The popular video game Angry Birds is jumping off smart phones and onto the big screen in a new animated 3D film due to be released in 2016, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced.
Angry Birds to invade big screen
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Two distinct audiences left satisfied by Terfel’s range
REVIEW: A Gala Evening: Bryn Terfel (bass- baritone), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tecwyn Evans Michael Fowler Centre, May 3 Bryn Terfel, besides being one of the great bass baritones gracing the opera stages of today, is a larger than life character in all senses of the word.
‘Ken Barlow’ cut from episode after arrest
Coronation Street actor Bill Roache will reportedly be edited out of an upcoming show after being arrested over rape allegations.
Naked actress calls for male nudity
Anna Friel didn’t think it was “fair” there was more female than male nudity in her newest film. The 36-year-old actress is starring in British comedy drama The Look of Love alongside Steve Coogan and Imogen Poots
Trial to delve into Jackson’s past
Almost four years after his shocking death, the bizarre life and sorry demise of Michael Jackson will play out again in a US$40 billion civil trial that pits the singer’s family against the organisers of a musical comeback that never happened.
Fired news anchor milks mishap
A North Dakota news anchor whose profanity-laced television debut got him fired after one broadcast is already getting job offers. A.J.
Review: Echoes of Home
Echoes of Home New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen with Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) Music by Pruden, Dvorak and Rachmaninov April 13, Michael Fowler Centre This was the sixth time the NZSO had played this programme and it showed in the playing. The players were completely inside each of the three works that made up of works loosely based on homesickness, and conductor Inkinen revealed his growth as a conductor
Listen: Michael Buble’s new album
Before Michael Buble’s new album To Be Loved hits the shelves tomorrow, we’re giving you the chance to have a first listen. Buble’s sixth studio album follows his Christmas CD which sold seven million copies internationally
Robert Plant visits Welly record store
Even rock stars have their tourist moments – and Robert Plant couldn’t resist stopping to take a photo of the cardboard cutouts in the window of Wellington record store Slow Boat Records this afternoon. The English musician and former Led Zeppelin frontman stopped in at the Cuba St record store ahead of his show tonight with his band the Sensational Space Shifters.
Thatcher’s profound effect on popular culture
Margaret Thatcher was not just a political titan, she was a cultural icon – skewered by comedians, transformed into a puppet and played to Oscar-winning perfection by Meryl Streep. With her uncompromising politics, ironclad certainty, bouffant hairstyle and ever-present handbag, the late British leader was grist for comedians, playwrights, novelists and songwriters whether they loved her or – as was more often the case – hated her