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This Is It! Bigger Than Estimated
Favorable word of mouth boosted attendance at theaters showing the Michael Jackson concert documentary This Is It! on Sunday, pushing the total box office to $23.2 million, up from an original estimate of $21.3 million....
Jackson If Only He Had Been Alive To See It
In a case of what Billboard describes as turning "human tragedy into ... creative and financial triumph," the Michael Jackson concert documentary This Is It! opened with an estimated $32.5 million over its first five...
Family Guy Not Too Iffy For Warner Bros.
Microsoft may have found the upcoming Family Guy special too controversial for it to go ahead with announced plans to be the sole sponsor of the show. But Fox announced over the weekend that a...
Ncis On Top For Fifth Straight Week
CBS's NCIS reaffirmed its status as the top hit of the current season as it headed Nielsen's ratings list for the fifth consecutive week, attracting 21.3 million viewers. Its spinoff, NCIS Los Angeles also reestablished...
Leno's Ratings Sag Further And Now The Bad News
NBC's flagship station in Los Angeles has seen its ratings for its 11 00 p.m. newscast drop 26 percent since The Jay Leno show began airing nightly at 10 00 p.m. last month. At the...
Will News Corp Make A Play For Nbc?
News Corp President and COO Chase Carey has acknowledged that he is "thinking about" getting into the bidding for a stake in NBC Universal. Speaking at a media conference in New York Wednesday, Carey said...
Wild Things Makes Everything Groovy At Box Office
Where the Wild Things Are wound up with $32.7 million over the weekend -- $3.1 million from IMAX locations -- slightly higher than Warner Bros.' original estimate. The big haul for the PG-rated movie helped...
Iger Predicts "Profound Changes" In Movie Business
Saying that the movie industry "is changing right before our eyes in profound ways," Disney chief Robert Iger said Saturday that those running the business will also have to make profound changes "or you will...
Combo Dvd-blu-ray Packages Climb Sales Charts
The strategy by many studios to offer as part of its home-video packages both a standard DVD and a Blu-ray disc got a new lift last week when Disney's newly restored Snow White and the...
Analyst Advises Redbox Deal With Walmart
If Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. continue to refuse to sell DVDs to kiosk operator Redbox unless it agrees to withhold them for at least four weeks, Redbox could work out a...
Red Letter(man) Day For Feminists
Feminist groups have chimed in on the David Letterman scandal, with most of them demanding that CBS take some disciplinary action against the talk-show host. The National Organization for Women said that the scandal "sheds...
Disney's Ross First Openly Gay Studio Chief
Rich Ross, appointed this week as the new head of Disney Studios, has become the first openly gay studio chief in Hollywood history, the Los Angeles Times observed today (Wednesday). In an interview with Times...
Ex-20th Chief Plunge Into Blu-ray Likely A Mistake
Former 20th Century Fox chief Bill Mechanic has suggested that Hollywood may have made a costly misjudgement when it decided to market Blu-ray Discs as the next big wave in home entertainment. During a time...
Oprah's Ratings Soar In Season Debut
Defying analysts who said that her decision to support Barrack Obama for the presidency last year alienated core viewers, Oprah Winfrey launched her new season last week with a ratings leap of 39 percent. The...
Movie Reviews Surrogates
Androids are expected to rule at the box office this weekend, as Disney's sci-fi flick Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis arrives with little competition. The film is likely to benefit from the fact that it runs...
Cbs Bankruptcy Report "Absurd"
CBS has responded angrily to a study placing it in eighth place among major corporation at risk of bankruptcy in the next year. In a statement on Tuesday, the company said that the study, by...
Actor Henry Gibson Dies At Age 73
Henry Gibson, best remembered for his portrayal of the meek poet on NBC's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late '60s and early '70s, died Monday in Malibu, CA at age 73. He was also...
Movies Have Strong Year In Europe
Movie attendance in the big 5 European Union markets increased 3.8 percent during the first half of 2009 compared to 2008, the European Audiovisual Observatory said today (Friday). The U.K. led the way with an...
The Cw Launches New Season -- Off To A Disappointing Start
The CW attempted to kick off its new season Tuesday night but fumbled embarrassingly in the end zone. The season premier of 90210 drew just 2.56 million viewers vs. 4.65 million for last year's debut...
Cellphone Footage Of Atrocities Smuggled Out Of Sri Lanka
Britain's Channel 4 has broadcast footage of members of the Sri Lankan Army summarily killing bound and naked prisoners in their final surge against the Tamil Tiger rebels. Today's (Wednesday) London Times reported that the...
True Blood Best Hbo Ratings Since The Sopranos
The off-kilter vampire series True Blood is drawing audiences to HBO the likes of which the pay-TV network hasn't seen since the days of The Sopranos. Sunday's episode averaged 5.3 million viewers, the largest audience...
Abc's Ratings Fall To Historic Low
With The Bachelorette having concluded its summer run, ABC was left floundering in the ratings last week -- posting last-place averages among viewers overall and also among adults 18-49. Among the former group, ABC posted...
Abc Reportedly Leaves Couple Stranded
The couple whose wedding video showing them dancing down the aisle became a YouTube hit said Monday that ABC had canceled their airfare and halted further payment on their hotel room after they agreed to...
Norway Denies Nbc's The Wanted Claims
The government of Norway has shot down a claim made at the conclusion of Monday night's The Wanted episode that it was in direct negotiations with Iraq to extradite Mullah Krekar, an alleged terrorist responsible...
Aftra Head No Merger Talks With Sag For Now
The head of the American Federation of Television and Radio artists sees little hope of a merger with the Screen Actors Guild before the next round of contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture...
The Difficulties Producing Michael Jackson's Funeral
It remains unclear whether the planned funeral for Michael Jackson next Tuesday at Staples Center in Los Angeles will be broadcast by the major networks, streamed over the Internet, or beamed by satellite to theaters....
Will Cowell Earn More Than Fox?
If Simon Cowell leaves American Idol this year as he has contemplated doing in interviews, he could be walking away from an offered salary of $108-144 million, according to Britain's Guardian newspaper. The figure represents...
Wwe-usa Networks Could Face Sec Probe
World Wrestling Entertainment and General Electric, the owner of USA Networks, could face an investigation by the SEC into their publicity stunt last week that likely caused WWE shares to fall 7 percent on Tuesday,...
Trump-mcmahon Deal A Hoax, Wwe Admits
Demonstrating that there's not much that can be believed in the wide world of wrestling, USA Network and Vince McMahon's WWE acknowledged Thursday that an announcement that they had mutually released to the press last...
Off To See The Wizard -- Again?
Seventy years after it was first released, MGM's enduring The Wizard of Oz is receiving yet another facelift. An expensive one. Warner Bros. Home Video, which owns the rights to the classic, said that it...
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Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
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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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