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Katy got third Number 1
Katy Perry claimed her third straight Number One album as her new LP Witness debuted atop the Billboard 200. Witness sold 180,000 total copies in its first week out, a significant dip from the 286,000 copies Prism sold when it was released in October 2013. Still, Witness – Perry’s third Number One after 2010’s Teenage Dream and Prism – had the best-selling week by a female artist [...]
‘Never Stop Moving’
‘Never Stop Moving’, the latest music video, depicting the wonders of Sri Lanka, featuring American pop and classical vocalist Casey Breves, had its grand Sri Lankan launch last week. Subsequently ‘Never Stop Moving’ was released in Los Angeles, USA and will be released worldwide. Aptly titled ‘Never stop moving’ the video produced and directed by [...]
Jude Ratnam reveals an unknown truth about the war
Sri Lanka’s first and only documentary film to go to prestigious Cannes Film Festival this year, Jude Ratnam’s ‘Demons in Paradise’, a mostly biographical cinematic venture, unearths the grisly bitter truth about Sri Lanka’s war from the point of view of an ‘insider’. Actual facts and real life incidents with classic cinematography–a montage of the [...]
‘Sinhaabahu’ in two cities
Prof. Sarachchandra’s ever-popular stylized drama, “Sinhabahu” will go on the boards today, July 2 at Negombo and on July 14 in Colombo. ‘Sinhabahu’ is a prescribed text for G. C. E O/L Sinhala syllabus. It will be staged at 3.30 p.m. and 6.45 p.m. today at Rukmani Devi Memorial Theatre in Negombo and at the [...]
Revisiting ‘Welikathara’
Digitally upgraded D. B. Nihalsinghe’s epic cinema direction ‘Welikathara’ is now being screened in several cinemas in Colombo and the outstation. Considered as DB’s best cinematic creation, ‘Welikathara’ also was one of the popular films with a box-office record in the 1970s. It is also marked as the first film shot in Cinemascope in Sri [...]
‘The Big Cat Man’:
World-renowned wildlife photographers and authors, Jonathon and Angela Scott; The Big Cat People, will be featured at the launch of highly anticipated autobiography ‘The Big Cat Man’ at the Cinnamon Grand next week. The exclusive event has been organized by Cinnamon Life together with HSBC to bring together keen wildlife enthusiasts from across the country, [...]