Mumford and sons done touring forever??

        Mumford and Son’s had their last concert in Bonner Springs, KA. They decided to take a break from touring and be with their families for a while. They are starting to get older which means them being up on the stage for long periods of time is getting rougher. Their fans might be waiting for a long time to see them with the band not knowing when they would be back.

One of the major effects of them taking a break is them being on tour since 2009. They have been a very busy group and think that it is time to take a break even though they love what they do they want to start being with their families. They love their music and they will probably keep playing.

        The fans not know when they will hear a new song or if they will see them in concert ever again can't wait to see what the band comes up with decided on when they come back. For the band to be in tour for four years they loved it enough that they will come back for the love of their music.

My friends went to the concert and here is a video of one of there songs.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151666664717883&set=vb.643612882&type=2&theater

Boy Asks Santa to Help Stop His Sister From Being Bullied

On September 20, Good Morning America interviewed eight year old twins Ryan and Amber Suffern after word spread about a letter that Ryan wrote to Santa Clause. The twins' mother, Karen Suffern, read the letter and posted it to Facebook where family and friends read and shared it until GMA found out about this story and asked to interview the family.
In the interview, Karen tells how Amber is twice the size of her brother and has a few different mental disorders, including ADD and mood disorders. Then Amber told GMA that fellow classmates call her 'fat,' 'ugly,' and 'hideous,' though she does not know why. When Ryan was asked about his sister being bullied, he said that he wished that it was him that other kids bullied and not his sister. He was also asked to read his letter for GMA's listeners. Here is what he wrote to Santa Clause:



After the twins and their mom were interviewed, the family was led into a gymnasium where Big Time Rush band members came out to meet Amber and wish her an happy early birthday. Amber was in shock as the band sat with her on a small stage and sang to her. The band then asked the Suffern family to be VIPs at their next concert.
Watch the interview here.

One Award Winning Book, Three Stunning Movies

It’s not the first time the world has seen a series of books turned into a series of movies. But a series of movies from one book? Some of the more dedicated fans of The Hobbit are content with the idea of having three movies, as more substance can be put from the book into the movies. But the general audience is asking why. Why take a 310 page book and expand it into a movie-making process of three years? The director of The Lord of the Rings and now The Hobbit, Peter Jackson, has a few answers to that, so frequently asked, question. “The richness of the story of The Hobbit, as well as some of the related material in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, allows us to tell the full story of Bilbo Baggins and the part he played in the sometimes dangerous, but at all times exciting, history of Middle-Earth.” Jackson says.

The appendices are just one of the reasons he wants to make three movies though. Another is that the producers of the movies have only had the rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.  Because of the little rights they have compared to everything else J.R.R. Tolkein ever wrote, they’re going to make the most of it.

“[The appendices] talk about the White Council and the Necromancer and they refer to the attack on Dol Guldur and various plotting limits, and it’s that type of plot that we are developing into The Hobbit.” Jackson elaborates, “We know how much the history of Bilbo Baggins, the Wizard Gandalf, the Dwarves of Erebor, the rise of the Necromancer, and the Battle of Dol Guldur will remain untold if we do not take this chance.”

Jackson states, “It’s written in a very breathless pace so that pretty major events in the story are covered in only two to three pages by Tolkien.”

Although The Hobbit is the main source of material for these movies, J.R.R. Tolkien, the author, wrote nearly 130 pages of Hobbit backstory called The Appendices, which Jackson will be using too. This backstory will provide a deeper sense of the world they’re in and how exactly things came to be. Tolkien’s book The Silmarillion, about the history of Middle-earth, will not be one of the materials used because the film rights do not belong to Warner Bros.. There have also been rumors that Jackson has access to an unpublished version of Tolkien’s The Hobbit that he may be taking ideas from, but that is unconfirmed.

More often than not, directors and producers have to cut out certain parts of books to make the movie short enough for people to actually sit through, it will be different to see otherwise in The Hobbit.

A large and important part of the three movies, is the budget. The director of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has a production budget of $250,000,000. The Budget for the second and third movie is now $315,000,000 because of the gross profit of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was $1,045,778,374. The gross profit being as high as it was will help the other movies in their production without having to worry about the money costs as much.

As stated before, the producers decided to make it into three movies so they could fit all of the information from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the movies. The budget is helping them because the producers gave them higher budgets for the next two movies. The budget of the last two movies will help the expense of costumes and the technology.

