Archive for September, 2010

‘Other Guys’ beats ‘Eat Pray Love’ at UK Box Office

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell in The Other Guys

The Other Guys has spent its second weekend at the top of the UK box office.

The Will Ferrell comedy narrowly beats Eat Pray Love to the chart summit, taking in £1.2 million against the Julia Roberts vehicle’s £1.1 million opening haul.

The Ben Affleck-directed heist drama The Town debuts in fourth place ahead of Joe Dante’s kid’s horror The Hole. Rounding out the top five is Devil, which drops three places from last week’s runners-up spot.

Elsewhere, the latest Resident Evil experiences a sharp fall as it drops five places to number eight.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Other Guys – £1,292,144
2. (-) Eat Pray Love – £1,165,234
3. (-) The Town – £1,005,039
4. (-) The Hole – £906,722
5. (2) Devil – £528,908
6. (4) Toy Story 3 – £472,449
7. (5) Grown Ups – £384,119
8. (3) Resident Evil: Afterlife – £367,675
9. (6) Tamara Drewe – £245,643
10. (8) Marmaduke – £244,285

Bruno Mars soars to singles No. 1

Monday, September 27th, 2010
Bruno Mars 'Just The Way You Are'

Bruno Mars has dominated the UK singles charts after debut release ‘Just The Way You Are (Amazing)’ greatly outsold nearest rival Taio Cruz to reach number one.

The Hawaiian-born musician, who recently lent his vocals to Travie McCoy’s top five hit ‘Billionaire’, sold almost double that of ‘Dynamite’, leaving the former chart-topper in the runner-up spot on this week’s chart.

Mars’ arrival ends X Factor victor Alexandra Burke’s two-week run at the top of the chart with Start Without You, which today drops four places to five.

The highest new entry this week is Must Be The Music winner Emma’s Imagination, whose latest single ‘Focus’ makes it to seven and becomes her second Top 10 single this month after ‘This Day’.

Also charting highly with a new release is Italian DJ Alex Gaudino, best known for 2007’s ‘Destination Calabria’, who scrapes into the Top 10 with ‘I’m In Love (I Wanna Do It)’.

Past the Top 10, three former number ones take a tumble down the charts, as Olly Murs’s ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’ falls from five to 12, Flo Rida’s ‘Club Can’t Handle Me’ slips five spots to 14 and Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup settle in at 15 with ‘We No Speak Americano’.

Nestling in between the fallers at 13 is a new entry from Enrique Iglesias and current X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger entitled ‘Heartbeat’, while new Glee regular Charice makes her singles chart debut at 19 with ‘Pyramid’.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Bruno Mars: ‘Just The Way You Are (Amazing)’
2. (2) Taio Cruz: ‘Dynamite’
3. (3) Katy Perry: ‘Teenage Dream’
4. (4) The Script: ‘For The First Time’
5. (1) Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan: ‘Start Without You’
6. (6) Eminem ft. Rihanna: ‘Love The Way You Lie’
7. (-) Emma’s Imagination: ‘Focus’
8. (8) Katy B: ‘Katy On A Mission’
9. (10) Shontelle: ‘Impossible’
10. (-) Alex Gaudino: ‘I’m In Love (I Wanna Do It)’

Source: Official Charts Company

‘Other Guys’ beats ‘Devil’ at UK box office

Monday, September 20th, 2010
Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell in The Other Guys

Will Ferrell comedy The Other Guys has shot straight to the top of the UK box office.

Ferrell’s latest, which sees his bumbling New York cop pair up with a detective played by Mark Wahlberg, takes in almost £2 million in UK ticket sales to easily coast past the M. Night Shyamalan-produced Devil.

The claustrophobic horror, which takes place predominantly in a lift, pulls in £800,000 to place ahead of last week’s number one movie Resident Evil: Afterlife. Toy Story 3 and Grown Ups round out the top five.

Elsewhere, Marmaduke and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid climb back into the chart as Going The Distance, Cyrus, Dinner For Schmucks and The Expendables slide out of the top ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1.
(-) The Other Guys – £1,980,601
2. (-) Devil – £807,292
3. (1) Resident Evil: Afterlife – £727,908
4. (2) Toy Story 3 – £583,013
5. (3) Grown Ups – £513,881
6. (5) Tamara Drewe – £432,337
7. (4) The Last Exorcism – £321,585
8. (11) Marmaduke – £279,392
9. (12) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid – £241,390
10. (6) Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World – £233,228

Alexandra Burke holds number one single

Monday, September 20th, 2010
Alexandra Burke, Start Without You

Alexandra Burke has held onto the top spot in the UK singles chart for a second week with her track ‘Start Without You’.

