9 Songs

Michael Winterbottom ("Nine Songs") is next set to direct the $5 million indie "Promised Land" for Revolution Studios reports Variety.
The story details with the events that lead up to the 1948 partition of Palestine and the subsequent creation of the state of Israel.
Jim Sturgess ("Across the Universe," "21") will star as a British officer hunting down the extremist Jewish factions.
Andrew Eaton will produce and filming kicks off in the Summer. »
- Garth Franklin

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Nine songs have been listed as offerings for those purchasing Kanye West's CD/DVD "VH1 Storytellers" on January 5. "See You in My Nightmares", "Robocop", "Say You Will" and "Amazing" are some of the tracks appearing on the list.
In addition, interview with Kanye concerning stories behind each song will be featured in it. The double set was filmed in February months before he was slammed for interrupting Taylor Swift's Best Female Video acceptance speech at 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
Previously, Kanye West's debut album "The College Dropout" was named by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 best albums of the decade. In response, the rapper who has avoided spotlight since the MTV VMAs incident wrote on his blog, "This is really flattering... i've had some ups and downs this year, well actually this decade. just seeing this cover takes me back to that time of my life. »
- AceShowbiz.com

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Hey, look, it’s Jessica Alba as a prostitute! A really classy looking prostitute, anyway. I was expecting truck stop dirty, but apparently Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s “The Killer Inside Me” is a period movie, with fedoras, classic cars, and movie picture shows and all that period stuff. From the guy who gave us “Nine Songs”, this is not quite what I was expecting. Aw, well, you can’t always get what you want. Some images from the movie, set for sometime in 2010, have surfaced over at Quiet Earth. Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy Lou Ford. Lou has a bunch of problems. Woman problems. Law enforcement problems. An ever-growing pile of murder victims in his West Texas jurisdiction. And the fact he’s a sadist, »
- Nix

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