Joe Jonas: Ready to Go Brotherless Like Nick?

If Nick Jonas can do it, his brother Joe can do it, too.

Kevin Jonas wedding......

The Jonas bachelors are down to two.
Eldest brother Kevin Jonas tied the knot with Danielle Deleasa on Saturday, according to People.

Kevin Jonas

We're so happy that we're finally married and we were able to share the special moment with family, friends and loved ones," the couple told the mag.
The two reportedly wed in Long Island at a French-style chateau, with 400 guests in attendance, including fellow Disney star Demi Lovato.


And despite a New York blizzard, the nuptials moved forward as planned.

"The snow only made it look more like a winter wonderland," Michael Russo, a celebrity event planner who designed a "fairytale forest" for the event, told the mag. "Danielle looked like a princess. Kevin couldn't stop smiling."

The bride reportedly wore a strapless Vera Wang gown, as Kevin's brothers -- Joe and Nick -- stood by him as his best men.

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Jonas Brothers top U.S. charts, but sales slide

The Jonas Brothers scored their second No. 1 album in less than a year on the U.S. pop album chart Wednesday, but first-week sales were less than half of those for their previous studio effort.

"Lines, Vines and Trying Times" sold 247,000 copies during the week ended June 21, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The trio's last studio effort, "A Little Bit Longer," bulldozed its way to a No. 1 debut last August, when it started with 525,000 at the height of Jonas Mania.

Thus far, the family act has released four studio albums in less than three years. The group's debut "It's About Time" debuted and peaked at No. 91 on the Billboard 200 in August 2006. A self-titled effort arrived exactly a year later, peaking at No. 5. Then, another year later, "A Little Bit Longer" entered at No. 1. (For good measure, the JoBros also issued the soundtrack to its "3D Concert Experience" film earlier this year. It reached No. 3.)

Last week's No. 1, the Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D.," slipped to No. 2 with 148,000 copies. The Dave Matthews Band's "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King" followed at No. 3 with 88,000, while Eminem's "Relapse" was at No. 4 with 72,000.

Incubus' greatest hits collection "Monuments and Melodies" arrived at No. 5 with 70,000. The album was released in its deluxe form first, before the standard version comes out on July 21. The deluxe edition contains 11 bonus tracks on top of the album's standard 15 tracks. The sales of both versions of the album will ultimately be merged on the charts.

Lady GaGa's "The Fame" held at No. 6 with 47,000, while Chickenfoot's self-titled album fell three to No. 7 with 43,000. The "Hannah Montana" movie soundtrack slipped one rung to No. 8 with 42,000, and Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown" was also down one, to No. 9, with 40,000. Taylor Swift's "Fearless" rose one to No. 10 with 38,000.

Overall album sales totaled 6.76 million units, up 6.5 percent from the previous week, but down 18.5% from the same sales week of 2008. Year-to-date album sales stand at 168.3 million, down 14.6 percent compared to the same total at this point last year.

http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE55N5LB20090624

The Private Lives of Pop Stars, Male Division

In the past year the Jonas Brothers, three charming, talented, aggressively hairstyled, purity-ring-wearing brothers from northern New Jersey, transformed from a middling tween-focused band into perhaps the most significant pop juggernaut since ’N Sync.

They had a hit album and tour, experienced public romances and breakups and, in an unanticipated twist, earned some respect. They played — a bit awkwardly — with Stevie Wonder at the Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone magazine coordinated a surprisingly lively conversation between Nick Jonas, the band’s main songwriter, and one of his idols, Elvis Costello.

But “Jonas,” the brothers’ new Disney Channel sitcom, which begins Saturday, is a calculated, perhaps fearful step backward, a reclamation of innocence. Here Kevin, 21, Joe, 19, and Nick, 16, play the Lucas brothers, pop stars in retreat, trying to maintain normal lives at high school while fame rages just outside the door.

And yet there’s little innocent about “Jonas,” a blithe, thinly drawn, thus far unfunny show seeded with profound cynicism befitting a much older band. Nick chases a girl, Penny (Bridgit Mendler), a winsome blonde with a purple guitar who wants him only for his songwriting. And Stella (Chelsea Staub), the band’s schoolmate and fashion designer, spends Saturday’s episode designing tear-away Velcro clothing, a more economically efficient response to rabid shirt-grabbing fans. The show does neatly capture the many denizens of the rock star ecosystem. Here’s Stella, the loyalist who styles the band, chatting with Macy (Nicole Anderson), a twitching, zealous fan-droid who shrieks on command:

“What do you do,” Stella asks Macy, “just follow them around all day?”

