Movie Rights Acquired for Google Film, Death of Wave Will Be a Tearjerker
Not to be outdone by Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founders of Google are reportedly getting the Hollywood treatment as well, thanks to a freshly inked movie deal.
According to Deadline, Groundswell Productions and producer John Morris have just acquired the movie rights to Ken Auletta's book, 'Googled: The End of the World As We Know it.' In the book, Auletta traces the rise of the Google brand, ...
Forget 'The Social Network,' 'The Expendables,' 'Piranha 3-D' and 'Charlie St. Cloud'; the big-budget, dance-crazy, sci-fi flick 'Endhiran' will quite obviously be the best film of the year. Starring the inimitable Rajnikanth (who also happens to be India's highest paid film actor) and the former Miss World Aishwarya Rai, 'Endhiran' follows a scientist who has created a robot for his son. The ...
According to CHUD, an eight-minute clip of test footage for a new 'Mortal Kombat' movie was posted on YouTube Tuesday. With next week's E3 looming, it was originally speculated that the clip could be a teaser for a new video game. But, as it turns out, the footage, which was directed by Kevin Tancharoen, is supposed to convince Warner Bros. to greenlight another full-length adaptation of the ...
Maybe spending nearly half a billion dollars on a movie isn't such a bad idea, after all. As CBS News reports, James Cameron's latest blockbuster 'Avatar' has officially become the all-time biggest box office success, dethroning, of course, the director's own 'Titanic,' which kept the throne warm for more than a decade. The film has grossed a staggering $1.8 billion worldwide, and many expect it ...
We fully understand that we're a few days late in posting this up, but seriously, we figured Netflix would have fixed whatever's been ailing its shipping system well before now. Days after we heard the first reports of users getting an atypical warning when viewing their queue alerting them of possible shipment delays, tips are still flowing in from frustrated users. The message asserts that ...
Even we would agree that digital downloads aren't apt to siphon away a significant amount of physical media market share in the immediate future, but a recent survey conducted by CinemaNow (read: your skeptic hat should now be firmly in place) suggests that the vast majority of Americans feel otherwise. As a matter of fact, 87% of those surveyed agreed that "renting DVDs at the video store or ...
Roku's Netflix Player got off to a hot start after launching just over a month ago, and apparently its creator has big plans for the plainly designed $99 box. According to a recent report over on Forbes, Tim Twerdahl, Roku's vice president of consumer products, has affirmed that a routine software update would be hitting later this year to enable content to be fetched and streamed from other ...
Catching 'The Godfather' on HD VOD is one thing; catching the famed trilogy on remastered Blu-ray is another. On September 23rd, Paramount will (re)release what's sure to be a holiday favorite in 'The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration.' The package will be available in both DVD ($72.99) and Blu-ray ($119.99) formats, and videophiles will be elated to know that director Francis Ford Coppola ...








