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ENTERTAINMENT News, Nov 17, 2011


"Hugo"
Word of Mouth: Three films vie for family audience
Los Angeles Times
To ensure that the film didn't play like a retread of the "Muppet" movies and videosfrom the 1970s and 1980s, Lieberman and producer David Hoberman hired James Bobin, best known for making Sacha Baron Cohen's outlandish "Ali G" show, as the film's ...
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Fanhattan Unifies the World of Entertainment with Launch of Fanhattan for iPhone
MarketWatch (press release)
Fanhattan encourages user exploration and discovery by connecting movies and TV shows with an expansive world of related content including reviews from Rotten Tomatoes, ratings, movie tickets, trailers, related YouTube videos, high resolution immersive ...
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Warner Bros. pacts with Lovefilm in UK
Variety
The deal includes several significant changes to the existing structure of home entertainmentwindows. It stretches the window for DVD rental by post to 60 days after DVD retail and video-on-demand, from its existing 28 days. ...
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BSNL's partner pulls the plug on IPTV service
The Hindu
BSNL was providing IPTV services under a partnership with MyWay, a digital entertainmententerprise owned by Smart TV Group. The group had entered into long-term contracts with MTNL and BSNL for providing co-branded interactive video services to ...
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In honor of 'Twilight,' we reveal our guilty pleasures
STLtoday.com
Not to be a feline elitist, I'll also watch videos featuring puppies and, on occasion, ducks. Even, in a pinch, babies. By Gail Pennington • PD TV critic Even though I write about beer and food, I slum it every now and then with grocery-store wine and ...
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Movie review: 'Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey'
Washington Post (blog)
But the originalClash photos and videos from his teenage sewing days to working on his first movieset in London, Henson's 'Labyrinth,' balance out the archival footage. We get to walk Clash's path and watch him grow as a person. ...
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ClipSync Launches ClipSync Moments, Social Interactions Around the Video ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Another key capability is the snap feature for capturing and editing video images that allow fans to contribute and share their favorite movies or TV shows. ClipSync Moments also fuels viewer passion by allowing people to create rich conversations that ...
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John Hughes video explains 'Ferris Bueller' scene at Art Institute
Washington Post (blog)
Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick in “Ferris Bueller's Day Off.” (Paramount Home Entertainment) The video is from 2009, but it was recently unearthed by the Guardian. Hughes's insights about pointillism are so universal that writer Hadley Freeman uses ...
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VuClip Launches Mobile Movie Portal Starlight Cinema
MediaNama.com
Content tie-ups: According to the company, it has tied up with providers such as UTV Motion Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Vega, Whacked Out Media and MAA TV to offer content on the portal. The company claims that it will offer clips, trailers and ...
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Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet
CNET
Pressing that button sends you off to a Movie and TV Apps pop-up page that includes links to Netflix, "My Media," Hulu Plus, and other video apps in the Nook Store. Both Netflix and Hulu Plus are subscription services, but Barnes & Noble has ...
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Business Pressure Drives Technology: Revolution in the Entertainment Industry
Knowledge@W. P. Carey
Cookson explained that two labor organizations represent the talent who work in the movies and onTV: the Screen Actors Guild, which represents actors who work in movies and a percentage who work on TV; and the American Federation of Television and ...
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Where Sony went wrong
Times of India
That could include everything from Sony-produced TV shows to extended scenes from movies, including "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "Arthur Christmas." "The plan is to bring everything under the Sony Entertainment Network umbrella," Hirai said, ...
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'The Last Standing Video Store' Closes Its Doors
Housatonic Times
They also expanded the store's offerings beyond its remarkable library of movies, documentaries and alternative health videos by offering organic food, herbs, spices and vitamins that reflected the family's own passions and a need in the community. ...
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BigFlix Shuts Down Physical Distribution Biz; Switches To Paid Streaming
VC Circle
The company has already started informing its subscribers that instead of deliveringmovies to homes, BigFlix will directly stream them from December. The cost of streaming will be Rs 249 per month, although a few movies, music videos and trailers will ...
