Idol Headlines for 8/19/12

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See the Season 11 Top 10 on the American Idol LIVE! Tour 2012 at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA.
Adam Lambert performs at Maishima in Osaka, Japan.
Kelly Clarkson performs at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, NY.
Casey James performs at Lapeer Days Festival in Lapeer, MI.
Phil Stacey performs at Bethel Temple in Parma, OH. – AmericanIdol.com

Casey Abrams is working on video for his single “Simple Life” – He tweets, “Editing the simple life video http://instagr.am/p/OfUZZdNvP1/”

Colton Dixon tweets about his upcoming Record Deal? He tweets, “Got some HUGE announces coming soon!!!! I’ll make sure you guys are the first to know!!!” But then, “Thanks for the trend today too! Haha….you only think you know the big news;-)….just wait. It’ll be a week or so..”

Nicki Minaj Cancels Shows in England Due to Strained Vocal Cords – Roman needs some more time to reload! Rapper Nicki Minaj “regretfully cancelled” shows at the V Festival in England this weekend. The singer’s rep tells THR the reason for the no-show is “strained vocal cords.” The potential American Idol judge apparently pushed herself too far when she performed on the Today Show (and elsewhere) this week. – Read more at EOnline

Diddy – ‘American Idol’ Is Gonna Have to PAY ME! – If you thought “American Idol” forked over big bucks to land Mariah Carey … they’re going to have to back up a bank truck to Diddy’s front door to get him to sign on for next season. Diddy is the latest superstar rumored to be joining the show since the departure of Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez. We spotted Diddy at JFK yesterday and while he professed his love for “Idol,” he gave a very telling answer when asked how much it would cost to get him to sign on the line which is dotted. – Read more at TMZ

‘American Idol’s’ Haley Reinhart And Casey Abrams to Perform at Carnegie Hall (Video) – – “It is remarkable how one experience can lead you to another,” said Reinhart, who recently made history as the first American Idol finalist to perform at Lollapalooza. “If you’re ever questioning whether or not you should do something spontaneous, I highly suggest you go for it. One late night in a New Orleans jazz club has now led me to the ever so honorable Carnegie Hall. Irvin Mayfield is an amazing musician and great hearted person. I’m so privileged he made me a part of his big night.” – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

Katharine McPhee: ‘Smash’ with Jennifer Hudson & Jeremy Jordan – Katharine McPhee is pretty in a floral printed dress while filming scenes for Smash with new season two star Jeremy Jordan on Friday (August 17) in New York City’s Flatiron District. n between takes, the 28-year-old actress was even spotted taking pics with fans who came by the set to watch. – See the Photos at Just Jared

Jordin Sparks Recalls First Meeting With Jessica Sanchez, Whitney Houston – LOS ANGELES – “Yes, I have actually met Jessica Sanchez,” revealed the bubbly and charming Jordin Sparks whom we interviewed recently for her latest movie, “Sparkle.” “There is a picture of us floating around somewhere from when I won ‘Idol,’” Jordin, now 22, revealed. Jordin, who won the sixth season of “American Idol” at age 17, is the youngest winner in the history of the top-rated reality talent show and remains as the most recent female to win the title. She continued, “Jessica was probably, maybe 11, I think. And there’s this picture of us. We both look so little. She showed it to me, because I performed in the finale this year as well. She was like, ‘Look at this picture!’ I was just like, ‘Oh my goodness.’ She is so sweet. She is so tiny. But she is very, very talented. Her voice is so amazing. And I think when she discovers what she really wants to sing in her voice and what she wants to do with it, she is going to be unstoppable for sure.” – Read more at Manila Bulletin

Box Office Report: ‘Expendables 2′ Tops Friday With $10.5 Mil but Trails 2010 Film – Sparkle, Whitney Houston’s final movie, grossed $4.55 million on Friday and earned a glowing A CinemaScore. The film is expected to post a weekend gross in the $12.5 million to $14 million range. The remake of the 1976 film stars American Idol winner Jordin Sparks, Derek Luke, Mike Epps, Cee Lo Green, Cameron Ejogo and Tika Sumpter and is about three sisters who form a singing group in Detroit during the Motown era. Houston plays their mother. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy tweets photo of Darren Criss Dresses as Robin. He tweets, “Who is that masked man keeping crime away from the halls of McKinley?”  The little bow tie is a nice touch.

