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As any husband or wife who has picked the wrong kind of spousal Christmas present knows -- a gym membership, for example, instead of a trip to Maui -- there's a big difference between earnest and enjoyable gifts. The same can be said when selecting a...
Tags: Peter Jackson, Saoirse Ronan, Alice Sebold, London, Los Angeles, Entertainment Culture, The Lovely Bones, films, Human Interest, Viggo Mortensen, The Road, Susan Sarandon, Alice, John Hillcoat, Mark Wahlberg, Cormac McCarthy, Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, Bones, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Avatar, Heavenly Creatures, Epic films, Stanley Tucci, Fran Walsh, Blockbuster, The Hobbit films, Philippa Boyens, Atonement, Rachel Weisz
The Twilight sequel raked in $72.7 million yesterday, making it biggest opening day ever. New Moon earned $26 million in midnight showings alone, helping it trump the previous record of $67.2 million earned by Dark Knight. The feat is all the more remarkable...
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Agora' picked up for U.S. release Newmarket Films prepping Rachel Weisz pic Nov 17, 2009, 06:52 PM ET "Agora," Alejandro Amenabar's intellectual epic that had sat without a U.S. buyer for six months, has found a stateside home. Newmarket Films has picked...
Tags: Rachel Weisz, U.S, Alejandro Amenabar, Spain, Newmarket Films, Madrid, Alejandro Amenᅢᄀbar, Hypatia of Alexandria, Weisz, Creation, Blockbuster, Agora, Max Minghella, Entertainment Culture
Great balls of fire … a scene from 2012 It would be nice to be able to say that the critics had taken a wrecking ball to Roland Emmerich 's latest CGI disaster-fest with as much gusto as the German film-maker joyously destroys world famous landmarks...
Tags: Los Angeles, Emmerich, 2012, Blockbuster, Disaster films, Doomsday films, Roland Emmerich, Entertainment Culture, The Day After, Armageddon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Doomsday
Most recent disaster movies blame mankind for the imminent end of civilisation they predict...It's all to do with a peculiar alignment of the Earth and the Sun as foreseen in ancient Mayan calendars. Tipped off by top geologist Chiwetel Ejiofor, the US...
Tags: Roland Emmerich, Earth, Los Angeles, 2012, Crust, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ark, Structure of the Earth, films, Plate tectonics, Oliver Platt, Holly, Disaster films, Emmerich, John Cusack, Danny Glover, Independence Day, Doomsday films, Blockbuster, Steven Spielberg, Godzilla, Amanda Peet, Entertainment Culture, The Day After Tomorrow
Kevin Lewis, senior vice president of digital entertainment for Blockbuster, said the move will "bring Blockbuster's On Demand service into millions of homes across the country." Reader Comments
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It was something out of a movie – it had all the trappings of a block buster. There was a man, a beautiful girl and a couple of overworked and underfed police constables. The scene was in a hospital and, the climax was the escape. Yes, this was...
Tags: blockbuster, escape of undertrial, kidnapping a trader
Blockbuster was once the king of movie rental. But no one wants to trudge down the street to pick up a movie anymore when he can just download it on to his home player. Blockbuster has been slow to capture relevant opportunities and stood by while losing...
Tags: Wii, Japan, Blockbuster
The annual numbers from the NPD Group paint a picture of a healthy industry that nonetheless saw some slowing in the final quarter as consumers tightened their belts. Growth in December year-over-year was 9 percent compared to 53 percent in June.
Tags: nintendo, video, video games, wii, blockbuster, NPD Group, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Co., wiis consoles, million wiis
Game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will team up with ad agency Dentsu Inc to launch a video distribution service on the Wii console, in a move to establish a new revenue stream, the Nikkei business daily said. The two firms plan to offer cartoons and other entertainment...
Tags: nintendo, video, wii, dentsu, blockbuster, japan, Nintendo Co Ltd, Nikkei, video games, microsoft