Jericho's Siena Goines Needs a Primetime Show This Fall CBS!

Courtesy: Buddy TV

July 29, 2007

As Sarah Mason, Siena Goines was originally known as the “mystery woman” on the television series Jericho. Later, it was revealed that she was a former coworker and ex-girlfriend of Robert Hawkins, and was part of a secret CIA taskforce. Tasked to find a package containing a nuclear device hidden in Robert's house, she holds his eight-year-old son, Samuel, hostage to force Robert to turn over the package. She failed, despite her efforts, and ended up dead when Robert's daughter Allison shot her in the back. In the coming months, fans will be able to catch her on the big screen.

The former Jericho actress has just completed filming the movie Hunter's Moon, a science fiction horror story about four young couples drawn to a remote dune. Their outing turns out to be a night of terror when a brutal hunter attacks them as human specimens for an alien experiment. Also included are Dan White, Devon Sawa and Matthew Lawrence.

Currently in post-production stages is the film The Mannsfield 12, where Siena Goines plays Nadine. The drama centers on a group of inmates and their underestimated act that made them legendary.

Additionally, the former Jericho actress stars in the comedy Throwing Stars. She plays Lyn Hutto in a story about four longtime friends who put their bond to the test over the course of one wild night. The film features Scott Grimes (ER), Jason London (Wildfire), Scott Michael Campbell (ER), and David DeLuise (3rd Rock from the Sun).

Before acquiring a string of movies projects, Siena Goines was cast as Christy in the movie Jekyll. The remake featured Matt Keeslar as Doctor Henry Jekyll and the computer-generated alter-go Edward Hyde in a spree of uncontrollable impulses and murder extravaganza.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
(Image courtesy of CBS)


Editor's Note: CBS what are you waiting for? This young actress has graced your successful series. "The Young and Restless", "Jericho" and "Judging Amy". What are you waiting for? There are few primetime series that feature African Americans in starring roles and this young woman is in need of a show of her own. I'd watch. In fact, I only watch "Jericho" for Siena Goines.

BIG SCREEN 'SIMPSONS' BLOW OUT: $30M Friday Way Bigger Than Expected

SATURDAY AM: What a shocker! I'm told 20th Century Fox's official Friday estimate shows The Simpsons Movie made $30 million Friday -- or what the studio hoped its toon would make all weekend -- and could have an $80 million weekend. That's more than Transformers made on its opening day and best single day this summer, and good enough for The Simpsons to slot into the Hollywood's Top 17 opening days of all time (right behind the $30.1 mil of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones). But the well reviewed (a score of 88% positive critiques on Rotten Tomatoes) and wide release (playing in 3,922 North American theaters) pic managed an outstanding per screen average of 7,649 Friday. It's also playing huge overseas. (See below.) Some naysayers didn't believe the movie could pack a punch, given that The Simpsons is all over television on network and in syndication. Hah! The analysts I'm talking to attribute the film's success to Fox's omnipresent marketing (including Homer opening this week's Tonight Show and earlier American Idol as well as that inspired 7-Eleven cross-promotion). Pic insiders have nothing but praise for the year-long marketing and distribution campaign which Fox orchestrated throughout the News Corp empire. "The old saw of synergy within media companies, that was never full realized before, paid off here," a source told me. And remember: Fox says the pic cost only $75 million (without marketing) because so much animation work was done in South Korea. The Simpsons Movie opened day and date in some foreign territories, too, where it was smashing records for a toon (in Australia) and a tentpole (in Argentina). Asia and Latin America were trending huge. In England comparisons were being made to Lord Of the Rings, and in France to Transformers.

