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heir marriage didn’t work out, but the First Time”), which will come out on is back with Marc September 29 and mark the bilingual TAnthony, if only for her steamy latest star’s second mostly in Spanish fol- video. Lopez on Tuesday released a video lowing 2007’s “Como Ama una Mujer” for her single “Ni Tu Ni Yo” (“Neither You (“The Way a Woman Loves.”) Lopez Nor Me”), which opens with her sitting at became an international superstar start- a table as enters to wel- ing in the late 1990s with R&B-touched come her. The fellow singer embraces his dance hits such as “,” ex-wife and compliments her on her “Waiting for Tonight” and “I’m Real.” While watch before introducing her to a photog- she has maintained a loyal fan base, her rapher who, throughout the video, takes last album, 2014’s “A.K.A.,” fared worse glamour shots as Lopez poses before vari- commercially than her earlier . ous backdrops. The track, driven by a reg- Lopez, 47, was married to salsa megastar gaeton beat and horn section, also credits and fellow New Yorker of Puerto Rican Marc Anthony-a frequent artistic collabo- descent Anthony, 48, for a decade starting rator of Lopez before and during their in 2004, with Lopez giving birth to twins marriage-as a songwriter. Lopez pre- in 2008. Lopez’s personal life has frequent- miered “Ni Tu Ni Yo” last week during the ly featured in the tabloids. She most annual Macy’s fireworks show for the July recently has been dating baseball great 4 holiday in her native New York. The song Alex Rodriguez, a Dominican-American is her first track off “Por Primera Vez” (“For New Yorker. Harrelson’s War Jury sees video of film crew for the Planet of the fleeing train before crash Apes ‘concerns’ he civil trial of a railroad compa- ny accused of negligence in the T2014 death of a movie worker opened Tuesday with jurors watching video of the film crew fleeing a freight train moments before the fatal crash on a Georgia railroad bridge. Sarah Jones, a 27-year-old camera assistant, was killed on the first day of shooting “Midnight Rider,” a movie based on the life of Allman Brothers Band singer Gregg Allman. Jones’ parents are suing CSX Transportation, saying the train’s engineer should have braked and two other trains that passed the film crew alongside the tracks in the Ritchie struggling hour before the crash should have called in a warning. Six other film to find actor workers were injured in the collision on Feb. 20, 2014. Actor William Hurt, who was on the bridge in the role of for Aladdin Allman, escaped uninjured. Hurt sat outside the courtroom for a time uy Ritchie has still not found an actor to lead his Tuesday but was not called to testify. live action reboot of ‘Aladdin’. The British director It was unknown when or if he would blamed the crash on “Midnight Rider” yelling for the group to get off the Gis working on bringing Disney’s classic 1992 ani- take the witness stand. The freight production managers, who had been tracks as the train approached. “You’re mation back to the big screen along with Sean Bailey - train was traveling 56 mph when it denied permission to film on the train asking if I feel deceived by my superi- head of motion picture production at Disney - and struck a hospital bed the movie crew tracks twice - each time in writing. ors?” Giannakopoulos replied to a CSX shooting was due to commence on the project in July. had placed across the tracks, spraying Randall Miller, the film’s director, spent attorney’s question. “Yes, I do.” The jury According to The Hollywood Reporter, even though crew members with shrapnel. The a year in jail after pleading guilty to also saw videotaped testimony of they have auditioned around 2,000 actors for the titular oody Harrelson was “concerned” about por- video, taken by a crew member, did charges of involuntary manslaughter operators of the two CSX trains that role they have not found anyone they think is suitable traying a stereotypical villain in ‘War for the not show the fatal collision but ended and criminal trespassing. “CSX was passed the film crew safely before the to portray the lovable street urchin. In March, an open WPlanet of the Apes’. The 55-year-old actor with a loud crunch as the screen went placed in a situation,” Traynham said. group ventured onto the train trestle casting call was held to find Aladdin and Jasmine and it had long discussions with director Matt Reeves about dark. “People are literally running for “Michael Ryan did the best