Tag: ENTERTAINMENT

Remember that MySpace makeover that was in the works over the summer? Well, it's finally arrived, and, as expected, the new MySpace focuses more heavily on music and entertainment -- the bread and butter, apparently, of the once-mighty social network. Taking its cue from Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, MySpace's home page will now feature a steady stream of tidbits about musicians, movies ...

If you've ever sat in nosebleed seats at an NFL game, you'll agree that the view from your living room -- which probably includes HDTV and cheap snacks -- is much better. But Fanvision, a new handheld device offered at 12 NFL stadiums and one college, could enhance live football games by using the same technology that keeps some folks at home. The handheld, which only works inside the stadium, ...

Boy, digital media sure does know how to rub its success in print media's face. As if sending newspapers and magazines to the grave wasn't enough, video will appear in a nationally-published magazine next month. According to CNET News, television network CBS, in conjunction with PepsiCo, will run a video advertisement in the September 18th issue of Entertainment Weekly. Only subscribers in New ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/movies/The_Apocalypse_Is_Coming_Pass_the_Popcorn'; Hollywood, it seems, has it in for us. Beginning with the alien-invasion flick 'District 9' (in theaters now), this movie season is chock-full of earth- and earthling-shattering epics. From angry E.T.s and brain-eating zombies to Mayan doomsday prophecies, we're in for a hurtin' for certain, thanks to those bozos. ...

Once a gamer, always a gamer. That's right, you'll be blasting noobs on 'Halo' or banging on those 'Rock Band' drums till the day you die, at least according to a recent report from the Entertainment Merchants Association. The 2009 Annual Report on the Home Entertainment Industry states, "Older gamers continue to be engaged by video games, rather than dropping out and being replaced by a new ...

Funny how even when you combine one of the most respected directors in Hollywood (Peter Jackson) with one of the most successful videogame franchises of all time ('Halo'), it's still a battle getting anything done. And at this point, it looks like the battle has been lost. 'Halo Chronicles,' the consistently hyped game from the partnership between Peter Jackson (who was set to produce the ...

In the VHS days, rental versions of movies were usually saddled with preview after preview that you'd have to fast-forward through before getting to the main event -- a small penalty for not having to pay full-price to watch it. With the advent of the DVD, and now high-def Blu-ray discs, you're usually just a button-press away from the film itself. Increasingly, however, the real attraction of ...

A few months back, Google unveiled the ability to embed links and notes within videos on YouTube. While the usefulness of the new tool wasn't lost on anyone, the level of interactivity it allows may have been overlooked at first. But a YouTube user known as copyrighthater has built a complex, video-based, photo-hunt game using these often overlooked tools. The game is divided into 30 "levels" ...

We've already waded through a number of research reports that found individuals more likely to stay at home and get their entertainment during rough economic times, but an insightful piece from Parks Associates takes a more deliberate approach to analyzing what's really going on. When looking at just how many people are viewing video-on-demand content now versus two years ago (it's way up, by ...

Here's an odd pairing: Mobile phone behemoth Nokia has decided to open a lab in Los Angeles, designed with the explicit goal of "recruiting from and collaborating with the Hollywood entertainment, media and art communities". It's an odd move for the Finnish company, whose company headquarters sit far, far away from Mickey Mouse, Brangelina et al., in Espoo, Finland. "Opening our latest ...

Yesterday at midnight (9 PM on the west coast), the public got its first listen (legal) to (cough...) 'Chinese Democracy.' Though the first Guns N' Roses album in 17 years wont be available in stores till November 23, it can now be streamed for free on MySpace Music (must... bite... tongue...). The album has actually been making the rounds on BitTorrent for a while, and the first hints of it ...

Some of the brightest starts of Hollywood put their creative talent to the test during the writers' strike last year, among them "How I Met Your Mother" star Neil Patrick Harris, who teamed up with "Buffy The Vampire" creator Joss Whedon to produce the online-only musical miniseries "Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog," a whimsical tale of right vs. wrong, and love, that has steadily built a ...

One of our most awkward childhood memories was going to see 'Muppet Treasure Island' at the AMC with mom and lil' bro. There was this couple in the back totally necking (actually, they'd probably crossed over into heavy petting, though we didn't know what that was at the time). Not that we all haven't made out in the cinema a time or two ourselves, but puh-leaze! It's the MUPPETS. Count on the ...

AOL lovechild/social media network Bebo is having its own little tryst with Universal Music Group, starting now. The two just announced that they are conspiring on a new and, according to press materials, "revolutionary" online drama called 'The Secret World of Sam King.' This is apparently the first-ever collab between a music company and a social media network, and it's intended to blur the ...

America's largest movie theater chain wants to make rats out of all of us. This week, Regal Entertainment Group is greatly expanding its pilot program, which puts wireless "tattle" devices in the hands of frequent customers. The cell phone sized transmitters (photo) have four buttons -- "picture," "sound," "piracy" and "other disturbance." When pressed, the buttons activate a silent alert that ...