NBC DENIES PAYING $1M FOR PARIS HILTON POST-JAIL INTERVIEW
Instead Hilton will be paid in booze and eye-shadow.
PRESIDENT ON 24 NEXT SEASON MAY BE A WOMAN
Speculation is that they’re reflecting a possible Hillary Clinton presidency, but wait for the casting. If they pick Angela Bassett and put a gap in her teeth… well, you know what [...]

Variety has posted its review of the new TRANSFORMERS movie, and they like it. The nice thing about the trade paper reviews is they are written with their audience in mind; no one wants to know if it’s any good, they want to know how much money it will make and whether they should greenlight [...]

Just around the turn of this shiny new century, in a city called London, promoters build a gleaming white structure called the Millenium Dome. Meant to celebrate the coming 1000 years, it is known for two things: James Bond fell off of it in TOMORROW NEVER DIES, and it lost vast amounts of money before [...]

Early results of EMI’s decision to sell unprotected digital music are lookin’ good. As I, aping Corey Doctorow at BoingBoing.net, have said all along, there appears to be more demand for the files which cost less to produce and in the case of Apple iTunes store, allow a higher pricing model.
I love it, because I [...]

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In todays show: Our nation’s Springfields proudly compete to prove they’re as bad as the one on The Simpsons… The head of Yahoo, Terry Semel — ha ha, just kidding… and in my commentary; I set you straight on the real purpose of entertainment [...]

This Angelina Jolie story I talked about on the podcast raises an interesting irony. Jolie plays the wife of Daniel Pearl, a journalist who died in the pursuit of freedom of speech; yet Jolie’s handlers attempted to muzzle interviewers and narrowly limit the subject of any interview. It has struck more than one blogger as [...]

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Advertising Age says it best in their headline: KELLOGG MOVIE BODES ILL FOR ADS TO KIDS. The Kellogg company has instituted a policy to only market the healthiest 50% of their cereals on kid’s programming.
It’s a move that ratchets up pressure on the other 10 marketers in the so-called Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, [...]

What’s a big media company to do? You can’t swing a dead cat around here without hitting someone who demands an apology. In this case the Dead Cat is a PS3 game featuring a human/alien gun battle, the Here is Manchester Cathedral in England and the Guy hit is the Anglican Church.
Oh and Sony, publisher [...]

Governor Rick Perry doesn’t like seeing movies pass Texas by. They pursued 32 projects that were eventually filmed in other states, pumping money into THOSE economies instead. Several of the movies were actually about Texas.
So, the Houston Chronicle reports, Perry and Texan Dennis Quaid are sponsoring a state film investment program.
The projects would have generated [...]