A Star Is Born filming pushed back after Beyoncé announces pregnancy

Filming on Beyoncé's new movie A Star Is Born has had to be pushed back after the singer revealed she is expecting her first child.
Clint Eastwood's musical remake had been due to start shooting in February 2012, but insiders on the film told Deadline Hollywood that Warner Bros 'could push' the start date on the film.
It is also claimed the delay to the start of shooting will give them longer to find a suitable leading man after Eastwood failed to convince Leonardo DiCaprio to sign on.

Delay: Filming of A Star Is Born could be pushed back after Beyoncé announced she is expecting her first child with husband Jay-Z

Single Ladies hitmaker Beyoncé will take on the role previously held by Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland in the 1976 and 1954 adaptations, and Janet Gaynor in the 1937 original.
She will play up and coming starlet Esther Blodgett, later Vicki Lester, who falls for a has-been rockstar.
Beyoncé proved her acting chops in Oscar-winning musical Dreamgirls in 2006, as well as portraying Etta James in Cadillac Records.
The 29-year-old singer announced at last night's MTV VMA Awards that she and husband Jay-Z are expecting their first child together.

Congratulations: Kelly Rowland, who was in Destiny's Child with Beyonce and Michelle Williams, came forward to publicly offer her friend congratulations

And today her former Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland came forward to publicly congratulate her friend.
She told America's People magazine: 'I have known for quite a while, and she's happy, and Jay is happy, and that's all that counts.

'I think she'll be an incredible mother, because she's always been motherly. I think that she takes after so many traits from her mother. And I just think it's going to be so natural for her. Its natural for her now!'
Last night Beyoncé debuted her baby bump in an orange Lanvin gown and told the assembled press: 'I have a surprise!'
And the singer didn't let her pregnancy prevent her from bringing the house down with an energetic performance.
She cheered on Jay-Z, who performed new single Otis with Kanye West, before taking to the stage herself.
Arriving onstage in a purple glittery blazer and black trousers by Dolce & Gabbana, the mother-to-be said: 'I want you to feel the love that's growing inside of me.'

Content: The singer glowed with happiness as she clutched her baby bump

aternity chic: The 29-year-old chose a bright draped gown by Lanvin for her debut maternity dress

After a fabulous performance of Love On Top that attracted a standing ovation from the audience, Beyoncé ripped open her jacket and proudly rubbed her baby bump.
The cameras panned to the audience where Jay-Z was beaming, as his friend Kanye jumped up and down, smacking the father-to-be on the back and shaking him.
Beyoncé performed at the Roseland Ballroom in New York on August 14, and covered up her stomach with a sheath of fabric that draped lightly across her protruding bump.

Proud mama: After her performance Beyoncé ripped open her blazer and rubbed her baby bump

The announcement comes after a stellar summer for the Grammy-winner in which she headlined Glastonbury and released another hit album, 4.
Beyoncé, who has won 16 Grammy awards, said in a recent  interview that she feels she has achieved enough in her career to settle down and make family a priority.
'When you're young - 18 or 19 - you have the energy and drive. That's the time to work as hard as you can,' she told the September issue of In Style.

Congratulations! Jay-Z beamed from the audience while Kanye West thumped his friend on the back

'Now I'm a woman, and because I gave it my all, I can focus on my marriage.

'I can decide I want to have kids. I can be the mother I want to be and dedicate myself to my children.'
Beyoncé married rapper Jay-Z on September 4, 2008 in New York.

Cover up: Beyoncé covered her stomach with a sheath of material during a performance at the Roseland Ballroom on August 14

Speaking to Piers Morgan in June, she hinted: 'I always said I was going to have a baby at 30. I'm 29 now.
'But I also said I was going to retire at 30. So I don't know,' she said, adding: 'I am not retiring, I tell you.'
Pressed by Morgan she said: 'Only God knows, only God knows.'

