Friday, August 21, 2009 LOS ANGELES: A film about Michael Jackson titled Michael Jackson THIS IS IT will be shown in cinemas around the world for two weeks starting in late October.Tickets should be available from 27 September, with the film opening in cinemas on October 28. The studio confirmed earlier reports that Kenny Ortega (High School Musical) would direct it. Ortega was also supposed to stage Jackson's comeback concerts planned for July in London. The singer died suddenly of heart failure in Los Angeles on June 25. In early August, a judge gave the go-ahead for a contract for the film between the studio, concert promoter AEG Live and Jackson's estate. The film is expected to contain video footage from Jackson's last concert rehearsals filmed shortly before his death. Friends and colleagues are also thought likely to appear. "It is a very private, exclusive look into a creative genius's world," Ortega said.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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