The winner of 2008’s X Factor fought off competition from Taio Cruz’s ‘Dynamite’ and Katy Perry’s ‘Teenage Dream’ to maintain the number one position. Cruz climbed one place to number two, while Perry’s second single from her album Teenage Dream dropped one place into third.

The Script rose one spot to number four with ‘For The First Time’, in a week which saw them take the album chart title.

Olly Murs’s debut single ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’ dropped to number five, after topping the chart three weeks ago.

Eminem’s ‘Love The Way You Lie’ featuring Rihanna climbed one place to number seven after 13 weeks in the chart, while Usher and Pitbull’s ‘DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love’ jumped seven places from fourteen into the top ten.

Flo Rida and Katy B both remain at eight and nine respectively, while Shontelle’s ‘Impossible’ debuts at number ten.

The top ten in full:
1
. (1) Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan: ‘Start Without You’
2. (3) Taio Cruz: ‘Dynamite’
3. (2) Katy Perry: ‘Teenage Dream’
4. (5) The Script: ‘For The First Time’
5. (4) Olly Murs: ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’
6. (7) Eminem ft. Rihanna: ‘Love The Way You Lie’
7. (14) Usher ft. Pitbull: ‘DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love’
8. (8) Katy B: ‘Katy On A Mission’
9. (9) Flo Rida ft. David Guetta: ‘Club Can’t Handle Me’
10. (-) Shontelle: ‘Impossible’

Source: Official Charts Company

‘Resident Evil’ leads UK box office

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Resident Evil: Afterlife

Resident Evil: Afterlife has topped the UK box office on its debut weekend on release.

The latest instalment – and the first in 3D – in Milla Jovovich’s horror series takes in £1.6 million to secure first place ahead of Toy Story 3 and Grown Ups.

Last week’s box office leader The Last Exorcism drops to number four, while Gemma Arterton’s Tamara Drewe rounds out the top five.

Drew Barrymore and Justin Long’s romantic comedy Going The Distance charts at a disappointing number seven, followed by indie comedy Cyrus at eight.

Elsewhere, comedy Dinner For Schmucks nosedives seven place to number nine.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Resident Evil: Afterlife – £1,690,655
2. (3) Toy Story 3 – £756,575
3. (4) Grown Ups – £742,472
4. (1) The Last Exorcism £730,395
5. (-) Tamara Drewe – £615,553
6. (5) Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World – £439,143
7. (-) Going The Distance – £436,361
8. (-) Cyrus – £429,687
9. (2) Dinner For Schmucks – £401,567
10. (7) The Expendables – £366,663

Philip Schofield reunited with Gordon the Gopher

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Alexandra Burke wins third No. 1 single

Sunday, September 12th, 2010
Alexandra Burke, Start Without You

Alexandra Burke has displaced fellow X Factor star Olly Murs at the top of this week’s singles chart.

‘Start Without You’ landed straight in at number one, the third time that the series five winner has achieved this feat, bumping Murs’ track ‘Please Dont Let Me Go’ down to four.

Irish group The Script squeeze into the top five with their latest single ‘For The First Time’, while McFly’s comeback single ‘Party Girl’ lands just behind them at six, becoming the boyband’s fifteenth Top 10 release in six years.

Must Be The Music semi-finalist Emma’s Imagination manages to replicate the success of her fellow contestants Pepper & Piano, as single ‘This Day’ breaks into the Top 10 off the back of her appearance on the show.

Elsewhere in the chart, former number ones ‘We No Speak Americano’ by Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup and ‘Green Light’ by Roll Deep slip just out of the Top 10, settling in at 11 and 13 respectively.

Meanwhile, Strictly Come Dancing judge Alesha Dixon returns to the charts as well as television screens, as new single ‘Drummer Boy’ debuts at 15.

The popularity of X Factor hopeful Cher Lloyd’s performance of ‘Turn My Swag On’ sees the little-known version of the song by Greg Street enter the chart at 17, although both the Soulja Boy original and the Keri Hilson cover that Lloyd actually sung are absent.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan: ‘Start Without You’
2. (2) Katy Perry: ‘Teenage Dream’
3. (3) Taio Cruz: ‘Dynamite
4. (1) Olly Murs: ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’
5. (-) The Script: ‘For The First Time’
6. (-) McFly: ‘Party Girl’
7. (4) Eminem & Rihanna: ‘Love The Way You Lie’
8. (8) Katy B: ‘Katy On A Mission’
9. (5) Flo Rida ft. David Guetta: ‘Club Can’t Handle Me’
10. (-) Emma’s Imagination: ‘This Day’

Source: Official Charts Company

‘The Last Exorcism’ is UK box office No. 1

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
The Last Exorcism

The Last Exorcism has topped the UK box office on its debut weekend on release.

