Netflix lost 800,000 subscribers in Q3, still doing okay
I think we all would have been shocked if Netflix hadn’t taken some kind of beating in the wake of the Qwikster debacle, ...
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Box Office Numbers: Robots > Dance > Alien Paranoia
This week’s big new releases, The Thing and Footloose, failed to unseat Real Steel from the top spot. Is it because moviegoing audiences ...
ARRI, Panavision, Aaton to cease film camera production
This really breaks my heart. Today, ARRI, Panavision, and Aaton, the three biggest manufacturers of film motion picture cameras, have announced that they ...
Tower Heist VOD plans ceased
Well, that was fast. Seems that Universal’s early VOD plans for Bret Ratner’s latest suck-fest have fallen through. The National Association of Theatre ...
Iranian actress gets jailed and lashed for acting
In news that is sure to get civil rights advocates steaming, an Iranian woman has been jailed for appearing in a film critical ...
Netflix reverses course, keeps DVDs, cancels Qwikster
[UPDATE: Confirming my speculation, the New York Times reports that Netflix renting video games is still “to be determined,” so it’s probably unlikely ...
Shocker! JJ Abrams is working on a mystery project!
I’m wondering when J.J. Abrams is going to try a different approach to his movies other than the mystery box approach he’s done ...
Charlie Kaufman’s Frank or Francis covers film blogging
The writer of the film that changed me, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the director of the polarizing Synecdoche, New York is ...
Sony to stop paying for 3D glasses for theaters in 2012
Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced today that they will no longer pay to provide theaters across the world with 3D glasses for their ...
WB wants Steven Spielberg to lead the leader of the Jews
It’s rare that you get to report on what is simultaneously big, exciting news that also doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of happening, ...
Star Wars Blu-rays make $84 million in one week
Man, the angry legion of anti-Lucas fans certainly made their voices heard with that sacred right of boycott! The Star Wars Blu-ray set has ...
Netflix strikes deal with DreamWorks Animation
In what is being reported as the “first time a major Hollywood content provider has chosen Web streaming over pay TV,” Netflix is ...