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VC Circle
Blockbuster Selling $50 Blu-ray Player With Movie Combo/Total Access Subscription
Home Media Magazine
Participating stores touting 49-cent catalog movie rentals and 99-cent video games for “open house” weekend event Nov. 19-20 Blockbuster LLC is selling a $49.99 Blu-ray Disc player to consumers who sign up for either the in-store Movie Combo or by-mail...
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Home Media Magazine
With Film Incentive Capped, Michigan's Movie Jobs Face An Uncertain Future
Huffington Post
"It just instantly deflated," said David London, president of Parliament Studios, a Michigan videoproduction company founded in 2009. "A lot of people who had kind of pinned their hopes on this industry were just left out to dry. ...
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Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Video Game Writers
“The biggest entertainment launch of all time” –– not even many big budget movieshave been able to claim this incredible title of mass success. The Call of Duty series, however, has done it twice: first with 2010′s Black Ops, and now with the ...
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Video Game Writers
Google Music debuts as sales battle with Apple, Amazon begins
Los Angeles Times
Google has struggled in its often-contentious negotiations with movie and television studios to license content for its Google TV platform, which uses the Internet to pipe on-demand videos directly to TV sets. It struggled with its new music partners ...
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Los Angeles Times
Sony helps support the prevention of HIV and AIDS in Africa
The FINANCIAL
The FINANCIAL -- Specifically, Sony provided a high-definition video projector boasting a 7000 lumen brightness, 150-inch screen, and professional switchers that are easy to carry and operate, to showmovies and music videos, along with educational ...
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Amy Adams: My daughter has 'Muppet Mania' (Video)
OnTheRedCarpet.com
She said her daughter is one of the reasons she chose to make the movie, which sees her playing a woman named Mary. "The Muppets" also stars Jason Segel and Rashida Jones. The Disney-produced film has been advertised heavily. ...
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OnTheRedCarpet.com
... Like There's No Tomorrow at the Algonquin Theatre
CottageCountryNow.ca
This week, Like There's No Tomorrow will be brought to Huntsville' Algonquin Theatre in high-definitionvideo, part of a nationwide film tour. With screenings often running for one night only, Warren Millerfilms attract a cult-like following and mark ...
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Hare freshener: Wascally wabbit weturns
Vancouver Sun
"Video games and movies, yes, but not the daily animation show. I would be very surprised." Count on a generous selection of all the best at the Orpheum, including all three of the above. I can't wait for the closing number: The History of Warner Bros. ...
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Harry Potter Cast Answers Fan Questions At Harry Potter Event at Universal ...
FlickDirect
To celebrate the home video release of the last film in the Harry Potter saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Orlando teamed up and held a celebration. During the long three-day...
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FlickDirect
Back to the grind
Indiana Daily Student
Exploitation films were violent, sexually explicit, offensive to women, stereotypical of African Americans and a whole lot of fun. Today, the drive-ins and inner city grindhouses are closed, and the teenage boys watch their direct-to-video moviesalone ...
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Indiana Daily Student
Ashley Greene talks Twilight fans enthusiasm: 'They're still passionate' (Video)
Examiner.com
The fans of Twilight movie series are some of the best in the entertainment business. Known as Twi-hards, the passionate audience of the film has been standing strong for the upcoming Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. Camping out in London and Los ...
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Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite 2012
Icrontic
If you have ever watched a movie with animation, special effects or played a 3D videogame within the last ten years, I would feel more than comfortable betting you that you have seen a little of what Maya is known for. It is one of the most widely ...
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Icrontic
Kids First Calls for Kid Movie Critics
Home Media Magazine
Industry supporters of the Kids First Film Critics campaign include Amazon.com, Anchor BayEntertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video and WonderWorldEntertainment, in addition to nonprofits such as the National Education ...
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UltraViolet, Flixster Won't Save Movie Sales
TheStreet.com
By Anthony John Agnello , Consumer and Technology Writer, InvestorPlace NEW YORK (InvestorPlace) -- Here's the reality of home video: Most people still watch DVDs and Blu-ray discs. The NPD Group's "Entertainment Trends in America" report released in ...
