The United States Navy Loves Michael Bay’s ‘Last Ship’ Judging from this Los Angeles Times article, director Michael Bay’s longstanding and positive relationship with the American military is paying off in a large way for his new TNT series “The
The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants television reviewers to address what the group sees as inflammatory stereotypes in the new FX drama Tyrant. The series, set to debut June 24, concerns a politically connected Arab-American (Adam Rayner) drawn back into
On Thursday, June 19th, I rode every single bus in the “Big Blue Bus” system run by the City of Santa Monica, California. That’s 18 individual bus lines (a nineteenth, which serves Santa Monica College, has closed for the summer). I
On Thursday, June 19th, I rode every single bus in the “Big Blue Bus” system run by the City of Santa Monica, California. That’s 18 individual bus lines (a nineteenth, which serves Santa Monica College, has closed for the summer). I
The entertainment industry is beginning to realize the commercial clout of family-friendly fare. This year, PG-rated dramas like Heaven Is for Real and God’s Not Dead shocked industry observers with their impressive ticket sales. Animated films continue to sell well,
New Amazon 3D SmartPhone a Disruptor? Not at $200 Amazon is way-way-way late to the SmartPhone business, which means that CEO Jeff Bezos had one job yesterday, and that was to dazzle. As is the case with anything from Amazon,
Chelsea Handler is getting in bed with streaming giant Netflix. Will the two regret the coupling? Handler, the rowdy comic who hosted Chelsea Lately on E! for several years, will be the star of several projects for Netflix. In 2015,
The version of Into the Woods that hits theaters Christmas Day may not resemble the story as many remember it. Disney, the studio behind the musical adaptation, is giving the material a nip and tuck to make it more appropriate
Group play hasn’t even ended, but the World Cup has already shattered online-video streaming records. According to Variety, the World Cup has “already broken the record for peak amount of online-video streaming bandwidth as delivered by Akamai Technologies, and also
No longer able to compete as a news outlet, left-wing CNN has shifted its focus to documentaries like “The Sixties” and reality entertainment programming like “Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown.” Overall ratings have continued to tumble at the network, though, and
The director of the new indie comedy Obvious Child, playing in select theaters now and opening wider this weekend, insists her movie isn’t a full-throated abortion defense. A lot of journalists have used the shorthand ‘abortion comedy,’ but that makes it
AUSTIN, Texas–Following the contentious debates at the Texas State Republican Convention earlier this month over the content of the official Republican Party of Texas Platform, key leaders in the state’s Young Republican and College Republican organizations have spent the past
HONG KONG (AP) — As teams battle for football glory at the World Cup in Brazil, the biggest winners from the tournament may be illegal bookmakers in Asia. Since kickoff, Chinese officer worker Chen has already wagered 2,000-3,000 yuan ($320-$480)
The Berlin Regional court has heard the bizarre case of a 45-year-old sales agent who cut up a 37-year-old man and cooked his head. Prosecutors demanded that the man be sentenced to 6 years and 9 months for manslaughter, but
Recently, Hollywood’s elite gathered for Variety’s “Purpose Family Entertainment + Faith-based Summit” at the Four Seasons Los Angeles Hotel at Beverly Hills. In association with Rogers & Cowan–joined by Disney Publishing Worldwide, Faith Driven Entertainment, Persecuted, Pure Flix, and Walden Media and
President Obama announced plans to create the world’s largest ocean sanctuary on Tuesday, expanding 87,000 square miles of protected ocean into 782,000 square miles of protected ocean–a nearly ninefold increase. According to Fox News, Obama is proposing an expansion of
Mexican drug cartels, such as the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, are supplementing their incomes by selling stolen gasoline. At $0.40 a liter, gasoline is cheaper for residents of Tamaulipas than a can of Coca-Cola if they buy from the
Netflix Streams TV Shows and Bad Movies In Ultra HD 4k Netflix just added the full “Breaking Bad” series, “Smurfs 2,” and “Ghostbusters2” to their Ultra HD 4K streaming service. Doesn’t this seem like overkill as far as picture quality?
The immigration debate is mostly driven by the crisis of massive illegal immigration, which has been deliberately conflated with legal immigration by activists, to the extent that we’re not even supposed to refer to them as “illegal aliens” any more.
‘Movie Stars Have Become an Endangered Species’ Writing for Variety, Peter Bart declares the movie star an endangered species about 10 years after the rest of us figured that out: Summer blockbusters make studios happy, but they make stars nervous. That’s
Breitbart News contributor Kevin Williams (Fear of a Black Republican) recently spoke with EchoLight CEO and former presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum about his shift to movie making, his new western The Redemption of Henry Myers and why the entertainment industry
Nikki Finke, founder of Deadline Hollywood (who was later booted from her own site), is back at a new address, NikkiFinke.com, after what she describes as “7 soul-crushing months” of sitting out her non-compete agreement with Deadline. “I’m old. I’m
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has given a £1 million donation to the ‘Better Together’ campaign to keep the United Kingdom together, her website reports. It was announced this morning that the Labour Party supporter and donor would be campaigning
About.me has raised $11 million from investors and plans to revitalize the personal identity networking website, according to TechCrunch. Co-founder Tony Conrad says the money will add features, make it more user friendly and will invigorate the site with the
Hollywood is finally bringing faith-based product to the masses. As a result, Christian movie goers are beginning to reconsider their ambivalence toward Tinsel Town, according to a new study. Work still remains to bridge the gap between the two, but