Replies Macy, indignantly, “No, of course not!” And then, with a tragicomic exhale and hopeful fluttering eyelashes, “Why, do they see me?”

In the band’s music life, Nick gives off the savviest air, so it’s disappointing to see him here reduced to playing a dullard, a romantic incompetent resigned to life in the bubble. “Read the fan magazines,” he says to Penny. “I’m the serious one!” Or, as Macy describes him: “All that intensity!”

Because this premiere episode centers on Nick, Joe and Kevin have more room for tomfoolery, and it’s welcome. The show’s most credible moments come when the two oldest brothers needle the youngest about his crush; that sort of kid behavior never ages. But Nick has the air of an adult squeezed into children’s clothing and behavior — a glum, frustrated pop star playing a glum, frustrated pop star. Maybe he has never watched “The Monkees.”

The stench of obligation is overwhelming, except around Kevin, the least essential band member, but here on equal footing. In “Camp Rock,” last year’s Disney Channel hit movie, which starred the brothers, Joe was the lead, a bratty pop star in need of reform, a clever tweak to the group’s angelic image. In the initial, scrapped version for this show, the Jonas Brothers led double lives as spies, which, while a mockable conceit, at least was a conceit.

That this show lacks any such twist is less forgivable given that it’s not the Disney Channel’s first foray into the double consciousness of teen-pop fame. “Hannah Montana,” the Miley Cyrus vehicle, is about a pop star who leads a dual life. But while Ms. Cyrus grew up in, and through, “Hannah Montana,” the Jonas Brothers are already famous well beyond tweens. Their audience is wider and smarter and probably expects more than this noxious, awkward mix of art, commerce and romance.

“Are you saying the song’s available?” Nick asks Penny about the song he wrote for her, which she unsuccessfully used to woo another boy.

“It’s completely unattached,” she replies.

In that case, Nick proposes, “I think we have a demo to record.” All that intensity. Sigh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/arts/television/02jona.html?ref=television

'South Park' saves the Jonas Brothers' souls

The rather awe-inspiring season premiere of South Park last night looked, at first, as though it was going to pander to its audience by making fun of the Jonas Brothers, but once again triumphantly turned the tables on pop-culture hypocrisy. Invoking the time-honored power of rock music to inspire feelings of joyous lust, the 13-season opener found Kenny with his first girlfriend, Tammy, a Jonas fan who was moved to perform certain sexual acts in thrall to Jonas-music... until the noble band convinced her and legions of other fans to wear purity rings and abstain.

But this being South Park, the satire quickly expanded exponentially. Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone suggested that perhaps the Disney company, as embodied here by a squawking, expletive-spewing Mickey Mouse, "can sell sex to the little girls" deviously: the Jonas Brothers are packaged as safe and chaste, even as their music inevitably gets the kids all hot 'n' bothered. When the Jonas boys decide they're being used, Mickey yelps that he's been in control of pop culture "since the '50s" and goes on a cynical rant against Christianity that's picked up by an open microphone and broadcast to a vast audience.

Thus did South Park ultimately come down on the side of religion and sexual freedom, with lots of big laughs in the bargain. Cartman's delightfully clueless, crude warnings against sex must be seen and heard in context (I dare not print his magnificently warped view of the female anatomy here, but you can catch a rerun). And don't worry, the show retained its traditions: Kenny dies, but in a new way I wouldn't dream of spoiling for anyone who missed it.

All this, plus Cartman offers the most definitive, pungent critique of Grey's Anatomy ever. This was an episode Kevin, Joe, Nick Jonas and you could get behind. Especially if you think a purity ring should actually stand for something. Trey and Matt are off to a great 13th-season start.

http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/03/south-park-jona.html

Jonas Brothers Announce Summer Tour

Does it feel like the Jonas Brothers are everywhere these days? Well, this summer they will be.

The jet-setting teen heartthrobs – Kevin, 21; Joe, 19; and Nick, 16 – on Wednesday announced a 44-city summer concert tour that will take them across America and Canada this summer before heading to the U.K., Europe and South America in the fall.