Many of the costumes were reused in the second and third movie so they didn’t have to spend the money on them out of the second and third budget. With using the costumes more than once, they still felt that raising the budget would be good because they had many other things they needed like technology or adding actors and actresses.The costumes and the equipment is very important in making a movie so with the budget being higher, they have money to spend on more important things for the last two movies.

The readers of Lord of the Rings will enjoy it too since a lot of material from The Appendices of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit  will be coming out. Because of when they were filming and how they were filming with so much detail, they had to make more than one movie. So, with that said, they now have $630,000,000 for two movies which will help dramatically with what they can do and what they can do better.

“But just because J.R.R. Tolkien wrote one novel, and Peter Jackson is giving us three films, doesn’t mean that the decision was solely about money.” says Leslie Gornstein of Empire Magazine.

The largest part of the budget and another reason Jackson made three movies, is the technology used to film it all. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey  will be the first movie in the world made at a frame rate of 48 frames per second, faster than the 24 frames per second which is the industry standard. These cameras are, also, never before used, RED EPIC cameras. These cameras are able to capture all the visual storyline, characters and scenery in nothing less than 3D.

“I'm a technophobe.” Says Jackson, “I don't know how the technology works. But I know what the technology is capable of, which is the important thing.”

The human eyes can capture well over 200 FPS so 48 is that much closer to how we see images every day. Filmmakers have held back when it came to using cameras with faster frame speed because of how the audience reacted to seeing a movie in such high quality was unpredictable. While the general audience would get use to seeing it after ten or fifteen minutes, there are some who claim the 48FPS gives them a headache when it’s in 3D.

Another reason these cameras have never been used before is because they are expensive. They cost about $19,077.60 each. The Hobbit used 48 of these cameras! That comes to about $915,724.80 for the cameras alone. That's not the only cost the cameras bring either. Production of the film had to make their own rigs for the cameras to shoot from. There had to be seventeen rigs, ranging from crane supported cameras, to smaller, hand held ones. And because the cameras have a tendency to desaturate images, designers had to over-color costumes, makeup, even props and scenery, adding the extra cost of makeup and paint.

“I have always liked the look of RED footage, though.” Peter Jackson, says, “I'm not a scientist or a mathematician, but the image RED produces has a much more filmic feel than most of the other digital formats.”

For complete info on the technology used for the filming of The Hobbit, check out the link! http://www.thehobbitblog.com/production-video-4/

   There are many things that had to happen for The Hobbit to be made into three movies like the budget, costumes, cast, and the technology. These things are finally done and the movies are waiting to be shown to their eager audience. To everything that has happened and will happen in The Hobbit movies, Jackson says this is “all still part of the Tolkien myth.”

The release date of these three stories are listed below, click the links to watch the trailers.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (release date: December 14, 2012)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (release date: December 13, 2013)

The Hobbit: There and Back Again (release date: December 17, 2014) (No trailer available)

Authors: Annie Wagner, Sloan Turner, Alyssa Mangin, and Marie Wappes

Popular movie rating site, Rotten Tomatoes, adds TV section

Rotten Tomatoes, owned by Warner Bros., is a website where users can look up films from all over the globe and find various information on a movie like what it is about and who is starring in it. The most memorable thing about this site, however, is the ratings. Each movie has two ratings, one given by critics (called the “Tomatometer”) and one given by audience members. Today, Sept. 17, Rotten Tomatoes launched a new division called “TV Zone” for television shows.

Since TV shows have an entirely different distribution than movies, the set up of “TV Zone” will be slightly different from the normal Rotten Tomatoes people are used to. Instead of looking up one solitary item such as Game of Thrones and finding one rating for the entire show, there will be links to different seasons and each season will have a rating of its own. Another thing that is different about the rating system is that at this moment audience ratings are not being shown, only critic’s ratings on the Tomatometer.

Rotten Tomatoes’ information and ratings on movies date quite a few decades back, but this will not be the case for “TV Zone”. It will have cast information, episode recaps, and ratings for shows that have aired on primetime television only in the last four years, excluding reality TV. These can be seen under, but not limited to, its three main sections: “Tonight’s Premieres”, “New Episodes”, and “Certified Fresh TV”.