Parents-to-be: Beyoncé and Jay-Z married in an intimate ceremony in New York on September 4, 2008

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Composing Insomniac’s Darkest Game: Boris Salchow on Resistance 3′s Score

The resistance needs you. With mankind facing extinction as the Chimera continue to expand across the world, Resistance 3 is easily the bleakest game in the series, a far cry from the cheerful frivolousness of Insomniac’s Ratchet & Clank franchise. To aptly convey the abject desperation and despair felt by the game’s cast, Insomniac enlisted composer Boris Salchow, who also wrote the score for Resistance 2. To learn about the game’s music, how it had changed from the previous titles and how user control affects the score, we talked to Boris in an exclusive interview.

Hi Boris, could you tell us about your work on Resistance, and your experience in the industry?
Resistance 3 is my third major video game, not counting several other game projects where I supplied additional music or were developed outside the US. In terms of development time, the amount of music written and with live sessions in London, Resistance 3 is the biggest project so far.
Outside of the world of games, I write music for movies, commercials and TV shows.
Resistance 3 is a reboot of sorts – a new protagonist, a slightly later date – did you decide to ‘reboot’ your score?
Even though very little time has passed since the end of Resistance 2, we are looking at a world in which humans have been decimated to a degree that they do not even have a military organization in place. That changes the overall character of the game away from the military shooter genre, and we highlight much more of the human side of the protagonist himself and the survivors that he will meet throughout the game.
The third game has been described as having a much darker tone, does your score reflect this?
Absolutely. Mankind is almost defeated. In the previous game you were part of a military group that still thought they could beat the enemy and they had trucks and planes and outposts throughout the country. But now all of this is gone. There is no plan any more. But it is also clear that by staying home with your family all of you are going to be eradicated eventually. So you leave your family behind with nothing but a vague idea of what to do. It is not a very hopeful mission.
How does composing for games compare to composing for films and TV shows?
One major difference is that you usually have more time to write the music for videogames. Another big difference is that a game is an interactive medium so in order to be able to react to the gameplay we often have to divide the music into a combination of loops and stingers and at times multi-layered elements. That is very different from a linear media like TV or movies where you always know the exact order and timing.
Because the user has control over a situation in a game – for example they can decide to run away from a foe or attack it – does this cause difficulties when trying to ensure the tempo and tone represent what is happening on screen?
You have to juggle more possibilities in your mind and there are many different ways to approach these situations. I personally enjoy this part a lot and I would not call it difficult, it is more like solving crossword puzzles.

This time, you recorded the score at Abbey Road Studios in London, what difference did this make over the Northwest Sinfonia orchestra for Resistance 2?
Both venues gave us fantastic results that were crucial to how the score sounds and what is right for each game. This time the kind of music we wanted to record and also the sound we had in mind made us gravitate towards London and the historic Abbey Road Studios. And both the players as well as the studio staff really delivered the goods!
Did you endeavor to use instruments that existed, and were commonly used, in the 1950s?
In the game you will hear a lot of source music coming from radios or record players. We used this music to establish the feel for that specific period.
With the score we then decided to keep it rather timeless. I mainly use instruments that did exist back then and are still being used today… orchestra, piano, voices etc. Even the electric guitar we used to create those roaring soundscapes for the big alien machinery is a guitar that existed back then.
The only exceptions are the musical elements that describe the world of the aliens – this of course is asking for sounds outside the traditional palette.
What do you think of gamers who try and replace game music with custom soundtracks?
That’s the great thing about games. YOU are the protagonist. So you should be able to choose what you want to hear on your imaginary iPod while running through a canyon shooting aliens.
But of course that music does not switch in sync with what happens on the screen and in a game like Resistance 3 we are constantly switching gears from heavy fighting to some very emotional moments, to some eerie situations. That is something you cannot do with a custom soundtrack.
Do you think it is important to play games in order to write for them?
Personally I really prefer watching someone else play through the game for me so I can concentrate on the general environment and the emotional background of each scene. But once I have an idea what to do musically, I always imagine that I am actually playing through this myself to see if the music would work because sometimes – especially in action-driven sequences – there is a difference between watching someone fight and actually being the person who is fighting.
But once the game rolls out in it’s final form I love trying my hands myself and experience the game as a player. That is always very gratifying!

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