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Now that's magic: Harry Potter star doubles his wealth to £28.5m in just a year

10/17/2010 09:40:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe’s personal fortune has reached £28.5million, meaning he has almost doubled his wealth in 12 months.

Radcliffe, 21, has overtaken Princes William and Harry, who are each worth £28million.

Companies House records the profits made by Gilmore Jacobs, the firm set up in 2000 by Radcliffe’s parents to manage his assets.

Financial records published last week by Gilmore Jacobs reveal that the actor has current and fixed investments worth £18million.

The records also show more than £8million is due from debtors – thought to be for film work – and he has £3.7million in the bank.

After subtracting money owed to creditors, the actor has £28.5million. Last year his fortune was £15million.

Radcliffe owns three properties in New York worth a totalof £10million and a flat in London.

Jessica Simpson Gushes About Boyfriend Eric Johnson: 'I Love Him!'

10/17/2010 09:40:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

After taping a PBS holiday special this week (on which she'll sing music from her upcoming Christmas album), Jessica Simpson didn't hold back about how her current relationship is going.

The reality star told People.com that boyfriend Eric Johnson simply makes her happy.

"As far as Eric and I go," she said, "we're just best friends. He's my dude! I love him."

Simpson reportedly began dating the former NFL player in May, and the pair traveled to Italy with friends in July to celebrate her 30th birthday in style.

Is the VH1 star crowing more openly about her love life now that she's with a legally single man?

According to official papers filed in Los Angeles, the divorce between Johnson and his ex-wife Keri was finalized last month, with no spousal support awarded to either party (the couple, married five years, reportedly separated in October 2009).

Simpson's "dude" is a 31- year-old who played football as a student at Yale, before his five-year career in the NFL.

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HTC 7 Pro and 7 Surround strut their stuff in official sizzle videos

10/17/2010 09:39:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


Want to see HTC's potential answer to your landscape physical QWERTY dreams slide itself open on video? How about the Windows Phone 7 handset with a hidden speaker bar? You won't have far to look -- both the HTC 7 Pro and 7 Surround star in their own CG clips on YouTube today, and you'll find both after the break. My, don't they look fun? The HTC 7 Pro's also got an official website now, though pricing and availability are still on the lam (save a mention of "early next year") and will likely elude us for months.

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News Corp Bans Cablevision Customers From Watching Hulu

10/17/2010 09:39:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

News Corp. and Cablevision are currently stuck in a classic cable vs programming "we pay too much, you pay too little" fight. But this time around News Corp. is flexing more muscle by banning Cablevision Internet users from accessing Hulu too.


When the clock struck midnight on Saturday, Cablevision customers could no longer watch FOX on their TV. That's because News Corp. (which owns FOX) and Cablevision couldn't come to an agreement on the fees that Cablevision should pay News Corp. It's something that's happened before with other networks and other cable providers but the new twist is that News Corp. is using their stake in Hulu to ban Cablevision Internet users from accessing FOX content on Hulu as well.

The problem this raises is that if programmers are using a ban of accessing Hulu (an internet website, after all) as leverage against a cable provider for TV fees, it's only going to kill the hope and promise of net neutrality. If cable providers and programmers continue to have their way, the web could turn into the big fucking mess that cable is.

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Mandopop idols Ariel Lin and Joe Cheng kick off electric Japanese concert

10/17/2010 09:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

Following the success of South Korean girl group Girls' Generation push into the Japanese market, the Mandopop wave made their own successful push into Japan with the likes of Mandopop stars Ariel Lin, Joe Cheng, Eddie Peng, and others making their appearance in their recent Japanese debut Mandopop wave superstar concert. As the name of the concert already implied, the concert marks the first time a collection of Mandopop stars have gathered together to share the stage in order to garner the attention of their many Japanese fans.

