Some Star Wars fans have skipped right past the new announcement of back-to-back 3D re-releases of Star Wars Episodes II and III to speculate on how far behind the 3D releases of the original trilogy could be.
Given the …
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Box Office Surprise: How Judi Dench and an 8-Year-Old Won the Summer
Amid the onslaught of franchises, superheroes and fantasy adventures that dominated the 2012 summer box office (see Richard Corliss’ complete summer box office coverage), independent films carved out their own lucrative corner of …
The Death of the Original Cosmo Girl: Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012)
A journalistic legend, she saw and realized the commercial potential of the female libido in the magazine-publishing industry
Sorry, Not Funny: Dane Cook Apologizes for Colorado Shooting ‘Joke’
The comedian took to Twitter to apologize for an off-color ‘Dark Knight’ joke he told last week
Comedian Dane Cook ‘Jokes’ About Aurora Shooting
And, like everything Dane Cook does, it is so not funny
Can a New Comics-Only Crowdfunding Platform Help Find the Next Stan Lee?
Pow! Blam! Funding!
Movies, Twitter and Community, After Aurora’s Dark Night
A few thoughts on the massacre in Aurora:
This atrocity would be horrible in any circumstances. What makes it even more heartbreaking is where it happened: opening night of the summer’s biggest movie, one of the few joyous, communal gatherings left in our society. Knowing that everyone in that theater, adults and kids, went in feeling …
Dead Tree Alert: Don’t Fear the Spoiler
In roughly another week, the Olympics begin. And since they will be taking place several hours ahead of any U.S. time zone, will be streamed live online by NBC (at least for anyone with cable or satellite) and will be reported on instantly via Web and social media, they’ll undoubtedly be greeted by the signal cry of the Internet era: …
Online Blockbuster?: Tom Hanks’ Electric City Debuts on Yahoo Today
Hanks’ 90-minute, 20-episode series is being touted as a “first-of-its-kind, 360-degree online interaction of digital, social, mobile and gaming media.”
Comic-Con: The 25 Most Interesting Things You Missed at the Convention
You may want to put on your zombie costume to read this
Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl on the Future of the Web Series
Is television going the way of the music industry?
Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm
It only takes a brief survey of the O’Connell library to recognize that he means every word he writes
Why Didn’t Morning TV Love Ann Curry?
Maybe Ann Curry and Conan O’Brien should get together for a drink sometime. For a long while, she was second banana on NBC’s Today show, where she had read the news since the late ’90s. After Katie Couric left the program, her …