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Movie Reviews: The Conjuring
It's certainly rare when a horror flick is even screened for critics in advance of its opening. It's rarer still when such a movie receives overwhelmingly positive reviews. But such is the case with director...
By Lew Irwin on 19 July 2013
Protest Mounted To Remove Big Brother Contestant
The talent agency representing Big Brother contestant Aaryn Gries has dropped the actress following a flood of complaints about her remarks concerning blacks, gays and women during the reality show's live Internet feed (but removed...
By Lew Irwin on 04 July 2013
Holder Tells Reporters He'll No Longer Target Them
That off the record meeting with reporters that Attorney General Eric Holder had arranged to discuss the DOJ's investigations of leaks of classified information to the press turned out to be anything but. Although several...
By Lew Irwin on 31 May 2013
Theater Chains Halt Selling Iron Man 3 Tickets
Ordinarily, the annual conference of theater owners known as CinemaCon is not the setting for much controversy. That's not the case this year. Regal Entertainment and AMC Entertainment, the nation's top two exhibitors, have reportedly...
By Lew Irwin on 18 April 2013
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...
By Lew Irwin on 01 April 2013
Icahn Girds For War With Netflix Chief
Carl Icahn, who has taken a 10-percent stake in Netflix, has vowed to find a buyer for the video rental company who'll be willing to pay a hefty premium for its weakened stock and sort...
By Lew Irwin on 14 November 2012
Movie Reviews The Campaign
Kyle Smith, the politically conservative film critic for the New York Post lets loose a torrent of zingers at The Campaign , starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, concluding with the unkindest jibe of all...
By Lew Irwin on 10 August 2012
Ben Stiller To Reunite With Jonah Hill On New Comedy
Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill are set to star in new comedy 'Aloha'.The actors are currently appearing in 'The Watch' together - which tells the story of a neighborhood watch group that must defend Earth...
By Bang Showbiz on 23 July 2012
Morgan Freeman Donates 1m To Obama
Morgan Freeman has donated $1 million to Barack Obama's re-election campaign. The 'Dark Knight Rises' actor joins the likes of Bill Maher and DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffery Katzenberg in delivering millions of dollars to the...
By Bang Showbiz on 20 July 2012
Martin Scorsese Ditches Film To Shoot Movies Digitally
Martin Scorsese is abandoning film to shoot movies digitally. The 69-year-old director - who won an Oscar for his first ever 3D movie 'Hugo', which was released last year - has ''lost the battle'' with...
By Bang Showbiz on 28 June 2012
Shia Labeouf Strips Off For Sigur Ros Video
Shia LaBeouf appears naked in a new Sigur Ros music video. In the graphic music video, 'Fjögur PÃanó', the 'Transformers' actor is fully nude alongside a naked blonde woman - dancer Deena Thomsen - but...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 June 2012
Jonah Hill Joins Django Unchained
Jonah Hill has signed up for 'Django Unchained'. The '21 Jump Street' star previously turned down a role in the spaghetti western movie - which will be directed by Quentin Tarantino - due to scheduling...
By Bang Showbiz on 18 June 2012
Robert Pattinson: Cosmopolis Is A 'Hopeful' Movie
Robert Pattinson says 'Cosmopolis' is a ''hopeful'' film.The British actor plays billionaire tycoon Eric Packer in the movie - set in a futuristic New York which is in turmoil because of the decline of capitalism...
By Bang Showbiz on 18 June 2012
Movie Reviews Madagascar
Critics pretty much roared their disapproval at the first two Madagascar movies, but several are fairly beating the drums for the latest one, Madagascar 3 Europe's Most Wanted. Typical is Andy Webster's review in the...
By Lew Irwin on 08 June 2012
Dish Network's Ergen Defends Ad-skipping Dvr
DISH Network Chairman Charlie Ergen has indicated that his company introduced its Hopper ad-skipping DVR in an effort to level the playing field between traditional TV and Internet TV. In an interview with today's (Friday)...
