Venture tried to lure filmmakers to comic world
Virgin Comics, a team-up between Virgin Books and India-based comics newspaper publisher Gotham Entertainment that had Hollywood dreams, announced Tuesday that it is closure its New York offices and will reorganize its operations.
Citing "the stream macro-economic downswing," the companionship, under CEO Sharad Devarajan and president Suresh Seetharaman, said it hopse to restructure the business and consolidate its operations to a Los Angeles base.
Eight people have been set off.
The company launched in 2006 with Sir Richard Branson, Deepak Chopra and director Shekhar Kapur among its founders. It began by publishing comics inspired by Indian/Hindu mythology and then moved into a billet known as Director's Cut, which attempted to bait filmmakers into the comic world in the hopes of subsequently getting the books set up as film projects
Guy Ritchie, John Woo, Nicolas Cage, Ed Burns, and musician Dave Stewart were among the contributors to the line, with Ritchie's "The Game Keeper" finding a home base at Warner Bros.
The comics were slickly produced but Virgin remained a marginal comic book thespian, with it titles suffering low sales.
The future of the film projects is unclear though the party did say it would not stay idle.
"We remain excited nearly the business and partnerships we have built through Virgin Comics and are working towards a restructuring that properly takes the business fore," Devarajan aforesaid in a statement.
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Tuesday 19 August 2008
Reports: DeGeneres and De Rossi Wed
There was much terpsichore: Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are married, according to reports. (INFphoto)
In the biggest celebrity join since California legalized same-sex marriage, DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, wed Saturday night in an intimate observance at their Beverly Hills home, People and Us Magazine reported.
A publicist for DeGeneres didn't respond to messages left field by The Associated Press on Saturday and Sunday.
After the California Supreme Court's ruling in May, the talk-show host announced that she and de Rossi would wed after iV years together.
The ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneres' mom, Betty, and de Rossi's mother, Margaret Rogers, who had flown in from Australia, People.com reported Saturday night.
DeGeneres said afterwards winning her fourth straight Daytime Emmy for tattle show host in June that a date had not been set, and that she would prove "a lilliputian bit" of the nuptials on her show.
While opponents in California have collected signatures to put a measure on the November ballot for a organic amendment to ban gay marriage, Hollywood was throwing its support behind the newlyweds.
"One of my front-runner people of all time is Ms. Ellen DeGeneres," Katherine Heigl, star of "Grey's Anatomy," told Associated Press Television News at a Hollywood charity event on Saturday night. "So I wish all the best, all the felicity, all the joy that comes with that credentials ... just the joy of being able to standpoint up and say that. In front of everyone you love and care about in front of each other and to walk by legal is huge."
Tila Tequila, whose dating reality show fame is built jolly on her affinity for both hands and women, passed on her good wishes � with solely one small complaint.
"I love Ellen (DeGeneres); I watch over her show all the time," Tequila told APTN. "I just want to say kudos, and I am really sorry you didn't invite me to your wedding."
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Saturday 9 August 2008
John Mayall and Friends
Artist: John Mayall and Friends
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Along for the Ride
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
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