LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (UPI) — The Bluths are coming back to the small screen. Netflix chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, told USA Today on Tuesday that a fifth season of Arrested Development was “just a matter of when.” The
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Summer 2014 is shaping up to be the worst in 8 years thanks to the worst year-over-year decline in three decades. With only 6 weeks of summer remaining and middling titles like “Hercules,” “Teenage Mutant
Comic actor Jason Biggs brought his 2014 Apology Tour to The View earlier today. We’re still waiting for a single “sorry” for slamming the wives of GOP politicians in vile fashion. Biggs, featured on the buzzy Netflix show Orange Is
(AFP) Veteran Broadway actress and singer Elaine Stritch, who enthralled theatre audiences for 70 years with her brassy voice and quick-fire comedy delivery, has died. She was 89. Her death at home in Birmingham, Michigan was confirmed to US media
Drummer Tommy Ramone, the last surviving member of the four founding Ramones, died of cancer Friday at age 62 (some outlets place his age at 65). Born Thomas Erdelyi in 1952, in the band’s early formative years, Tommy also served
Box Office: Under-Performing ‘Transformers 4’ Should be Freaking Hollywood Out My reviews of the dreadful “Tammy,” the pro-Catholic “Deliver Us From Evil,” and a much better than expected “Transformers: Age of Extinction” just posted. I’m late with “Transformers” due to
“…expect the people of this nation to…overthrow you. By any means necessary.” “…for the Netflix and cat videos…” “Why not rename the constitution the Comcast-Time Warner Constitution of the United States.” These are just a few of the coarse and
UNITED NATIONS, July 2 (UPI)–Russia used its informal veto power to block the hit Netflix series House of Cards from filming scenes at the U.N. Security Council in New York. In a series of confidential emails obtained by Foreign Policy,
Why Aereo’s Defeat Will Be An Eventual Defeat For the Victors Unless Aereo decides to pay re-transmission fees to the networks it wishes to re-transmit — which is unlikely and would mean higher costs to Aereo customers — Aereo is
A group of Occupy Wall Street activists staged an “Occupy Google” protest Wednesday evening to push the Internet giant to embrace the cause of “net neutrality,” which would allow the government to regulate the rates charged and bandwidth provided by
Hypocrites at Deadline Threaten All of Hollywood Over Nikki Finke A self-serving Sunday morning interview between Deadline’s Mike Fleming and Deadline’s Peter Bart at Deadline about how awful Nikki Finke is, is quite the lesson in pompous, passive-aggressive character assassination.
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,
This article originally appeared in City Journal Silicon Valley innovators love to talk about “disruptive innovation,” the iconic phrase coined by Harvard’s Clayton Christensen. But today, the innovators’ dilemma–to borrow from Christensen again–is how best to confront disruptive regulation from Washington, D.C.
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?
Superhero News: DC Release Schedule, ‘Amazing Spider-Man 3’ Delayed to 2017 According to Nikki Finke’s first scoop in her reboot, below is the DC film release schedule through 2018. The company is about 7 years behind Marvel but there’s no
Sigourney Weaver Resurrected for ‘Avatar’ Sequels … Will Play Different Character I don’t remember much about “Avatar” — I mean other than the numbing of the ass about halfway through. But I do remember the characters played by Sigourney Weaver
An interesting tidbit of news, courtesy of CNBC: Verizon sent Netflix a letter demanding the streaming service cease and desist false claims and unfair business practices on Thursday. The letter comes after an article on Quartz reported Netflix displayed “error
This week Kevin Williamson of National Review stepped into the LGBT buzz saw for the crime of believing that a person with XY chromosomes is a man and not a woman. He has been castigated in the gay press, mocked
Wachowski’s ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Delayed 7 Months – February 2015 With Warners’ promotion machine already in second gear (but not 5th), the movie predicted to be the biggest flop of the summer has been delayed for 7 months just 7 weeks
Is “The Americans” Anti-American? In an earlier Playbook, one of the commenters asked if I thought the FX series “The Americans” was critical of America or an attempt to make the old Soviet Union look good in some way. First
