Afrojack Readies First Album In Los Angeles

Award-winning DJ/producer is also overseeing Paris Hilton's new music project.
By Akshay Bhansali

Paris Hilton and Afrojack
Photo: Danny Mahoney/ XS Nightclub

Afrojack is in Los Angeles, and not just for a stopover. The award-winning DJ/producer will be anchored to the City of Angels, hunkered down in the studio to work on music. A lot of music.

Paris Hilton confirmed at the Golden Globes that Afrojack is producing her next album. The two were recently in the studio working with LMFAO's Redfoo. And on top of all that, Afrojack (real name Nick Van de Wall) is also working on his own first album.

"I'm in the studio now for two months in Los Angeles," Afrojack told MTV News recently before an epic resident set at Las Vegas dance-music mecca, XS Nightclub. "I have two studios booked and I have a big house and we are all staying there and just thinking about not only producing my album, but just producing other songs for other people."

His next single, "Can't Stop Me Now," a collaboration with Shermanology, is the only confirmed collabo he could reveal. But fans can be sure that Afrojack is looking to work with plenty of other artists while he's in L.A.

"I've met a lot of people in the last two years around the world, and I'm pretty sure they are going to be on the album," Van de Wall said, mentioning Omarion, Redfoo, Chris Brown and Ne-Yo as possibilities.

"I did a remix for Leona Lewis, and I really loved her voice. I want to have her on the album," he added, referring to his Grammy-nominated remix of Lewis' "Collide." "And I'm going to work with my own boys. I'm gonna do collabs with R3hab, with Quintino and Shermanology."

After the radio success of "Give Me Everything," Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" and Beyoncé's "Run the World (Girls)," one has to wonder: Will Afrojack's coming album be more pop or club? Is it turns out, maybe both.

"I'm still thinking," he revealed. "I could do club, but then the pop side wouldn't understand. And if it's just pop, the club side wouldn't understand. I think I'm just going to do both. I think it's just going be a totally different thing. Let's see what happens. It's my first album!"

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Japan's Fujifilm calls for Swiss-style yen (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) ? Fujifilm Holdings President Shigetaka Komori wants a Swiss-style cap on the yen to help Japanese firms, he said in an interview on Wednesday, adding his voice to a growing chorus of executives, including Nissan's Carlos Ghosn.

Komori also said diversification had helped protect Fujifilm from meeting a fate like that of photographic film pioneer Eastman Kodak, which is preparing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing in case it is unable to sell its digital patents to raise capital, a report said earlier this month.

Fujifilm, which diversified from the shriveling photographic film market into digital photography, printers and healthcare, in October cut its operating profit forecast for the financial year ending in March by 15 percent to 136.5 billion yen ($1.8 billion), blaming the strong yen and global economic uncertainty.

But Komori said that would amount to a record profit if calculated on the basis of 2007 exchange rates and materials prices.

"The government is showing weak leadership," he said. "We are asking the government to do something like Switzerland," Komori said, referring to the Swiss National Bank's cap on the franc at 1.20 per euro, introduced last September.

Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi, however, told reporters on Wednesday that it would be hard for Japan to set such an upper limit on its currency given the vast supply of yen in global markets.

"From the standpoint that the Japanese yen is basically the third key currency after the dollar and the euro, we cannot go as far as the Swiss have done," Azumi said.

Fujifilm's Komori sees 90 yen to the dollar as a fair exchange rate, compared with current rates of about 77 yen.

But he said Fujifilm could bear the current rates and that he currently had no plans to shift more production overseas.

Nissan's Ghosn said last November many projects were being moved outside Japan because businesses could not cope with current exchange rates. He called for a fixed exchange rate.

($1 = 76.8100 Japanese yen)

(Additional reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Chris Gallagher)

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Amazing planets: mini solar system, 'Star Wars' lookalike among new finds

The catalogue of newly found planets is becoming richer by the day. By one new estimate, virtually all the billions of stars in the Milky Way could have a planet orbiting them.

Planets orbiting other stars may be a dime a dozen in the Milky Way, but cheap hardly means boring.

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From a new pair of planets like Tatooine of "Star Wars" fame, each with its own pair of suns, to a trio of small rocky planets zipping around a red-dwarf star, the cosmos presents a breathtaking plethora of planetary systems. A new estimate suggests that the Milky Way's population of planets exceeds 100 billion.

These are among the planet-hunting highlights from this week's winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.

The ultimate goal is to find Earth-size planets orbiting in a star's habitable zone ? the place?where a planet, with the right atmosphere, can host water as liquid, ice, and gas on its surface.