The No. 2 movie, Universal's buddy comedy with Adam Sandler and Kevin James I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry stayed strong (dropping only -51%) and made $6.2 million Friday from 3,501 venues. Its new cume is $58.7 mil because there haven't been enough laffers at the box office this summer. New Line's Hairspray slowed (-53%) to stay No. 3 and take in $5.2 mil Friday from 3,121 runs for a new cume of $48.9 mil. In 4th place, Warner's Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix raked in another $5.1 mil Friday from 4,005 dates its 3rd weekend for a hot new cume of $229.8 mil. Another Warner pic, No Reservations, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, opened with $2.4 mil Friday from 2,425 runs for 4th place. That's less than analysts expected (and the experts didn't expect much). Bot battle and #6 Transformers, from DreamWorks and Paramount, boasts a big new cume of $276.2 mil after raking in another $3.2 mil Friday from 3,349 theaters on its 4th weekend out. After five weekends, Ratatouille took the 7th spot as Disney and Pixar's toon made $2.1 mil Friday from 2,934 venues for a new cume of $174.5 mil. Fox's Live Free Or Die Hard hangs in for a 5th weekend in 8th place, taking in $1.5 mil Friday from 2,271 runs for a new cume of $121.2 mil. Lindsay Lohan's horror flick I Know Who Killed Me wasn't helped by all the (negative) publicity she received this week: the Sony pic eked out only $1.3 mil Friday from 1,320 plays. I'll tell you this: I know who's killing Lohan's career. And, rounding out the Top 10, horribly reviewed laugher Who's Your Caddy? from The Weinstein Co and MGM, debuted with $950K Friday from 1,019 venues.

FRIDAY PM: "This could be much bigger than anyone thought," a 20th Century Fox source said to me this afternoon. Not just domestically but overseas, too. (See below.) Because very early reports indicate The Simpsons Movie is looking to debut around $27 million today. That's right -- in Transformers opening day territory! If this holds true, it means Homer, Bart, Marge and family on the big screen could wind up with a $70+ million opening weekend. That's more than twice what 20th Century Fox was expecting and far more than my box office gurus were projecting. (See my previous: Predictions: Homer & Bart Big!) I just went back and looked what I predicted for The Simpsons Movie back on May 1st: Kudos to Jim Brooks and Fox for keeping much of The Simpsons Movie’s plot a secret, which I predict will help it become the biggest non-sequel movie of the summer. C’mon, who’s not gonna see this pic here and overseas?

Kim Clement predicts that someone will be found in a cave in Pakistan.

FROM KIM CLEMENT:

July 14, 2007 — Nashville, TN

North Korea is only the beginning of the submission of the nations. China is looking upon this nation now and saying if they are afraid and they are internally divided and can not fulfill what they had said concerning Iraq and the Middle East then we shall surely stand to win against them. Again says the Lord what do I say about this? A leader in the East, in Asia, shall suddenly topple over in the presence of cameras and the network. God says this will be a sign. This must not be taken lightly. During these summer months and before the election I will be exposing certain ones. Three to four nations that I've said before shall follow suit. They say our arms will be laid down. America shall finally win the battle even though you will continually be hated. Hatred says the Spirit of God shall never conclude its action successfully. I have now sent a Word to this nation again and I have done it over and over. I will cause these next few months to be months of great victory and exposure, the secrets of the Lord shall be revealed. I will capture those who have captured. I will terrorize those who have terrorized. I will bring justice over and over and over. America shall be on her knees because of the wind that I am sending that shall cause a cleansing to take place that could never have happened had there not been the sound of victory in the voices of the people as they praised in the midst of fear, in the midst of terror. Rejoice for this year many great breakthroughs will cause My people to say, it has begun—it surely has begun. The season has come, it is upon us, and it has begun.

I will open up the heavens send the rain and the wind. Can you hear the sound; can you hear the sound of the wind? I will send the wind to you just like the day of Pentecost. As they were in one accord they heard the sound that came. Hear the sound I'm sending to this nation. I'm sending a sound of triumph, of victory to this nation. I'm sending a sound of victory to your nation. Your accusers have said they will come, the terrorists have said they will come and destroy in the summer months of this nation. Watch me says the Lord, I will protect this nation again. I will reveal and expose where they are hidden, again and again and again. Do you hear the sound of victory for this nation? I can hear the sound of a mighty army. Can you hear the sound? I can hear the sound of a mighty army, tens of thousands of angels. Can you hear the sound?

