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Box Office Suffers Worst Decline In Three Decades

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

Box Office Suffers Worst Decline In Three Decades

Broadway, West End Star Elaine Stritch Dies at 89

(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

Broadway, West End Star Elaine Stritch Dies at 89

Tommy Ramone, Last of the Original Ramones, Dead at 62

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

Tommy Ramone, Last of the Original Ramones, Dead at 62

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

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

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Net Neutrality Debate Brings Out the Worst in People

“…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

Net Neutrality Debate Brings Out the Worst in People

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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

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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.

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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,

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Washington Targets Cupertino

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.

Washington Targets Cupertino

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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FCC proposes not-entirely-neutral Net Neutrality rules

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

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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%

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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

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Hedge Funds See Record Cash Inflow

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

Hedge Funds See Record Cash Inflow

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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FCC Announces New Net Neutrality Rules

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.

FCC Announces New Net Neutrality Rules

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‘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

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'Net Neutrality' Gets Less Neutral

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

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

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

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