 
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  • Anonymous

    Nvm.

  • Anonymous

    You make a great point about Dreamgirls.  According to Box Office Mojo, during it’s first weekend of wide release Dreamgirls made $14.1 million. The thing that helped it is that that averaged out to $16,500 per theater.  It’s wide release was Deceber 29-31st, and even though that’s a huge time for new movies, wide release for that film translated to just 852 screens. Even with the high per theater average, the film played in less than 2000 theaters over the next two weeks.

    http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=dreamgirls.htm 

    This link shows the weekly boxoffice for Dreamgirls.  The movie never had a week where it was shown in 3000 theaters, the highest that it ever got was 2,797.  That didn’t happen until the movie had been out for four weeks.  It took time to convince tptb that there was a demand for the movie.

  • getaway1

    Home was played at tonight’s VH1 Do Something Awards:)

  • steph6449

    Danny Gokey’s non-profit foundation has just announced that Kris Allen and Jamar Rogers will be joining Danny for the 2013 charity / concert cruise. The cruise is from Orlando to the Bahamas in February.

    The guest for the 2012 cruise was Matt Giraud who brought his “little brother,” sweet.

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    Today, ?August ?19,
    ?2012, ??33 minutes ago | SophiasHeart (Sophias Heart)
    Danny Gokey Presents – The Third Annual Cruise for Sophia’s Heart! Check out this all start line up and reserve…
    http://t.co/IA2jmyDl 

  • Anonymous

    I may have to start saving for a cruise :)

    Can someone who went on last years cruise give a little insight into the cruise? It would be a different venue to see Kris in, I wonder if Katy will go?

    http://iheartdannygokey.com/index.php/2012/08/19/kris-allen-and-jamar-rogers-join-danny-gokeys-third-annual-cruise-for-sophias-heart/

  • Anonymous

    Cruise, huh? :) It does say in the fine print that artists are subject to change but you don’t get your $ back if that happens. I think the cruise sold out last year, didn’t it?

  • steph6449

    KendraWills, Danny has done two of these cruises to raise funds for his non-profit, which is operating music & arts programs for disadvantaged kids in Milwaukee and Nashville, and a transitional facility in Nashville for homeless families and others in need (sophiasheart.org).

    In the two earlier events, there were multiple concerts during the cruise. This year, Danny did an initial concert, Matt did one of his own, and then they did a final concert together. Plus there was at least one m&g for everyone who went, and an additional m&g opportunity on the cruise’s formal night. Danny even did dress up, lol.

    The concerts were acoustic, very interactive and informal, and they took requests, sometimes answered questions from fans…

    Various items were auctioned off for the non-profit, with a silent auction, special experiences, etc.  The auctions included things like a chance to have dinner with Danny or Matt, chance to have a private serenade from Danny or Matt, etc. A portion of the cruise ticket benefits the non-profit.

    The special concerts and things were scheduled so that they didn’t conflict with doing the regular cruise ship highlights, like going ashore for excursions when the ship reached the destination port.

  • steph6449

    I noticed that with Kris coming, Danny had to give up first billing on his own cruise, aww–lol. Seems like a lot of good singing to be heard with this group :)

    As far as Katy, I don’t know but might be possible. Matt brought his little brother as I mentioned. This year Danny had Leyicet with him, of course that was pretty much required as the date happened to more or less be their honeymoon :O   That will be a challenge for Danny probably next year, as February 2013 is just shortly after baby Gokey is due to make his or her appearance.

    ETA on the billing, I think that’s appropriate that Kris would be before Danny. But I suppose it is also alphabetical, ha, between Kris “Allen,” Danny “Gokey” and Jamar “Rogers.”

  • Anonymous

    Why would the artists change? I doubt Kris would disappoint fans by canceling.

    I would love to hear about some upcoming events for Kris tho, like NOW.

  • Anonymous

    Steph6449, what about band members? For instance, will Kris be able to bring along Cale and/or Torres for his set?  Katy Allen will be in school teaching so it may be difficult for her to take off.

  • Anonymous

    I think it was this year’s cruise that the Rascal Flatts dude cancelled & Matt. G took his place.