Ariel, who continues to be hugely popular in Japan ever since her leading role in Japanese manga-turned-Taiwanese idol drama "It Started with a Kiss" became a mega-hit in Japan, just wrapped up promotions for her latest album. On the verge of diving into another manga-turned-drama "Extravagant Challenge", the Taiwanese idol made her Japanese concert debut by kicking off the event with fellow idol drama sweetheart Joe Cheng for a rendition of the song "Love or Bread" off their previous idol drama together. The couple once again took the stage together while they held hands, hugged, and kissed to the delight of the thousands of Japanese fans in attendance. What was also pleasantly surprising was that before Ariel boarded her plane back to Taiwan, the actress held a party with her fans to celebrate her October 29th birthday ahead of time.

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Lee Byung Hun and “IRIS” to be awarded at 2010 Tokyo Drama Awards

10/17/2010 09:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

On October 25th, the 2010 Tokyo Drama Awards are scheduled to be held at the Meiji Memorial Hall and some awards have already been announced ahead of the awards ceremony.


Earlier this year, the popular 2009 Korean drama IRIS aired in Japan. The drama was highly anticipated and TBS bought the distribution rights to the show for a record $4.2 million dollars. The show received high ratings in Japan and also drew over 60,000 people to it’s live stage concerts showing the immense popularity of the show. Now, the drama will receive it’s first award in Japan.

Taewon Entertainment, the production company of IRIS, stated in a press release that IRIS will be honored with the foreign project award at the 2010 Tokyo Drama Awards. In addition, IRIS star Lee Byung Hun will also be awarded at the show with the Best Actor in Asia award according to a statement by his agency BH Entertainment.

To receive their respective awards, both the CEO of Taewon Entertainment and Lee Byung Hun are scheduled to attend the award show on October 25th.

Source: AsiaE

'Jackass 3D' scores $20 million haul on Friday; 'Red' earns $7 million

10/17/2010 01:04:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Wow, looks like stupidity is even better in 3-D. At least that’s what Johnny Knoxville and his crew of American idiots proved yesterday, pulling in an astounding $20 million on Friday for a weekend that’s bound to hit $40 million even if moviegoers drop off after Jackass 3D‘s opening night. The Bruce Willis-Helen Mirren-starrer Red also had a solid beginning, earning approximately $7 million on Friday for a three-day that could reach $20 million.

The Social Network looks like it will hold strong in its third weekend in theaters. The Oscar front-runner grossed another $3 million on Friday for what could be an impressive under-30-percent drop for the weekend, a number that will help the film reach its $100 million goal (the film’s domestic gross topped $52 million as of Thursday).

Last weekend’s two new wide releases also seem to be holding in well. The Katherine Heigl-Josh Duhamel romantic comedy Life As We Know It could drop a scant 40 percent for the weekend, earning around $3 million on Friday. And Secretariat, which opened weakly last frame, seems to be losing only 30 percent this weekend, also grossing around $3 million on Friday. Check back tomorrow for complete results.

A relaxed Rihanna enjoys night out with boyfriend as reports surface of disturbing new assault photos

10/17/2010 01:03:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 1 Comment

Pop songstress Rihanna spent a quiet evening with her boyfriend, Los Angeles Dodgers player Matt Kemp, as reports emerge of never-before-seen images of the singer- reportedly taken at a hospital after her fight with Chris Brown.


The cute couple looked relaxed as they left Giorgio Baldi restaurant Thursday night in Santa Monica, perhaps unaware of this latest scandal which broke on Radaronline.

The U.S website reports it was offered four shocking pictures of the badly battered singer, who is now 22, but it turned them down after judging them too disturbing for publication.

The photos were reportedly taken in a Los Angeles emergency room where Rihanna was being treated after she was assaulted the night of the Grammy awards in February 2009.

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Why Twitter Is Massively Undervalued Compared To Facebook

10/17/2010 01:02:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Twitter was valued at one billion dollars in its last round of financing, but we believe it may in fact be severely undervalued relative to Facebook because Twitter’s value proposition is less obvious.

Facebook has utterly dominated the definition of the “social graph” to the point that conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley says that they have “already won social.” Few analysts seem to notice that the particular definition of “social graph” promulgated by Facebook—people you already know in real life—is not the only possible social graph. In fact, Facebook’s future revenue will actually be built on top of another social graph: the social interest graph, aka Pages & Likes.

Twitter’s social interest graph is potentially a huge cash machine that will lift the company out of the red and into the black . . . (Naval certainly hopes so).

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