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What Warner Bros. Shifting 'Ready Player One' Means For Investors
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 2:11pm | 495Read More..."Ready Player One," Warner Bros. (operated by Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX))'s highly anticipated 2017 release from director Steven Spielberg will have to wait a little longer at the starting block. The drama about a virtual world where humans prefer to live in over reality was slated to be the...
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How Major Studios Are Advertising During Super Bowl 50
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 10:58am | 567Read More...While all eyes are on the big game Sunday, the major film studios will take full advantage with a blitz of movie trailers scheduled to run both before and during Super Bowl 50's commercial breaks. This is common practice for Hollywood, as a big splashy trailer can eventually lead to a big splashy...
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Viacom Looking To Mine Nickelodeon's Vault For Paramount 'Nick Toons' Project
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 10:24am | 348Read More...Connected universes have worked out well for many top studios, and now Viacom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA) is about to enter the fray, courtesy of synergy from two of its biggest assets. As reported by Deadline on Wednesday, Paramount and Nickelodeon will team up for "Nick Toons," a feature-...
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SolarCity Earnings Reflect Bookings and M&A
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 12:59pm | 394Read More...On Tuesday, SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) reported its fourth quarter results. The company handily beat the consensus EPS by reporting a loss of $0.46 share and reported $47.30 million. Analysts were looking for the company to report a loss of $0.56 per share on revenue of $45.27 million. SolarCity...
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Will Transformers 3 Become the Biggest Movie that Sucks, or the Best Movie that Flops?
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:02pm | 1182Read More...There is precedent for both outcomes. Which one is most likely to befall the sequel to Revenge of the Fallen? Tonight at midnight, movie theaters all across the country will begin showing Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the long-awaited third installment to the Transformers movie franchise....
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Will Super 8 Be "Super" at the Box Office?
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 2:23pm | 700Read More...The long-awaited JJ Abrams epic* finally hits theaters today. With teaser trailers running since early last year and numerous full-length trailers and TV spots airing for the past six months, Super 8 is one of the most hyped films of the summer movie season. But it is the writer and director (JJ...
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The Green Lantern: Destined To Flop? (TWX)
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 3:32pm | 686Read More...There has been a lot of hype for this summer's “blockbuster” comic book movie. But all signs point to a flop for what is sure to be hailed as a blasphemous attempt at mainstream filmmaking. While the trailers and ridiculous movie posters have received a ton of buzz, curious critics and excited...
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Rango: The Video Game Provides Family Entertainment Where The Film Misses The Mark
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 9:51am | 659Read More...Is it possible for a video game that's based on a movie to turn out better than the original source material? It's not unprecedented. The Nintendo 64 version of GoldenEye 007 was definitely more entertaining than the film of the same name. But it is a relatively rare occurrence. After seeing Rango...
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Rango At Number One, But Is It Any Good? (VIA)
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 9:39am | 856Read More...Is Gore Verbinski's animated western worth its $38 million (estimated) gross? Since the first trailer debuted last year, Rango has been hyped as a different kind of movie. First it was promoted as a semi-silly action-comedy. Then it was promoted as an animated feature for adults. During the Super...
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Movie Theaters Brace For Profit-Slashing Winter Storm (CNK, RGC, IMAX)
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 1:44pm | 355Read More...It looks like the number-one movie in America is getting a new competitor this week: a major snow storm. The Rite (from the Warner Bros. division of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX)) landed the top spot at the box office with $15 million. No Strings Attached (from Paramount (NYSE: VIA)) earned just...
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Desperate For A Twilight Replacement (LGF)
Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 4:15pm | 488Read More...Twilight – the final frontier. At least, that's what Hollywood thinks of this book-turned-movie franchise. Whereas most studios have apparently given up on finding the next Harry Pottery – failure after failure in the department of magical films (Percy Jackson, etc.) will do that to you – Hollywood...
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Saw 3D Leads The Weekend Box Office, Wunderlich Securities Reports
Monday, November 1, 2010 - 10:08am | 101Read More...Wunderlich Securities reports (via Hollywood.com) that receipts for the top-12 releases rose 4.5% to $86.6mm. “Lionsgate's (NYSE: LGF) Saw 3-D was the #1 movie, grossing an about-as-expected $24.2mm and considerably ahead of the lackluster $14.1mm tally for 2009's Saw VI,” Wunderlich Securities...
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Samsung Strikes Deals For Galaxy Tablet Sales in U.S. (005930.KS)
Friday, September 17, 2010 - 10:39am | 156Read More...Samsung Electronics (KSE: 005930.KS) has reached agreements to sell their upcoming Galaxy tablet computer with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S), T-Mobile, and AT&T (NYSE: T) in the U.S. The tablet, running on Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system, is aimed for a...
