READER QUESTION: WHERE TO BUY BLU-RAYS I have a Blu-ray disc question for you. I have a thing about having the disc in my hands, the slip case listing the features, and the ability to watch it whenever I want.
What do you get for the couple who has everything … literally? Celebs may be pondering that question today after news that A-listers Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are engaged … at long last. The famous couple, dubbed Brangelina by
Wednesday, Breitbart News reported that DreamWorks, the film company co-founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, had received a $200 million bailout from India’s Reliance Entertainment, a company with a questionable history and ties to the Obama administration:
Hilary Rosen won’t back down from her absurd statements yesterday on CNN, in which she essentially said that Ann Romney couldn’t be a good spokesperson for women because she was a stay-at-home mom. Now, she’s taken to CNN.com to make
CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS: AMAZON PRIME VS. NETFLIX I agree with all of this but would add one very important note: Amazon Instant is an absolute mess. The television programs and films are not organized in a way that makes anything
YOU CAN STREAM THE NFL SUNDAY TICKET THROUGH PLAYSTATION 3 Someone tweeted me this information. See, we’re figuring out how to defeat the evil of bundled cable together. ‘SOUTH PARK’ DOES MORE TO COMMENT ON BULLYING 19 SECONDS… About says
Other than the fact that there are 2.1 billion Christians in the world and Hollywood chose not to produce a single film aimed at that demographic during the holiest weekend of the year, there’s no real news here. Actually, that isn’t
Thirteen years after “American Pie,” the adolescents from the worldwide hit movie are back for a fourth helping, still tempted by the juicy bits despite having grown up, somewhat, in the meantime. Released in 1999, the original was the latest
LOS ANGELES, April 7 (UPI) — Studio boss Ron Meyer stood by his statements that Hollywood is still fully capable of turning out films that bomb. Meyer, president and chief operating officer of NBC Universal Studios, told an audience at
In 1999, then-State Senator Barack Obama invoked the late radical Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who passed away in 1996, to promote a universal health care law he co-sponsored and which Illinois voters had overwhelmingly rejected. The bill incorporated language directly from the
“American Reunion,” the fourth film in the “American Pie” franchise, hits theaters on Friday. It’s a sequel to the profitable film series, and Universal is making sure everyone knows about it via an aggressive marketing campaign including billboards and a
Deadline doesn’t usually miss with their headlines, but in the case of this particular story, this headline… Netflix Could Undermine UltraViolet As Low Cost Rentals Trash Studio Profits …seems a little out of place with this blockbuster report: Moguls will need
Thousands of people in Hong Kong noisily protested on Sunday against the city’s incoming leader and decried Beijing’s alleged interference in the election that propelled him to the top job. Holding banners and chanting slogans such as “One person, one
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,
COURT UPHOLDS EVIL THAT IS BUNDLED CABLE Well, this sucks: The U.S. Court of Appeals in Pasadena would have turned pay TV upside down today if it had sided with consumers in a suit that took on virtually every major
Obamacare has become one of the most polarizing pieces of legislation ever passed. There was so much heat surrounding its passage that people got caught up and blinded by the rhetoric. On one hand, we were told that it had
We have to assume the Navy and the USO have either seen the film or at least read the script, so it’s great news that both have — along with a number of corporate sponsors — enthusiastically joined the film’s promotional
(AP) Box Office Preview: ‘Hunger’ to take huge bite By PAUL DERGARABEDIAN For The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Lionsgate’s much-anticipated adaptation of the bestselling “Hunger Games” book series is about to unleash itself on a ravenous movie-going public. With massive
UNIVERSAL HIRES NEW SCRIBES FOR ‘MIDNIGHT RUN 2,’ BRETT RATNER WILL DIRECT Robert De Niro’s already on board and Charles Grodin seems willing to temporarily suspend the awful work he’s doing now — fighting to release criminals into neighborhoods other
THR: Paramount is giving Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer a 21st century makeover. … The storyline is being kept under wraps, but the project is described as a re-imagining in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman, focusing on
An argument over whether an anti-Israel terrorist group had been scheduled to address the UN Human Rights Council this week may have been motivated by concerns about the political implications for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. On Monday, the Jewish
No surprise here: In recent weeks, LinkedIn, the networking website, and the Council of Economic Advisers have reported that the press is “America’s fastest-shrinking industry”, measured by jobs lost; the Newspaper Association of America has shown that advertising sales have halved since 2005 and
DHD: Welcome to another weekend of strong box office. numbers for the #1 movie, Sony Pictures/MGM co-production’ 21 Jump Street, showed an opening of $13M Friday and $35M weekend from 3,121 theaters. “Great news for Jump Street as it keeps
Yesterday, the Administrative Committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a public statement denouncing what it called “an unwarranted government definition of religion.” The Conference spelled out what the debate over President Obama’s birth control mandate is about:
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.
