There were two Hollywood-related moments that gladdened the heart over this past weekend. The first, obviously, was the glorious sight of the Oscar telecast end credits, the second was Kim Master’s “Slate” story reporting that Steven Spielberg’s long gestating passion
Who else finds protests and boycotts a little, I don’t know, funny? I remember when I realized that protests and boycotts first began to amuse me. There was a Domino’s Pizza down the street from my house in suburban Atlanta.
Tween girls will unite this weekend and transform Kevin, Joe and Nick into box office stars. Last year, Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour ignited a box office wildfire with a $31.1M opening weekend despite only 683
Most tween girls love the Jonas Brothers, but that’s not the case for the animated eleven-year-old title character from Henry Selick’s stop action animated 3-D masterpiece Coraline from Focus Features. Featuring the voices of Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher, critics
Hollywood execs seem to be waking up to the power of women at America’s multiplexes. The success of He’s Just Not That Into You (Warner Bros) and this weekend’s Confessions of a Shopaholic (Disney) can be traced to Meryl Streep’s
There is a public service announcement that runs on TV from time to time, I can’t remember what organization it is for, but it goes like this: A man sits in his easy chair reading the paper. His tween-age daughter
Although America is suffering through its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, there is no recession in the movie business. Led by the Warner Bros reboot of Friday the Thirteenth and a couple of surprisingly strong chick flicks, Hollywood’s
Yesterday the Guardian, a left-leaning British newspaper, ran a column accusing Pixar of the unforgivable crime of hypocrisy. When it comes to Toy Story and WALL-E, the Guardian has a point. After all, any movie that preaches the evils of
The Associated Press quoted the starlet as saying: “I hope that the war resolves. Whether we win or lose or whatever, it doesn’t matter.” I am not knocking her. She’s 16. I don’t expect her to politically aware. And although
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony), My Bloody Valentine 3-D (Lionsgate) and the Sean Combs’-produced hip hop biopic Notorious (Fox Searchlight) lead a strong-performing quartet of wide releases as Hollywood seems headed for the biggest 4-day Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
The lights came up at the Nederlander Theatre at intermission. My girlfriend, at the time, turns to me and says, “Well, what do you think?”. We had just seen the first half of RENT, the groundbreaking, 1996 grunge-rock musical based
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend brings four new wide releases to America’s multiplexes along with one major expansion. The Monday holiday means stronger-than-average business on Sunday and a bonus fourth day of steady sales, especially for younger-skewing movies.
That’s what I felt like yelling during last November’s horrifying public shaming of a theatre executive in California. Scott Eckern, the Artistic Director of Sacramento Music Theatre, was forced to resign after the public revelation that he donated $1,000 to
Big Hollywood will likely contain plenty of stories dealing with and (hopefully) overcoming the hardships associated with being a “conservative” in and around Hollywood. I want to commend those who have been able to hold on to their principles and
Steve Mason is on Facebook and now also on Twitter. The world is not “standing still” for Fox’s remake of the 1951 Robert Wise-directed sci-fi classic opening in theatres this weekend. The Day the Earth Stood Still, starring Keanu Reeves,
With Fox still smarting from the underwhelming start for Baz Luhrmann’s Australia (just over $32M so far), they unleash The Day the Earth Stood Still on Friday. This is a big budget remake of the 1951 classic from 4-time Oscar
TUESDAY 9:30 p.m. (Pacific): The general consensus is that, although Four Christmases (Warner Bros) is a flawed movie (I’m being kind), it is going to open. It is very well cast with Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon pulling Females Under 25,
A simple, fast paced story with vibrant animation and simple characters makes for a solid time killer but nothing more. Bolt is very much like a Saturday morning cartoon souped up and blown up for the big screen with a
AP: Miley Cyrus’ 16th birthday party was more boisterous than sweet. Cyrus celebrated the hallmark birthday at an over-the-top Disneyland celebration Sunday—even though she doesn’t actually turn 16 until Nov. 23. The theme park was closed for the supersized soiree,
Tourists overwhelmed by the mind-boggling size of Walt Disney World in Orlando will now be able to plan their tour with the help of a 3D Google Earth map created by The Walt Disney Co.
This promotional video from Disneyland shows just how far we’ve come in a little more than 50 years. Disneyland is set to unveil a new ‘House of the Future” this May in partnership with Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.
A federal search warrant quoted him saying “I love babies” in a chat room session on Hello Google.