Your military power shall never die, nor shall it wane but the spiritual militant power has risen above your natural military power. God says because of this I will speed up and accelerate your victory. Hidden in the third cave of the Pakistan border I will sniff out and draw out many of those that have hidden themselves. There will be two deaths in Pakistan; the Spirit of God says it shall cause havoc. I will bring peace to this nation as it has never ever experienced. Do not fear your borders are protected, your schools are protected, your children are protected, your jets are protected, your air space is protected, your seas are protected, your land is protected, My people are protected. For this day the God of the universe hears your praise and sends the fire of God to Pakistan. It is time for the exposure says the Spirit of the Living God. Rejoice America your restoration has begun. Now I will pay back says the Spirit of the Lord for vengeance is mine. I will pay back your enemies by putting you on the top; economically I will drive you back to the highest place as I do what I'm going to do with your energy crisis. You will have the Middle East come to you and say will you share with us what you have discovered.

What is this that I hear, an independent that arises – a switch in power? God says listen, righteousness shall prevail in the streets of America and in the White House nothing will be determined without My counsel. They shall plan but ultimately it is I says the Lord that will determine the outcome. There will be a very strange move of My Spirit amongst the children of this nation. Come to me like a little child and I will raise you up. There will be praise in summer. There will be rain in summer. There will be joy in summer. I'll send the rain and the wind. The spirits of men will pray, the spirits of men will rejoice it's the end of a season the beginning of something, everyone's been waiting for. America your greatest hour is upon you.

Editor's Note: Read it ya'self. Let's see if this happens. Clement is pretty accurate. While he is not specifically saying that Osama is one of those hiding in the third cave, we'll have to wait and see.

VINYL IS BACK?

Back in the groove: young music fans ditch downloads and spark vinyl revival

· Sales of 7in singles rise by 13% in first half of year
· New bands and collectors turning to old format

Katie Allen, media business correspondent
Monday July 16, 2007

Guardian

The format was supposed to have been badly wounded by the introduction of CDs and killed off completely by the ipod-generation that bought music online.

But in a rare case of cheerful news for the record labels, the latest phenomenon in a notoriously fickle industry is one nobody dared predict: a vinyl revival. Latest figures show a big jump in vinyl sales in the first half of this year, confirming the anecdotal evidence from specialist shops throughout the UK.

It comes as sales of CD singles continue to slide - and it is not being driven by technophobic middle-aged consumers. Teenagers and students are developing a taste for records and are turning away from the clinical method of downloading music on to an MP3 player.

The data, released by the UK's industry group BPI, shows that 7in vinyl sales were up 13% in the first half, with the White Stripes' Icky Thump the best seller.

Two-thirds of all singles in the UK now come out on in the 7in format, with sales topping 1m. Though still a far cry from vinyl's heyday in 1979, when Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes alone sold that number and the total vinyl singles market was 89m, the latest sales are still up more than fivefold in five years.

For record stores, the resurgence has meant a move from racks of vintage Rolling Stones and Beatles releases to brand new singles and younger buyers. "The student population seem to be loving the 7in," says Stuart Smith, who runs Seismic Records in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He sells 300-600 records a week and is preparing to launch an online store.

"I'm still not sure about the MP3 generation. You can have a full hard drive and nothing to show for it. Record collections are very personal. You can view into a person's soul really," he says.

The customers rummaging through racks at his store, a small room above a skate shop, are students and DJs.

When Mr Smith opened the vinyl shop in early 2005, digital download sales were rocketing and, amid rampant piracy, global music revenues were several years into their current downward spiral.

A shop selling LPs and 7in singles didn't sound like the most promising business plan. But when his employers at the local outlet of music chain Fopp - now closed down - decided to stop selling vinyl it was something he couldn't resist.

