TEN Gossip

OneRepublic’s AOL Sessions Premiere…Live Performances and Band Interviews

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 06:35 PM PDT

AOL Music has just premiered a new series of live sessions from OneRepublic. Tune in to see intimate performances of fan-favorites like “Apologize,” “Stop and Stare,” “Good Life, “Secrets,” and more. Ryan and Zach also sat down for an interview where they discuss everything from how the band’s sound has changed since they first started making music to who they would choose as a dream collaborator and how the public reacted to their Jeff Buckley cover. AOL captured behind-the-scenes footage of the band throughout the recording process.

OneRepublic are currently nominated for Choice Rock Group and Choice Rock Track (“Good Life”) at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards. Fans can vote now at http://www.teenchoiceawards.com in advance of the awards on August 7th.

Visit OneRepublic.net for information. Waking Up is available on iTunes now.

The First Look At Machine Gun Preacher Starring Gerard Butler

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 06:19 PM PDT

I’m so happy to see Gerard Butler again. I was going through a dry spell I swear and now…it’s over. I can stop watching P.S. I Love You religiously now. On September 23rd (in NY/LA Limited Platform), Gerard will be starring in his new movie, Machine Gun Preacher. Relativity Media has given us the first look at this movie that is an inspirational true story.

The synopsis goes like this: In this inspirational true story, Machine Gun Preacher is about Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. Gerard Butler (300) delivers a searing performance as Childers, the impassioned founder of the Angels of East Africa rescue organization in Golden Globe-nominated director Marc Forster's (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) moving story of violence and redemption. When ex-biker-gang member Sam Childers (Butler) makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war, he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region's vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aide workers, Sam breaks ground for an orphanage where it's most needed—in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before they even reach their teens.

But for Sam, it is not enough to shelter the LRA's intended victims. Determined to save as many as possible, he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, restoring peace to their lives—and eventually his own. The explosive, real-life tale of a man who has rescued over a thousand orphans from starvation, disease and enslavement, Machine Gun Preacher also stars Michelle Monaghan (Due Date), Kathy Baker (Cold Mountain), Madeline Carroll (Mr. Popper's Penguins), Academy Award® nominated Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) and Souleyman Sy Savane ("Damages").

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