MOSES IS STILL A RATINGS DRAW

Perhaps it was simply a case of there not being anything else worth watching on a Saturday night — a night that the networks have all but abandoned — but ABC’s telecast of the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille classic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, captured nearly 7 million viewers on Saturday, making it the […]

PARAMOUNT TO RAISE TITANIC EARLIER THAN EXPECTED

Seemingly convinced that since 1997 an entire generation has emerged that has never seen Titanic on the big screen and that others who have will want to see it again in 3D, Paramount executives on Tuesday announced that they are moving up the release date of Titanic 3D to Wednesday, April 4, thereby stretching its […]

RIO STILL PERCHED ATOP BOX OFFICE

The birds of Rio continued to defend their nest atop the box office over the weekend as their animated comedy edged out Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, which had been favored to take over as the weekend’s top film. As it was, only a little over a million dollars separated the two films. According […]