The film will mark the final appearance of Paul Walker, who died on November 30, 2013 with filming only half-completed. After Walker's death, filming was delayed for script re-writes, and his brothers Caleb and Cody Walker were used as stand-ins to complete his remaining scenes. Furious 7 is set for release on April 3, 2015. It is set to be released in 3D internationally.
After defeating Owen Shaw and his crew, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) and the rest of the crew are able to return to the United States and live normal lives again as they had wanted. However, Owen's older brother, Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), is after Dom and his crew, seeking revenge for his brother's death and putting the entire crew in danger once more. After learning of Han's death, the crew sets out to find the man who killed one of their own, before he finds them first.
It's Anna's birthday and Elsa plans to throw her the perfect surprise party with the help of Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf. However, after planning the huge party and as Anna is being led on a "party treasure hunt," by following a string that winds through the kingdom, Elsa finds that she has caught a cold. She starts sneezing and produces a group of small snow people much like Olaf, with each sneeze. After some near-misses, Elsa collapses and nearly falls off a tower. Finally, Anna manages to convince Elsa to let her lead her to bed and take care of her. They come back to the courtyard where the party has been arranged. It is a big hit, but Elsa accidentally sneezes a giant snowball through a birthday bugle horn, cannon-balling it all the way to The Southern Isles, whereHans is serving punishment for his actions in the first film by scooping horse manure. The snowball crushes him against a wagon of manure. Meanwhile, Olaf has taken the tiny snowmen under his wing and takes them to Elsa's ice castle with the help of Kristoff and Sven, where they stay with a disconcerted Marshmallow. (wikipedia)
Ella (Eloise Webb) lives with her wealthy parents in a beautiful estate in a peaceful kingdom. From a young age, she is taught by her mother (Hayley Atwell) to believe in the existence and presence of magic, allowing her to befriend the many animals on the estate, particularly the mice. Everything is perfect until her mother contracts a fatal illness and dies. On her deathbed, she makes Ella promise that she'll always have courage and show kindness to others. Years later, Ella's (Lily James) father (Ben Chaplin) reveals that an old acquaintance, Lord Tremaine, has passed away and he has chosen Tremaine's widow (Cate Blanchett), who has two daughters of her own, Drizella (Sophie McShera) and Anastasia (Holliday Grainger), as his second wife. Ella welcomes her step family warmly, despite the stepsisters' less than pleasant attitudes and her needing to protect her mouse friends from her stepmother's cat, Lucifer.
Soon after, Ella's father goes abroad on business. Sadly, he becomes ill and also dies. This new loss results in Lady Tremaine revealing her true cold, cruel and jealous nature. Desperate for money, she dismisses the servants and forces Ella to do all their work. Even worse, she gives Ella's room to the stepsisters, forces her to sleep in the attic, and won't even let her eat with the family. One morning, after Ella, not wanting to sleep in the cold attic, sleeps by the fireplace, her soot covered face leads her stepsisters to name her Cinderella, which Lady Tremaine (and even Ella herself) calls her. Crushed by their cruelty, Ella goes for a ride in the woods, where she encounters a hunting party. She meets one of the hunters (Richard Madden), who claims to be an apprentice named Kit who lives in the palace. Unknown to her, he's actually the only son of the land's dying king (Derek Jacobi). Despite never learning her name, Kit (a nickname given to him by his father) is enchanted by Ella's charm, kindness, and unique outlook on life and becomes obsessed with her. Upon learning that he has little time left, the King insists that Kit finds a bride at an upcoming ball. Despite the law saying that he must marry a princess, Kit can't get over the mystery girl and talks his father into letting every eligible maiden in the land attend.
When the ball is announced, the Tremaine family is ecstatic at the prospect of marrying into royalty. However, when Lady Tremaine refuses to buy Ella a new dress, Ella fashions one herself from an old dress of her mother's with help from the mice. The night of the ball begins, and Ella tries to join her step family on the way out, but Lady Tremaine, claiming that her mere presence will disgrace them, leads her daughters into ripping up the dress before leaving without her. Ella runs into the garden in tears and encounters an old beggar woman, who reveals herself to be her Fairy Godmother (Helena Bonham Carter). She uses her magic to turn a pumpkin into a magnificent carriage, four mice into horses, two lizards into footmen and a goose into a coachman, as well as turning Ella's dress into a gorgeous blue gown complete with glass shoes before sending her on her way with the warning that the spell only lasts until midnight.
At the ball, Ella wins the coveted first dance with Kit, whose true identity she's pleasantly surprised to learn. This irritates the Grand Duke (Stellan Skarsgård), who secretly promised Kit to a princess, a fact that Lady Tremaine overhears. After dancing, Ella and Kit tour the palace and grounds together, slowly falling in love, but before he can learn her name, the clock strikes 11:59, forcing her to flee, dropping one of her glass shoes at the palace stairs in the process. She manages to get away before the stroke of midnight and hides the other shoe in her room as a memento.
