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“Snakes on a Plane” Falters; Genre Confusion to Blame?

 The greatly anticipated comedy-thriller Snakes on a Plane drew in the most money in ...

commerce
Strip Poker Championships, Of Course

In the Omniculture, everything happens. Hence, given the popularity of poker on television...

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Simpsons Cruise to Emmy for Best Animated Series

The Fox Network TV show The Simpsons beat Comedy Central's South Park in the race for the ...

books
The Devil Went Down to the Multiplex

The first installment of Philip Pullman's anti-Christian, pro-"Lucifer" children...

commerce
Fox TV Stations to Stream Net’s Programs

Fox Entertainment has announced that its 22 owned-and-operated TV stations will air popula...

books
Chinese to Produce Film on Rape of Nanking

Reuters reported on Monday that a Chinese film producer has announced plans for a $25 mill...

comic-books-graphic-novels
Audiences, Critics Disagree on Summer’s Superhero Movies

The Hollywood Reporter observes that audiences and critics differed greatly on the merits ...

commerce
The (Temporary) Democratization of the Media, Through Technological Change

It's all too common for writers and analysts to characterize the internet as reponsible fo...

sports
Sports Writing—If Only It Were About Sports!

  Way back in the olden days before wall-to-wall coverage on television, highlig...

commerce
Depp, Burton to Make “Sweeney Todd” Film

Actor Johnny Depp and writer-director Tim Burton will combine their eccentric talents on a...

commerce
More Broadcast TV Moves Online: CBS Enters Market

CBS TV will begin offering free, streaming, next-day video of primetime shows online this ...

commerce
“Cracked” Magazine Returns

 One of the more successful Mad magazine imitators (in terms of longevity), Cracked, ...

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Film Critics Under Fire

An article in today's Los Angeles Times observes that the reputation of the American film ...

commerce
Theft or Canny Marketing Ploy: You Decide

Forthcoming TV programs are increasingly appearing on peer-to-peer networks, evidently wit...

art
Thomas Kinkade Moves In

The Thomas Kinkade company reports that a new development in Columbia, Missouri, will feat...

television
Ramsay’s TV Nightmares

The two-hour, season-ending episode of the Fox TV program Hell's Kitchen airs tomorrow nig...

commerce
Dixie Chicks Abandon Dixie, and Vice Versa

There is a mad variety of entertainment choices available to the average American today, a...

commerce
NYC Fringe Festival

The New York International Fringe Festival opens today in the city that never sleeps, kick...

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Stone’s World Trade Center Movie

World Trade Center, Oliver Stone's film about the 9/11 attacks, is really about just one a...

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Pirates a Huge Hit, Critics Wrong Again

Here's another interesting bit of news from Disney: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's C...

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Disney Profits Soar As Company Goes Back to Roots

Profits at the Walt Disney Company have soared as the studio has been moving back into fam...

movies
Stone’s WTC Disaster Flick

I know, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center opens today, but I'm busy working, so I'll just ...

books
Culture and Population

The eminent poet and philosopher Frederick Turner provides some big-picture, civilization-...

omniculture
A Program I Will Never See….

As I've pointed out before, in the Omniculture, everything happens. A particularly vivid c...

books
Richard Matheson’s Evocative Vampire-Zombie Story

Warners Bros. has announced that its film adaptation of I Am Legend, the 1953 horror novel...

books
Harry Potter Film Number 6 Scheduled

 Warner Bros. has announced that the film version of Harry Potter #6, Harry Potter an...

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Three Moons over ABC Family’s New Direction

The current catch phrase for the ABC Family Channel is "A New Kind of Family"&md...

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Fringe Phenomena in the Omniculture

Another hugely successful "fringe" phenomenon (see my Lollapalooza post immediat...

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Lollapalooza in the Omniculture

The Lollapalooza festival of "alternative" music is drawing huge crowds in Chica...

style
Paris Hilton Joins Abstinence Movement

Here's a fascinating tidbit for you. The twenty-five-year-old actress/model/allegedlyunwil...

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MyNetworkTV

The people behind MyNetworkTV are characterizing their forthcoming national network as som...

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MTV Turns 25, World Continues Turning

MTV turned 25 this week, and your intrepid correspondent has contributed a few thoughts to...

movies
Buster Keaton, Detective

On his Classic Images website, Charles Mitchell offers this fascinating little morsel of i...