September 09, 2005

Comes back from their more than four years break, Depeche Mode is going to hold a North America tour. The tour, to follow the October 18 release of the trio new album "Playing the Angel," will be begun on November 2 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Moreover, the tour will also include a December 9 show in Fairfax, Va., and a rare club shows November 26 in Las Vegas. A European tour will follow in early 2006. Details are available at the band's website.

Great Green Day tastes success as their latest album "American Idiot" has been certified quadruple Platinum for U.S. shipments, sold for 4 million copies, by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That completion surely makes the album as the second best-selling album of the band's career.

Certified triple Platinum is Jay-Z's 2003 set "The Black Album," while those reaching double Platinum include "Now! That's What I Call Music" compilation, Keith Urban's 2004 release "Be Here" and Styx's 1995 "Greatest Hits." In companion, there are Crossfade's self-titled Columbia debut, Gorillaz' "Demon Days," R. Kelly's "TP.3 Reloaded," Reba McEntire's "Room To Breathe," My Chemical Romance's "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge," "20th Century Masters: The Best of the Temptations" and the Ying Yang Twins' "U.S.A.: United States of Atlanta," all of which get single Platinum.

Chinese high-profile Zhang Ziyi will be among the celebrities to attend next week's opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, which targets visitors from mainland China, where rising urban incomes and exposure to Western pop culture have stirred interest in foreign vacations. The star will join fellow actress Gong Li and Hong Kong pop star Jacky Cheung, who happens to be the park's chief promoter, on the red carpet at Monday's opening.

Katrina turns the world around. The Hurricane has affected many aspects of people's life. Not only affects people in common and cause them to suffer, the storm also has caused the script for "Die Hard 4.0" has been hurriedly changed.

Not without reasons, but the change occurs because the film-packed storyline has a chilling resemblance to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. As for "Die Hard 4.0," it originally featured massive tidal waves caused by a giant explosion swamping New Orleans.

Actress Claire Danes is about to join the 'Flock.' She's reportedly in final negotiations to star in the Bauer Martinez's thriller, which also stars Richard Gere. "The Flock," directed by Andrew Lau, tells about a hypervigilant federal agent, Gere's role, who is training his young female replacement, played by Danes. The two of them must track down a missing girl who might be connected to a paroled sex offender under investigation.

Tapped to write the script is Hans Bauer and Craig Mitchell, with Philippe Martinez to serve as producer along with Elie Samaha, Jenette Kahn, Adam Richman and Lau.