This launch of “TV Zone” is beta, which means there will be many changes to come based on the feedback from users and adjustments to any glitches that may occur, but so far, so good.

Check out Rotten Tomatoes and “TV Zone” by clicking the picture below.

Hugh Jackman Hangs Up the Claws as Wolverine?

Hugh Jackman may not appear as Wolverine after X-Men: Days of Future Past. The actor made famous by his role as Wolverine is not getting any younger, so the time is coming when a younger Wolverine will have to be picked. According to the EW, producer Hutch Parker is reluctant to let Hugh Jackman go. Hugh Jackman, on the other hand, says he was not sure about doing the first independent film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and is fine with letting some one else take over his role. Though he does say that he still loves being the Wolverine and he would do another film as long as there is a very compelling reason. Here is a link the EW for more reading on Hugh Jackman.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/05/31/hugh-jackman-more-wolverine-movies/
Hugh Jackman will appear in X-Men: Days of Future Past and he could possibly appear in Avengers 2, but this is still in the works and the producer does not know if he can be worked in.


Picture courtesy of the EW page.

Embarrassment on a whole new level, if the daughter doesn't dress right why should the parents?

 After daughter comes down in short shorts and refuses to change. The dad takes a pair of old jeans and cuts them up to be short shorts. He wears them for most of the night and they leave to go to supper. Since, the Daughter does not change either does the dad and as they got there the daughter refuses to get out of the car. The dad goes into the restaurant with his short shorts and his Best Dad Ever t-shirt on.

Do you think this made a lesson?

 Do you think the dad had a right to do this?

 Or did the parents going too far to teach their children what is right and what is wrong?

 Do you think that is way too embarrassing and not good at all? 
For kids this is quiet embarrassing but for parents this would be rather fun to do to their kids.

Here is a link with more of the story and pictures.

http://www.eonline.com/news/458306/dad-wore-short-shorts-to-shame-his-daughter-into-covering-up-and-teach-her-modest-is-hottest

Mark your calendars for 'Jurassic Park' four

Universal Pictures, owned by Comcast’s NBCUniversal, announced Tuesday, Sept. 10, that the fourth installment of the Jurassic Park series will be released Friday, June 12, 2015. The movie will be titled Jurassic World and will be filmed in 3-D.

This soon to be summer blockbuster will be produced by Steven Spielberg, director of the first two films: Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Universal Pictures also announced the director of this film will be Colin Trevorrow, director of Safety Not Guaranteed. No cast members or plot have been made public yet, although there are some speculations as to what may happen.

The reason Jurassic Park was such a big hit is because, at the time, not many movies had extravagant special effects. The sequels gradually decreased in ratings because there was nothing new and exciting for viewers to awe at. With movies like Avatar (2009) and Inception (2010), the bar has been dramatically raised for special effects in the movie industry. In order for Jurassic World to be a hit and not a miss, it needs to utilize multiple technologies available for movies today, not just 3-D, and it needs to have a plot that’s worth seeing more than once.

It has been 12 years since the release of Jurassic Park III (2001) and by the time Jurassic World is set to release, it will have been 22 years since the original movie Jurassic Park. One can only hope that with this amount of time in between films, they will do it up right.

Coming soon: Jurassic World, Friday, June 12, 2015

A Movie For the Non-Readers

The Mortal Instruments book series is becoming a movie series! Just like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Twilight, The Hunger Games and much more, The Mortal Instruments series released it's first movie on August 21st, 2013. It's called, "The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones," The same title as the first book.

The first book of the series, written by Cassandra Clare, was published in March, 2007 and by April, was already highly popular. It is a series of modern and urban fantasy, filled with Angels, demons and every other creature known to that genre. There is love, there's battles, there is honor and betrayal and above else, it is unique in it's story line.

The series consists of five books so far with a sixth and final book scheduled for release in May, 2014. All the books in the series have been in the New York Times Bestseller lists. City of Bones was number 1 on the list for 9 weeks, taking the place of The Hunger Games.

There are plenty of us out there who feel we don't have time to read a whole book series. That's why having the best sellers become movies is great! It takes a few days if not more to read a book series but it only takes a couple of hours to go see a movie. Check it out and see if you like the visual story!

 <<< The book

<<< The movie poster

What television show to watch next

With award-winning shows like Dexter and Breaking Bad wrapping up their final seasons, frequent TV viewers will be finding holes in their schedules that need to be filled. The question is, what has the potential to fill it?

