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Movie Reviews: Tyler Perry's Temptation...
Movies that aren't screened for the nation's major critics are often reviewed by them nonetheless -- after they file into theaters with first-night audiences at their local multiplex. Such is the case with virtually all...
Report: World War Z Altered To Curry Favor With China
aising increasing concerns that China's often heavy-handed censorship policies will be reflected in the content of Hollywood movies, TheWrap.com reported on Sunday that Paramount execs asked the producers of World War Z to remove a...
Bbc Television Centre Closes Its Doors
After 53 years, the BBC Television Centre in London shut down completely on Sunday with the final members of the 5,000 employees who once worked there moving to new locations, or, in some instances, looking...
Jobs Flowing Back To Showbiz
While the unemployment rate in Los Angeles County has barely fluctuated in recent months, the motion picture and sound recording sector added 15,700 jobs in February, (although broadcasting jobs were down by about 100). The...
American Idol Ratings Sink To Lowest Level Ever
Producers of Fox's American Idol appear powerless to contain its weekly ratings slide. Thursday night's installment attracted the smallest audience among 18-49 viewers in the talent show's history. The number of total viewers fell to...
Unimás Ddraws Record Audience For Soccer Match
UniMás, the former Telefutura network, attracted 4.58 million viewers for its coverage of the Mexico-U.S. FIFA World Cup qualifying soccer match, which ended in an 0-0 tie. The telecast, which originated in Mexico City, set...
UnimÃS Ddraws Record Audience For Soccer Match
UniMás, the former Telefutura network, attracted 4.58 million viewers for its coverage of the Mexico-U.S. FIFA World Cup qualifying soccer match, which ended in an 0-0 tie. The telecast, which originated in Mexico City, set...
Latest Die Hard Mopvie To Get Early Release Online
For $14.99 consumers will be able to watch 20th Century Fox's A Good Day to Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis, in digital HD via several online outlets, including Best Buy's CinemaNow and Walmart's Vudu.com beginning...
Britain's Bafta Awards Will Air Two Weeks Ahead Of Oscars
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced today (Wednesday) that it will hand out next year's BAFTA awards on Feb. 16. Unlike the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British...
Ny's Plan To Offer Tax Credit To Tonight Draws Fire
A plan by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to lure the Tonight show to New York with a proposed tax incentive built into the state budget is encountering opposition from some state lawmakers and commentators....
It's Official: Cbs Buys 50 Percent Of Tvgn
CBS on Tuesday confirmed widespread reports that it had purchased 50 percent of TVGN, formerly the TV Guide Network. The deal provides CBS for the first time with a basic-cable entertainment network that can be...
Nbc's The Voice Comes In Loud And Clear On Tuesday
The first Tuesday edition of The Voice this season succeeded in doing what Monday's edition did: lift NBC to first place in the ratings among the key 18-49 age group during the 8:00 p.m. hour....
Report: Murdoch Escalates Lobbying Effort To Buy L.a. Times
upert Murdoch wants to buy the Los Angeles Times but is being thwarted by the current upheaval at the FCC that has seen two commissioners step down during the past week, the Wall Street Journal,...
March Madness Madder Than Ever
The reputation of sports as a sure television winner is being enhanced by CBS and Turner Broadcasting's ratings results for their coverage of the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Tournament -- better known as March...
Cbs May Now Have A Basic Cable Outlet For Its Shows
CBS may at long last have an ad-supported, basic cable channel of its own. Published reports over the weekend said that the company has bought a 50-percent stake of the TV Guide Network from JPMorgan...
Movie Reviews: Admission
The stars of Admission -- Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Lily Tomlin, Wallace Shawn -- hav all appeared in better funnier movies, the critics agree, making this one seem pretty lame by comparison. Several critics,...
Movie Reviews: Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen, the first of two thrillers about a terrorist takeover of the White House, is being taken out by critics the way the terrorists are taken out by Gérard Butler's character in the...
Movie Reviews: The Croods
eviews of DreamWorks Animation's The Croods can be described as pretty good overall. But none of the critics are particularly thrilled with it, either. Neil Genzlinger in the New York Times devotes just four...
The Good Book Gets A New Book
In the beginning there was The Bible. Then there was The Bible, the hit cable-TV series. And now there is a new book based on the TV series with the somewhat longer title: A...
Disclaimer Added To Phil Spector
With virtually every recent film based on real characters and/or events coming under attack for allegedly playing loose with the facts, a disclaimer appearing at the beginning of HBO's Phil Spector is raising eyebrows, if...
Warner Bros. Chief Puts Past Behind Him; Focuses On Future
After seeing five films in a row misfire at the box office, Warner Bros. Pictures President Jeff Robinov has expressed confidence in the remainder of the studio's 2013 slate. I look at what we do...
Turner Tv Channels Make Exclusive Deal With Millercoors
While some advertisers have for years signed product-placement deals with individual broadcast and cable shows -- MillerCoors has gone one step further and signed exclusive deals with Turner Broadcasting's TNT and TBS channels to be...
The Incredible Shrinking Wonderstone
The only thing that was incredible about The Incredible Burt Wonderstone was how poorly it did on its opening weekend. The movie, which stars Steve Carell and Jim Carrey, opened with just $41.3 million from...
Overseas Box Office Much Like The One At Home
For several films, the foreign box office was a near reflection of the domestic one. The second weekend of Oz The Great and Powerful collected an estimated $46.6 million internationally to bring its foreign gross...
Comedy Website To Release First Steve Jobs Biopic
Only days after the release of the Steve Jobs biopic jOBS, starring Ashton Kutcher, was indefinitely delayed, thereby raising the possibility of its being released at about the same time as Alan Sorkin's planned Jobs...
Report: Comcast Is Nation's Second-biggest Ad Buyer
Comcast may not only be one of the country's biggest seller of advertising, but it is also the second-biggest buyer of advertising, behind only Procter & Gamble, according to a study by Kantar Media, reported...
Nbc Brass Reportedly Miffed Over Leno's Barbs
Jay Leno, whose Tonight show has managed to remain in first place during the late-night period despite lead-in shows in primetime that are the lowest-rated of any major network, has been chastised by NBC Entertainment...
Movie Reviews: The Call
The New York Times's Manohla Dargis doesn't dispense positive reviews willy-nilly. That's why it seems a bit odd that she is one of the few who bestows one on The Call, starring Halle Berry. She...
Movie Reviews: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Incredible Blunderstone is what the New York Post's Lou Lumenick calls The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Steve Carell and Jim Carrey (although Carrey clearly has a supporting role). The two play magicians but there's little...
The Bible Producer Disses Tv Critics
It may have been reviled by many TV critics, censured by some religious scholars, and scorned by several broadcast executives, but there's no arguing the fact that Mark Burnett's The Bible miniseries has been a...
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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