Michael Jackson “This Is It” Los Angeles Premiere Red Carpet- Watch Live Online At 4:30pm PST
Tonight’s Red Carpet Premiere of “This Is It” will be streamed live at 4:30pm PST from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. LA radio personalities Big Boy and Luscious Liz will be hosting the webcast. The Michael Jackson documentary is premiering tonight and opens nationwide tomorrow.
Catch the streaming live video at the links below:
Don’t forget to join HW Design Inc. as we tune in to YouTube, tonight at 8:30pm PST. U2 Live from Pasadena, California at the Sold Out Rose Bowl show.
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Thriller! Over 6000 Michael Jackson Fans Attempt World Record At LA Live In Los Angeles
L.A. LIVE (October 24, 2009) – Over 6,000 enthusiastic and mostly made-up and costumed fans converged upon Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE at 5:30 PM tonight to participate in a world record attempt for most people simultaneously dancing the Thriller routine.
Inspired by the upcoming release on Wednesday, October 28 of the feature film “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide are expected to have participated in this attempt to pay tribute to the King of Pop Michael Jackson and his iconic dance featured on the Thriller video.
Thousands of the participants at L.A. LIVE wore a specially created event t-shirt designed and distributed free to all fans on-hand by event sponsor TapouT. Fans also have the opportunity to purchase the official shirt at TapouT.com with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the City of Hope. The event was also sponsored by Clear Channel Radio Los Angeles which include stations, 102.7 KIIS-FM, 104.3 MYfm, Hot 92.3 and KOST 103.5 FM and hosted by a variety of their most popular on-air personalities and featured performances by popular recording artists Beach Girls 5.
Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE made perfect sense to be the west coast headquarters for the stunt as it was across the street at STAPLES Center where Jackson rehearsed the final time before his untimely passing. It was also at STAPLES Center where the globally broadcast memorial tribute to Jackson was held on July 7.
The world premiere of “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” will take place at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE this Tuesday, October 27th at 6:00 PM with the first public showings of This Is It taking place on all 14 screens of the new Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14 theatre beginning at 9:00 also on the 27th.
Hot News today from the new Napster and Google…
The new Napster is now open for beta testing. You can go here and try the new Napster beta. Be sure and send them feedback here.
Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search, just made an announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo. Google Labs will have a new feature called Social Search. What is known so far is that when one does a Google Search, the search results will include social networking information from your friends- status updates, photos, etc. The search results will come from the social media networks listed on your Google Profile. There will be an improved search for images from social media, putting more of an emphasis on this in the future.
In order for Social Search to work, users much have a Google Account, a Google Profile, and friends listed as Google Contacts.
Mayer also confirmed an announcement made earlier in the afternoon that Google had reached a deal with Twitter to include tweets in its search index as a way to improve access to real-time information.
What a boost for social media and businesses who use them! Remember that HW Design Inc. provides full-service public relations and viral marketing/social media to our clients.
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Is Kanye West a media genius, a buffoon or somewhere in between?
If nothing else, you must give Kanye West credit for making hits and knowing how to stay at the forefront of our minds. From the Taylor Swift incident at the MTV VMA’s (was it staged for publicity?) to canceling his tour with Lady GaGa to this… Director of the moment, Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are is #1 at the box office), has teamed with Kanye on a short film that has the internet abuzz today.
“We Were Once A Fairytale” is a 10-minute disjointed piece that is at the same time heartbreaking, prophetic and powerful. It follows a drunken Kanye, stumbling around a club and acting beligerent and out of control, until he passes out. He awakes only to rush into a bathroom and vomit up a strange red substance, finding a tiny rat-like creature in his stomach. You have to see it for yourself to see if you can make sense of it.
Jonze is working with West again after directing his video for “Flashing Lights”.
Word out of Hollywood is that Rihanna is releasing something huge- tomorrow, October 20, at 8:22am. Is it her new single? Her official website has a countdown timer on it and RihannaDaily.com posted photos of a new video shoot in New York, where the singer is donning an eye patch. Rihanna opened a Twitter account last week and tweeted this: “The Wait Is Ova. Nov 23 09″. This presumably is the release date for her new album.
Will we hear a new single? Will we get a new video along with it? Stay tuned to find out…
LOS ANGELES (October 15, 2009) – To celebrate the grand opening of the new Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14 theatres and the release of Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT, AEG is partnering with the local chapter of “Thrill The World” and Clear Channel Radio Los Angeles (including KIIS FM, MYFM, KOST and Hot 92.3) to participate in a global attempt to set a WORLD RECORD for the most people dancing simultaneously to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Thrill The World was founded in 2008 by Ines Markelle of Canada to pay tribute to one of music’s most iconic videos of all time. This year there will be more than 300 locations participating all over the world for this record-breaking attempt which will take place on Saturday, October 24th at 5:30 PM Pacific Standard Time. In partnership with “Thrill the World Los Angeles,” L.A. LIVE’s Nokia Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles will be the official west coast ‘headquarters’ site for this global event.
“L.A. LIVE has become a home for Michael Jackson fans worldwide with the final rehearsal for THIS IS IT taking place at STAPLES Center,” said Scott Hanley, VP of Events for AEG/L.A. LIVE. “All 14 screens of the new Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14 will be showing advance showings of Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT when the film is released on October 27th, so it makes perfect sense that this be the site for Southern Californians to come and participate in the attempt to break the Thriller Dance world record. We are working closely with our partners at Clear Channel Radio to get the word out and host special instructional sessions to teach this iconic routine to fans and participants. This is going to be a truly amazing event and a great tribute to Michael Jackson.”
Participants must pre-register on line, at www.thrilltheworldlalive.com, and will have the opportunity to view and learn the Thriller Dance steps as demonstrated in the training video posted there. To further assist fans who want to ‘train’ for this special event, AEG, Thrill the World LA and the Clear Channel Radio Stations are hosting several live instructional sessions throughout Southern California in the coming weeks. A complete schedule of those sessions and more detail can be found on the website.
Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London’s O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from March through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson as he has never been seen before. In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius, and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show. Kenny Ortega, who was both Michael Jackson’s creative partner and the director of the stage show, is also directing the film, which is being produced by Randy Phillips, Kenny Ortega and Paul Gongaware. Executive producers are John Branca and John McClain. The film will be distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Releasing. For more information about the film please visit www.thisisit-movie.com.
