Fox Mobile Home Entertainment has released an app for iOS devices that gives Star Wars fans a taste of the more than 40 hours of special features that will be included on the saga’s upcoming debut on Blu-ray. The Star Wars Blu-ray: Early Access app is available for free download from the iTunes store for the iPa [...]
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James Bond’s Daniel Craig and Actress Rachel Weisz Wed
Actors Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have tied the knot in a small private wedding in New York on Wednesday (June 22). In attendance were Craig’s daughter Ella, Weisz’s son Henry, and two other friends. The couple had been quietly dating over the past six months as well as costarring together in the as-yet-unrel [...]
New Star Trek Comic Offers Connective Tissue Between 2009 Reboot and Star Trek 2
What follows is some fascinating news that could hint at a possible direction for JJ Abrams’ forthcoming sequel to 2009′s Star Trek. And it involves a character previously speculated upon. IDW Publishing and CBS Consumer Products have announced a brand-new ongoing comic book series, based upon JJ Abram’s reboote [...]
Rob Zombie Cleans Up his Act, and his Laundry
Metalhead, film director, screenwriter and producer Rob Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects, Halloween), has made a career out of chaos and anarchy… and his next screen shocker is no exception. Intent on topping his previous acts of cinematic cruelty and torture, he has turned to TV ads to peddle only the most vile [...]
Stargate Goes Up For Sale…in Pieces
Want a piece of Stargate Command? CinemaSpy has learned that after hosting 14 years of Stargate production in Vancouver, Bridge Studios is to be the stage for a saddening sell-off of objects from the three series that made up the live-action parts of the franchise: Stargate: SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and SGU: Stargat [...]
When Comic Book Heroes Turn Their Backs on Comic-Con
It seems oddly incongruous to report that Warner Bros, DreamWorks, Disney & The Weinstein Company Pass On San Diego may choose not to hock their wares that this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con, but that’s precisely the situation in which we find ourselves, according to a new report over at The Wrap. It’s all worth keep [...]
Tracy Morgan Gets Support from 30 Rock Co-star, Wins Comedy Award After Gay Gibe
Tina Fey, creator and star of NBC’s sitcom 30 Rock, has publicly expressed support for her co-star on the show, Tracy Morgan, amid a storm of controversy over a joke the actor/comedian is alleged to have made in a recent stage show. During the stand-up performance in Nashville, Morgan reportedly went on an ‘anti-ga [...]
Despite Recent Setbacks, Ron Howard Still Bullish on Dark Tower
After so much preliminary hype surrounding the status of Ron Howard’s film and TV adaptations of Stephen King’s ‘Dark Tower’ projects, fans were understandably disappointed earlier this month when the project was placed on pause—courtesy of Comcast’s absorption of Universal. These things happen, of course, and t [...]
From Inside Job to Movie Theaters, the Middle Class Rip-Off Continues
If you watched filmmaker Charles Ferguson’s 2010 documentary Inside Job — about the origins and hubris surrounding the recent global financial meltdown — then odds are you felt angry, cheated…and more than a little bit disgusted by a society that is increasingly putting more and more wealth in the hands of th [...]
When Disney Meets Osama bin Laden
Two days after an elite US special forces team broke into Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound on May 1 and killed the al-Qaeda leader, Media Bistro reports the Walt Disney Company trademarked the term ‘Seal Team 6′, the name of the actual team of operatives who conducted the operation. Seal Team 6 is regarded as the [...]