Soon after, the King dies, but not before giving his son permission to find his love. Once it's announced that every maiden in the kingdom is to try on the shoe, Ella goes to her room for hers, only to find Lady Tremaine waiting with it in her hand, having figured out her identity from her attitude after the ball. Lady Tremaine demands that Ella makes her head of the royal family and give her daughters proper husbands when she becomes queen and when she refuses, she smashes the shoe and locks Ella in her room. She then brings the shoe and identity of the mystery girl to the Grand Duke and talks him into rewarding her with title of countess and worthy husbands for her daughters. The Duke takes the shattered shoe to Kit, hoping to convince him to forget the mystery girl, but this makes him more determined than ever to find his true love.
The Grand Duke and the captain of the guards (Nonso Anozie) lead a garrison to try the remaining shoe on all the maidens in the land, all of whom are rejected by its magic, before arriving at the Tremaine estate. When the shoe rejects both stepsisters, they turn to leave, only to hear Ella singing thanks to the mice opening her attic window. The Grand Duke tries to leave anyway but is stopped by one of the men, who reveals himself to be Kit in disguise and demands that the captain investigate the sound. Once Ella is found, Lady Tremaine tries to forbid her from trying on the shoe, but is overruled by the captain. Sure enough, the shoe fits and Ella leaves with Kit after forgiving her stepmother, who later is forced to leave the kingdom with her daughters and the Grand Duke.
At the wedding, Kit and Ella are married and crowned king and queen. The Fairy Godmother narrates that they become the land's most beloved monarchs, ruling with the courage and kindness she promised her mother.
On what would have been the
King’s 80th birthday, an acetate recording of the Elvis ballad My Happiness has
sold at auction for the sum of $300,000 (£198,413).
Made in
1953 at Sun Records, the Memphis studio operated by Sam Phillips, it was the
first song that Presley, then 18, ever recorded.
Paying $4
for the session, it is said that Presley then left the studios and went to the
home of friend Ed Leek to listen to it - as his own family did not have a
record player - and left the record behind. My Happiness was offered to the
auction house by Leek’s niece, who inherited the record.
The track
is a pop standard which was initially made famous in the mid-twentieth century
and has been interpreted by a number of artists throughout the decades,
including Ella Fitzgerald and Fats Domino.
Bidding
began at $50,000 (£330,68) on 8 January and it was purchased by an undisclosed
buyer at Presley’s former home Graceland, now also a museum and tourist
attraction.
Other
items on sale at the auction include an autographed copy of That’s All Right, a
custom designed watch featuring a Star of David design, his first driver’s
license and the jacket he wore in the Viva Las Vegas film.
To mark
the great musician’s birthday, hundreds of fans joined Presley’s family in
Memphis, Tennessee, with Presley’s former wife Priscilla and their child Lisa
Marie, along with Elvis’ grandchildren, slicing an eight-tier cake to
celebrate.
Last
week, a number of considerably more pricey items of Elvis memorabilia went on
sale: Presley’spair
of personal jets– one
of which has a gilded wash basin and plush sleeping quarters – are expected to
fetch between $10m and $15m.
Elvis Aaron Presley[a](January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer
and actor. Regarded as one of the most significantcultural iconsof the 20th century, he is often
referred to as"the King of Rock and Roll",
or simply, "the King".
Born inTupelo, Mississippi, when Presley was 13 years
old he and his family relocated toMemphis, Tennessee. His music career began
there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producerSam PhillipsatSun Records.
Accompanied by guitaristScotty Mooreand
bassistBill Black,
Presley was an early popularizer ofrockabilly,
an uptempo,backbeat-driven
fusion ofcountry musicandrhythm and blues.RCA Victoracquired his contract in a deal
arranged byColonel Tom Parker, who managed the singer for
more than two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel",
was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States.
He was regarded as the leading figure ofrock and rollafter a series of successful network
television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations
of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly
potent mix of influences across color lines that coincided with the dawn of theCivil Rights Movement,
made him enormously popular—and controversial.
In November 1956, he
made his film debut inLove Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted
into military service: He resumed his recording career two years later,
producing some of his most commercially successful work before devoting much of
the 1960s to making Hollywood movies and their accompanying soundtrack albums,
most of which were critically derided. In 1968, following a seven-year break
from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed televised
comeback specialElvis, which led to an extendedLas Vegasconcert residency and a string of
highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley was featured in the first globally
broadcast concert via satellite,Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of
prescription drug abuse severely damaged his health, and he died in 1977 at the
age of 42.
Presley is one of the
most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. Commercially
successful in many genres, includingpop,bluesandgospel,
he is thebest-selling solo artistin the history of recorded music,[5][6][7][8]with estimated album sales of around
600 million units worldwide.[9]He was nominated for 14 competitiveGrammysand won three, also receiving theGrammy Lifetime Achievement Awardat age 36, and has been inducted into
multiple musichalls of fame.
