Box Office Greener Than Expected
21st June 2011
Movie theaters sold more tickets on Father's Day than studios had expected. Green Lantern , for example, raked in $53.17...
Numbers Slip For Bachelorette But Still Beats Rivals'
21st June 2011
Ratings for ABC's The Bachelorette dipped slightly on Monday for the second week in a row but were nevertheless strong...
Did Twitter Really Make Super 8 A Hit?
15th June 2011
In an Advertising Age headline on Tuesday, media columnist Simon Dumenco asks, "Was J.J. Abrams & Steven Spielberg's Box-Office Champ...
Weiner Captures 33 Of Cable News's Time
15th June 2011
Cable news networks devoted 33 percent of their time last week to the sexting scandal involving Congressman Anthony Weiner. According...
Movie Reviews Super 8
10th June 2011
In general, the reviews for the Steven Spielberg-produced, J.J. Abrams-directed Super 8 are glowingly positive. If there's a complaint at...
Will Low-key Marketing Help Or Hurt Super 8 ?
10th June 2011
Tracking studies indicate that audience awareness of and interest in Super 8 has been rising in recent days, but box-office...
First-class Debut For X-men Sequel
6th June 2011
X-Men First Class performed as studio 20th Century Fox had expected, earning an estimated $56 million over the weekend. That...
Gnomeo & Juliet Tops Sales, Rental Charts
2nd June 2011
Gnomeo & Juliet was the top-selling DVD release last week -- and also the top rental. A rare Disney animated...
The Bachelorette Wins Monday -- On Its Own
1st June 2011
It didn't have the penultimate edition of Dancing with the Stars as a lead-in, but ABC's two-hour The Bachelorette nevertheless...
Report Fox Reality Chief The X Factor In Cole's Firing
30th May 2011
Days after reports circulated on the Internet that Fox TV had forced Cheryl Cole off Simon Cowell's upcoming U.S. version...
Movie Reviews Kung Fu Panda Ii
26th May 2011
For the most part, critics are not quite so enchanted with the Kung Fu Panda sequel as they were with...
U.k.'S Geordie Shore It's Jersey Shore All Over Again
26th May 2011
A British MTV TV show, Geordie Shore, based on America's MTV show, Jersey Shore , is eliciting the same sort...
Report Cheryl Cole Fired From The X Factor
26th May 2011
When it was announced earlier this month that British singer Cheryl Cole had been selected as a judge on Simon...
Hulu Plus Coming To Tivo
24th May 2011
Hulu Plus, the $7.99-per-onth subscription service that offers the older television shows that the free Hulu does "plus" newer episodes,...
Movie Reviews Pirates Of The Caribbean On Stranger Tides
20th May 2011
Critics who had their swords out for the last Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, At World's End, have managed to...
Horror Film A Hit At Cannes
19th May 2011
A horror film may be the last thing one would expect to turn up at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival,...
Cbs Yanking Csi From Thursday Slot
19th May 2011
CBS is taking a big gamble by knocking CSI Crime Scene Investigation out of its Thursday-night time period in the...
Producers To Host Overseas Film Commissioners
18th May 2011
Members of the Producers Guild of America may continually gripe about the flight of production to other states and countries,...
Actress Wants More Than Money From News Corp
13th May 2011
In a widely predicted legal maneuver, lawyers for Rupert Murdoch's Sunday tabloid News of the World have sought to quash...
U.s. To Press China On Allowing More Hollywood Films
12th May 2011
MPAA representatives and U.S. trade officials are attempting to craft a compromise that would result in more American films coming...
Kentucky Derby's Ratings Slip
11th May 2011
Several sports gurus had predicted that last Saturday's running of the Kentucky Derby would smash previous records. And in many...
Moses Returns To Mountain Top
25th April 2011
After being knocked into second place a year ago, when it competed against basketball, Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments...
Former Harrods Owner May Buy Pinewood Shepperton
21st April 2011
Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al Fayed has confirmed that he is the unidentified "third party" who is considering making a bid...
Movie Reviews Your Highness
8th April 2011
The last time we saw Natalie Portman and James Franco together was the night of the Oscar awards. Given critical...
Hulu Said It Raked In $300 Million In First Quarter
7th April 2011
Hulu said on Wednesday that it's on track to produce some $300 million in revenue for its content suppliers. While...
Cbs Wins The Week With Hoops Help
6th April 2011
CBS may have been shut out of the top four positions on the Nielsen ratings chart for last week, but...
"Vulgar" Mexican Stereotypes Allowed By U.k. Watchdog
5th April 2011
OFCOM, the British television watchdog, has refused to reprimand the BBC for an episode of its comedy talk show Top...
Basketball Boosts Cbs's Ratings
28th March 2011
March Madness boosted CBS's audience among the key 18-49 demo Sunday night as an overrun of the Kentucky-North Carolina contest...
Chris Brown "I Apologize For Acting Like That"
24th March 2011
Singer Chris Brown has apologized for his behavior at ABC's studios on Tuesday where he allegedly smashed the window of...
Fox And Cnn Battle It Out Over Libya
22nd March 2011
A secondary war has broken out in Libya -- this one between CNN and Fox News. It began when Fox's...