he could spanning the Altamaha River near the was reported the studio had an interest in ‘Skins’ star how to ensure his portrayal of The Colonel in the their lives and instead of hitting the do ... in a split second because some- town of Jesup. The train operators Dev Patel, 27, and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ actor rebooted sci-fi franchise was “more human” than how brakes, they decided to plow on body stuck a bed on the railroad said it’s common to see people along- Riz Ahmed, 34. ‘Power Rangers’ actress Naomi Scott, 24, evil characters tend to come across on big-screen pro- through,” Jeffrey Harris, an attorney for track.” Two crew members testified side railroad tracks taking photos and and Indian actress Tara Sutaria, 21, are being eyed to ductions. He said: “That was a big concern of mine. Jones’ parents, told the jury in his they assumed filmmakers had CSX’s video and they didn’t see the crew play Princess Jasmine as well as Little Mix singer Jade Because when I read it I thought it was a little more opening statement Tuesday. CSX permission to film on the tracks. members posing any immediate dan- Thirlwall, but Disney won’t make a decision on Jasmine black and white. “I talked to Matt about ways to make attorney Jay Traynham told jurors the Izabeau Giannakopoulos, who shot ger. “We didn’t know they were tres- until Aladdin has been found. Will Smith was also in the character a little more human. “I think The Colonel engineer, Michael Ryan, was afraid to behind-the-scenes photos and video passing,” said CSX engineer Stanley talks to play The Genie in the reboot - a voice role origi- thinks that what he’s doing is what needs to be done apply the train’s emergency brakes for for the production and made the Craig. “We just thought they were tak- nally taken on by the late great Robin Williams - and to save humanity so from his perspective what he’s fear of causing a derailment that video of the fleeing crew, said she ing pictures.” The crash left the Tom Hardy is in line to portray villainous Jafar. ‘Charlie doing is right and just. “It’s good to have it not be so could have toppled its payload of never felt she was trespassing or in “Midnight Rider” movie in limbo. and The Chocolate Factory’ writer John August has black and white.” Harrelson was “staggered” to see shipping containers onto the crew. He any danger until a co-worker started Allman died in May. penned the script for the musical movie, which is how well the movie, which uses motion capture tech- believed to be non-linear in its structure, something nology to bring the ape characters to life, looked that is a hallmark of Ritchie’s early work such as cult when it was completed, and praised Andy Serkis for British crime romp ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking his “phenomenal” performance as chimpanzee Caesar. Barrels’. Following the adventures of the street rat, the Speaking to Collider, he added: “I was pleasantly sur- Josh Homme: story is based on a Middle Eastern folk tale of Aladdin prised when I saw the finished product. It’s so differ- who is granted three wishes by a genie who is captive ent from what’s happening. “Andy is a phenomenal inside a magic lamp. The originally 1992 animation won actor and he’s got all these dots on his face, and he’s two Oscars for the music including Best Music and got the camera, the grey suit, you believe he’s an ape. Mark Ronson is a music fan Original Song for ‘A Whole New World’. ‘Aladdin’ is one “It’s his eyes, his voice, his mannerisms, his movement, of Disney’s most beloved and successful classics earn- he’s doing the performance. “But when it all comes osh Homme asked Mark Ronson ing more than $504 million worldwide and the charac- together it’s pretty staggering. The level of what goes to produce Queens of the Stone ters are prominent at the company’s theme parks. It has into that CG. It was so realistic and so well done. These Ages’ new record because he cares also been turned into a hit stage show playing at the- J guys are the best in the business. “ The motion picture about fans. The American rockers are atres all over the world. ‘Aladdin’ is now set to start also features Karin Konoval as Maurice, Caesar’s advi- gearing up to release ‘Villains’ on shooting in August. — Agencies sor, and Steve Zahn as Bad Ape. August 25, and the 44-year-old front- man says he knew straight away that the ‘Uptown Funk’ hitmaker should help them after he shared a story Men who stopped train attack about meeting