By Lew Irwin on 08 June 2012
Pattinson: I'm Not Buff Enough For Action Movies
Robert Pattinson isn't ''buff enough'' to be an action star. The 'Twilight Saga' hunk admitted he would prefer to make smaller, gritty dramas rather than take on blockbuster roles because he thinks he doesn't have...
By Bang Showbiz on 03 June 2012
Movie Reviews Snow White And The Huntsman
Somewhat surprisingly, given what several critics regarded as a put-offish title, there are only a handful of negative reviews for Snow White and the Huntsman , starring Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in the title...
By Lew Irwin on 01 June 2012
Sony And Samsung In Bid To Prop Up Prices Of Tv Sets
Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics, who have each reported near-disastrous results as a result of cutthroat competition among TV retailers that has driven down the prices of their television sets, has urged the retailers to...
By Lew Irwin on 24 May 2012
"Bloodbath" At Oprah's Network
On the heels of the announcement that Rosie O'Donnell's talk show was being canceled after only five months, published reports said on Monday that OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, had fired 30 employees, including two...
By Lew Irwin on 20 March 2012
Lindsay Lohan Requested Gift At Auction
Lindsay Lohan reportedly asked a Canadian financier to buy her a gift at an auction on Wednesday (08.02.12). The 'Mean Girls' actress was attending the amfAR benefit for AIDS research at the Cipriani Wall Street...
By Bang Showbiz on 10 February 2012
Movie Reviews Haywire
Critics have by and large concluded that Steven Soderbergh's Haywire has put a new wrinkle on the action flick, thanks mainly to the performance of Gina Carano. "Watching Carano kick, spin, flip, choke, crack and...
By Lew Irwin on 20 January 2012
Movie Reviews Red Tails
If, as George Lucas has announced, Red Tails , his take on the all-black Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, turns out to be his last Hollywood movie, he's going out in a blaze of...
By Lew Irwin in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 January 2012
Stop Online Piracy Act Appears Stopped
Congress has yet to vote, but it now seems apparent that in the battle between the movie studios/television networks/recording industry and the Internet, over the House and Senate antipiracy bills, the Internet has won. Deluged...
By Lew Irwin on 19 January 2012
News Corp Sets Aside $155 Million For Hacking Settlements
News International, the unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp that oversees his British news operations, has reportedly added £80 million ($124 million) to the kitty it had set up to settle invasion-of-privacy lawsuits arising from...
By Lew Irwin on 30 December 2011
Movie Reviews Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan writes in his review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that its director, Tomas Alfredson, "has come up with a film that is endlessly rich in incident, atmosphere and personality,...
By Lew Irwin on 09 December 2011
Gary Oldman Confirms Tinker Tailor Follow-up
Gary Oldman will "revisit" his role as George Smiley in a 'Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy' sequel. The British actor - who was honoured at the Gotham Independent Film Awards with a special tribute prize last...
By Bang Showbiz on 29 November 2011
Mixed Signals From Howard Stern Re America's Got Talent
Howard Stern on Monday appeared to dispute a Wall Street Journal report that he was in talks with NBC to replace Piers Morgan on the judging panel of America's Got Talent . "I am not...
By Lew Irwin on 15 November 2011
Howard Stern Nearing America's Got Talent Judging Role
Howard Stern is reportedly in "serious negotiations" with NBC about being a judge on 'America's Got Talent'.The radio host is thought to be discussing the possibility of replacing former panellist Piers Morgan on the panel...
By Bang Showbiz on 11 November 2011
Plans To Bring Canceled Soaps To The Web Hit A Snag
Plans to bring the canceled ABC soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live to the Internet remain in limbo as the producers struggle to find enough financial backers who believe that such...
By Lew Irwin on 04 November 2011
Voicemail Scandal Hits News Corp Where It Hurts
The voicemail hacking scandal that shut down its News of the World tabloid in London has taken its toll on News Corp's bottom line. The media conglomerate on Wednesday said in an SEC filing that...
By Lew Irwin on 03 November 2011
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