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Amazon: More E-gadgets To Follow Kindle

10th May 2013

Flushed with the success of its Kindle ebook reader, Amazon is planning to introduce a number of other e-commerce gadgets,...

Movie Reviews: The Great Gatsby

10th May 2013

Throughout the week, reports spread that initial reviews of The Great Gatsby were far from great. One website, TheBusinessInsider.com, even...

Is Hollywood Spending Itself Into Disaster?

3rd May 2013

Hollywood is preparing to release some 22 big-budget movies this summer versus 15 a year ago and 12-15 during the...

Fox Refusing China's Payment For Pi

29th April 2013

Marking the latest dispute between Beijing and Hollywood, 20th Century Fox is refusing to accept about $23 million that China...

Home Video: What's Old Is New Again

22nd April 2013

Amid declining home-video sales of recent movie titles, Hollywood studios are ramping up releases of DVD and Blu-ray Disc restorations...

Movie Reviews: Oblivion

19th April 2013

Even most critics who slam the script for Oblivion, the sci-fi blockbuster starring Tom Cruise, concede that the movie looks...

Theater Chains Halt Selling Iron Man 3 Tickets

18th April 2013

Ordinarily, the annual conference of theater owners known as CinemaCon is not the setting for much controversy. That's not the...

Studio Chief Proposes Theaters And Studios Partner With Vod

18th April 2013

Until now, theater owners have balked at any attempt by studios to make their movies available online at a premium...

Al Jazeera Hires Investigative Team Headed By Pulitzer Winner

16th April 2013

Al Jazeera America announced on Monday that it has brought together a team of 16 investigative journalists headed by Edward...

Movie Reviews: 42

12th April 2013

Older viewers often complain that they don't make movies like they used to. But judging from the reviews of 42,...

Report: World War Z Altered To Curry Favor With China

1st April 2013

aising increasing concerns that China's often heavy-handed censorship policies will be reflected in the content of Hollywood movies, TheWrap.com reported...

Historical Error In Lincoln Will Stand, Says Writer

12th February 2013

Neither Lincoln director Steven Spielberg nor writer Tony Kushner nor anyone at DreamWorks or the Walt Disney Co. is apparently...

Hundreds Of Full-length Movies Appearing On Youtube -- Illegally

8th February 2013

Amir Efrati, who covers the major Internet operators such as Google and Yahoo! for the Wall Street Journal, noticed that...

Movie Reviews: Identity Thief

8th February 2013

Several critics agree that the one-minute pitch for Identity Thief must have been a doozy: a guy (Jason Bateman) discovers...

Movie Reviews: Side Effects

8th February 2013

Nearly all of the reviews for Side Effects refer to director Steven Soderbergh's recent declaration that he intends to put...

Dreamworks Animation Teeters

7th February 2013

The studio that brought you Shrek had a day on Wall Street that could be likened to dreck. Stock in...

Twc Dumps Current Tv After Sale To Al-jazeera

3rd January 2013

Within hours of learning that Al Jazeera had acquired Current TV, Time Warner Cable pulled the plug on the channel,...

Wall Street Journal Shoots Down Reports Of An Intel Tv

2nd January 2013

Even as reports continued to proliferate that Intel plans to unveil a smart TV at the Consumer Electronics Show next...

Wall Street Journal Shoots Down Reports Of An Intel Tv

2nd January 2013

Even as reports continued to proliferate that Intel plans to unveil a "smart TV at the Consumer Electronics Show next...

Icahn Girds For War With Netflix Chief

14th November 2012

Carl Icahn, who has taken a 10-percent stake in Netflix, has vowed to find a buyer for the video rental...

Cablers Charging More For Internet Alone Than For Bundle With Tv

14th November 2012

Cable companies are fighting back against subscribers who want to cut the cord -- drop their TV service and watch...

Movie Reviews: Lincoln

9th November 2012

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln opens in just 11 theaters this weekend, testing whether a film so conceived and so dedicated can...

Critics Pounce On Seal Team Six

5th November 2012

The controversial -- because of its timing -- docudrama SEAL Team Six, about the hunt for and killing of Osama...

Critics Pounce On Seal Team Six

5th November 2012

The controversial -- because of its timing -- docudrama SEAL Team Six, about the hunt for and killing of Osama...

Movie Reviews: Wreck-it Ralph

2nd November 2012

The reviews are overwhelmingly positive for the videogame-themed Wreck-It Ralph, something that will come as a welcome relief to the...

Movie Reviews: Flight

2nd November 2012

While virtually every review of Flight, starring Denzel Washington,is positive, those reviews are mostly tempered by some hard-edged criticism. Mick...

Movie Reviews: Cloud Atlas

26th October 2012

Many of the early reviews for Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas seemed downright lofty. The latest ones from...

Movie Reviews: Cloud Atlas

26th October 2012

Many of the early reviews for Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas seemed downright lofty. The latest ones from...

Movie Reviews: Trouble With The Curve

21st September 2012

Trouble with the Curve isn't a great Clint Eastwood flick, critics agree, but he certainly gives a more effective performance...

Movie Reviews: Dredd 3d

21st September 2012

Critics are assuring their readers that it's OK to enter theaters showing Dredd 3D with low expectations -- particularly if...