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Jupiter Ascending LIFESTYLE37 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015 Music & Movies Rap mogul ‘Suge’ Knight charged with murder ap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was charged Monday with murder and attempted murder over a hit-and-run that left one man dead Rand another in the hospital, prosecutors said. The 49-year-old rap- per, who could face life in prison if convicted, is due to be arraigned in court today over last week’s incident. Knight also faces two hit-and-run charges, while his $2 million bail was revoked because he was deemed a possible flight risk, could intimidate witnesses and has a criminal past, offi- cials said. Witnesses told the LA County Sheriff’s department that Knight, co- founder of Death Row Records, first argued with the men, then allegedly used a red pick-up truck to strike them-backing into one, then running over both. The apparent argument began on the set of “Straight Outta Compton,” a movie about pioneering rap group NWA. File photo shows presenter Kevin Hart poses in the press room at the Knight was arrested after being 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in interviewed by homicide detec- Beverly Hills. tives within hours of the inci- dent. One of the victims was declared dead at the hospital. The second survived but no Hart, Minaj details on his condition were released. Knight’s lawyer said last week that the rapper was attacked by a number of men to headline BET and had accidentally run over the victims while trying to escape, according to the LA Times. “Mr Knight was attacked Experience in June by a group of men while he was in his vehicle. They were beating This August 2008, file photo provid- him, threatening to kill him and evin Hart and Nicki Minaj will headline the events leading to the BET ed by the Las Vegas Metropolitan attempting to drag him outside Awards. The network announced yesterday that Hart will perform at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on June 25 as part of the three-day “BET Police Department, shows former of the vehicle,” attorney James K Blatt told the LA Times. Experience.” Minaj will headline on June 26 and Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube, with hip-hop music mogul Marion File photo shows Nicki Minaj arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at “special guests,” will perform on June 27. The 2015 BET Awards will take place June “Suge” Knight. —AP “He made an effort to escape, he was in fear for his life. The Forum, in Inglewood, Calif. —AP photos 28 at the Staples Center. Tickets for “BET Experience” go on sale Feb 20. —AP And that’s exactly what he did.” On Monday the sheriff’s department said his bail was revoked because he was “a possible flight risk,” also citing “possible witness intimidation issues and a criminal past” as factors. Knight co-founded Death Row along with hip-hop music king Dr. Dre in the early 1990s. The label launched stars such as Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur but col- lapsed in 1996 when Knight was jailed for violating a 1992 probation order by beating up a rival in Las Vegas. He again served a 10-month jail stint in Bentley expresses admiration for awards rival Lambert 2003 after getting into a fight outside a Hollywood nightclub. Last year, he ierks Bentley says there won’t be any hard feel- Dings if childhood friend Miranda Lambert takes home the Grammy Award for best Whitney Houston’s country album on Sunday. Bentley and Lambert are both nominated in the category. Lambert won a Grammy in daughter ‘fighting for life’ 2010, but Bentley is still wait- ing for his first win. The singers obbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late singing legend Whitney toured together and collabo- Houston, was fighting for her life Monday after she was pulled rated on music early in their Bunconscious from a bathtub over the weekend, her family said. The careers, and Bentley says his 21-year-old’s husband and a friend found her non-responsive in the bath- feelings toward Lambert tub of her home near Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday in an incident with haven’t changed over the eerie echoes of her mother’s years. drowning in a Los Angeles tub He says that if Lambert’s in 2012. “Bobbi Kristina is fight- name is called on Feb. 8, he’ll ing for her life and is surround- be one of the first to stand up ed by immediate family,” the and applaud her. Bentley says, Houston family said in a state- “A win for her is a win for every- ment provided to US media. one.” In other awards show There has been no official news, the 39-year-old singer word of Brown’s condition, but received seven nominations at several US media outlets includ- the Academy of Country Music ing CNN and the