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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.…

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…

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…

The Hangover Part II Poster

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…

Did Sony Leak The Red-Band Trailer For ‘Dragon Tattoo’?

[youtube width=”560″ height=”349″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kOFGI0p6SM[/youtube] Over the weekend the Internet lit up with news about a pirated version of the red-band trailer for the English language remake of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”. It wasn…

Chris Dodd

MPAA Selects Chris Dodd For Top Job And Huge Challenges

[/caption] All the rumors being reported by the mainstream press as a foregone conclusion were actually correct. This week the Motion Picture Association of America announced that Christopher Dodd, the former U.S. Senator from Connecticut, would become their chairman and chief executive beginning Ma…

Studios Are Fighting Movie Piracy On College Campuses

[/caption] It looks as if the MPAA may be spying on college students, or at the very least monitoring their file sharing activity. Last week on CNET’s daily tech news podcast Buzz Out Loud the hosts read an email from a listener named Chris who explained how the MPAA has been leaving notes for…

Czech Cinemas Post Record Box Office

North America wasn’t the only territory to break box office records in 2009. In reviewing the backlog of posts I’ve been wanting to get to, I came across an announcement from the Asociace Producentu V Audiovizi a.k.a. Czech Audiovisual Producer’s Association (APA) which reported th…

NATO Responds To ‘Twilight’ Pirate’s Lawsuit

Less than 24-hours after we posted a story on the lawsuit filed against Muvico by a 22-year-old for being arrested for filming inside a movie theatre an email arrived from Patrick Corcoran, the National Association of Theatre Owners’ Director of Media & Research. Corcoran not only provided a sta…