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Warners Remaking Buffy Without Input From Creator
Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , is aiming a satirical stake at the heart of Warner Bros. after learning that the studio plans to make a new movie version of his...
Report Tonight Show No Longer A Must For Ad Buyers
Advertisers no longer regard NBC's Tonight show as the essential late-night television buy, the Associated Press reported today (Tuesday), quoting David Campanelli, vice president and director of national television for Horizon Media, as saying, "There...
Low Ratings For Parker/spitzer Threaten Morgan
Although CNN is sparing no expense to mount a compelling hour to replace Larry King Live at 9 00 p.m. beginning in January -- it has hired Piers Morgan to host the new interview show...
Imax Credits Inception For Big Boost In Profit
Christopher Nolan's Inception was not filmed in 3D, and there was never any public talk about converting it in order to take advantage of 3D premium pricing. But it was shown on virtually every IMAX...
Tom Cruise Announces Title Of Next M I Movie
Reporters were left scratching their heads after Tom Cruise revealed on Thursday that the title of his fourth Mission Impossible movie will be Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol. "All I wanted is not to have a...
Mnf Moves The Goal Post
For the first time ever, a weekly sports telecast appears to have a lock on first place in the weekly Nielsen ratings. Indeed, the audience for NBC's Sunday Night Football appears to be growing each...
Phillips Why I Fired Mel Gibson
Director Todd Phillips insisted on Monday that while he regards Mel Gibson as "one of our finest actors and, quite honestly, one of our finest directors," he felt it was necessary to remove him from...
Imax Helps Paranormal Activity 2 Set Horror Record
Paranormal Activity 2 did not suffer the sequel blues of most horror flicks. In fact it became the biggest horror-flick earner ever over the weekend, raking in $40,678,424, and taking the record set by last...
Movie Reviews Hereafter
Moviegoers heading to the theaters this weekend to see Hereafter may likely have been wondering what, at the age of 80, was Clint Eastwood going to say about the hereafter? Well, quite a lot, say...
Backlash Hits Npr Following Williams Firing
A day after NPR fired liberal commentator Juan Williams after he admitted during a Fox News interview that he worries when he sees people in "Muslim garb" board an airplane, Fox News extended Williams's contract...
Jackson Indicates The Hobbit Movies Will Not Film In New Zealand
Some 1,500 New Zealand film technicians marched into Wellington Wednesday night in what some said appeared to be an effort to disrupt a meeting of an actors union group that has ordered a boycott of...
Football Easily Beats Baseball Sunday Night
The Cablevision dispute did not prevent Fox from recording 17.79 million viewers for the Giants-Lions game during a half-hour overrun at 7 00 p.m. Sunday night. That figure slightly exceeded the 17.22 million viewers who...
Fox-cablevision Dispute Sends Fans To Sports Bars In N.y.
Most television viewers in the New York area were unable to watch the New York Giants defeat the Detroit Lions Sunday afternoon, as the primary cable-TV distributor in the area, Cablevision Systems, and Fox TV,...
Fox News Launches Latino Website
Without fanfare, Fox News has launched a website targeting English-speaking Latinos. While some of FoxNewsLatino's features are in Spanish, most of the site presents news reports from traditional newspaper and wire-service sources about events affecting...
Cbs Maintains Ratings Lead; Rivals Fade
ABC and NBC were one-hit wonders in the ratings last week with ABC taking first- and third-place with its two weekly episodes of Dancing with the Stars, and NBC taking fourth place with Sunday Night...
Hawaii Five-0 Overtakes Castle In Final Ratings
CBS and the producers of the revived Hawaii Five-0 series were no doubt "stoked," as surfers say, to learn on Tuesday that final figures of Monday night's episode put it ahead of ABC's Castle ,...
2d Harry Potter Could Be Costly To Theater Owners
While many Harry Potter fans and movie bloggers hailed Warner Bros.' decision not to convert Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows to 3D, the news came as a blow to exhibitors who...
Brett Favre Could Pay Jenn Sterger Financial Settlement
Brett Favre, the Vikings quarterback currently at the centre of a scandal over X-rated photos, could pay the reporter JENN STERGER a financial settlement in order to keep quiet, according to the New York Daily...
Not So Funny Result For Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story had an unhappy ending at the box office this weekend. The Focus Features "dramedy," which opened in only 742 theaters, was not expected to be a big draw at...
Msnbc.com May Change Name
MSNBC.com, one of the most trafficked news sites on the Internet, is weighing the possibility of changing its name, the New York Times reported today (Thursday). The site is currently owned equally by NBC Universal...
Indie Filmmaker Buys Its Own Showcase
Bigfoot Entertainment, a producer of independent movies and TV shows, will no longer have to face the problem of finding a theater to exhibit its productions in Los Angeles. It has purchased the Majestic Crest...
Disney Going All-out To Win Oscar For Toy Story 3
The mediocre box-office showing of The Social Network over the weekend may redound to the benefit of the Walt Disney Company, which is reportedly planning an extensive campaign to win the best picture Oscar for...
The "Ultimate" Avatar To Debut Nov. 16
The DVD and Blu-ray three-disc box set of Avatar that will be released on Nov. 16 will include one version of the film that will be a full 45 minutes longer than the original theatrical...
All Networks Join Suit To Shut Down New Tv Website
All four broadcast networks, PBS, and Major League Baseball have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a video website, Ivi.tv, claiming that it is violating their copyrights by putting their shows online. "This is a...
Weinberg Won't Rejoin Conan O'brien
Max Weinberg confirmed on Monday that he will not be rejoining Conan O'Brien as his bandleader when O'Brien's new late-night talk show debuts in November on TBS. He gave no reason for his decision. In...
Labeouf Describes Confrontation With Stone
When appearing at promotional events with the actors in their movies, directors frequently assert that they welcome their suggestions for dialogue changes. But at Monday night's premiere of Wall Street in New York, Shia LaBeouf...
Gotham Moving To California
In the latest media-consolidation move, Time Warner announced Tuesday that its Warner Bros. Burbank headquarters will henceforth handle the development of feature films, television, digital media, video games and consumer products related to its DC...
Roger Rabbit Sequel Perplexes Bob Hoskins
Although he has agreed to reprise his role in Robert Zemeckis's planned sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Bob Hoskins has expressed his reservations about what he says is Zemeckis's intention to use "performance capture"...
Mel Gibson May Join Mad Men
Mel Gibson, who has rarely appeared in an acting role on TV -- a notable exception was his role on The Simpsons in 1999 -- has been in talks with Mad Men creator-producer Matthew Weiner...
No Surprises At Idol Judges Announcement
In an announcement that was considerably less unexpected than LeBron James's revelation that he was forsaking the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat, the producers of American Idol said today that Jennifer Lopez and Steven...
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Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
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Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
![Dekker talks to us about writing with Jose Gonzales, making headway in the U.S and the difficulties associated with wearing a hat! [EXCLUSIVE]](/images/home/homepage/dekker-abof-a.jpg "Dekker talks to us about writing with Jose Gonzales, making headway in the U.S and the difficulties associated with wearing a hat! [EXCLUSIVE]")
Dekker talks to us about writing with Jose Gonzales, making headway in the U.S and the difficulties associated with wearing a hat! [EXCLUSIVE]
Ahead of the imminent release of his second solo album - Dekker, aka Brookln Dekker, took time out to let us know about the musical project he...
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