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Clapton Plucked for Pic
“Eric Clapton Crossroads 2010," a feature drawn from sets at the guitarist's June 26 festival in Chicago's Toyota Park, will unspool as a high-definition theatrical event July 27 on more than 475 U.S. screens. Pic is being presented by National CineMedia Fathom and Rhino Entertainment, Warner Music Group's catalog arm. Clapton records for WMG's Reprise imprint. ...
Copyright Ruling Worries Hollywood
The irony is hard to ignore: Just as Hollywood was hailing a White House plan to fight piracy last week, a federal court was handing down a ruling that many in entertainment see as an invitation to infringe. It's even triggered suggestions that Congress will have to step in if the decision isn't reversed by a ...
'Telling Stories': Spielberg, Lucas, Rockwell
George Lucas' and Steven Spielberg's Norman Rockwell paintings go on show at Smithsonian American Art Museum. The filmmakers discuss the painter's influence in 'Telling Stories.' Early on in Steven Spielberg's 1987 “Empire of the Sun," before the Japanese invasion of Shanghai shatters the privileged world of the movie's young British hero, we see the boy in ...
Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube Dismissed
Viacom's $1-billion lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement has been dismissed. In a decision issued Wednesday, United States District Court Judge Louis L. Stanton granted YouTube owner Google's motion for summary judgment that it qualifies for “safe harbor" protection under the law. The provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act says that Internet companies are not ...
Sound Gets 3D Upgrade
Mixers and theaters alike moving ahead with upgrades. Iosono's Brian Slack, whose multispeaker system delivers so-called 7.1 sound, calls 5.1. one-dimensional. It's long been a rule of thumb that as moving images improve, sound has to improve with them. And love it or hate it, there's no denying that 3D adds visual information to a projected ...
Bloomberg, WGA West Come Out Against, DGA for Comcast - NBC Deal
Bloomberg LP has officially come out against the merger of cable conglomerate Comcast Corp. with entertainment giant NBC Universal. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department, Bloomberg, the financial news service company, warned that a combination of Comcast, the nation's largest broadband and cable provider, with NBC Universal is bad news. ...
The 'Soul' of a Remarkable High School Jazz Band
Anyone compiling a list of the all-time great funk masterminds would inevitably think of names such as James Brown, George Clinton and Sly Stone. One name that may not come as readily to most is Conrad O. Johnson, band director of the Kashmere Stage Band. As the new documentary “Thunder Soul" makes clear, Johnson and his ...
Focus on Celebrity Photo Shoot
'Double Exposure' offers a picture of the celebrity photo shoot The Monitor: The Bravo series peers into the behind-the-scenes lives of celebrity photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani. Love it! Beautiful! That's hot! Oh my God, that's amazing! There, do you feel special yet? Apparently, part of celebrity involves having a high tolerance for loudly yapped compliments ...
2D Or Not 3D That is the Question
The process of converting 2D films to 3D has hit some serious speed bumps on the road to acceptance, but it will remain a key component of filmdom's march into 3D. That was the message emerging from a panel Thursday assembled by the Intl. 3D Society in association with the Visual Effects Society. Without mentioning the ...
"Treme's" Unique Star: New Orleans
The music, the food, the culture, the disasters. The show brings the Big Easy to life in a natural, jazzy way. Shooting has just wrapped for the season on HBO's “Treme," and Khandi Alexander is packing up, trying to fit Zulu parade coconuts and Mardis Gras beads into her boxes along with an overflow of bittersweet ...