"I just couldn't understand why they decided to turn their backs on it. I saw an opportunity to do something I love doing. I've been a collector myself for years," says the 31-year-old. "It's just one of things. It just felt right."

Two years on, the White Stripes' Icky Thump has just notched up the highest weekly sales for a 7in single for more than 20 years. Retailers and record labels put the rising vinyl sales down to bands rediscovering the format and to music fans' enduring desire to collect. It's not unusual for fans to buy a 7in but have nothing to play it on, says Paul Williams at industry magazine Music Week. "It's about the kind of acts that have very loyal fan bases that want everything to do with that act," he says. "They maybe will buy the download to listen to, but they get the vinyl to own. It's looked at like artwork."

HMV agrees that vinyl is back from the brink, and the chain has been rapidly expanding its record racks to meet rising demand. The group's Gennaro Castaldo cites the huge popularity of "indie" bands, such as Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys, which enjoy loyal followings among teenagers and students, especially during the summer festival season.

"Labels have realised that it's cool for bands to release their music on vinyl, especially in limited edition form, which makes it highly collectible," he says.

London company Art Vinyl has built a whole business out of the format's visual and tactile appeal by selling easy-to-open frames to display records and their sleeves.

For fans, buying and owning a record can provide a welcome change from the anonymity of online downloads, says Art Vinyl's founder Andrew Heeps. "If you go into a record shop to buy something, you feel part of something," he says. "The fact that last year we sold over 9,000 frames to people says an awful lot about where the market is going."

Cara Henn, a DJ and regular Seismic Records customer says going to the store puts her in touch with her peers and has hammered home the vinyl trend. "I've really been getting back into my vinyl. I love it," she says. "I like to hear crackling, as if it's actually real. Especially with drum'n'bass, DJs are really encouraging fans to buy vinyl."

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian News and Media Limited 2007

Prince Free Reign Is Shady

Prince's free album causes storm with retailers 06/30/2007 10:00 AM, Reuters Prince is to give away his new album for free with a British tabloid newspaper before its official launch, in a move that has caused dismay among music retailers. Prince's new 10-track CD "Planet Earth" will be included with an upcoming Mail on Sunday, the newspaper's managing director, Stephen Miron, told Reuters on Friday. The album is not scheduled to go on sale until July 24. "No one has done this before. We have always given away CDs and DVDs, but this is just setting a new level," Miron said. Paul Quirk, co-chairman of the Entertainment Retailers Association, said Prince's decision "beggars belief." "The Artist formerly known as Prince should know that with behavior like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores," he said, referring to a period in the 1990s when the funk star, born Prince Rogers Nelson, famously stopped using his name. "It is an insult to all those record stores who have supported Prince throughout his career. It is yet another example of the damaging covermount culture which is destroying any perception of value around recorded music," Quirk told a music conference in London on Thursday. The practice of "covermounts," where newspapers strive to lure readers with DVDs and CDs, is used widely in the industry at a time when many newspapers are struggling to keep readers amid the distractions of online news and entertainment. Miron declined to say how many additional copies were planned by the newspaper, whose circulation is normally around 2.3 million copies, or how much the Mail on Sunday had paid to secure the deal with Prince. Prince's mew album comes before a run of 21 concerts he will play in London this autumn. The concerts by the innovative funk artist, who created such groundbreaking works as 1984's "Purple Rain" and 1987's "Sign O' The Times" and has sold an estimated 80 million albums, will be the only shows he performs in Europe this year. GLOBAL DEAL Prince has signed a global distribution and marketing deal with Columbia, a unit of Sony BMG, but the UK arm of the business has pulled out of the distribution agreement. "Given the sheer number of copies we are talking about here it seemed the right thing to do for retailers to become exempt from the deal in the UK," said a spokesman for Sony BMG, the world's second-biggest music company. HMV Chief Executive Simon Fox told reporters following the music and books retailer's annual results he thought it would be "absolutely nuts" to give the album away for free before its commercial release. HMV saw its profit more than halve as it battled cut-price supermarket and online sales. The Mail's Miron said the newspaper, whose recent CD giveaways include Peter Gabriel, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran and UB40, was not out to put retailers out of business. "They are living in the old days and haven't developed their businesses sufficiently. We can enhance their business. They are being incredibly insular and need to move their business on," he said. The Mail on Sunday is owned by Associated Newspapers, a unit of Daily Mail & General Trust