While no Earth-scale planets in this Goldilocks zone have yet appeared, "these latest observations make it extremely likely that Earth-scale planets in the habitable zone exist, probably in large numbers," says Philip Armitage, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Three results highlighted at the meeting speak volumes about how far researchers have come in the 16 years since astronomers detected the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star.

Between 600 and 700 extrasolar planets have been confirmed, depending on which online catalog keeps tally. NASA's Kepler mission has accounted for 35 of these, with another 2,326 "planet candidates" awaiting evaluation.

Yet this number pales beside an estimate offered by a research team that presented its results at the meeting and in the Jan. 12 issue of the journal Nature.

Based on a six-year survey of stars using a technique known as gravitational lensing, in which an intervening star's gravity magnifies the light from a star far behind it, the team estimates that 17 percent of all stars in the galaxy host a planet of Jupiter's mass or greater. About 52 percent of stars host Neptune-class planets, while 62 percent host so-called super Earths.

Given the trend toward higher numbers of lower-mass planets, "statistically, every star in the galaxy should have at least one planet, and probably more," according to Kailash Sahu, a researcher a the Hubble Space Telescope Institute in Baltimore and a member of the research team.

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'Contraband' takes weekend box office with $28.8M (omg!)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The Mark Wahlberg smuggling drama "Contraband" stole the top spot at box office away from the 3-D rerelease of "Beauty and the Beast" and the musical comedy "Joyful Noise" with a $28.8 million debut haul, while "Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol" earned $14.2 million in its fifth weekend to take third place.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. "Contraband," Universal, $28,816,095, 2,863 locations, $10,065 average, $28,816,095, one week.

2. "Beauty and the Beast," Disney, $23,507,000, 2,625 locations, $8,955 average, $23,507,000, one week.

3. "Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol," Paramount, $14,200,000, 3,346 locations, $4,244 average, $189,447,000, five weeks.

4. "Joyful Noise," Warner Bros., $13,785,000, 2,735 locations, $5,040 average, $13,785,000, one week.

5. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," Warner Bros., $10,505,000, 3,155 locations, $3,330 average, $172,105,000, five weeks.

6. "The Devil Inside," Paramount Insurge, $9,175,000, 2,551 locations, $3,597 average, $47,522,000, two weeks.

7. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Sony, $8,100,000, 2,674 locations, $3,029 average, $89,281,000, four weeks.

8. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked," Fox, $7,825,000, 2,849 locations, $2,747 average, $120,806,288, five weeks.

9. "War Horse," Disney, $7,166,000, 2,856 locations, $2,509 average, $67,338,000, four weeks.

10. "We Bought a Zoo," Fox, $6,800,000, 2,909 locations, $2,338 average, $65,288,534, four weeks.

11. "The Iron Lady," Weinstein Co., $6,474,000, 802 locations, $8,072 average, $7,061,621, three weeks.

12. "The Adventures of Tintin," Paramount, $5,225,000, 2,073 locations, $2,521 average, $68,930,000, four weeks.

13. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," Focus, $3,800,000, 886 locations, $4,289 average, $15,742,540, six weeks.

14. "The Descendants," Fox Searchlight, $2,530,000, 660 locations, $3,833 average, $47,534,196, nine weeks.

15. "The Artist," Weinstein Co., $1,470,000, 216 locations, $6,806 average, $9,066,779, eight weeks.

16. "Hugo," Paramount, $1,325,000, 545 locations, $2,431 average, $54,442,000, eight weeks.

17. "New Year's Eve," Warner Bros., $1,275,000, 1,092 locations, $1,168 average, $53,929,000, six weeks.

18. "The Darkest Hour," Summit, $1,265,000, 1,182 locations, $1,070 average, $20,714,174, four weeks.

19. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ? Part 1," Summit, $942,000, 708 locations, $1,331 average, $279,811,685, nine weeks.

20. "Carnage," Sony Pictures Classics, $904,567, 494 locations, $1,831 average, $1,491,032, five weeks.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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Maradona cleared to leave hospital

Associated Press Sports

updated 9:00 a.m. ET Jan. 16, 2012

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -Diego Maradona has left a private hospital in Dubai after undergoing surgery to remove kidney stones.

A statement released by the Dubai-based club Al Wasl said the coach and former Argentina great was discharged from the Canadian Specialist Hospital on Monday following his operation Sunday night. It said Maradona will take a day off to rest and recuperate and is expected to return to the club on Wednesday.

Maradona was admitted to the hospital after complaining of abdominal pains.

Maradona coached Al Wasl to a 2-1 victory over Al Ahli on Saturday. The club's next match is Jan. 23.

? 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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