The Eli Roth-produced horror took in £1.1 million to hold off competition from comedy Dinner For Schmucks and secure first place in the chart.

In third spot is Toy Story 3, which leaps above Titanic and Mamma Mia! to become the second most successful movie in UK box office history.

Only James Cameron’s Avatar has grossed more than the Pixar sequel’s £69 million haul.

Elsewhere, last week’s top two Grown Ups and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World fall to four and five respectively, while Jennifer Aniston’s latest romantic comedy The Switch lands at number six

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Last Exorcism – £1,104,856
2. (-) Dinner For Schmucks – £940,586
3. (3) Toy Story 3 – £934,423
4. (1) Grown Ups – £878,141
5. (2) Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World – £702,542
6. (-) The Switch – £666,018
7. (4) The Expendables – £627,776
8. (5) Salt – £509,319
9. (6) Piranha 3D – £446,895
10. (7) Inception – £417,302

Dutch cure for alcoholism: 5 litres of beer a day!

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Open since last October, Centrum (Centre) Maliebaan in the central Dutch city of Amersfoort allows its residents to drink up to five litres of beer on the premises every day, with an hour between each 500 ml (half-quart) serving.

It goes through nearly 4,000 half-litre cans every month, bought at wholesale prices and sold with no mark-up.

“Our main goal is to stop binge drinking: it is better for the individual and for his environment,” the centre’s psychiatrist Eugene Schouten told AFP on a recent visit to the centre, which he believes to be a first for Europe.

To achieve that, “we bind them with beer.”

Based on a Canadian concept, the centre targets the city’s “very worst” alcoholics–those with no family, no work, no home and no desire to stop drinking, said Schouten.

“When alcoholics wake up in the morning, they feel sick. Then they drink until the feeling of sickness passes. Sometimes they drink a whole bottle of Martini or Port in a few seconds, before breakfast,” said the centre’s team leader, Pieter Puijk.

“They get drunk and become a public annoyance: stealing, fighting, shouting. And binge drinking cause serious liver, brain and heart damage.”

Residents of Maliebaan can order their first half-litre of beer from 7:30 am, “just enough to make them feel OK”. They then have to wait an hour for the next hit, with last rounds at 9:30 pm.

Olly Murs strips Cruz of singles No.1

Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Olly Murs 'Please Don't Let Me Go'

Olly Murs has beaten Katy Perry to the top of the UK singles chart with his debut track ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’.

The 26-year-old singer surged ahead of Perry’s ‘Teenage Dream’, the second single from her album of the same name, making him the ninth X Factor alumnus to have achieved this feat.

The song’s success means that fans can now look forward to a naked spread of Murs in Heat magazine, which the star committed to last month.

The arrival of Murs and Perry bumps last week’s number one, Taio Cruz’s ‘Dynamite’, Eminem & Rihanna’s ‘Love The Way You Lie’ and Flo Rida’s ‘Club Can’t Handle Me’ down two spots each to round out the top five.

Another reality TV act, Must Be The Music semi-finalists Pepper & Piano, make their chart debut at seven with ‘You Took My Heart’, a song that was only released due to their progress on the talent competition.

Elsewhere on the chart, several songs return to the top 20, with Usher and Pitbull climbing seven spots from 24 to 17 with ‘DJ Got Us Falling In Love’, while Ke$ha’s ‘Take It Off’ is another climber, scraping into the top half of the chart after clambering eight places from 28 to 20.

Following Olly Murs’s success, the X Factor connection continues further down the top 40, as ‘Make You Feel My Love’ by Adele re-enters the chart after being performed by Annastacia Baker on last week’s edition of the show.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Olly Murs: ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’
2. (-) Katy Perry: ‘Teenage Dream’
3. (1) Taio Cruz: ‘Dynamite
4. (2) Eminem & Rihanna: ‘Love The Way You Lie’
5. (3) Flo Rida ft. David Guetta: ‘Club Can’t Handle Me’
6. (4) Roll Deep: ‘Green Light’
7. (-) Pepper & Piano: ‘You Took My Heart’
8. (5) Katy B: ‘Katy On A Mission’
9. (6) Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup: ‘We No Speak Americano’
10. (7) Travie McCoy ft. Bruno Mars: ‘Billionaire’

Source: Official Charts Company