Sponsors Drop BET's `Hot Ghetto Mess'

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

LOS ANGELES —
At least two companies have pulled ads from the debut of BET's "Hot Ghetto Mess," a series that critics say puts black stereotypes on display but the channel calls "a blend of tough love and social commentary."

State Farm Insurance Cos. and Home Depot asked BET to drop their ads from the series debuting July 25, trade paper The Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday.

Viacom Corp.-owned BET confirmed that sponsors asked to be removed from the show but declined to specify the companies involved.

Other advertisers remain in place and there are no plans to change the series at this point, the channel said Tuesday.

"Hot Ghetto Mess," also called "HGM," combines viewer-submitted home videos and BET-produced man-on-the-street interviews that the channel said in a release are intended to challenge and inspire "viewers to improve themselves and their communities."

"Is my goal to discuss these issues in a format and context that makes people who don't watch the channel comfortable or do it in a way that engages the 18- to 34-year-old viewer and makes them really think about these things?" Reginald Hudlin, BET entertainment president, told the Hollywood Reporter.

The six-episode series is hosted by comedian Charlie Murphy ("Chappelle's Show"). It's based on a Web site that features photos of men and women, mostly black, with extreme hairstyles and clothing typically linked to hip-hop fashion.

Hotghettomess.com was created by Jam Donaldson, 34, a black lawyer who's also an executive producer on the BET show, the Hollywood Reporter said. On the site, Donaldson calls for a "new era of self-examination."

On TV, "Hot Ghetto Mess" includes people of all ethnicities, a network spokeswoman said.

But the show and the web site have drawn accusations of being demeaning to blacks from critics including What About Our Daughters, a blog and audio podcast that focuses on how black women are depicted in popular culture.

The blog called for advertisers featured on a BET Web page promoting "Hot Ghetto Mess" to withdraw support of BET and its properties, and said it would complain to companies that sponsor the series.

"This is just a latest in a prolonged and consistent pattern of BET profiting off of promoting images that malign and degrade African Americans," a posting on What About Our Daughters said of "Hot Ghetto Mess."

Hot Ghetto Mess: About The Show
By Erin T. Jenkins, BET.com Staff Writer

HOT GHETTO MESS premieres, Wednesday July 25 at 10:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

"Hot Ghetto Mess" is an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek examination of the good, the bad and the ugly of Black popular culture.

Utilizing comedy, man-on-the-street interviews, video clips, pictures and music, "Hot Ghetto Mess" aims to shine a spotlight on prevalent images in pop culture and examine what role they play in American lifestyle. "Hot Ghetto Mess" goes where most shows fear to tread.

As host Charlie Murphy guides viewers through shaking booties, thug life, baby-mama drama and pimped-out high schoolers, "Hot Ghetto Mess" will explore what these images really mean to all of us.

Cutting edge, original, relevant and irreverent, "Hot Ghetto Mess" is like the traffic accident you can't look away from. Viewers will laugh. They'll cry. They'll think. They'll learn, and hopefully they'll recognize they've GOT to do better."

This is from the Hot Ghetto Mess Board for July 12, 2007. PLEASE PARTICIPATE IF YOU CAN!

