SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2014 Seacrest puts major money behind Jay-Z, Solange Knowles have YouTube concert series ‘moved on’ from elevator row yan Seacrest is mak- ing a major invest- Rment in DigiTour Media as part of a partner- ship with Advance Publications (the parent company of Conde Nast). The company puts on mul- tiple DigiFests throughout the United States that fea- ture emerging talent from YouTube, including bands like Midnight Red, Fifth Harmony and many other internet sensations recent- ly profiled in a cover story by New York Magazine. Seacrest and Advance Publications are reportedly investing “less than $2 mil- Ryan Seacrest lion” in the concert promo- tion deal. More than 100,000 fans are expected to attend DigiTour events in Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York and Los Angeles. “I’m a huge believer in the next-generation of talent that is burgeoning from YouTube, Vine and other social platforms, ay-Z and his wife Beyonce’s sister say They both acknowledge their role in this restrain the clearly agitated 27-year-old and DigiTour has successfully translated these popular small they have apologized to each other private matter that has played out in the singer, whose 32-year-old megastar sister screen experiences into live, large-scale events that are fun, and agreed to “move forward” after an public. “They both have apologized to each stood largely in the corner alongside her accessible and brilliantly authentic,” said Seacrest. — Reuters J “unfortunate” fight in an elevator, which other and we have moved forward as a unit- 44-year-old husband of six years. became public with a leaked video. The ed family.” They also denied that Solange Solange, whose new album is due out celebrity couple and Solange Knowles had Knowles, who repeatedly hits and kicks out later this year, performed at the Coachella said nothing since a security video of her at Jay-Z despite the intervention of what music festival in California last month, Behind the scenes at the repeatedly attacking Jay-Z emerged last appears to be a bodyguard, was drunk or where Beyonce joined her on stage, week, triggering fevered online specula- otherwise intoxicated. “The reports of delighting fans. The Met Gala after-party Cannes Film Festival tion about what they were fighting about. Solange being intoxicated or displaying took place at the Standard’s exclusive A statement Thursday did not explain erratic behavior throughout the evening are rooftop Top of the Standard lounge-better little local difficulty: It’s usually drink, lobster and big-mon- exactly what the dispute was, but said simply false,” said the statement. known among New York night owls as “the ey deals all the way for industry movers and shakers on they both shared any blame and were Boom Boom Room.” Earlier Thursday the Atheir annual jolly to Cannes. Not this year. Instead movie determined to remain united as a fami- Boom Boom Room hotel said it had fired an employee over world bigwigs endured coffee from plastic cups, sandwiches and ly.”As a result of the public release of the “At the end of the day families have the leaked elevator video. In a statement grueling road trips as transport workers went on strike on elevator security footage... there has been problems and we’re no different. We love that did not name names, the Standard Thursday. Execs on their way to the French Riviera had flights a great deal of speculation about what each other and above all we are family. said it had identified the person responsi- cancelled or found themselves stranded in airport lounges mid- triggered the unfortunate incident,” they We’ve put this behind us and hope every- ble for breaching its security policies “and journey. Heroically, some resorted to wheeling and dealing of a different sort to get there. said in a joint Knowles-Carter family state- one else will do the same.” New York’s hip recording the confidential video.” “The One Cannes-bound CEO embarked on a 14-hour road journey ment to the Associated Press (AP) news Standard hotel launched an investigation Standard has already terminated the indi- while another who managed to get to the airport at Nice only agency. “But the most important thing is into how the surveillance video wound up vidual and will now be pursuing all avail- persuaded a taxi driver to pick him up by agreeing to lie flat in that our family has worked through it... Jay on an Internet gossip site, following a par- able civil and criminal remedies,” it said, the back so he wasn’t branded a scab by other cabbies. “We’re and Solange each assume their share of ty there after the glamorous Met Gala on adding that it would turn over “all available supposed to be in a meeting right now,” music rights boss Philip responsibility for what has occurred. May 5. A bodyguard is seen trying to information” to police. — AFP Moross told The Hollywood Reporter on his mobile from an autoroute somewhere in the middle of France. “We’re tying up a deal in the morning so we’re getting there by hook or by crook,” he said. A London film festival director, Foo Fighters’ Grohl directing Claire Stewart, bemoaned the perennial fly in the Cannes oint- ment. “There’s always something, some protest or strike during Cannes, but this year it’s really extreme. It’s affecting everyone,” she said. Cannes regular: When it comes to the Cannes Film doc series on band’s new album Festival, there are plenty of celebrity spotters and film buffs who hang around, but none have been as faithful and determined as he unusual writing and recording 97-year-old Simone Lancelot. The still-sprightly cinema lover has process that the Foo Fighters used to been to no less than 66 festivals and her life is intricately tied to Trecord its upcoming eighth album was the glitzy event, now in its 67th year. “The year I gave birth, there captured on camera by frontman Dave Grohl, was no festival. Everyone says that it was because I wasn’t there and will form the basis of a new documentary that they didn’t go ahead with it,” she joked, strolling along the series that will air on HBO. The band took a famed Croisette seaside promenade. road trip to eight different cities - Chicago, Austin, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Goodbye to Language Orleans, Washington, DC and New York - to Her first festival was in 1947 and she points out that stars at write and record with local musical legends. the time-mainly French-would go up not 24 steps but just two to Every stop produced one new song, the lyrics the then festival hall, not far from the so-called Bunker where it for which Grohl wrote on the last day of the takes place now. She’s passionate about cinema, which she dis- session in each city. covered when she was eight by watching silent movies that fair- The band promises that each song will tap ground entertainers used to bring to her village. A cashier at a into the “experiences, interviews and person- cinema, an usherette, a program planner.... Lancelot has had all alities that became part of the process,” as well forms of jobs in the industry, and she also co-founded a French association that promotes art house films. This year, she wants as the history of each city. The documentary to see 83-year-old Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard win the top will also celebrate the Foo Fighters’ 20th Palme d’Or prize with his film “Goodbye to Language”. Her one anniversary. Grohl made his directorial debut regret? The lack of star-quality on the Croisette these days. “You last year with the documentary “Sound City,” used to see starlets more and even famous stars on the Croisette. about the famed titular Van Nuys, Calif, They didn’t need bodyguards then,” she said. —AP recording studio that housed legends such as Foo Fighters Nirvana, Neil Young, and Tom Petty. —Reuters