Entertainment
Sep 10th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Television
Apple has lured NBC Universal back into the iTunes fold after a yearlong pricing dispute that flared last summer, when Apple declined to sell new ‘Peacock’ episodes because its deal with NBC was set to expire in a few months.
Tags: apple, itunes, jobs, nbc, tv series
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Sep 9th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Television
‘South Park’, a cartoon aimed at adults and featuring a group of nine-year olds in a Colorado town, has courted controversy since its 1997 debut, lampooning celebrities, politicians, religion, gay marriage and Saddam Hussein.
Tags: censorship, russia, south park, the courts, tv series
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Sep 9th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Entertainment
Judge Robert Patterson of the Manhattan District Court said that US publisher RDR Books would violate copyright in publishing Steve Vander Ark’s ‘Harry Potter Lexicon’. His ruling said that RDR Books “failed to establish an affirmative defense of fair use,” the court clerk told AFP.
Tags: books, encyclopedias, harry potter, rdr books, rowling, the courts, United States, vander ark
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Sep 9th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Movies
A cleverly written and humorous script by renowned playwright and director Martin McDonagh, together with outstanding performances by Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes, results in one very brilliant film.
Tags: in bruges, mcdonagh, Movies, reviews
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Sep 8th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Television
Supreme Court Justice Peter Vickery granted permission for Channel Nine to immediately screen a version of the first five episodes of the hit TV series, which have been edited for Victorian viewers.
Tags: channel nine, the courts, tv series, underbelly, victoria
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Sep 7th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Television
The decision to take a breather came after executive producer Howard Gordon expressed displeasure with the direction of the season seven’s final six episodes. The producers will take the time off to rethink the show’s ultimate direction and rewrite scripts. 20th Century Fox said the show should be back in production by Oct. 9.
Tags: 24, fox, gordon, sutherland, tv development, tv series
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Sep 7th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Movies
Darren Aronofksy’s drama “The Wrestler,” starring Mickey Rourke as Randy (the Ram) Robinson, a washed out pro-wrestler in comeback mode — both on and off the screen, it turns out — has pinned down the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion, providing the Lido with a grand finale. The Silver Lion for best director went to Russia’s Aleksey German Jr. for Kazakhstan-set “Paper Soldier,” centering around the Soviet space program in the 1960s.
Tags: aronofsky, awards, german, golden lion, Movies, paper soldier, rourke, silver lion, venice film festival, wrester
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Sep 6th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Television
Which actors are guilty of being much older (or much younger) than the character they’re playing? Find out why that 13-year-old high-schooler has a voice like Barry White, and whether it’s wrong to perve on his supposedly 50-year-old mother, with our look at some of the craziest character-to-actor age differences on TV.
Tags: 8 simple rules, 90210, angel, buffy the vampire slayer, dawons creek, gilmore girls, golden girls, happy days, kath & kim, nip/tuck, party of five, sesame street, smallville, the o.c., tv series
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Sep 5th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Movies
Columbia Pictures has set “The Office” co-exec producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script for a new ‘Ghostbusters’ film designed to bring back together the original cast of Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson.
Tags: columbia pictures, eisenberg, ghostbusters, Movies, stupnitsky, the office, upcoming movies
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Sep 4th, 2008 |
By David Harper |
Category: Television
According to E!’s TV insider Kristin Dos Santos, the talk show queen will play herself in the quirky sitcom. She’ll appear alongside comedy writer Liz Lemon (played by ‘30 Rock’ star and creator Tina Fey) in every scene, and be involved into a storyline that ties into an ongoing feud between the show’s eccentric characters.
Tags: 30 rock, aniston, fey, tv series, winfrey
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