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Movie Box Office Top 10 - Mon Apr 07, 2008
Of the four wide-release movies that opened this past weekend, three made it into the top 5 of box office receipts, as I expected. Only the Rolling Stones documentary, Shine a Light, did not make the top 10. None of the limited-release movies made it into the top 10 either. None of the new releases […]
Movie Box Office Top 10 - Mon Mar 31, 2008
Well, I’ve been wrong about box office receipts a lot this year. A lot of crappy movies are doing just fine, thank you. This past weekend, Superhero Movie did not take #1 in the box office. That spot was taken by 21. (I should have gone with my initial impression, which was 21 over Superhero […]
Movie Box Office Top 10 - Mon Mar 24, 2008
Of the seven wide and limited release movies that opened this past weekend, three made the top 5 in box office receipts, and one made #10, despite being in limited release. None of the new releases made #1, but the big surprise (at least to me) is that Meet the Browns took #2. Shutter’s had […]
Movie Box Office Top 10 - Mon Mar 17, 2008
Three new theatrical movie releases made it into the top 10 of the box office this past weekend, with two in the top 3. It’s no surprise that the newest incarnation of a beloved Dr. Seuss story, Horton Hears a Who!, made it to number one, though neither Richard Roeper (Ebert & Roeper) nor his […]
Movie Box Office Top 10 - Mon Mar 10, 2008
The three wide-release movies that opened over the weekend all made it into the box office top 10. Not too surprisingly, 10,000 B.C. made it to #1. That’s probably purely on the quality of the computer graphics creatures (which has looked great in the trailers I’ve seen.)
I saw no new movies this weekend, thanks to […]
Spike Lee Judging Babelgum Online Film Festival
In addition to the Encounters Short Film Festival, the Internet TV application Babelgum also hosts their own Online Film Festival. The festival offers seven chances to win Euros20,000 (approximately US$40,000).
Jury members include American filmmaker Spike Lee and industry experts from US, UK, The Netherlands, France, India, Italy. The festival is open to professionally-produced content that […]
Encounters Short Film Festival Channel on Babelgum
If you’ve got a short film, you might qualify to have it showcased on the Encounters Short Film Festival Channel on Babelgum. The Festival itself is UK-based, but Babelgum runs a number of film festival “channels” in their downloadable Internet TV application. Showcase dates for the Encounters Short Film Festival run from Nov 21, 2007, […]
Choices for Internet TV
Read Write Web has an indepth review of some of the choices you have for desktop Internet TV solutions and web-based video viewing. Also included is a bit of coverage of set-top boxes, including the Apple iTV.
The biggest drawback of using the websites of TV broadcasters or stations is that they are controlling viewing by […]
Australian Film Industry Increases Nearly 70%
Hollywood and Hollywood North (Toronto) aren’t the only two geographical areas with a growing film industry. Australia got a boost of Aus$250M in their film industry over the past 12 months. Expenditures increased from $371M in 2006 to $625M in 2007.
Writer’s Strike: Some Talk Shows to Return Jan 2nd
The Hollywood writers’ strike is currently stalled and their union, Writers Guild of America (WGA), is planning to deal directly with Hollywood studios instead of the organization representing the latter group. Regardless of the results of the new negotiations, Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien plan to come back on the air Jan 2nd with new […]
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