successful Brazilian artists, repeat concert before a legion of followers, including that given the abundant Brazilian community in Portugal.

The Brazilian, who played on Saturday, repeated action to supply Ariana Grande, unexpectedly low for a throat infection.

For this incident, the organization also offered the possibility of reimbursing the money the ticket to viewers who have purchased for 29, when he should touch Grande.

The problem with the American singer was the second in the festival, after the Romans do the Korn barely touched half an hour because of some technical problems.

Rock in Rio, which opened last May 19 with the headliner Bruce Springsteen, Queen has had on the 20th, with Hollywood Vampires 27 and Maroon 5, 28, among others.

It is estimated that each day has received at least 50,000 spectators.

In the 2014 edition, the festival hosted in five days 345,000 visitors.

The place chosen for this megafestival was again the Bela Vista City Park, east of Lisbon and has 85 hectares.

The event has mobilized about 1,000 professionals for campus security, including police, firefighters, private security and civil protection, as well as two fixed structures and ten mobile medical teams.

Since its founding in Brazil 30 years ago, Rock in Rio has brought together over six million people in four countries, Brazil, Portugal, Spain and the United States, thus becoming one of the most important music festivals in the world .

Retail sales fall in Japan while studying defer the VAT hike

The retail sales in Japan fell in April by 0.8 percent year according to data released today by the Ministry of Economy Japanese underlining the weakness of consumption at a time when the government ponders postpone a rise in VAT.

In turn, industry sales were flat in April compared to March, as disclosed figures.

These numbers provide more arguments with respect to stagnant demand for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is studying right now delayed tax increase scheduled for next April.

Many Japanese media assume that the prime minister has already made the decision and freeze the measure to prevent flu the main engine of the Japanese economy.

Some analysts also suggest that Abe made the announcement this week despite the apparent difficulties to reach consensus on the measure within his party.

The effects of the "Abenomics" -the program of economic reform Abe- to close nearly two decades of deflation have faded over the months by the fall in oil prices so the prime minister would seek to postpone the tax increase until October 2019, when his term would be about to expire.

Several international organizations have stressed the need for Japan to raise indirect taxes face relieve his bad fiscal health, since its public debt is more than twice its GDP and is the largest among industrialized countries.

George Clooney, Richard Gere and Salma Hayek to Vatican

Hollywood stars George Clooney, Richard Gere and Salma Hayek participated today at the closing of the conference on education organized entity driven by Pope Francisco, Scholas Occurrentes.

Clooney came to the Vatican accompanied by his wife, the human rights lawyer Amal Ramzi Clooney, and said a few words that highlighted the importance of inclusion in education.

The winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Syriana," praised the work being done by Pope Francisco and Scholas and stressed the importance of instilling "from schools" young people values ​​such as tolerance and peace , defended by this global network.

"Inclusion is the only way to achieve and that's how spectacular of what you're doing here. For my wife and me is an honor to be here today," he said, as you can hear in a video broadcast by Scholas in his Twitter profile.

The event was also attended by actors Richard Gere and Salma Hayek.

The three led a stir in the audience and were the subject of the flashes of cameras present.

The richest man in China declares war on Disney with Wanda Park

Chinese tycoon Wang Jianlin, which opened on Saturday the first amusement park of your Wanda Group, said an unlikely cultural and commercial war against Disney, a few weeks before the opening of a Disneyland park in Shanghai.

Presented in a lavish ceremony, this "Wanda City" 2 km2, located in Nanchang (southeast), includes a huge shopping center with interactive movies, a theme park of 80 hectares, equipped with "the highest roller coasters and fast "China and a vast aquarium.

The project represents an investment of 22.000 billion yuan (3.353 million dollars), according to a statement from the group, which hopes to attract more than 10 million visitors per year.

Versus "invasion" of foreign cultures, "we want to be a model (...) and affirm the strength of the influence of the Chinese in the cultural field," said the founder of Wanda in the opening ceremony of the park, according CCTV state television reported.

A week earlier, Wang - China's richest man according to Forbes magazine - had openly appointed his adversary: ​​the US giant Disney entertainment, which will open in mid-June in Shanghai its first park in mainland China, after an investment of 5,500 million dollars.

"The craze for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (...) happened, the time in which we imitated blindly Disney ended years ago," Wang said in a lengthy interview on CCTV.

- Tiger against Wolves -

Wanda wants to compete with Disneyland with alternatives "local color". After Nanchang, the Chinese group plans to build six more parks in China, in medium-sized cities in the next three years and reach 15 by 2020.

"We want to act so that Disney can not be profitable in this sector (of amusement parks) in China in 10 or 20 years," Wang Jianlin insisted.

"A tiger can not fight a horde of wolves," he said in the interview, before castigating the trend of Disney to "clone its products in the past without innovating".

He also criticized the climate of Shanghai ( "too rainy in summer") and high prices of the entrance to Disneyland: up to 499 yuan (68 dollars), double the price for access "Wanda City" Nanchang.