  • steph6449

    I don’t have any insight into what the specific plans may be with Kris and Jamar, or even what band members might come with Danny. I would expect there to be some band member(s) along though, from whichever contingent(s). 

    I only know what the past precedents have been. The first cruise, Danny had nearly his whole band along with him (keyboard, bgv’s, drums, lead guitar, bass), doing an acoustic show. 

    This year, Matt did not bring any band with him, but of course Matt by himself is almost a band :)  

    Danny had Brandon Fraley along, and Brandon played keyboards and sang with both Danny and Matt.  Jamie Fraley (more bgv’s) might have come with him, but I think she was committed somewhere with Carrie around that time. Both Brandon and Jamie were with Danny on a date he had this weekend, so may be a chance that they will both be on the cruise.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s see, I have to fly to Florida and then cruise … yep, no money. :(

    I hope Kris will have a show here in SoCal soon, please…
    September can not come soon enough for Lyndsey’s interview with Kris.

  • Anonymous

    This is It and Sparkle– Last performance of an iconic singer who has passed away prior to release.

    DreamGirls and Sparkle–All black cast

    Did the all black cast of Dream Girls affect it’s success?
    Would the world have turned out in droves to see Michael in anything after he died–concert or scripted film?

    I don’t understand why this would be marketed to only African American women. Whitney was a main stream artist with male and female fans of all races.  I do understand why they are targeting an older demographic.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry if this was posted before, I don’t see it here:

    Cher Lloyd pelted with bottles of urine at V festival

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/aug/20/cher-lloyd-v-festival?newsfeed=true

    This is a video of the incident (very poor quality video though). There are articles all of the internet this morning about it. Poor girl.

    http://youtu.be/9hPkIU-iPEI

  • Kirsten

     

    Cher Lloyd pelted with bottles of urine at V festival

    Charming.

    I shall never understand behaviour like this. Honestly, no perfomer deserves to have anything thrown at them let alone human waste. Ugh.

    And you just know the guys who did this are sniggering about how clever they are. Any primate can fling poo. Ugh.

  • http://twitter.com/LexieONeill Lexie O’Neill

    Oh, this is awful.  I started to write more, but what else is there to say–how awful.  

  • Anonymous

    This is It and Sparkle– Last performance of an iconic singer who has passed away prior to release.

    As I said, the audience for a concert film featuring all MJ’s music is not targeting fans in the same way that a scripted film featuring one performance from Whitney Houston would. Especially since MJ still had his voice and Houston…largely didn’t.

    DreamGirls and Sparkle–All black cast

    Again, a cast featuring Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, and Beyonce Knowles is not the same as a cast featuring Jordin Sparks and Derek Luke. And even then, I already pointed out that it wasn’t a huge blockbuster out of the gate. It never ranked higher than third in weekend box office and basically sustained on the Oscar campaign through February.

    Houston and the Sparkle team relied on a small budget to get the project greenlit. That also means marketing had a smaller budget. I think the goal was to target the most responsive audiences first and then hope that buzz and word of mouth would keep it going. Seems like a reasonable playbook to me.

  • Anonymous

    I shall never understand behaviour like this. Honestly, no perfomer deserves to have anything thrown at them let alone human waste. Ugh.

    Pathetic. If they find it so funny, they can do what everyone else does and throw it at each other and put it up on Youtube. The girl just trying to have a career should be able to get through her damn set.

  • Anonymous

    We are coming at this from a different place.

    I was asking questions that really can’t be answered.

  • Anonymous

    I have been to both the Reading festival and the V in Chelmsford during my numerous visits to the UK and I can not honestly say I am surprised.  These festivals are not for the feint of heart.  Bottling is pretty common place.  What I am surprised about is that her management booked her for this gig because hers is not the sort of music commonly heard at these festivals.  That could be why … I remember seeing that Taylor Swift was playing one year and I was scratching my head at that one.

    I remember taking the last train back to London from Chelmsford smelling pretty grim from the day.  When you have people drinking all day, then drinking all night on the campgrounds, beer and alcohol and food etc being consumed and spilled everywhere, it becomes a very smelly proposition.  While there is no excuse whatsoever for this behaviour, sadly the circumstances are ripe for it.  Poor Cher…

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