"It is all about connecting to the fans," Joe said in a statement. "We want to give the audience the summer concert they're not going to forget."

The tour, which kicks off on June 20 in Dallas at the New Cowboys Stadium, will feature the band's hits as well as music from their new album, due June 15.

The tour announcement comes on the heels of the band's first movie, Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, which grossed nearly $3 million over the last two weeks.

Next up for the JoBros: a live performance at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards airing March 28.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20264907,00.html

A ‘New Moon’ For The Jonas Brothers?

The Jonas Brothers are hoping for a chance to sing on the “New Moon” soundtrack.

“The movie was obviously a huge success, and if they asked us to be a part of [the sequel], that would be great,” Nick Jonas told MTV.

“That would be really cool,” Joe and Kevin added.

Singing a song on the newest “Twilight” soundtrack would give any artist a lot to howl about.

The “Twilight” soundtrack opened last November at the top of the Billboard album charts, featuring a range of artists including Paramore, Linkin Park and Collective Soul.

Although the Jonas Brothers have yet to actually watch “Twilight,” they are looking forward to seeing it.

“For a lot of guys, they want superpowers,” Joe said of Robert Pattinson’s character, Edward Cullen. “He’s a vampire, but he’s pretty strong and stuff.”

And the brothers are grateful that “Twilight” has given them a needed meal break.

“I think this is really funny,” Kevin recalled of “Twilight’s” opening night. “We were in town, because we were working all day on our TV show.

“We weren’t able to make it to the premiere. We were invited, but we couldn’t make it,” he continued. “That night, we were starving coming home from work. And we wanted to get pizza.”

The crowds of teens were so distracted by the premiere, that the Jonas Brothers were able to sneak, undetected, into the restaurant.

“The pizza place that we ordered from just happened to be across the street from the premiere,” Kevin laughed. “And so, we come up driving, and didn’t realize that it was the ‘Twilight’ premiere. It was one of those comical moments that was really funny for us.”

http://www.accesshollywood.com/a-new-moon-for-the-jonas-brothers_article_14345

Jonas Brothers concert film lacks dimension

For the most part, the experience is missing from Disney's "Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience."

This is, of course, a 3-D concert film built around the squeaky-clean band of brothers so popular with female tweeners. But director Bruce Hendricks makes little use of 3-D technology other than to have a band member occasionally throw something at the camera. The producers did hand out glow-in-the-dark wands to the audience, so cameras catch waves of color undulating in the dark. A runway thrusts out into the audience for a brother to venture out into a sea of 3-D-grasping female hands. And that's about it.

Not that this will dissuade any of the Jonas Brothers' loyal troupe of female youngsters. Disney looks to score big with that demographic not only with this movie but the soundtrack and DVD. Every other moviegoing demographic shrugged its shoulders. The film debuted disappointingly at No. 2 with estimated weekend sales of $12.7 million.

The concert, taken from the brothers' Burning Up tour last year, mostly was filmed at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., despite the film's curious attempt to make it look like everything is happening in and around Manhattan. Guess the Big Apple is more hip than the home of the Anaheim Ducks.

Adding to the pedestrian presentation are "backstage" antics and a single-song Central Park concert that are surprisingly lame. Throw in a few chase sequences where the brothers are pursued by overexcited fans, which serve only to remind you how much more cinematic Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night" was, and you have a dubious experience indeed.

The main selling points to the band, which originally gained popularity on Disney Channel, are their clean-cut, "family-friendly" image -- which is fine so far as it goes. Certainly their musicianship and onstage professionalism are smooth, though maybe a bit too smooth. There is little spontaneity in anything they do.

The brothers make good dance music with a strong beat and rhythm. In this concert, they never attempt a ballad or, for that matter, anything other than uptempo raves and fuzzy guitar licks. The sound amplification and the screams of freaked-out tweens tend to drown out the lyrics, but what does come through mostly is bubblegum.

Hendricks devotes considerable footage building a character around Robert "Big Rob" Feggans, bodyguard to the band as he is for other top musical acts. But there is little payoff to the buildup other than a brief appearance onstage late in the film doing a half-hearted rap against the brothers' pop-rock sounds.

At one point, the band is joined onstage by Disney's latest ingenue, 16-year-old Demi Lovato, who has a voice but like the brothers lacks a presence. Another forgettable appearance is made by 19-year-old country star Taylor Swift.