Almost Human might be that show.

Brought to you by J.J. Abrams, co-creator and executive producer of hit shows Alias (2001), Lost (2004), and Fringe (2008), comes a gritty cop drama that is anything but ordinary. Abrams isn’t the only recognizable name on this project, however. Karl Urban, who played Bones in the two latest Star Trek films (directed by Abrams), plays the leading man and Michael Ealy, from Think Like a Man, plays opposite Urban.

Almost Human is set in the near future and revolves around a head-butting partnership with a twist. John Kennex is a detective that has returned to duty after a two-year coma, with a bad temper and an unorthodox way of doing things. What makes this show different from every other cop show currently airing is that the partner he is assigned to isn’t human. In fact, he’s technically not alive. Dorian is an out of commission android who is reactivated specifically to be Kennex’s partner. The show will follow the pair as they battle against high-tech futuristic crimes, while simultaneously trying to cope with their differences and understand their similarities in order to succeed and more importantly, stay alive.

The two night series premiere is Sunday, Nov. 17 and Monday, Nov. 18 on FOX.

Click the picture of Kennex and Dorian to watch the trailer!

Romeo and Juliet yet again!!!

For students in high school when first reading Romeo and Juliet it seems as it comes up everywhere, mentioned in TV shows, other movies, and even random conversations. Well, it is coming back just in a new 21st century form. This is the fourth movie of Romeo and Juliet that has come out with the first one being back in 1968, then another in 1996 one more and 2000 and now tonight at midnight.  The famous Douglas Broth and Hailee Steinfeld playing Romeo and Juliet, who will attract the high school students even more.  It is the same story we all know the two families are enemies. The offspring of the two families fall in love and with the love being forbidden they sneak around their families. In the end of the movie at the attempt of love each other forever and not having to sneak around their families anymore they end up both committing suicide. coming out on October 11th 2013.

Last and Done?

The new and rising popular series of Divergent by Veronica Roth has been given a 5 out of 5 stars. People often compare these books to The Hunger Games, though it is different and very original. This is not news to any true fan of either book trilogy. What most people wish to know is, "What is the third book of the series?" The answer to this question is Allegiant, the third and final book in the Divergent trilogy. That's right, the final book. Roth has announced that she had no vision of her books going past three. On a lighter note, Roth's book, Allegiance, is scheduled to come out on October 22, 2013. Here is a bit about the book.
Insurgent left off with everyone finding out about the outside world and how humanity was destroying itself through war. So where will the third book go from here? On this, nothing major has been revealed as to what the book may be about. All that is known is that the book will be about love and loyalty. Here's a look at the cover for Allegiant.

This is only one of the covers, though there are a few other cover designs.

Keep posted, and maybe there will be some news on the Divergent movie.

The Walking Dead has never been so alive!

It's been 3 years since the premier of AMC's, The Walking Dead, a horror drama based on a comic book series, written by a man named Robert Kirkman. It's the story of a small group of people who have (so far) survived a zombie apocalypse! They are working together to find a place in the world where they can live safely and somehow, try to regain life as human beings without always looking over their shoulders. Since October 31st, 2010, the show has sky rocketed in popularity as well as awards and by 2012, received 12.4 million viewers, making it the most viewed television series in history!

Season 3 left off with it's main character, Rick Grimes, (played by Andrew Lincoln) leading a group of survivors to an abandoned prison. There, they take shelter for the time being before they head back out into the world to find a better and safer place to live. Many people were lost along the way and the villain of the show, who they called the "Governor," is nowhere to be found after murdering his own people.

Season 4 will premier on October 13th, 2013 and will consist of 16 episodes. This already, has viewers talking! Here, at our little school in Bismarck, ND, even the University of Mary students are talking about the Walking Dead and what season 4 will bring us. Will more beloved characters be tragically lost? Will new ones be introduced so we can fall in love all over again? Will the characters we've been following find a home at last? No one knows but we are anxious to find out.

Even the people who haven't seen the show, have at least heard it's name. If you're one of those people, we recommend you take a peek at the season 4 premier and tell us what you think! Maybe you could even go back to the first episode of the first season just to take a look at how this widely spoken of series began. Who knows? You might just find it to be a new favorite.

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