This is an invite to all Hot Ghetto Mess Board Members

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Editor's Note: Do I need to say anything why this program is WRONG? Freshly intoxicated on the delusion drug known as Hip Hop, most black youth have no idea of what it really means to have freedom. They have no idea that their tacky crayola colored hair is an offense to those who lost their life in the battle for civil rights. These young women don't even wash their vaginal areas, or pay their bills, but they spread their legs to young thugs who don't care that they aren't clean, and they make children who can't read or write. These children grow up greedy and looking for love. What a formula. So desperate for attention, these children male and female will do anything for attention. From the homosexually charged practice of drooping pants with your butt cheeks barely covered in Dollar Store underwear to the practice of wearing sewn in peacock colored hair like substance, black youth are so lost it ain't even funny. This hot ghetto mess features the antics of gigantic black people who are two minutes away from diabetes and heart disease yet they cover their bodies in clothing fit for the circus and why? Just for the attention. This is a show that the ailing BET Network doesn't need to put on the air. Don't encourage ignorance among a people who will do nothing to become educated business people and contributors to society, we instead need to just get black folks to pick up the paper in their yards and to get them to stop shooting one another.

EARTH underwhelmed by Pop Extravaganza

By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - They rocked the world, but as the clean-up at nine climate change gigs around the globe begins, many wonder if the galaxy of pop stars did much to change it. U.S. and British media were generally underwhelmed on Sunday by Live Earth, the mega-concert organized by former U.S. vice president and green campaigner Al Gore, which, though built on the model of Live Aid and Live 8, created a less positive buzz. In Germany, however, newspapers were more upbeat about Saturday's gigs designed to pressure leaders to sign a new treaty by 2009 that would cut global warming pollution by 90 percent in rich nations and more than half worldwide by 2050. Several articles examined the green credentials of artists on the day, including Madonna, whose annual "carbon footprint" was estimated at around 100 times the average Briton's. The News of the World tabloid, Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, detailed estimates of Madonna's carbon emissions from nine houses, a fleet of cars, a private jet and the Confessions tour, calling her a "climate-change catastrophe." The Sunday Telegraph quoted U.S. reports of her alleged financial links to companies accused of being major polluters. Her spokeswoman in Britain was not immediately available for comment, but in a statement appearing in the Independent on Sunday, her New York spokeswoman said: "Madonna's agreeing to sing at the Live Earth Event is merely one of the first steps in her commitment towards being environmentally responsible." The negative headlines took some gloss off Madonna's widely praised appearance at Wembley Stadium in London, where she sang her specially written anthem "Hey You" before a raunchy performance of three of her biggest hits. MIXED MESSAGES The New York Times' online edition on Sunday featured a small picture of the event and a headline linking to "Artsbeat Blog," and in Britain only the Independent on Sunday made anything more than a fleeting reference on its front page. But in Germany, where Snoop Dogg was among the acts at the Hamburg gig, Live Earth dominated headlines. "The bottom line is that if nothing else, the issue of climate protection was a lot of fun for two billion people for one day," wrote Bild am Sonntag, Germany's best-selling Sunday newspaper. Organizers say that in addition to the tens of thousands of fans at the gigs, the television, radio and internet audience could be as large as two billion. Commentators noted the difficulty in marrying pop music with serious themes like the environment. "Mixing music and a serious message gives concert a clunky rhythm," was the Washington Post's description of the Wembley gig, arguably the biggest lineup on the day that featured Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and the Foo Fighters. Performances were interspersed with long gaps, some of them filled by short films on environmental themes. Many performers were "on message," calling on crowds from Sydney and Tokyo to New York and Rio de Janeiro to cut down on their personal carbon dioxide emissions and recycle. Yet U.S. comedian Chris Rock expressed the kind of disbelief shared by many on the day that Live Earth would make a lasting difference, even if he was only joking: "I pray that this event ends global warming the same way that Live Aid ended world hunger," he said in London. (Additional reporting by Erik Kirschbaum in Berlin) Editor's Note: Is anyone surprised that this event bombed? There is no real passion for Al Gore's Global Warming issues. Most of us are just trying to pay for gas for our cars and electricity for our air conditioners and fans. In other words, just making it through the day is hard enough without watching rich mostly white celebrities talk to us about recycling. Don't you have to have something to recycle? Yeah, that's what I thought. Last time I looked, the folks around here ain't thinking about recycling the wrapper to the Ramen noodle they're forced to eat twice a day.