a fan who was excited to hear the ‘No One Knows’ groups’ to star in Clint Eastwood film new music. Asked by BBC 6 Music why he picked Ronson - who has worked with the likes of Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and Bruno Mars - he explained: “The reason I asked Mark Ronson to do this is because he called me the other night and said ... I was at a restaurant, he was a little bit tipsy, he was here in London and I was in the States and he goes I was just at this restaurant and to do this because you are a music yourself busy. “I think everybody that this 19-year-old blonde kid was a bus fan...” Homme admires the 41-year-old likes music listens to whatever they boy and said I don’t want to get in songwriter for not limiting himself to think is good. “They know when the trouble, but I am so excited to hear the working with one kind of artist or time is right to hear something and I Queens of Stone Age record, I loved band. He continued: “... And my whole would love to be in a band that has the first song and then Ronson said career something has come up, music for all those moments for me as come back here at the end of your whether it is to do a soundtrack or a fan. I felt like I made something for meal and I will let you listen to some- someone says, ‘OK you should do this all those moments for me too. “Mark thing on my phone that no one has thing because it’s rock’, insinuating has worked on all kinds of different heard. “He calls me and he goes and: ‘I that you can’t do anything else so stuff, buy you should. “And if you do did and he was so excited’. I just don’t give him that. Here, why don’t one thing, it doesn’t mean it is prohibi- thought that is exactly why I asked you you just sweep over here and keep tive to doing something else.” Maia Campbell rejects he three California men who thwarted a terror attack Kalashnikov rifle, pistol and box cutter. The film will be the on a French train in 2015 will make the rare move of latest of several about real-life heroes that Eastwood has tak- LL Cool J’s offer of help Tplaying themselves in a Clint Eastwood-directed film en on, including 2014’s “American Sniper,” and 2016’s “Sully.” about their heroics, a studio announced Tuesday. Airman 1st But the leads in those films were played by Oscar-nominee Class Spencer Stone, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Bradley Cooper and Oscar-winner Tom Hanks, respectively, ormer actress Maia Campbell help, I just need a benefit concert for Skarlatos and civilian Anthony Sadler, all childhood friends not their actual subjects. It’s common to give cameo roles to has rejected an offer of help mental health.” Campbell says she’s from California, will star in “The 15:17 to Paris,” a film based the subjects of films that don’t require more than a line or Ffrom her one-time sitcom co- doing “good” and describes herself as on the book they co-wrote about taking down a terrorist, two, but this case is nearly unprecedented in recent star LL Cool J. The actor and rapper a “real serious person.” LL Cool J Warner Bros. said in a statement. The film, which began pro- Hollywood history. There are no reports of the men having asked his social media followers for responded on Twitter , “You can’t duction this week, follows the lives of the three friends from any acting experience, though Skarlatos appeared on help finding Campbell after a dis- help someone who doesn’t want childhood to the evening when they helped subdue the “Dancing With the Stars” soon after the Paris incident. Nearly turbing video surfaced that appears your help.” LL Cool J starred along- man who opened fire inside a train traveling from all who have played themselves on screen were actors to to show Campbell asking a man at an side Campbell in the 1990s sitcom “In Amsterdam to Paris. The Sacramento-area men were vaca- begin with, such as Kumail Nanjiani in the current release Atlanta gas station for drugs. It’s not the House.” In 2012, Campbell dis- tioning in Europe when they tackled Ayoub El-Khazzani, a “The Big Sick” or John Malkovich in 1999’s “Being John clear if LL Cool J got in touch with cussed her battles with substance man who authorities said has ties to radical Islam. El- Malkovich.” The studio’s statement did not elaborate on what Campbell, but she declined his offer abuse and bipolar disorder on the Khazzani had boarded the Paris-bound train with a prompted Eastwood and Warner Bros. to cast the men. in a new video , saying, “I don’t need OWN series “Iyanla: Fix My Life.”