The subtext here is the extreme youth of the film's performers, even though two of the three Jonas Brothers are legally adults -- Kevin is 21, Joe 19 and Nick 16. Tell you what: How about a battle of the bands between the aging Jonas Brothers and Jack Black's elementary-school kids in 2003's now-classic "School of Rock"? The Jonases wouldn't stand a chance.

http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment

Jonas Brothers hit flat note at box office

Teen idols the Jonas Brothers got beaten up by a pistol-packing granny at the weekend box office in North America, failing to live up to the hype generated by their concert movie.

"Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience" came in at No. 2 with estimated three-day sales of $12.7 million, distributor Walt Disney Co said on Sunday. The studio had hoped for $15 million, which itself paled against wild industry forecasts that reached as high as $25 million.

The film's core audience of screaming young girls was evidently outnumbered by the older black women who ensured that "Madea Goes to Jail" logged a second term at No. 1.

The comedy about a tough-talking old lady earned $16.5 million, taking its 10-day total to $64.9 million. The Lionsgate release has already become the biggest of the six movies prolific filmmaker Tyler Perry has released since February 2005. Perry, 39, dons drag to play Madea, a character featured in many of his critic-proof films and plays.

Lionsgate is a unit of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, in which activist investor Carl Icahn recently disclosed that he had taken a 14.3 percent stake.

Meanwhile, "Slumdog Millionaire" jumped two places to a new high of No. 3, on the heels of its eight Oscar wins last Sunday. The Mumbai-set romantic drama earned $12.2 million, the biggest haul for a best-picture winner in at least 10 years, said News Corp-owned distributor Fox Searchlight.

The three-day haul represented a 45 percent increase over last weekend's sales, thanks in part to a boost in the theater count by almost a third. British director Danny Boyle's film has earned $115.1 million after 16 weekends.

MILEY VS. JONAS

The disappointing No. 2 start for "Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience" is a rare setback for the fresh-faced siblings -- Kevin, 21, Joe, 19 and Nick, 16.

The best yardstick was Disney's hugely popular concert film "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds," which opened to $31.1 million a year ago, and ended up with $65.3 million.

But the earlier film was originally scheduled to be a one-week-only engagement, which stoked feverish demand. On the other hand, "Hannah Montana" opened in 683 theaters, while "Jonas Brothers" was playing in 1,271 outlets. Cyrus is arguably a bigger act, with her own Disney Channel TV show. The Jonas Brothers' own show will not premiere on the cable network until the summer.

Disney distribution president Chuck Viane said he was not disappointed with the debut, suggesting that some of the more bullish forecasts were unrealistic. With the average 3D theater auditorium holding just 240 people, attendance was "very, very good," he said.

Overall ticket sales rose for the fourth consecutive weekend, and for the ninth time in 10 weekends. The populist offerings are providing recession-weary moviegoers with some modestly priced escapism, studio executives said.

Tracking firm Media by Numbers said revenues are up 17 percent at $1.8 billion so far this year, while the number of tickets sold is up 15 percent.

One of the biggest surprises of the year is the Liam Neeson thriller "Taken," which earned $10 million in its fifth weekend, rising one place to No. 4. Its tally stands at $108 million, giving the Irish actor his biggest headlining role. The movie, released by News Corp's Twentieth Century Fox, was produced and financed by French filmmaker Luc Besson.

Another female-driven movie, "He's Just Not That Into You," swapped places with "Taken," earning $5.9 million. The total for Warner Bros. Pictures' ensemble romance stands at $78.5 million after four weekends. The studio is a unit of Time Warner Inc.

Twentieth Century Fox had less success with the only other new entry in the top 10. "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" opened at No. 8 with $4.7 million. But the studio said it was distributing the film for a fee on behalf of closely held producer Hyde Park, and was happy with the debut.

http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment

Jonas Bros. movie may foretell an end to innocence

When red-hot boy band the Jonas Brothers debut their 3-D movie on Friday in many sold-out U.S. theaters, it will mark a new beginning for them and, perhaps, the end of their youthful innocence.

So far Kevin, 21, Joe, 19 and Nick, 16 have mostly avoided the pitfalls of celebrity -- constant hounding by paparazzi, names trashed in tabloids and on gossip websites, and public scrutiny of personal choices, to name a few.

