Leading the American and Canadian box office is the Oscar-nominated war film “American Sniper”, earning 9.2 million dollars in ticket sales.
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Oscar nominees, announced
The list of nominees for the annual Oscar awards was already announced.
Avatar sequel may be delayed
The sequel to Avatar will be delayed, with its creator James Cameron saying that the script is very detailed, which justifies the postponement of said sequel which supposedly will be released in 2016.
Winners of 72nd Golden Globe Awards
A partial list of the winners of the 72nd Golden Globe Awards was released.
German artist makes hyper realistic paintings
An artist from Cologne, Germany became famous because of his hyper-realistic paintings which could pass for real-life photographs.
MMFF 2014 records highest box office record in forty years
The 2014 Metro Manila Film Festival set the highest box office record in the forty years existence of the said festival. According to the MMFF Chairman Francis Tolentino, this year’s festival earned 949 million pesos compared to last year’s 936 million pesos.
Sony’s ‘The Interview’ earns $31 million online, $5 million at theaters
Sony’s provocative North Korea parody “The Interview” has earned more than $31 million from online, cable and telecoms sales since its December release, Sony Pictures Entertainment said on Tuesday (January 6). The raunchy comedy was rented or purchased more than 4.3 million times between Dec. 24 and Jan. 4 on online and video-on-demand platforms. To date, the film has earned $5 million at the theatrical box office, with 580 independent theaters showing the movie in […]
Sony Pictures’ “The Interview” grosses more than $1million
Sony Pictures comedy “The Interview” grossed more than $1 million in limited release at the U.S. box office on Thursday (December 25), the studio said on Friday. The 44 million dollar (USD) film was pulled from wide release after major U.S. movie chains balked at showing the movie owing to security concerns, and it was instead shown at some 320 smaller theaters in the United States, less than 10 percent of its planned wide release. […]
Sony finally releases “The Interview”
Sony Pictures makes the controversial comedy, “The Interview,” available on Wednesday (December 24) through online video platforms run by Google, Microsoft and Sony itself, ahead of a limited theatrical release on Thursday (December 25). Sony, which just last week canceled the release of the comedy – about two TV talk show hosts who are sent to North Korea to assassinate its leader – is now looking for ways to widen its distribution beyond a small […]
Sony Pictures announced it will now be releasing “The Interview”
Sony Pictures, who announced just a week ago that they will be delaying the release of “The Interview” due to a massive cyber attack, will now be showing the satirical movie this December 25, but only in a limited number of theaters, according to Reuters News. Initially, Sony made the decision to retract the release after many theaters opted to not show the film because of security concerns. According to the Washington Times’ website, a petition […]
More Americans disapprove of Sony film cancellation: Reuters/Ipsos poll
(Reuters) – Nearly half of Americans believe Sony Pictures made the wrong decision by canceling the theatrical release of the comedy “The Interview,” the film that provoked a cyberattack on the studio, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday. Forty-seven percent of respondents said they disagreed with Sony scrapping the film last Wednesday, after several movie theater chains chose not to screen the raunchy satire that depicts the assassination of North Korean leader Kim […]
Cyber attack of NoKor is not an Act of War – Obama
United States President Barack Obama said that the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was “not an act of war” on North Korea which it suspected for hacking the controversial movie, “The Interview.” For several years now, North Korea has been on the radar of the U.S. long been on the wrong side of the United States. Whatever tension there was between the two has just become more severe. The recent massive hacking of movie giant, […]
