Super Bowl Ad Payday Was Record $240M, Report Says
CBS earned an estimated $240 million in ad revenue for Super Bowl XLVII, which would be a new record, the research firm SNL Kagan said Thursday.The network likely broke even or lost money because it...
View Article'Lost in Thailand' Has Huge Box Office in China - Will It Translate to U.S.?
American audiences will get their first look Friday at "Lost in the Thailand," the low-brow comedy that has become the highest-grossing Chinese film ever.The mini-budgeted "Lost in Thailand" -- it cost...
View ArticleWeinstein Co. Acquires Wong Kar Wai's 'The Grandmaster'
The Weinstein Company announced on Thursday that it has acquired the rights to Wong Kar Wai's "The Grandmaster," which opened the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.TWC snagged all rights from...
View ArticleBryan Singer Donates $5M to USC School of Cinematic Arts
Bryan Singer has donated $5 million gift to the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), the university said Thursday. In light of the donation, the school will name its critical studies division the Bryan...
View ArticleFocus, LAIKA Partner on 'The Boxtrolls,' Ben Kingsley & Toni Colette Lend Voices
Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning and Isaac Hempstead-Wright will all lend their voices to "The Boxtrolls," a new 3D stop-motion animated feature that Focus Features and LAIKA have parntered...
View ArticleEmma Roberts Tapped to Star in Fox Pilot 'Delirium'
Emma Roberts is going to experience some "Delirium."The "Scream 4" actress has been cast as the lead in the drama pilot "Delirium," which has received an order from Fox.Also read:Fox Orders "Sleepy...
View Article'Lore' Review: Nazi Devastation Is Backdrop for Nuanced Coming-of-Age Tale
Coming of age is never easy, but the adolescent protagonist of this impressionistic and nuanced film has to do it amidst the devastation in a crumbling Germany at the end of World War II."Lore" is...
View Article'Side Effects' Review: For Maximum Potency, See the Movie First and Read the...
I was between film-critic gigs when "The Crying Game" came out, and I've always felt like I dodged a bullet on that one, since it's impossible to discuss the movie without disclosing the Big Reveal...
View ArticlePolice: 'Cowardly' Ex-Cop Must Be Stopped Before He Kills Again
A manhunt for Christopher Dorner, a Naval reservist and former Los Angeles Police Department officer accused of killing one police officer and wounding two others, has gripped Southern California as...
View Article'How to Survive a Plague' Has a Message for the Young: AIDS Isn't Over
"How to Survive a Plague," which tells the story of how ACT UP moved the government and medical establishment to move faster on AIDS in the 1980s and '90s, is certainly being pegged as one of the...
View Article'American Horror Story' Season 3: Frances Conroy, Taissa Farmiga Set to Return
The third season of "American Horror Story" is shaping up to be quite the creepy reunion.Frances Conroy and Taissa Famiga have signed on for the next installment of FX's hit, adding to a growing list...
View ArticleBlizzard May Rain on Box-Office Parade of Melissa McCarthy's 'Identity Thief'
"Identity Thief" should still easily win the weekend box office, but nasty East Coast weather might dampen Melissa McCarthy's coming-out party as a movie star."Identity Thief," which will debut Friday...
View Article'Argo' Sound Mixers Pumped Up the Tense Tehran Volume, Kept Things Quiet for...
Sound mixers John Reitz and Gregg Rudloff have been working as a team for 30 years and previously won joint Oscars for "The Matrix." But working on "Argo" sent them down a very different kind of rabbit...
View ArticleEllen Page to Make Directorial Debut with Anna Faris in the Lead
Actress Ellen Page will make her directorial debut with "Miss Stevens," a film that will star Anna Faris as a teacher whose life is in disarray.Page, an Oscar nominee for Jason Reitman's "Juno," will...
View ArticleCharter to Buy Cablevision's Optimum West for Over $1.6B
Charter Communications has struck a deal to acquire Cablevision's Optimum West holdings in four Western states for $1.625 billion in cash, the companies announced Thursday. Optimum West, under the...
View Article'Identity Thief' Review: Two Stolen Hours You'll Never Get Back
The most heinous crime of "Identity Thief" is its malicious waste and robbery of 112 minutes in a most thoughtless manner. It should also face charges for misusing the abilities of the very talented...
View ArticleLilly Ledbetter, Equal Pay Champion, Agrees to Biopic by Rachel Feldman
Lilly Ledbetter, the inspiration for President Obama's fair-pay act of 2009, has signed with producer/director Rachel Feldman to film a biopic about her crusade for equal pay for women.Ledbetter...
View Article'Night at the Museum 3' Goes on Display Christmas 2014
Fox will open "Night at the Museum 3" on Christmas Day, 2014, the studio announced Thursday.It also set Feb. 14, 2014, as the debut date for its young adult sci-fi film "Maze Runner," to be directed by...
View ArticleChristopher Dorner, Alleged Cop Killer, Sent Package to CNN's Anderson Cooper...
Christopher Dorner, the former Los Angeles Police Department officer alleged to have killed three people in the last week including, most recently, a police officer, mailed a parcel last Friday to CNN...
View Article'The Grinch' Is Returning to the Big Screen in 3D Animated Feature
Illumination Entertainment and Universal are bringing the Grinch back to the big screen for a new animated feature based on the iconic Dr. Seuss tale, according to an individual with knowledge of the...
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