NEW STAR TREK FALLS FAR SHORT OF FORECASTS

There had been virtually unanimous predictions that Star Trek Into Darkness would debut with the biggest opening ever for the Paramount franchise — at least $80 million for the three-day weekend and $100 million for the four-day holiday. It didn’t happen. Paramount now expects the movie to earn $70.5 million for the weekend and $84 [...]

IRANIAN DIRECTOR FARHADI WOWS CANNES WITH THE PAST

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s latest film, Passé (The Past), his first film shot outside his native country, received a warm reception from the audience at the Cannes Film Festival today (Friday), where it is competing for the prestigious Palme d’Or award. His previous film, A Separation, about a couple preparing for divorce, won the best [...]

LATEST STAR TREK DUE TO STAR AT BOX OFFICE

After having lived long — a half century since it was conceived — Star Trek is due to prosper like never before at the box office this weekend. J.J. Abrams’s latest account of the voyage of the starship Enterprise, first chronicled by Gene Roddenberry in a 1964 pilot starring the late Jeffrey Hunter, is expected [...]

UNLIKE NETFLIX, REDBOX TO CONTINUE FOCUSING ON DVD, BLU-RAY RENTALS

While Netflix is putting most of its energy into attracting customers to its streaming service, Redbox, while also expanding its streaming service, plans to focus its attention on physical media — DVD and Blu-ray rentals, J. Scott Di Valerio, CEO of parent company Coinstar, told the annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference [...]

WARHOL’S MARILYN MONROE FETCHES MORE THAN ANY OF HER MOVIES

Andy Warhol’s 1962 pop-art multiple images of Marilyn Monroe sold for $38.2 million on Thursday. The original silk screen grid, titled “Four Marilyns,” had been expected to fetch about $30 million. The New York Times reported that it was purchased by Victoria Gelfand, a director at the Gagosian Gallery, at the Park Avenue salesroom of [...]

STAR TREK INTO THEATERS TONIGHT

Star Trek Into Darkness opens on 3,760 screens tonight (Thursday) after a Wednesday preview on 336 IMAX screens only, where it grossed an estimated $2 million. (The IMAX version features about a half hour of footage that was shot with 70mm IMAX cameras, although some moviegoers are making a ruckus online that many new IMAX [...]

TIME WARNER CABLE MAY TAKE STAKE IN HULU

The parent companies of Fox TV, ABC, and NBC may have a new partner in operating Hulu, the video website that streams TV episodes online to U.S. audiences. Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday that Time Warner Cable is considering taking a stake in the online video company, becoming Hulu’s fourth partner. Bloomberg said that the [...]

COMING SOON (MAYBE): ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: THE MOVIE

Despite the fact that producer Mitchell Hurwitz has been able to revive Arrested Development as a 15-episode TV series for Netflix, he’s still aiming for a movie version. Today’s (Thursday) Los Angeles Times is reporting that Hurwitz designed the Netflix episodes as the first act of a three-act story that will conclude with Arrested Development: [...]

WHERE TO WATCH MOVIES ONLINE LEGALLY? THE MPAA SHOWS YOU

In an apparent effort to direct people away from pirate websites and toward legitimate websites where they download or stream movies and TV shows, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has launched a website, www.WheretoWatch.org, that lists all the legitimate video websites, with a link to each of them. Twenty-five websites are listed, 11 [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

Several critics are writing at great length about how Star Trek Into Darkness is not the last generation’s Star Trek. The film, writes Claudia Puig in USA Today, “may not go boldly back to the archives, but it serves up an exhilarating spectacle.” Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News comments that “this go-all-out [...]

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