LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Reuters) – Romantic comedy “Think Like a Man” easily beat four new films to win the U.S. and Canadian box office race for a second time while superhero movie “The Avengers” stormed into overseas theaters with
The Security and Exchange Commission is suspicious of some of the major film studios in the United States. That’s because in February, China’s state-owned China Film Group suddenly agreed to loosen their restrictions on international media playing in China. Before
BEIJING (Reuters) – “Avatar” and “Titanic” film director James Cameron said on Sunday that he was looking at co-production of films in China, but would have to weigh issues like censorship and other restrictions before making any decisions. Hollywood has
(AFP) The chairman of Walt Disney Studios Rich Ross resigned Friday, a month after the massive box office flop suffered by critically-panned sci-fi fantasy film “John Carter.” The 15-year Disney veteran made no reference to the movie — which lost
BOND’S LATEST GIRL, BERNICE MARLOHE Yowza. One thing the Bond reboot has done very well is its casting of Bond girls. They have all been perfect. The key is finding a womanly woman, not these girls we see everywhere else
Although the reboot was nowhere near the box office hit everyone expected (nor did anyone expect the Muppets’ divisive left turn), a sequel is apparently in serious stages of development: The story so far on The Muppets follow-up, then. Jason Segel isn’t going
(AP) Disney making ‘Iron Man 3’ with Chinese partner By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING Walt Disney Co. said Monday it will co-produce its next “Iron Man” movie with a Chinese partner in Hollywood’s latest effort to forge closer
In no way is this acceptable: Radar: Cult comedy Angry Boys aims to shock viewers with its mockumentary style humor, but one right wing group thinks the HBO hit has gone too far and accuses a recent episode of being
Disney has teamed up with China’s Ministry of Culture and China’s largest Internet company to help develop the nation’s animation industry.
There is a good movie to be made about the remarkable life and career of Margaret Thatcher. Unfortunately that film has yet to be made, as “The Iron Lady” certainly isn’t it. “The Iron Lady” suffers from incompetent direction by
Steven Spielberg’s failing film company DreamWorks is being bailed out by India’s Reliance Entertainment – to the tune of more than $200 million. DreamWorks has a troubled history; founded in 1994 by Spielberg, former Disney President Jeffrey Katzenberg and media
Juggernaut hit film “The Hunger Games” was the top earning movie for a third weekend in a row, scoring $33.5 million in theaters across North America, industry estimates showed Sunday. The movie blockbuster, which opened with a record $152.5 million
(AP) Popular painter Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif. By JOHN S. MARSHALL Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Artist Thomas Kinkade once said that he had something in common with Walt Disney and Norman Rockwell: He wanted to make people happy. And
There will be no HomeVideodrome podcast this week, we shall return next week. Normally films that have the premise of a bond between a person and an animal make me wretch. I loved Disney’s “Old Yeller” as a kid, and cried every
By JAKE COYLEAP Entertainment WriterAt the 25th annual Kids’ Choice Awards, the slime runneth over. Host Will Smith opened the 25th annual Kids’ Choice Awards promising a record amount of the show’s trademark green gunk. Though some 20 awards are
The domestic box office continues to explode, especially when compared to Hollywood’s awful 2011, but Julia Roberts did not benefit from the resurgence. Though she was out front in the advertising campaign for Relativity’s take on the Snow White tale,
Tartarus is the hell of Greek mythology, but in Hollywood remakes it’s as popular a destination as Olympus itself. Disney and 20th Century Fox sent Hercules and Percy Jackson down to the depths of the underworld. Now Warner Brothers has
IS THERE A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON SPOILER WARNINGS? My review of 1974’s “Chinatown” opens by revealing the answer to the story’s mystery. A commenter complained: Geez, John: How about a spoiler alert for those who never saw Chinatown? At
Today’s Wall Street Journal captures an interesting trend in our viewing habits that is at least in part driven by on-demand outlets like Netflix Streaming and the DVR. The real casualty appears to be syndicated reruns, the kind of shows
(Reuters) – Little Lions Gate Entertainment beat out its bigger and better funded rivals to win the right to make a film of “The Hunger Games,” which opens on Friday with blockbuster expectations. Personal appeals for the rights began back
Critically-panned fantasy adventure film “John Carter” is expected to lose $200 million for makers Disney, dragging its whole movie budget into the red, the studio said. Disney said it would take the huge operating loss on the movie, made by
(AP) Miramax CEO steps down as studio pivots LOS ANGELES Miramax CEO Mike Lang is stepping down, signaling that the award-winning studio founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein is heading in a new direction. The studio behind movies such as
‘300′ SEQUEL BRINGS BACK XERXES Don’t we all share the same concern about this sequel: the worry that what truly made “300” special will be gutted? We loved “300” because it was a politically incorrect allegory for the War on
JASON SEGEL STARS AS SLACKER JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME Nothing will make me happier than with this trend of inane, lazy, slacker man-boy comedies come to an end. I can already see this movie and picture the gross-out stuff
Los Angeles Times: In what is certain to go down as one of the biggest box office flops of the year, the $250-million-plus “John Carter” debuted with a disappointing $30.6 million this weekend. Instead, last weekend’s No. 1 film, “Dr.