TMZ.com Awards announced last week. entertainment news site have His is the second most nomi- cited family sources as saying Dierks Bentley arrives at nated act, a notch behind In this Feb 10, 2013 file photo, Miranda Lambert, left, and Dierks Bentley perform she was in a medically induced the Super Bowl XLIX red Lambert, who earned eight at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. —AP photos coma. “We are asking you to carpet on Sunday. nods. —AP honor our request for privacy during this difficult time,” the family statement added. “Thank you for your prayers, well wish- es, and we greatly appreciate your continued support.” Whitney Houston died in February 2012 when she was found in a bathtub at the ‘Jupiter Ascending’ filmmakers Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on the eve of the music In this Aug 16, 2012, file photo, industry’s annual Grammy Bobbi Kristina Brown attends the Awards show. Coroners con- unfazed by negativity Los Angeles premiere of “Sparkle” cluded she died by accidental drowning, with cocaine use and at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in heart disease as contributing t seems as though nothing can come between for the Wachowskis, anyway - that recalls space edly walked out, has raised questions whether the Los Angeles. —AP factors. —AFP the Wachowskis. When the filmmaker siblings are sagas like “Star Wars” and “Dune,” as well as last year’s film will become a $175 million black hole for dis- Iasked what incites the biggest spats between the “Guardians of the Galaxy.” It also marks the first origi- tributor Warner Bros. Lana likened the reshuffling of brother- sister duo best known for writing and nal, non-adapted film that the 49-year-old sister and “Jupiter Ascending” to the studio’s shifting of directing “The Matrix” trilogy, Andy and Lana 47-year-old-brother have written and directed since “Gravity” in 2013. “The summer is built around famil- French director Annaud Wachowski provide a non-verbal response: They they said goodbye to “The Matrix” trilogy in 2003. iarity,” said Lana. “Many cultural critics who shape sweetly clasp each other’s hands and tap their con- “There’s directors like John Ford and Christopher awareness for films are obsessed with sequels and trasting noggins - Lana’s fuchsia-hued dreadlocks, derivative material. They wildly crave it. That kind of says he had freedom Andy’s wrapped-up bald head - together. environment is hostile to originality. It only makes “It’s all just love,” said Lana. “Is that too good to be space for derivative material and rejects originality. I making China film believed?” The Wachowskis are equally unflappable think Warner Bros was uncomfortable with that when it comes to criticisms of their recent work. environment.” rench director Jean-Jacques Annaud, who fell out of favor in China after They’re undaunted by the weak box office for their portraying Chinese troops invading Tibet, said he had “incredible free- 2012 time-bending drama “Cloud Atlas” and their Cultural obsession Fdom” to turn best-selling novel “Wolf Totem” into a movie at the invitation hyper 2008 cartoon adaptation “Speed Racer,” and For the Wachowskis, “Jupiter Ascending” isn’t just of Chinese producers. Annaud said he did not yield to censors’ requests to alter they’re impervious to the torrent of pessimism another sci-fi flick. It’s also an opportunity to stand scenes but made the film as he wanted to in China, where movies need swirling around their forthcoming space opera up for fresh material at a time when studios are approval from government regulators. “I think being your own censor is very “Jupiter Ascending,” out Friday. “I’ve gotten a thicker keener to greenlight sequels, reboots and adapta- bad, so I did the screenplay very freely,” he told The Associated Press yesterday. skin when it comes to Internet searches on our art,” tions. (Andy called the possibility of returning to Set in the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution, “Wolf Totem” tells the said Andy matter-of-factly. “The Matrix” a “particularly repelling idea in these semi-autobiographical story of a student sent from the city to the Inner “Jupiter Ascending” centers on a toilet-scrubbing times.”) It’s yet another subject where the duo is Mongolian steppes for re-education. He lives with the nomads, devel- earthling (played by Mila Kunis) and her rocket- united. “The cultural obsession with equating a ops a respect for freedom and nature and becomes fascinated with the boosted alien bodyguard (Channing Tatum). The movie’s success to its box office is incredibly damn- wolves. But then a government official pair becomes caught up in an epic case of inter- From the cast, actor Channing Tatum and ing to this industry,” said Andy.
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