Archive for July, 2008
Weekend box office, July 11-13
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Here are the top 10 movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings on Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - $34,539,115 – 88%, fresh
2. Hancock - $32,080,560 – 37%, rotten
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth - [...]
Danish crime drama wins Karlovy Vary top prize
Danish crime drama Terribly Happy won the main prize at the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which closed over the weekend. The film is based on a novel by Erling Jepsen.
The festival jury gave the special prize and $20,000 to Nan T. Achnas for The Photograph, while Alexey Uchitel was honored as best director [...]
Crash series to premiere on Starz October 17
“Crash,” the first original drama series from Starz Entertainment, co-produced with Lionsgate, will premiere Friday, October 17 at 10:00 p.m. (et/pt) on Starz.
Inspired by the Academy Award(R)-winning Best Motion Picture of 2006, “Crash” is a provocative new 13-episode drama starring an ensemble cast led by film icon Dennis Hopper. Set in Los Angeles, the [...]
Independent Features Film Festival announces 2008 line-up
Independent Features reveals the official selections for the 2008 Independent Features Film Festival which includes twenty-three films from 7 countries. The festival, which occurs July 25 – 27, 2008 at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, is the only one in which a global public selects all of the films via a web-based competition.
Due to [...]
TV Trends: Consumers Demand Control
Research and Markets has announced the addition of eMarketer’s new report “TV Trends: Consumers Demand Control” to their offering.
This TV Trends: Consumers Demand Control report addresses the question of why television content stays much the same, while the ways and places it is viewed mushroom. Video-on-demand (VOD), digital video recorders (DVRs), the broadband Web, and [...]
DIRECTV customers schedule more than 1 million DVR recordings using the Internet and mobile phones
DIRECTV customers nationwide are embracing a new way to remotely record their favorite shows to their DVRs with the DIRECTV DVR Scheduler. This week, the DVR Scheduler reached a milestone with more than one million recordings scheduled remotely through the service.
In addition, DIRECTV will be identifying the top shows customers are programming remotely through the [...]
“I Love New York” short film competition - last call for submissions
Aspiring filmmakers 14 years old and above have one more chance to take advantage of the opportunity to tell the world why they love New York and have their work judged by a star-studded celebrity panel. Filmmakers — professional, student, and amateur — may submit their :60 second entries for Empire State Development’s “I LOVE [...]
Independent Television Festival announces official selections
The independent television movement is taking Hollywood by storm with high quality post sound companies and now celebrities, too, jumping on board. James Cromwell stars and Executive Produces Hitfactor; John Leguizamo and Nick Cannon both lend their talents to the hip-hop theater documentary Something Out of Nothing and Jodie Sweetin stars in the dark comedy [...]
Cyber-thriller WarGames returns to the big screen in celebration of its 25th anniversary
Revisit a time when cell phones and MP3 players were “futuristic” and geeky underachiever David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) accidentally starts the countdown to World War III when WarGames returns to select movie theatres in a one night special presentation on July 24th. The event will feature interviews with the cast and crew of WarGames, including [...]
The Dark Knight makes motion picture history in IMAX theatres on July 18th
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that the studio’s highly anticipated and technologically unprecedented summer movie, The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, and directed by Christopher Nolan, will open in a record 94 IMAX(R) theatres domestically on July 18th in conjunction with the film’s wide release. The film will also [...]
