Results for "TV / Film"

BCS Bowl in 3D!

January 8, 2009

How much more thrilling will it be to watch Tim Tebow throw for 400 yards and rescue a puppy from a burning building when the action is 50-feet high? Sure, it'll never replicate the testosterone or tailgating of a live game, but you can make tonight's BCS National Championship Game a larger-than-life experience at Grauman's Chinese ...

Hollywood's New Vocabulary

January 8, 2009

Tech terms reflect a changing biz Hollywood is adding to its marketing vocabulary at a rapid clip. Here are some of the terms describing new concepts and technologies now used in the promotion of movies and TV shows. ARG (alternate reality game): Players access them via multiple methods -- including cell phones, email and ...

Ed Catmull Pixar Animation Pioneer Earns Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement

January 7, 2009

One of the digital wizards behind such cartoon smashes as WALL-E, Ratatouille and Finding Nemo is getting an Academy Award. Pixar Animation co-founder Ed Catmull is receiving the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, an honorary Oscar statuette, for lifetime achievement in computer graphics for filmmaking. Catmull is receiving the prize at the academy's Scientific and Technical Awards ...

A Bleak Picture for Big Studios

January 2, 2009

The economic downturn hit while audiences were already turning to the Web. Experts expect more layoffs for the local industry. There is no Hollywood ending in sight in 2009 for the entertainment industry, which along with the rest of the nation is experiencing its worst economic slump in decades. The fallout from declining local ...

Hugh Hefner's First True Love? It Wasn't Women

January 2, 2009

'Everything I learned about love I learned from the movies,' says the famous Playboy. “You've caught me with my pants on," Hugh Hefner said with a sad smirk. There are days (or entire decades) when Hefner greets the midday sun in silk pajamas and a robe, but on this particular December afternoon, well, the playboy just ...

Update: Screen Actors Guild Delays Strike Vote

December 24, 2008

The union, which has been rocked by internal dissent, will convene a special meeting of its national board to discuss the matter. Rocked by growing internal dissent that is splintering Hollywood's largest union, the Screen Actors Guild has postponed plans for a controversial strike authorization vote until after the union's national board meets to discuss the ...

Richard Bliwas Performs on Paula's Party

December 24, 2008

Screen Actors Guild Postpones Strike Authorization Vote

December 22, 2008

BREAKING NEWS The Screen Actors Guild has postponed the strike authorized by the guilds board of directors last month. The mailing of ballots to the members was about to be sent January 2, 2009. Securing such a vote in the current climate could be difficult for SAG. The referendum would require 75% approval from members who ...

Ten Moments That Shook 'American Idol' in 2008

December 22, 2008

To some (myself included), it was the greatest season in American Idol history. To others, it was sagging proof that the series was overdue for a reboot. We had controversies, surprises, tragedies, outrages and amazing triumphs, and in the end hints of big shake-ups in the year to come. Below is my list of the most ...

Australia' Boasts a Banquet of Music

December 21, 2008

Australia boasts one of the more complicated and diverse soundtracks in recent memory. But will the Academy reward what director Baz Luhrmann calls “as musically layered a world as the film is culturally layered"? The Australia score is a patchwork quilt of David Hirschfelder's orchestral underscore, spiced with such indigenous Australian instruments as the digeridoo, wobbleboard ...