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On [October 11th 2002] Madonna's film 'Swept Away' was released in Theaters.

The movie was directed by Guy Ritchie, who’s both the Material Mom’s husband [at the time of report] and the rough-and-tumble British filmmaker behind the nearly incomprehensible yet well-received import hits “Snatch” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” The film stars Madonna as a snobby socialite who is shown the error of her ways by a handsome stranger (newcomer Adriano Giannini) when the pair are marooned together on a small island. It’s the second time Madonna’s worked with her current husband (Ritchie helmed the controversial video for “What It Feels Like for a Girl”) and the second time she’s made a film with a spouse. “Shanghai Surprise,” the 1986 movie in which she co-starred with then-husband Sean Penn, like most of Madonna’s ventures into Hollywood, was a critical and commercial failure, though she did win accolades 10 years later for her starring role in “Evita.” At one point titled “Love, Sex, Drugs and Death,” “Swept Away” was ...

MTV premiered “Die Another Day” the video worldwide on [October 10th 2002]

The Swedish director team  Tractor  directed the video, which was filmed in the Hollywood Center Studios at the end of August 2002, with a budget of nearly  $6 million  (3 times more than  Express Yourself , making it by far her  most expensive video , and the 2nd most expensive music video ever, right after Michael & Janet Jackson's 'Scream'). It doesn't contain imagery of the Bond movie, but it refers to Madonna's cameo as a fencing instructor: the video shows a 'Good Madonna' (dressed in white) and 'Evil Madonna' (dressed in black) in a fencing duel. The fight happens in a museum, filled with Bond collectibles. In a second story line, the wounds from the duel between the two ego's are inflicted on a battered and bruised Madonna, who's being tortured by Korean guards. She keeps on kicking, spitting and laughing, so the guards decide to put her in the electric chair. But Madonna wraps phylactery (leather strips) around her...

Madonna in October 22nd edition of Rolling Stone

Madonna talks to Rolling Stone about her new show, the Pope and the future touring in 15 years

Madonna according an interview to Rolling Stone and she talks about the Rebel Heart Tour, the Pope, the futur and more... Rolling Stone: At what point in the creation of Rebel Heart did you start brainstorming ideas for this tour? Madonna: Finishing my record was filled with panic and pressure because of all the leaks, so I wasn’t really thinking about my live show until I released the record and started making videos and doing my promo show. So honestly, I didn’t really try to sit down and get my head around it until last March. That’s unusual for me because I usually start thinking way, way, way in advance. Rolling Stone: When you did start plotting out the tour, what were your goals? Madonna: My goals are always the same. I want to take people on a journey. I like to explore themes. I believe that if you’re going to a big venue like a sports arena or a stadium you need to present a kind of entertainment that interfaces with all of the senses. I don’t think it’s enough to j...

Review: Madonna lets her hair down for Xcel show

It was easy to get caught up in the excitement the last time Madonna was in town, for a two-night stand in November 2012, thanks to the herculean effort she puts into her live shows as well as the fact that it had been 25 years since the Material Girl last played Minnesota. In retrospect, that tour has lost some of its shine, due to its dark tone, the pointless interlude where Madge brandished a gun and her brattish decision to start the show after 10:30 p.m. All of which made Madonna's Thursday night return to St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center a relief. Now 57 and at the end of her 10-year contract with Live Nation, Madonna stands at a crossroads in her career. She's likely to be 60 the next time she tours, that is if she can find another deal as sweet as her current one. Pop superstar Madonna plays the guitar in front of fans at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on Thursday, October 8, 2015. (Pioneer Press: John Autey) Her new album "Rebel Heart" earn...

October 9 1991, Truth Or Dare was released on VHS for the home video rental market across North America as well as on laserdisc in the US.

                                                  Truth or Dare - 1991 (In bed with Madonna)

#Flashback: October 8 1996, Madonna’s “You Must Love Me” music video premiered on MTV.

In between the recordings of the movie,  Evita  producer  Alan Parker  shot the video, which shows a very serene Madonna standing in a room with a pianist and a cellist. Notice that Madonna's shown either in close-up either behind the piano, to hide her pregnancy with Lola. The video also uses images of the movie. " You Must Love Me  is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter  Madonna . It was written by  Andrew Lloyd Webber  and  Tim Rice , for the 1996  film adaptation  of the  musical ,  Evita , based on the life of Argentinian leader  Eva Perón . The song was released on October 27, 1996, by  Warner Bros.   As the lead single from the  film's soundtrack . After years of not working together due to their individual projects, Webber and Rice collaborated on creating a new track for the film, with the hopes of obtaining an  Academy Award  nomination for Best Original Song....

Madonna Talks Rebel Heart Tour, Why She Wants to Have Tea With the Pope

"When the audience walks into a show, they plug into the matrix of my creative brain," says the star From  Rolling Stone : It’s three days before the Pope leads hundreds of thousands of people in a mass at Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and four miles away at the Wells Fargo Center, one of America’s most famous ex-Catholics is already getting into the spirit of the occasion. Madonna  uses a giant cross as a stripping pole and writhes around on a re-creation of the Last Supper table as she moans, “Yeezus loves my pussy best.” “Popey-wopey is on his way over,” she says later in the show. “I think he’s stalking me.” The gleefully blasphemous moment is one of 21 elaborately choreographed numbers on Madonna’s  Rebel Heart Tour , which has been packing North American arenas since it kicked off September 9th. It’s her most extravagant stage show ever — a two-hour set that features samurai warriors, matadors, gypsies, rockabilly kids dancing around a body ...

On this day: Oct. 7: Madonna and Britney Spears 'Me Against The Music' single is in stores (2003)

Me Against The Music   October 07, 2003 Madonna and Britney Spears' "Me Against The Music" single is in stores. Format: CD single 12" "Me Against the Music" is a song recorded by American singers Britney Spears and Madonna for Spears' fourth studio album, In the Zone (2003). It was written by Spears, Madonna, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Thabiso "Tab" Nikhereanye, Penelope Magnet, Terius Nash and Gary O'Brien. The song was released on October 14, 2003, by Jive Records, as the lead single of In the Zone. After bonding with Spears during a night in New York City, Stewart and Magnet started working on the song for her. During rehearsals for the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, Spears played Madonna the track and asked her to do the song with her. "Me Against the Music" contains influences of hip hop and usage of funk guitars. Spears and Madonna trade lines during the verses, and Madonna si...