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Woman Sues “Drive” Distributor Over Misleading Trailer

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWX34ShfcsE[/youtube] Living up to the stereotype that you can file a lawsuit for just about anything in the United States, the Hollywood Reporter published a story over the weekend about a woman in Michigan who…

Tower Heist

Universal Hopes “Tower Heist” Will Pass The Premium-VOD Test

In what the Los Angeles Times called “an audacious move” earlier this week, Universal Pictures announced earlier this week that it would allow the Eddie Murphy action comedy “Tower Heist” to be shown via premium-video-on-demand three weeks after its November 4th release date.…

RealD Glasses

A Deeper Look At Sony’s Battle With Exhibitors Over 3D Glasses

Some industry professionals will look back at September 27, 2011 as the day motion picture studios took their first step on what may be a long road to end the practice of subsidizing 3D glasses for their movies. Others will remember it as the day the inevitable finally happened. For those who still…

Direct From Broadway

Four Broadway Musicals Find New Life In Cinemas

After first being announced at CineEurope in Amsterdam last June, more details are emerging about the Direct From Broadway, an alternative content series aiming to bring musicals from The Great White Way to movie theaters around the world. New York based Broadway Worldwide, whose production of the B…

IHS Screen Digest: Russia Becomes A Billion Dollar Cinema Market

Anyone who has attended an industry trade show this year or has taken even a cursory look at international box office grosses has undoubtedly noticed the increase in revenue being generated in two countries; China and Russia. It’s no secret that the cinema market in both of these territories is on t…

Super 8 Twitter Promoted Trend

Paramount’s Unique “Super 8” Twitter Promotion

Late last Thursday my Twitter list of entertainment journalists lit up with posts about “Super 8“. It was the evening of the all-media screening Los Angeles and as soon as the credits rolled journalists and critics began praising the film on Twitter. That kind of buzz can’t be boug…

Alamo Drafthouse Anti-Texting PSA Goes Viral

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] The Alamo Drafthouse has gained quite a reputation over the past couple of years as one of the countries best movie theaters. Entertainment Weekly hailed it as the best…

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Katzenberg Discouraged Over Decline Of 3D

[/caption] There has been no greater champion of 3D than Dreamworks Animation head Jeffrey Katzenberg. Except maybe filmmaker James Cameron, there have been few, if any, industry cheerleaders as vocal about 3D than Katzenberg. As far back as 2007, Katzenberg could be heard at trade shows and in the…

Looney Tunes In 3D

Warner Bros. Brings Looney Tunes Back To Cinemas

Just this past weekend I was shocked when my daughters, six and four-year-olds, asked who Bugs Bunny was. I’m not sure why I was so surprised, since they watch very little television and most of the movies they’ve seen feature characters from Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks Animation titles. This is pr…

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Holiday Weekend Gives Box Office Coverage A Record Breaking “Hangover”

Did anyone hear that loud “whooshing” sound this past weekend? If so, don’t be alarmed. It was just the collective sigh of relief coming from dozens of studio executives upon seeing the weekend’s enormous box office receipts. The summer movie season started off with a bang he…