Ritchie’s move is quite untreatable The Punchbowl Band is also the main house act at the Punchbowl, a London pub owned by Ritchie.

The band ‘s music is also part of the musical score of the director’s last film, Sherlock Holmes, which coincidently happens to feature a boxing venue called the Punchbowl. The new record label is basically part of large marketing scheme for a mini empire which deals in various entertainment activities.

It’s also been revealed that Madonna’s ex-husband is planning to launch a new brewery and he has already trademarked a series of names, such as Punch Bowl Ale, Punch Bowl Beer and Bitta Ritchie.

Meanwhile, Madonna was spotted with other former hubby American actor Sean Penn.

The former lovers were seen having diner last week at a New York restaurant. The spotting immediately sent the wrong signal through the gossip world, although the pair have remained friends ever since their much publicized divorce in 1989.

Nevertheless, speculations were flying since Sean Penn is coming out of a divorce with ex-wife Robin Wright while Madonna is currently involved with twenty-something model Jesus Luz, which the media has qualified as a toy boy who the pop star will surely get bored with.

A spokesman for Madonna has quashed any rumours by explaining the meeting was actually just a chance encounter at St Regis. The rep claimed Penn was at Madonna’s table for only ten minutes.

The couple married in August 16, 1985.

Interested dance and Madonna enthusiasts may record their own dance steps on video to the tune mega hit Celebration and enter it through Madame Tussauds Hong Kong’s website. Fans have until December 11, 2009 to enter their video clip.

The track Celebration is the first single from the singer’s recently launched greatest hits album, also titled Celebration.

Officials at the museum claimed the song is a great fit for the event and it will be enjoyed through out the festive season.

Thanks to an open online voting system which will be active on web-based video database YouTube, the short dance films will be judged and shortlisted. Officials at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong will also kick-in their opinions.

The YouTube competition will eventually produce five finalists who will then be invited to compete live for the grand prize. A panel comprised of dance experts, popular local celebrities as well as officials from prize sponsors and Madame Tussauds Hong Kong will judge the top five contestants.

Bret Pidgeon, the General Manager of Madame Tussauds Hong Kong and Shanghai, said the dance competition will provide a great occasion for people to get into the mood of the festive season. He added that he was sure that Madonna will face stern competition stemming from local talent.

Ultimately, the judges will select a total of three winners. Their announcement will coincide with the official unveiling of the was figure of Madonna on December 17, 2009.

The Material Girl’s Sticky & Sweet world tour has earned $408 million after 85 shows in front of more than 3.5 million fans.

She had set the previous record in 2006 with the 60-concert Confessions tour, which had grossed $194 million in front of 1.2 million fans. Live Nation said the previous tour was mostly featured in arenas, while the latest one had the pop star performing in bigger stadiums.

Madonna signed a 10-year, $120 million “360″ agreement with international promoter Live Nation in 2007 which covered recording, touring and merchandising.

The top-earning tour overall was the Rolling Stones’ 2005-2007 Bigger Bang series of 144 gigs, which drew 4.7 million people and had earned the iconic group $558 million.

Meanwhile, speculations surrounding her relationship with her new boyfriend Jesus Luz Madonna had said that she might be viewing the young man as more than a mere toy-boy. The Queen of Pop is scheduled to fly to Brazil in a bid to introduce herself to her beau’s parents. Madonna is apparently weaker than expected in the affair since Jesus has benefited from a strong Catholic upbringing and wants to be taken seriously and marry the pop star. Madonna said during an interview with legendary US TV host David Letterman last month that she would never marry again.

In other news, Madonna is set to return in front of the camera as her services have been retained by fashion power-house Dolce & Gabbana. She is scheduled to appear in the company’s spring/summer 2010 campaign.

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said that to have the 51-year-old mega star is a dream come true.

D&G had already worked with Madonna on her ‘The Girlie Show’ tour in 1993 and last year’s ‘Sticky & Sweet’ tour as costumes designers.

This one of the most anticipated release in years. The “Britain’s Got Talent” phenomenon will release ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ on the November 24. The album will feature the song that brought her to fame earlier this year, as well as her takes on tracks by the Rolling Stones (Wild Horses), Madonna (You’ll See) and the Monkees (Daydream Believer).

The star has now released the full track listing of her debut album. Boyle will also a special song written for title ‘Who I Was Born to Be.’

Boyle said that it was her biggest ambition to launch an album and she has finally achieved that goal.

 She added that she had lived an amazing journey which had helped her find her own identity and fulfill her wishes. She also said that happiness is out there for those who dare to dream.

Here’s the full track listing to ‘I Dream A Dream’:

“Wild Horses”

“I Dreamed a Dream”

“Cry Me a River”

“How Great Thou Art”

“You’ll See”

“Daydream Believer”

“Up to the Mountain”

“Amazing Grace”

“Who I Was Born to Be”

“Proud”

“The End of the World”

“Silent Night”

The sexy and controversial singer has achieved to reaching Presley’s record of 11 number one solo albums in the UK. The feat was claimed last night, when Celebration shot right up straight to the top of the rankings.

In the process, Madonna knocked off Muse’s The Resistance from the No1 position, according to The Official UK Charts Company.

The ‘Queen’ of pop still had one hurdle to cross before being crowned all time album chart master, and it’s not a little feat. The Beatle have 15 UK number one albums.

