Archive for September, 2008
Weekend box office, September 26 - 28
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Here are the top 10 movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings on Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Eagle Eye - $29,150,721 – 28%, rotten
2. Nights in Rodanthe - $13,418,454 – 26%, rotten
3. Lakeview Terrace - $6,966,711 – 42%, rotten
4. Fireproof - $6,804,764 [...]
Empire names 500 Greatest Movies of All Time
Empire magazine has posted the list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. The Godfather, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Empire Strikes Back took the first three spots, while the usual number one, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, ended up in the 28th place.
Empire polled 150 film directors, 50 critics and more than 10,000 [...]
Johnny Depp signs on for Alice in Wonderland
Johnny Depp will reunite with Tim Burton yet again to play the Mad Hatter in Burton’s upcoming Disney flick Alice in Wonderland. He was confirmed for the part earlier today at the Walt Disney Studio Showcase in Hollywood.
Burton signed a deal to direct Alice last November and the movie is currently in pre-production.
Mia Wasikowska, 18-year-old [...]
Netflix to stream hit Disney and CBS TV series
Netflix, Inc. has announced two new agreements with the CBS Television Network and Disney-ABC Television Group. The agreements will allow current episodes of several popular TV shows to be streamed at Netflix.
Netflix members now have instant access to a library of 12,000 choices on their computers and TV sets.
The CBS shows to be [...]
Weekend box office, September 19 -21
Here are the top 10 movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings on Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Lakeview Terrace – $15,004,672 – 40%, rotten
2. Burn After Reading – $11,028,257 – 79%, fresh
3. My Best Friend’s Girl – $8,265,357 – 8%, rotten
4. Igor – $7,803,347 – 28%, rotten
5. Righteous Kill – $7,424,479 – 22%, rotten
6. Tyler Perry’s Family That Preys – [...]
2008 Primetime Emmy Awards: Mad Men, John Adams, 30 Rock rule
30 Rock, Mad Men and John Adams were the big winners at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, presented last night by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
The winners of the Creative Arts Emmys were announced last week.
Here are the winners across the categories:
COMEDY SERIES
“30 Rock” (NBC)
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO)
“Entourage” (HBO)
“The Office” (NBC)
“Two and a [...]
Flashpoint gets a second season on CBS
CBS has renewed the Canadian cop procedural Flashpoint for a second season. The 13 new episodes will be broadcast next year.
Flashpoint, originally developed by CTV and Pink Sky Entertainment, is the top scripted show this summer, with 7.73 million viewers on average. It was broadcast simultaneously on CBS and CTV.
Last week’s episode scored high ratings [...]
Fringe: The Same Old Story review
While the Fringe pilot suffered from a severe identity crisis, trying to decide whether it was a police procedural, comedy, or a conspiracy mystery, the second episode, The Same Old Story, steers the show sharply into The X-Files sphere.
The premise of the episode is a little shaky. We have a scientist’s son who kills women [...]
Vampire alert: True Blood gets season two, Moonlight gets DVD release
HBO has renewed the new vampire series True Blood for another season after airing only two episodes. The second episode drew over four million viewers. Moonlight, which had twice as many viewers on CBS and got cancelled a few months ago, may finally get a definite DVD release date in the U.S. (NBC’s Journeyman, mind [...]
The Tubey Awards: best and worst of the 2007-08 TV season
Television Without Pity has posted the winners of this year’s Tubey Awards, voted by viewers across the globe. Lost, Battlestar Galactica, House, 30 Rock and How I Met Your Mother are among the shows that scored several wins in the positive categories, while Heroes and Grey’s Anatomy picked up a few uncomplimentary Tubeys this year.
Here [...]