Now that gay marriage seems to be a foregone conclusion in the United States, Time magazine is predicting the next “social movement” to overtake America. The magazine is promoting “The Transgender Tipping Point” on its June 9th cover. As part of
Salon.com is speaking out about Jason Biggs’ crude Twitter account. Why now? The American Pie star is notorious for his R-rated social media messages. Yet Salon.com scribe Daniel D’Addario is suddenly furious about Biggs’ Twitter jokes. What changed? Biggs is
‘Godzilla’ Opens to Stunning $9.3 Million Thursday Night I said yesterday that the $65 million prediction for “Godzilla” seemed awfully low. It appears I was right. “Godzilla” snatched $9.3 million Thursday night beating even “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” which went
Hardcore “Net Neutrality” advocates won’t be very happy with the rules proposed by the FCC today, since as Reuters reports, the rules “may let Internet service providers charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to
71 Point Gap: Critics Hate, Audiences Love ‘Mom’s Night Out’ With one exception, America’s elite critics brutalized the new Christian comedy “Mom’s Night Out.” Overall, only 15% of Rotten Tomato critics gave the film a positive review. A full 86%
Luke Skywalker to Narrate ‘Go Far: The Christopher Rush Story’ My brother, Zack Arnold, wrote, directed, and produced a documentary about his friend Christopher Rush, a young man who died of muscular dystrophy in 2007 at age 30. It is
Total hedge fund assets surged to set a record of $2.7 trillion in the first quarter of 2014, as investors allocated $26.3 billion of new capital to the industry, the most since the second quarter of 2011. If the trend
Netflix Raises Streaming Price $1 For New Subscribers New Netflix Streaming subscribers will pay $8.99 a month instead of $7.99. Existing subscribers will have their $7.99 price protected for another 2 years. Because of my work, it’s vital I
Faith-Based Comedy ‘Moms’ Night Out’ Hits 1,000 Screens Tomorrow Three Sony-based distributors will ensure that “Moms’ Night Out” lands on 1,000 screens tomorrow. The film is directed by brothers Andrew and Jon Erwin, whose abortion-themed “October Baby” (2011), grossed $5.4
Bad News for Bryan Singer: Second Accuser Comes Forward A second (and this time anonymous) individual has come forward to accuse “X-Men” director Bryan Singer of sexual abuse too disturbing to detail here. This second plaintiff — a Brit — is
Gosnell Movie Billboard Is the Greatest Thing Ever This billboard pictured below now stands right outside the offices of Kickstarter, the crowd-funding site that attempted to censor the Gosnell Movie project and then lied about the censorship. The audacious awesomeness
In a great scene from ABC’s Modern Family, a hilariously mature child named Manny lays out a charcuterie board. Shocked by the collection of meats and cheeses, his stepfather Jay exclaims: “That’s charcuterie? I’ve been avoiding that on menus for years. They’re
AT&T Bids to Become as Big as Comcast/Time Warner Cable Should the government approve the merger between Comcast and Time-Warner (and after Comcast spent billions buying Democrats, that’s likely to happen), that would give Comcast close to 30 million pay
Craig Ferguson to Leave ‘Late Late Show’ in December Craig Ferguson claims there is no tension or drama behind his decision to leave CBS and the “Late Late Show” after ten years in December. But there are reports he had
The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing new rules which would allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to charge higher rates for services that use more resources. This has created a fresh battle in the debate over net neutrality.
For a moment it looked like the state of Maryland would lose out on seeing the Netflix smash House of Cards being shot within its borders. And, as a result, a good number of jobs would flee the state as
‘Son of God’ Producers Join ‘Ben-Hur’ Remake Yesterday, I was feeling a little bushwacked when it was announced that Timur Bekmambetov would direct the upcoming “Ben-Hur” remake for MGM and Paramount. There is nothing on Bekmambetov’s resume or in his
There are many ideas and proposals packed under the rubric of “Net Neutrality,” but the core principle amounts to rent control on the Internet: all web traffic must be treated equally. In its undiluted, absolute form, this idea would work
HuffPo to Jimmy Fallon: Stay On the Plantation, Or Else The Huffington Post wants to pretend the “Tonight Show” audience “Doesn’t enjoy” Jimmy Fallon’s joke about Hillary Clinton’s masculine wardrobe. But if you watch the video, that’s obviously not the
