Entertainment News Roundup

Tamer Hosni Performs at Semiramis on New Year’s Eve

Pop star Tamer Hosni will perform at Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel on New Year’s Eve.

Hosni will be joined in new singer Amar and D.J. Yasser El-Harriri, the latter’s agent, Sameh Galal, told FilFan.com.

“This is not the first time that Hosni and Harriri performed together, they both featured in a concert at a private 6th of October University last month,” Galal said.

El-Harriri is also busy with the preparations for the “2008 Best LP Award” party, which is organized by his company.

“The party will be in late January and the winner will be the singer who receives the highest fans’ votes,” Galal added.

Saleh: “Koblat” director misunderstood me

Writer and critique Ahmed Saleh has broken his silence about his movie “Koblat Masrouka”, which brewed up a storm after its premiere a couple of months ago.

The film was directed by Khaled El-Hagar and hosted numerous intimate scenes.

“The version that people watched had precisely 104 kisses, the screenplay I’d written had only four. El-Hagar overcame “Abi Fawk Al-Shagar’s 101 kisses,” Saleh told Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm.

“Obviously, El-Hagar totally misunderstood me and my movie. When I wrote “Koblat Masrouka”, it was all about the emotional side, not the physical side, and when I objected he said that it was his job and that every romantic scene had to end with a kiss,” he added.

Saleh also revealed that he had to ask for Egyptian censor Ali Abu-Shadi to prevent the film from being release until after the deletion of some of the scripts “unacceptable” language.

Waked, Boshra Begin Shooting “Halawet Roh”

Actors Boshra and Amr Waked are on the set of the new Mohamed Hamdi movie titled “Halawet Roh”.

This new action flick revolves around a young man (Waked), who is thought to have killed in a car accident, yet his name keeps coming up in several murders after his alleged death.

Hamdi is hoping to finish shooting after Eid Al Adha so the film can be ready for release by next summer, El-Dustour newspaper reported.

“Halawet Roh” also stars Sawsan Badr and Basem El Samra. It is written by Hossam Mousa and produced by New Century.

Amar to try his hand out as show host

Lyricist Ayman Bahgat Amar is getting ready to try his hand out as a show host in a new talent scouting program that will air on Modern TV.

“The network’s administration offered me the opportunity to host a program that will deal with me discovering new song writing and composing talents and I agreed to do it,” Amar told FilFan.com exclusively.

The show will have a hotline where the contestants can register their music and lyrics. Amar will then filter the entries and choose the winners.

Amar has also insisted that he will personally take on and produce any of the tunes that he likes and write lyrics for them.