In fact, the prices charged by Disney have been criticized by Chinese netizens on Weibo microblog platform.

However, Wanda goals seem very ambitious, according to experts, who criticize the lack of experience of the Chinese group.

Otherwise the US group, which is based on the franchise of its popular theme parks. The Shanghai Disneyland park will be the sixth group, and the fourth built abroad, after Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

In China, Disney will build on its franchises and its characters, very famous in this country, to seduce a rapidly expanding middle class in a country where he performs an increasing part of their film revenue.

Disney is not the only company that wants to establish itself in the lucrative Chinese leisure market. Hollywood studios Universal Pictures and DreamWorks also have plans to build theme parks in the country.

"Disney gets significant revenue from the rights of his films. The benefits of their parks are actually quite low," said China Securities, in a note cited by Bloomberg. "It is precisely the intellectual property which lacks the Chinese promoters".

Daughter and former partner of Johnny Depp reject accusations against the actor

Johnny Depp's daughter, Lily-Rose Depp, defended Sunday the star of Pirates of the Caribbean ', after his wife, Amber Heard, accused him of domestic violence and filed for divorce.

Meanwhile, Vanessa Paradis, former partner of actor Academy Award nominee in 2008 and mother of Lily-Rose, have sent a letter to celebrity website TMZ stating that the charges against Depp are "outrageous".

Lily-Rose Depp rose a photo to Instagram as a baby, in which Depp's holding hands and walking helps.

"My dad is the sweetest and kindest person I know, has been a wonderful father to my brother and me, and all who know him would say the same," said Lily-Rose Depp, 17, in the message.

The court ordered the actor approach temporarily not Heard, who was presented to a court showing bruises on his face.

The order prevents until next 17 June Depp get within a hundred meters Heard, who earlier this week filed in a Los Angeles court filing for divorce after 15 months of marriage.

The actress, 30, says he has been the victim of repeated physical attacks by Depp.

"Throughout our relationship, Johnny has attacked me verbally and physically" Heard said, adding that "knowledge is total public and private history of alcohol and drug abuse" by Depp he said.

The TMZ website specializing in celebrity news, published an image showing a hematoma Heard around his right eye.

According to the actress, the image was taken shortly after Depp broke his iPhone on his face Saturday night last week.

"Heard says that after he allegedly hit her, he offered her money to remain silent, but instead she filed for divorce early on Monday," according to TMZ.

Depp and Heard met on the set of the movie 'The Rum Diary' (2011), when the actor was still holding a relationship with Paradis, the mother of his son Jack and daughter Lily-Rose.

TMZ posted a picture on Sunday of an assigned handwritten letter to Paradis, in which she describes her former partner as "a sensitive, caring and friendly".

"I believe with all my heart that these recent allegations are outrageous, in the years when I met Johnny, was never physically aggressive with me and this has nothing to do with the man with whom I lived for 14 wonderful years," he you can read the letter signed by Paradis dated Friday in Los Angeles.

Depp is touring as part of the presentation of his new film, "Alice in the mirror '.

Surprise ending of the fifth season of Once Upon a Time

The last episode of  Once Upon a Time  corresponding to its fifth season, had one of the most unexpected and dramatic turns for fans.

The death of one of the most beloved characters left more than a surprised follower, and indeed the actor who plays the character said he did not expect was to reach the final,
I Sean Maguire,  actor who has portrayed the character of  Robin Hood,  left the series  ABC.  In the episode last Sunday May 8,  Robin  died while trying to save his beloved "  Regina (Lana Parrilla)  of the supreme being of the  Underworld (Greg Germann)  so that in an interview to  TV Line, Maguire  admits that a good surprise when he read the script he would die.
"I was a little surprised, to be honest," he explains, "I did not expect as due to what writers had written before, the fans and myself, somehow thought there would be other lot for Robin. But I've always said that my work as an actor writing serve above all. The creators of the Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis series obviously have a plan for your show, and this is part of it. Obviously I was disappointed to say goodbye to my castmates, because we have joined in a way that does not happen very often in a TV show, but I was very disappointed by the fan. I think most of them believe that Robin and Regina were supposed to end up together, I would hope and a happy ending. But it seems that the story takes a different turn. "
Maguire  also his farewell to speak  Lana Parrilla  who plays  Regina,  with which claims to have a great connection. "I was upset and surprised and shocked .... We have a great relationship and a great partnership, and we have good chemistry. I remember ended ITV drama Scott & Bailey and say goodbye to the cast and think, "I'm sad to leave this , " but then enter the cast of Once Upon a Time. It will be interesting to see what adventures happen now.
For now it is all we have seen  Robin,  sadly, although  Maguire  does not rule out return to the series if requested at any time: " I do not know .... I have been asked to return to the shows where I've been before and I've never done, because I tend to feel that once I've played a character, is already finished. But you never know. I never say no, but for the moment I am looking forward to a new challenge and a new chapter. We'll see!"