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A business class on what it takes to be a player
Boston.com
She was a high-level soccer player in her native Netherlands before devoting herself to academics, with a focus on media and entertainment industry. “I'm an avid fan ofmovies, music, television, sports, video games,'' Elberse said. ...
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Boston.com
The Twilight saga is coming to an end, but not everyone is hooked
The National
The movies sparked a vampire "craze" in Hollywood, with many films and TV series developed, such as True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. Even the Harry Potter franchise, another multibillion dollar series, planned its release dates to avoid conflict ...
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The National
Innovation Has Never Been the Cornerstone of the Video Game Industry
Kotaku
Sega fired back with Wonder Boy, a game that was copied into another Nintendo EntertainmentSystem title known as Adventure Island. Sega then followed it with Alex Kidd in Miracle World, a similar platformer concept that even contained the same ...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in 3D Now Available on Time Warner ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Nov 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Time Warner Cable Digital TV customers now have instant access to the Pirates of the Caribbean film series including Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in 3D on Movies On Demand. ...
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Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL Is Now Available From Crave Games
MarketWatch (press release)
An in-game store uses game points to unlock eight new characters, five new arenas, alternate character costumes and 30 memorable cartoon clips from their favorite TV shows. Fighting game aficionados will enjoy flexible, programmable controls enabling ...
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HTC's Vivid Smartphone Challenged by Adult Film Studio
Digital Media Wire
Adult movie studio Vivid Entertainment has sent a formal cease and desist letter demanding the HTC Corp. division stop using the trademarked name Vivid for one of its latest smartphones. The letter to HTC America chief executive Peter Chou contends ...
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Digital Media Wire
DVD Picks: 'West Side Story'
NPR (blog)
Time now for a home video recommendation from movie critic Bob Mondello. This week he's looking back a half-century, to a ground-breaking musical that won ten Oscars, West Side Story. Clean-cut delinquents and pressed jeans — giggle all you want, ...
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Blue Ridge Communications to Launch Rovi TotalGuide xD Application for Tablets ...
IT News Online
TotalGuide xD will enable Blue Ridge subscribers to remotely connect with their DVR and channel tune, find more of what they like with Rovi six-degrees discovery, and once available, watch authenticated TV shows and movies on multiple mobile screens. ...
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Need For Speed: The Run Review
Digitaltrends.com
In some ways, for consumers who play video games as an alternative to moviesNeed for Speed: The Run is the perfect game. It takes an adrenaline-filled, action-packed idea of an illegal cross country race, and offers it up in a way that could never...
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Digitaltrends.com
Michael Bay's Video Game Trailer For Need For Speed: The Run
Inside Pulse
Bored from counting his millions earned from the Transformers films, the action director decided to cut together a two-minute trailer for the Electronic Arts video game release Need for Speed: The Run, available for consoles beginning Nov. 15. ...
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'Hide and Tweet' for Signed 'Super 8' Combo Packs
Home Media Magazine
22 home video release of coming-of-age sci-fi story Super 8, Paramount HomeEntertainment is launching a Twitter promotion in which fans can win autographed copies of the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, signed by director JJ Abrams. ...
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Home Media Magazine
VIZIO Wins Popular Science Magazine's Coveted "2011 Best of What's New Award ...
Stock Markets Review
In addition to a superb 3D picture, all M-Series units include VIZIO Internet Apps® (VIA) technology and built-in 802.11n WiFi, giving users the convenience of on-demand movies, TV shows, social networks, music and photos, on their HDTV. ...
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United Inaugurates Houston-Lagos Flights
MarketWatch (press release)
All seats on the Boeing 777 feature an Audio/Video On Demand (AVOD) inflight entertainmentsystem, which enables customers to choose from 250 movies, 300 TV shows and 3000 audio tracks with a jukebox feature to make individual playlists. ...
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New Awards Event Honoring Movie/TV Tech and Science Portrayal ...
By Daniel Frankel
The Entertainment Industry Council will launch a new awards event Thursday, which will honor moviesand TV shows that effectively portray advances in science, engineering and technology. Known as a go-to resource in Hollywood for ...
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