But the pop diva can now claim to be the all time most successful female solo artist boasting the most weeks at the top of the UK charts with a total of 29, the most No1 singles, at13 and the most doubles for outdoing the singles and album charts together, with 4.

According to The Official UK Charts Company, the America super star’s recent tour, Sticky And Sweet, is also the highest earner in history for a female performer.

The album Celebration gathers 36 songs criss-crossing Madonna’s long career and also includes the newly-recorded Revolver with Lil Wayne.

A follow up release, Celebration The Video Collection, which promises to feature 47 tracks, will be launched later this week.

Last night’s UK chart rankings also bestowed some success for singing legend Cliff Richard, who’s most recent work and backed by the Shadows, ‘Reunited’,  claimed 6th spot on the album chart. Other new comers to the top 10 were Dizzee Rascal’s Tongue N’ Cheek which got No3, Mika’s The Boy Who Knew Too Much at No4 and Pearl Jam’s Backspacer which debuted at No9.

As for the UK singles chart, Taio Cruz managed to hold on for a second week to the first spot with Break Your Heart.

Sexy Chick by David Guetta and featuring Akon remained at number two, as Madonna’s single Celebration lost 5 spots and ended up at number 8.

Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind, jumped to third spot from last week’s15.

The pop star is scheduled to launch ‘Celebration: The Video Collection’ in the US on September 28.

The songs featured on the new CD have been re-mastered and were hand-picked by Madonna and her fans. The selected tracks include classics such as ‘Into The Groove’ and ‘Like A Virgin’ plus a new track guest-starring Lil Wayne called ‘Revolver’ as well as ‘Celebration’, her latest single.

Also being released is a two-disc DVD collection containing 18 videos. The DVD will feature unedited and previously unreleased video footage of ‘Justify My Love’ and ‘Celebration’, which has been recently completed in support of Madonna’s new single.

Madonna is currently touring with her ‘Sticky & Sweet’ show which brings lots of publicity generating controversy in Eastern Europe.

The tracklistings are:

CD 1:
01) Hung Up
02) Music
03) Vogue
04) 4 Minutes
05) Holiday
06) Everybody
07) Like A Virgin
08) Into The Groove
09) Like A Prayer
10) Ray Of Light
11) Sorry
12) Express Yourself
13) Open Your Heart
14) Borderline
15) Secret
16) Erotica
17) Justify My Love
18) Revolver

CD 2:
01) Dress You Up
02) Material Girl
03) La Isla Bonita
04) Papa Don’t Preach
05) Lucky Star
06) Burning Up
07) Crazy For You
08) Who’s That Girl
09) Frozen
10) Miles Away
11) Take A Bow
12) Live To Tell
13) Beautiful Stranger
14) Hollywood
15) Die Another Day
16) Don’t Tell Me
17) Cherish
18) Celebration

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Fans of the mega star, who had recently received copious amounts of criticism from Polish officials for organising a concert on the Catholic holy day Feast Of The Assumption, have been told by local church authorities to cancel their concert plans for the weekend show in the capital city.

A statement from the Orthodox Church read: “Louise Esther Ciccone (Madonna), with almost every concert in a Christian country, displays a disrespectful and intolerant attitude to the religious feelings of the Christians there.”

The concert planned for this Saturday coincides with another religious holy day, during which Saint John the Baptist’s beheading is recognised in the region by fasting for the day.

The Orthodox Church commented further by adding that it condones “such musical artistic events which, in many cases, openly profane Christian symbols and events”.

Madonna had recently cancelled a concert in Slovenia, allegedly because of low ticket sales.

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The 54-year-old singer has joined company with US Larry King’s wife Shawn to organise the concert, according to the New York Post.

The team initially had intended to have the memorial televised in Vienna on August 25 for a crowd of 250,000, but the pair apparently had insufficient time to organise the celebration.

“We wanted to make sure that everyone [who] wanted to be there could be there,” Shawn explained her husband’s CNN show.

Promoters have now officially confirmed that the event will take place on September 26 at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Palace. According to Shawn’s publicist, Usher, Whitney Houston and Lionel Richie have all confirmed there presence at the tribute bash.

However, a Houston spokesperson has denied that the singer has committed to appear, while a source at the White House has refuted comments on the tribute’s promotional material qualifying President Barack Obama as ‘a confirmed talent’.

Other project participant, World Awards producer Georg Kindel, has hinted that Madonna will perform at the proceedings, but rep Liz Rosenberg said: “It’s not true. She’s still on tour.”

Jermaine has recently vowed to follow in his brother’s footsteps concerning his humanitarian efforts.

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The play, Mercy Madonna of Malawi, sees a black man wearing a blonde wig portraying the 50-year-old pop star.

Shombi Banda, one of the players, said that Madonna heckled him when he performed for her when she was in Malawi.

According to Banda, she responded to the musical, which deals with African cultural identity, saying: “money is the answer to everything.”

The show deals with the manner in which Madonna won custody of Mercy James, a four-year-old girl from Malawi; and it attempts to show how people there saw the case.

Madonna first met Mercy when she visited a Malawi orphanage in 2006. Earlier this year, a court ruled that she could permanently adopt the young girl, following her appeal of a decision that did not permit the adoption.

Shombi Banda said he performed for Madonna when she visited Lilongwe several months ago.

He noted: “It was a very nice performance with the show talking about someone who went abroad for 20 years and then when he came back he was complaining life abroad was very tough and how he had lost his culture and his identity.”

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