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Finding Trusted Baby Gear Newton, Massachusetts
Raising a child may be the most exciting experience of your life, but may also easily be one of the most stressful, especially to a first time parent. Raising your baby is a 24-hour a day, 7-days a week job and it is extremely demanding. Make your life a little easier by having high quality [...]
Adam Sandler Does Not Care What You Think
Jack and Jill, the latest Adam Sandler movie/laughter-devouring black hole, looks transcendentally bad. In it, Sandler does his best Norbit/Nutty Professor Eddie Murphy impression and plays both a brother and sister. (As with most Sandler or Murphy-helmed atrocities, Jack and Jill performed decently at the box office, grossing about $26 million in its first weekend.) Al Pacino is somehow in it, playing [...]
The Rum Diary
In 1960, journalist Paul Kemp takes a job at the San Juan Star, a failing paper under a miserly editor run out of a dilapidated building. Soaking up booze and living with two of his colleagues in an equally neglected apartment, Kemp begins to freelance for a shady businessman looking to develop the island, and [...]
Darren Aronofsky to Direct Music Video for Metallica, Lou Reed
Award-winning director Darren Aronofsky will direct a music video from the new Metallica and Lou Reed album, “Lulu.” Best-known for his Oscar-nominated films “Black Swan” and “The Wrestler,” Aronofsky will produce a video for the track, “Iced Honey.” Scenes will be shot in the San Francisco Bay area and will be available for viewing later [...]
Songstress Audrey Assad Releases New Single, “Sparrow”
“Sparrow” Available on iTunes ® Now and Already Impacting Radio Months before the debut of her anticipated second album, Heart, multiple GMA Dove Award nominee Audrey Assad is releasing her radio single “Sparrow” on iTunes ®. Due out on Valentine’s Day, Heart finds Assad once again collaborating with other songwriters and producer Marshall Altman (Brooke Fraser, Natasha [...]
Review: “In Time” Movie Not Worth Yours
Release Date: October 28, 2011 Rating: PG-13 (for violence, brief strong language, some sexuality and partial nudity) Genre: Drama, Thriller Run Time: 109 min. Director: Andrew Niccol Actors: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, Cillian Murphy, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, Shyloh Oostwald, Johnny Galecki, Colin McGurk, Michael William Freeman It’s no secret that time is one of the human race’s most [...]
Books Based on ‘Courageous’ Movie Hit NYT Bestsellers List
A pair of books based on biblical themes from the movie “Courageous” has made The New York Times’ bestseller list. “The Resolution for Men” by authors Stephen and Alex Kendrick is No. 10 on the newspaper’s Oct. 30 list of paperback advice books. “The Resolution for Women” by author Priscilla Shirer is No. 14. Both [...]
Steve Jobs Biography Is No. 1 in Books
News of Apple co-founder’s death provided publicity bonanza, says expert The biography of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs debuted today at the top of both Amazon’s and Barnes & Nobles’ bestseller lists. Steve Jobs, the first biography of the iconic entrepreneur written with Jobs’ cooperation, was penned by Walter Isaacson, a former editor at [...]
“Real Steel” No. 1 Movie for Second-Straight Weekend
Robot boxers defended their box-office title as “Real Steel” took in $16.3 million to remain the No. 1 movie for the second-straight weekend. The dance remake “Footloose” opened in second-place with $15.6 million. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average [...]
Fox Shifts Lineup to Accommodate MLB Postseason
Fox is giving “The X Factor” some extensions and pulling “The New Girl,” its biggest new show, to accomodate the Major League Baseball postseason. It also set the two-hour “Terra Nova” season finale for Dec. 19. Tonight’s schedule — including “Glee,” “The New Girl,” and “Raising Hope” — has already been pulled for Game 3 [...]
NBC’s Free Agents is second show of new season to get the axe
If another NBC show gets canceled before anyone else picks up their axe, it will confirm what I already suspect: That the Grim Reaper has moved in, kicked off his shoes and found a home at 30 Rockefeller Center. Yes, folks, the second show of the season has been canceled, and it’s another NBC bomb, [...]
Ultra Music Festival 2012 Tickets Go On Sale
The Ultra Music Festival tickets have gone on sale today, for the 2012 festival. Tickets are $150 for standard tickets,and VIP tickets are $600 and went on sale as of 3:00 PM EST today. The Ultra Music Festival dates for 2012 are Mar. 23 – 25. It’s a tropical hook up of electronic musicians and minds, all gathered together [...]
Entertainment PR: 50/50 with Seth Rogan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The dramedy film 50/50, directed by Jonathan Levine, came into theatres this past Friday. There has been a lot of hype regarding this motion picture largely due to its attracting stars, Seth Rogen andJoseph Gordon-Levitt. Seth Rogen also played a part in the film’s production, along with well-known producer, Evan Goldberg. 50/50 was written by Will Reiser, who loosely [...]
Film festivals as the ignition point
This week Park City, UT will once again come alive with the pitter patter of thousands of people who are looking to alternatively show off their films, find films to distribute or cover the movies appearing there as the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals commence. There will also be a ton of conversation in [...]
Piracy Blamed for Tragic Deaths at Music Festival
Last month, a severe thunderstorm hit the Belgian music festival Pukkelpop during the evening of August 18. Trees fell over, taking down video screens and lights, and one of the stages collapsed as well. The disaster led to the tragic deaths of 5 people. Although most people described the dramatic event as an accident, insurance [...]
Netflix Stumbles
Netflix is taking a beating in the stock market. Ever since their decision to restructure existing plans in July of this year the graph has been going south. CEO Reed Hastings used the word “arrogance” in a blog post Sunday. This isn’t the first time the mighty have fallen because of that attitude. There have been [...]
Movie studios drive 63 percent of mobile entertainment spending
Entertainment companies led all sectors in terms of mobile advertising spending in the recently completed second quarter, according to Millennial Media. Diving into those numbers, movie studios accounted for almost two-thirds – 63 percent – of the spending all by themselves, driven mainly by big mobile ad campaigns for Hollywood’s big summer movies. Spending is [...]
2010 Movie Ticket Sales Shrink
Hollywood can console itself as much as it wants, but the fact that actual ticket sales were down five percent in 2010 (Los Angeles Times, 12/28/10) is not good news in any way, shape or form. Revenue might be flat, but even that’s only because IMAX and 3D presentations have boosted what people are paying for an [...]
Katy Perry and Adele are Music’s Leading Ladies at The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards With Three Moonmen a Piece With Perry’s “Fireworks” Taking Home “Video Of The Year”
The ladies ruled the kingdom at the ”2011 MTV Video Music Awards,”broadcast live this evening from Nokia Theater L.A. Live, as Katy Perry andAdele each took home three VMA Moonmen and Lady Gaga two. Katy Perry won the biggest prize of the night, “Video of the Year,” with her pop anthem, “Fireworks,” as well as honors for “Best Collaboration” and “Best [...]
Publishers Fear eBook Piracy, But Shouldn’t
The music industry has made it quite clear that the Internet is a scary place full of pirates. These same fears have spread into the minds of book publishers, who are about to make the same mistakes as the major record labels did. It’s not too late though. The list of most pirated eBooks of [...]
