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Colorado Prof Says Argo And Zd30 Got It Wrong
Oscar contenders Argo and Zero Dark Thirty tell stories about America's efforts to redeem its prestige in a part of the world crippled by religious fervor and a hatred of the west, but they fail...
Iran Complains About Panahi's Film Being Screened In Berlin
The head of Iran's office of cinema has reportedly sent a complaint to the organizers of the Berlin Film Festival protesting the screening of director Jafar Panahi's secretly produced film Closed Circuit at this year's...
Killing Lincoln Sets Ratings Record For Channel
Killing Lincoln, based on Bill O'Reilly's best-seller, attracted 3.4 million viewers for its initial screening on the National Geographic Channel Sunday night, the biggest audience in the channel's history. It was the first time that...
Ny Times Columnist Joins Critics Of Lincoln
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has joined critics of the screenplay of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, which depicts two Connecticut congressmen voting against the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. In reality they both staunchly...
Romanian Film Wins Top Prize At Berlin Film Festival
At an awards ceremony dominated by films from Eastern Europe, the Berlin Film Festival named the Romanian drama Child's Post (Pozitia Copilului) the winner of its prestigious Golden Bear award. The film, about the efforts...
Chinese Film Beats Hollywood Blockbusters
Chinese-language films may no longer need to be protected against competition from Hollywood as they have been if weekend results at the Chinese box office are any indication. CRI, the state-run English-language news service, reports...
A Good Weekend For Latest Die Hard
Looking at the weekend box office results, it's not hard to imagine couples arriving at their local multiplexes buying separate tickets -- the guys to see A Good Day to Die Hard and the gals...
No News At Bbc As Journalists Stage Strike
C journalists staged a one-day walkout today (Monday) to protest the public broadcaster's reported plans to eliminate hundreds of news jobs throughout the country. In a statement, Michelle Stanistreet, general secretary of the National Union...
Viewers Exit Broadcast Nets On Sunday -- Land At Cable?
TV viewership was down at all the broadcast networks Sunday night with no program drawing 10 million viewers, although, with 9.54 million, CBS's season premiere of The Amazing Race came close. Many viewers, analysts supposed,...
Cnn: Cruisin' For A Bruisin'?
CNN may have taken some bashing from TV critics for its wall-to-wall coverage of the Carnival cruise ship Triumph's docking on Valentine's Day, but it pushed its primetime audience up 62 percent to 1.02 million,...
Life Of Pi Effects House Goes Broke
Citing intense competition that presumably led it to charge studios less for its work than what it cost to produce, Marina Del Rey-based special-effects house Rhythm & Hues has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It...
Sex Scandal Could Cost The Bbc Millions In Losses
Some 31 persons who claim that they were victims of former BBC host Jimmy Savile's sexual advances when they were children have filed lawsuits against the BBC and Savile's estate. Speaking to Britain's Guardian newspaper,...
Dr. Who Coming To Theaters In 3d
Dr. Who, the British science-fiction show that debuted in 1963, making it the longest-running sci-fi show in history -- which has also successfully transitioned into books, DVDs, and iTunes downloads --is about to transition to...
Dish Using Ads For Hopper Dvr -- Which Skips Ads
DISH Network is using advertisements to tout its anti-advertisement technology, Auto Hop. The campaign features a demonstration of the new Hopper DVR with Sling that allows DISH's subscribers not only to watch programs they have...
Grammys Down But Still Tops For The Week
CBS's telecast of the Grammy Awards may have fallen steeply from a year ago when it aired one day following the death of Whitney Houston, but it was nevertheless the highest rated program of last...
Nbc's Peacock: Molting
For NBC, All the numbers are headed in the wrong direction, Horizon Media research chief Brad Adgate has told the New York Post. Adgate was referring to NBC's ratings losses in total viewers, which has...
At Berlin Film Festival, The Issue Is ...
The Berlin Film Festival is rightly famous for giving exposure to films that mean something. It does so in the face of the fact that most such films rarely achieve significant success at the box...
U.s. Blocks Iran's English-language News Channel
Iran's English-language news channel has fallen victim to stepped-up sanctions against the defiant Islamic nation. The 24-hour channel, Press TV, has been dropped from the Galaxy 19 satellite platform, which carries its signal to the...
"Hyperlocal" News No Longer Part Of Nbc's Bailiwick
NBC has shut down the popular but unprofitable EveryBlock.com, the hyperlocal news site that had engaged followers in such cities as Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Today's (Friday) New York Times reported that the site...
2d Films Hurt 3d Leader Reald
3D is turning out to be something less than the expected next big thing for the movie industry. One need look no further for the reality of that statement, than the latest results of RealD,...
The Oscars: An Early Sell-out For Abc
Advertisers are presumably betting that this year's Academy Awards show, to be hosted by Seth MacFarlane and produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, with performances by Barbra Streisand, Adele, and Norah Jones, will be...
Hobbit Extra: A Live Preview Of Pt. 2
In a new addition to the extras packages that DVD distributors employ to attract buyers, Warner Bros. announced on Tuesday that anyone buying the DVD or Blu-ray Disc release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey...
Nbc's Winter Olympics To Kick Off A Day Before Opening Ceremony
NBC announced plans on Tuesday to jumpstart next year's Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia in primetime on Thursday, Feb. 6, one day before the opening ceremony, with coverage of two new events, team figure skating...
Still Many Followers For Fox's The Following
In its third week, Fox's highly touted The Following slipped slightly in the ratings Monday night against competition from new episodes of CBS's 2 Broke Girls and Mike & Molly. The David Fincher drama...
Liberty's Malone Reportedly Set To Buy U.k.'S Virgin Media
Nielsen said late Monday that John Malone's Liberty Global is in advanced talks to buy British cable giant Virgin Media for $20-24 billion, and an announcement of a deal could come as early as today...
Exhibitor Drops Showtime Listings; Newspaper Fights Back
Malco Theaters, a 32-theater chain in the Southeastern U.S., has decided it no longer wishes to pay the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette to list the times its movies play on its screens in Little Rock, Arkansas. And...
Koch Dies On Day Koch Opens
In an eerie coincidence, Koch, a documentary about former New York Mayor Ed Koch, opened in two New York theaters on Friday just hours after his death at the age of 88. The film grossed...
U.k. Film Production Slumps As U.s. Producers Go Elsewhere
ritain's Pinewood Studios may have picked the wrong day to announce that it has applied for permits to add some 300,000 square feet of studios, stages, workshops, production offices and streetscapes. In a statement, Pinewood...
Movie Reviews: Bullet To The Head
Sylvester Stallone is probably used to pummeling reviews, but with Bullet to the Head, critics are trying to do to him what Apollo Creed failed to do to Rocky Balboa -- finish him off. Writes...
Movie Reviews: Warm Bodies
Who says vampires have all the fun (and rake in billions while doing so)? Don't rule out zombies, say the executives of Summit Entertainment, the studio that brought you the Twilight movies and is now...
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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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