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$72.5 million for ‘Fast & Furious’? Really? It’s an estimate, but my great fear, when the actual box office numbers come in later today, is that that early guess at Fast & Furious’s humongous weekend box office take will be revised upward, as happens sometimes. $72.5 million for ‘Fast & Furious’? Really? It’s not like … more…
It’s Friday, which means new movies opening — lots of new movies, if you’re in New York or Los Angeles, more than even a dedicated film critic like me could ever see. But most people won’t go to the movies this weekend: most people, if they ever see anything new opening today, will wait for … more…
NBC’s long-running doctor drama ER wraps up forever tonight, and a recent article in Los Angeles Times suggests that when the series goes, so goes with it our former ideas about what constitutes network television, or perhaps simply “television” itself: With its technical innovations and reliance on realism, “ER” changed dramatic television. And when NBC … more…
Alex Proyas, the filmmaker behind Knowing is in a bit of a scuffle with the Australian film agency, Screen Australia, over tax breaks for the film, according to IMDB’s Studio Briefing: Proyas is arging that the film deserves more tax consideration because while it is set in the U.S., the film was shot in Melbourne. … more…
As of this writing, 11 movies will open wide in North America in the month of April. Which means that even if you’re an active moviegoing and see a movie each week, you’ve still gotta pick and choose (and it’s even worse if you’re in a city on the arthouse circuit, but let’s not make … more…
I’ve long been an advocate of TV shows being made available online, but it seems to me that HBO has it entirely wrong: Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable operator in the country, is working with customers here to test a subscriber model for online TV viewing. Residents who pay for HBO can watch “Big … more…
Monsters vs. Aliens, opening today, will be the widest 3D release ever, on more than 2,000 screens (plus around another 2,000 non-3D screens). The plan was, though, for it to be even wider: Theater owners, slowed by funding delays that have hampered the adoption of 3-D technology, raced to complete upgrades for tomorrow’s opening of … more…
Rumor has it the Vatican may be planning to announce a Catholic boycott of the upcoming film Angels and Demons, opening worldwide in May: Avvenire, the Vatican’s official newspaper, ran a story in Friday’s edition noting that the church “cannot approve” of such a problematic film. The Turin daily La Stampa, meanwhile, said the Vatican … more…
Warner Bros. this week launched the Warner Archive Collection, an on-demand DVD service that USA Today described this way: [F]ans eventually will be able to order any of the 6,800 theatrical features in the studio’s library not available on disc and receive a custom-made DVD within a week for $20. Only about 1,200 films in … more…
There’s a legal dispute in progress over the rights to Dick Tracy. You know, the hard-boiled crime fighter your grandfather read in the funny papers when he was a kid: Dick Tracy has landed in a Delaware bankruptcy court, as Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co.’s Tribune Media Services filed suit late Thursday to clarify that … more…
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