But the Disney movie "Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience," which shows them onstage and behind the scenes of their 2008 "Burning Up" tour, could change that. After all, one of their trailblazers, Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. Hannah Montana), saw her world change while on a similar trajectory to stardom.

Right now the trio of pop stars, who gained fame on the Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana" TV show, do not seem worried. In fact, they shrug off what little downside they've seen to stardom -- months away from home on concert tours, long days promoting records and gossip in tabloids and on blogs.

"You just, kind of, have to laugh it off. There's always going to be haters, but that's what comes with the territory of this," said Joe.

"It's weird. You look at a downside, and it depends on your outlook. There was one year where we spent eight months living out of a suitcase, but to us that was exciting," he added.

In a recent interview, the three brothers credited their father, Kevin, with preparing them for the rigors of stardom.

Nick also said his work in Broadway musicals such as "Les Miserables" and "Annie Get Your Gun" offered lessons on the long days and hard work of performing for a living.

TAMING THE MOVIE BEAST

But being a movie star can be a different celebrity beast because more than theater or TV, movies put entertainers on a world stage and expose them to new fans and greater scrutiny.

Miley Cyrus found out. She had a squeaky clean public image from "Hannah Montana," in which she plays a teen living a dual life as a high school student by day and pop star by night. The show also helped give the Jonas Brothers their start in show business.

Last February, Disney released the movie, "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour," to sold-out crowds, raking in $70 million at global box offices.

Her concert tour that proceeded it saw scalpers selling tickets for up to $3,000 with an average price of $240.

But in April 2008 came a Vanity Fair photo that showed the then 15-year-old Cyrus draped in a sheet showing her bare back. Parents complained, and Cyrus was forced to apologize.

About the same time, there were other suggestive, personal photos of her posted online and this year, personal pictures of her making a slant-eyed face that upset Asian-Americans.

No one knows what's ahead for the Jonas Brothers, but the tickets to their movie have been red hot sellers.

Online seller Movietickets.com reported that 700 U.S. theaters were sold out as of mid-week this week, and a Fandango.com survey of 5,000 fans -- 76 percent 17-years-old or younger -- showed 96 percent were planning to see the movie this weekend.

"This year has been a great year for us so far. We're just blown away with the amazing opportunities we are getting," said Kevin, with the upbeat attitude that permeates their music.

"I think it's all happened so fast, although it has been three, four or five years we've been doing this," added Nick. "We're still pinching ourselves and thinking, 'is this really happening?'"

http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment

Jonas Brothers Stir Up Laughs on 'SNL'

The Jonas Brothers spent their Valentine's Day by trying their hands at comedy and giving a debut performance on "Saturday Night Live."

The teen pop group performed the single "Tonight" and appeared in a skit with "30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin. In the sketch, Baldwin pretended to be the Jonas Brothers' long-lost oldest sibling Gary -- until the group members vote to kick him out of the band.

Baldwin plays the part as an arrogant wannabe band member, declaring: "I'll decide who does what around here. I'm the oldest Jonas, by two years." He also suggests the group should change its name to "The Donut Brothers" and give fans free donuts. Nick responds with: "I don't think we should do that Gary."

Baldwin goes on to call Nick Jonas "weird, creepy and smelly," and insists that front man Joe Jonas is "not one of us." "He has straight hair and his eyebrows look like they were drawn in with a Sharpie (pen)."

When accused by the Jonas Brothers of breaking the band's rules by drinking, smoking and doing drugs, Baldwin says: "I thought those rules were optional." After being officially voted out, Baldwin says: "If I'm out of the band, I guess you want my ring back," referring to the purity rings worn by the Jonas Brothers as a pledge to abstain from premarital sex.

Feb. 16, 2009, 2:30 PM EST
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Jonas Brothers visiting CW with concert film peek

Love them or not, the Jonas Brothers just keep popping up.

The CW network says the singers will host a night of programming Feb. 10 that includes the dramas "90210" and "Privileged." They will provide a sneak peek of their new 3-D concert film based on their "Burning Up" tour.

Fans looking for a musical performance will get a clip of the group performing the hit song "Tonight."

Last month, the Jonas Brothers performed at the White House for presidential daughters Malia and Sasha Obama and at a children's inaugural concert. - AP