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MJ er heitur sem aldrei fyrr og barist er um réttina

Sony & NBC moved into first positions in the Hollywood auction of the live music, primetime TV special, and film rights to Michael Jackson's rehearsal footage for sale by the ghouls at AEG (see below). Although the winners of the auction won't be announced until next week, major studios like Viacom's Paramount/MTV, NBC Universal, Sony Music and Sony Pictures, and News Corp's 20th Century Fox/Fox Broadcasting Co, all have been battling for the projects. I've confirmed that AEG started the bidding for the movies rights at a staggering $50 million, and the TV special rights at $10 million. "They are looking to do a primetime TV special with NBC, and then go with live albums and films with Sony since Sony controls the distribution rights to [MJ's] music," one of my insiders told me today. "All this needs to be sorted out through the weekend as they will have to go to the judge to get any deals blessed next week." That may explain why insiders keep telling me about the "sensitivity and confidentiality" of the ongoing negotiation process.

I've learned AEG's goal is to have the primetime TV special on air in September and the film out in October. No word on when the live albums would be scheduled. (Perhaps in part because Sony Music's ex-topper Tommy Mottola has been quoted as saying that the company has "song after song" of unreleased MJ music, maybe even more than Elvis left behind.) The reason for the Hollywood feeding frenzy over these projects is straightforward: "As you know, it will be huge," one bidder tells me. "The footage is so moving. My fingers are crossed."

FRIDAY 5:15PM EXCLUSIVE: AEG is right now trying to auction off to Hollywood that concert film of the Michael Jackson rehearsals for his final tour. I'm told Sony, Universal and Fox are in negotiations, but the price keeps going up and up. $50 million is where it started, I heard. As soon as executives involved in organizing Michael Jackson's 50-night schedule of shows at London's O2 arena learned of the performers death, they met at Staples Center in Los Angeles and secured all of the rehearsal footage which Jackson had done there, according to news reports. Randy Phillips, president and CEO of AEG Live, ghoulishly boasted to The Associated Press he had "more than 100 hours of footage that could be turned into live albums, a movie and a pay-per-view special. He was our partner in life and now he's our partner in death." Phillips claimed the production budget for the shows reached $25 million, which also covered 3-D "mini-movies" of Thriller and Earth Song. He also said that, aside from AEG, the Jackson estate would get the "lion's share" of any profits from the high-def footage. (Photos of MJ's last rehearsals.)

The recordings were reportedly "great," with the last day on Wednesday being the "best," and all of them "enough for a show," NBC News reported at the time. The includes production meetings and auditions and behind-the-scenes showing Jackson and his dancers occupying several spaces in the Staples Center, and Michael going from room to room supervising the rehearsals. The Los Angeles Times and the AP also reported that the singer liked how the concert was developing. 

 

 

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Miðlafjöl um dauða MJ

Fyrsta skipti birtast myndir af hári Michael Jackson's brenna við upptökur á Pepsi Auglysingunni frægu

Jákvæða fréttir !

Christian Bale hefur nú litið betur út !!!!

 

La Toya jackson segir í viðtali við Mail on Sunday að MJ hafi verið drepinn af fólki sem villdi komast í peningana hans

 

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On the day that her now deceased younger brother would have launched a string of London concerts set to revamp his career, La Toya Jackson has revealed that the King of Pop’s youngest child was created from a donor egg and donated sperm.

In an interview with Britain’s Mail on Sunday La Toya says: “Michael didn’t want to know who the biological parents were. They took eggs from a donor and I believe the sperm came from one of five donors picked from a book. Michael didn’t know who the mother and father were. I don’t know who carried the child and if the surrogate knew whose child she was carrying.”

 

The parternity of Michael Jackson’s three children; Prince Michael I, 12, Paris Katherine, 11, and Blanket, 7; has been the subject of tabloid fodder in the weeks since the legendary singer’s death.

“Paris wants to be an entertainer. Prince Michael, the oldest, is assertive. I see such sadness there. He cried at the hospital but hasn’t cried since. He has become the little man of the family. Blanket is the baby. He is very funny, a real prankster like his father,” La Toya says.

“Those children were his greatest joy. He was a superstar but the only people who loved him unconditionally were the children.”

La Toya says she was shocked by the emergence of a 2002 will that named longtime Jackson family pal singer Diana Ross as a backup to family matriarch mother Katherine as the children’s guardian.

“Michael always told us that he wanted his eldest sister Rebbie Jackson to look after the children. Rebbie had a nice family, which Michael loved. He told many family members that she was his choice. We believe there is another will which will emerge. He updated his wills almost every five years, so we expect one to come out from 2007.”

La Toya also sounded off on reports that Michael’s former wife, Debbie Rowe, who gave birth to the two eldest children, will fight Katherine for full custody of Prince I and Paris. “These are not Debbie’s kids. They don’t even know she’s their mother. Like everyone else in his life, she was motivated by money. She has always said she’s not their mother.”

She stated, “Debbie has only seen the children a handful of times. Michael never introduced her as their mother.”

And Debbie Rowe isn’t the only person in Michael’s life on the receiving end of his sister’s displeasure. Dr. Conrad Murray, who was with the King of Pop at the time of his death, also has some explaining to do.

Michael Jackson died not in his own bedroom as first reported, but on the bed in the room of his doctor, Dr Conrad Murray, across the hall.

“I don’t know exactly what happened, whether he was giving him oxygen, but Michael ended up in the bed. The doctor was trying to give him CPR (resuscitation for cardiac arrest) on the bed.”

La Toya tried questioning Murray when she arrived at the UCLA Hospital where the King of Pop had been taken. She got nowhere.

She said: “Paris was in tears and said to me, ”There’s Dr Murray. He’s the best cardiologist in the world, how can this happen to Daddy?”

“I said to him, ”Tell me what happened?” But he was vague and simply said, ”He just didn’t make it.” I wasn’t pleased with that answer, but you have to be careful as the kids were there. I felt weird and not right.”

“This was the only man who knew what went on, but he wasn’t telling me. And then he disappeared,” she added.

“Michael was murdered. And we don”t think just one person was involved. Rather, it was a conspiracy of people. I feel it was all about money. Michael was worth well over a billion in music publishing assets and somebody killed him for that. He was worth more dead than alive.”

PC/Mail On Sunday

Jim Carey er verðandi afi

Jim’s 21-year-old daughter, Jane Carrey, is expecting her first child with longtime boyfriend Alex Santana, a rep for the 47-year-old star confirmed on Thursday.

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Útskýring á MJ draug á Neverland sem sást á Larry King / CNN