"The Fourth Kind" isn't the kind that Nome, Alaska, wants around.
Any kid can dream up a roller coaster. But those who visit a new exhibit at Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park can actually take a ride on their fantasy creations.
Score a personal best at the box office for Quentin Tarantino this weekend. "Inglourious Basterds," his revisionist take on WWII starring Brad Pitt, grossed an estimated $37.6 million, besting the reigning box office champ "District 9," and giving beleaguered studio The Weinstein Co. a little financial relief.
The backdrop to countless movies and television shows, Los Angeles has been reproduced on film more times than any other city on the planet.
Universal pulls the scene from the U.S. premiere screening hours after Michael Jackson's death
In the new trailer for Love Happens, her character calls her life "an experiment in really bad decisions"
In the first truly shocking box office result of the year, "Fast & Furious" sped away from expectations to gross a humongous $72.5 million, according to early estimates from Media by Numbers.
Stock-market success stories have been few and far between this year, but here's one that would make Santa Claus himself proud: Toymaker Hasbro has beaten Wall Street's expectations in each of the past seven quarters, propelling the stock higher as most of the market was plummeting.
Workers using blowtorches accidentally started a weekend fire at Universal Studios, Los Angeles County spokeswoman Judy Hammond told CNN Monday.
At one point, Sunday's fire was two city blocks wide, and low water pressure forced firefighters to get reserves from lakes and ponds on the 400-acre property
"The Fourth Kind" isn't the kind that Nome, Alaska, wants around.
Any kid can dream up a roller coaster. But those who visit a new exhibit at Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park can actually take a ride on their fantasy creations.
Score a personal best at the box office for Quentin Tarantino this weekend. "Inglourious Basterds," his revisionist take on WWII starring Brad Pitt, grossed an estimated $37.6 million, besting the reigning box office champ "District 9," and giving beleaguered studio The Weinstein Co. a little financial relief.
The backdrop to countless movies and television shows, Los Angeles has been reproduced on film more times than any other city on the planet.
Universal pulls the scene from the U.S. premiere screening hours after Michael Jackson's death
In the new trailer for Love Happens, her character calls her life "an experiment in really bad decisions"
In the first truly shocking box office result of the year, "Fast & Furious" sped away from expectations to gross a humongous $72.5 million, according to early estimates from Media by Numbers.
Stock-market success stories have been few and far between this year, but here's one that would make Santa Claus himself proud: Toymaker Hasbro has beaten Wall Street's expectations in each of the past seven quarters, propelling the stock higher as most of the market was plummeting.
Workers using blowtorches accidentally started a weekend fire at Universal Studios, Los Angeles County spokeswoman Judy Hammond told CNN Monday.
At one point, Sunday's fire was two city blocks wide, and low water pressure forced firefighters to get reserves from lakes and ponds on the 400-acre property
There are no injuries reported and the MTV Awards will go on as scheduled
A pressurized cylinder exploded at Universal Studios on Sunday, injuring two firefighters as they tried to fight a blaze that began earlier in the day, Los Angeles authorities said.
Sarcos is developing the technology under a two-year contract worth up to $10 million, and the Army plans initial field tests next year
Book an airline ticket, save the planet.
The actress forms a production company with one of her and Brad Pitt's former partners
Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. reached an agreement with one of Abu Dhabi's largest real estate developers for an entertainment destination likely to cost billions of dollars, MGM said Wednesday
The Rolling Stones announced Thursday they have signed a deal to release the soundtrack to their Martin Scorsese-directed concert film through Universal Music Group
Days after losing Brad Pitt from the cast of the movie State of Play, Universal Pictures is courting Russell Crowe to star in the film, according to reports.
Brad Pitt has dropped out of the soon-to-be-shot film State of Play, according to Variety. Universal Pictures is already trying to replace the star. The original Nov. 15 production start date has come and gone, and the studio could begin losing other cast if it does not begin shooting in L.A. and D.C. soon.
The first look at Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher's baby girl, Olive
This is "Green Week" at NBC Universal, a seven-day revelry of environment-themed content spread across the company's various TV channels and other properties. The 150 hours of programming - integrated into everything from news and sports to soaps and entertainment - is certainly a first for a major media company.
General Electric won't make a decision on whether or not to sell its NBC Universal unit until after it is done broadcasting the 2008 Olympics from Beijing, according to a published report.
Youssif stood on the steps of the swimming pool. He cackled with laughter, kicking the water with his feet and splashing with his hands. He dipped his face in the water and blew bubbles.
Youssif, the 5-year-old burned Iraqi boy, rounded the corner at Universal Studios when suddenly the little boy hero met his favorite superhero.
NBC Universal and Amazon.com announced Tuesday that the online retailer's digital download service, dubbed Amazon Unbox, is now offering NBC television content in a variety of packages for download onto customers' computers.
High School Musical 2 stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens took home a bevy of surfboards at Sunday night's Teen Choice awards, but Jessica Alba had the last laugh on her own grade-school tormentor.
Bawdy teen comedy "Superbad" proved to be super good at North American movie box offices, holding onto the No. 1 slot for the second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Hollywood's censors think Ang Lee's new movie "Lust, Caution" has too much lust, and they're cautioning moviegoers by branding it with an NC-17 rating.
The raunchy coming-of-age comedy "Superbad" took the top spot at the weekend North American box office and broke the record for a movie opening in late August, according to studio estimates released on Sunday morning.
Matt Damon can't escape the huge publicity blitz for his new movie The Bourne Ultimatum - it's literally all over his home.
Exclusive release arrangements, plus aggressive price cuts for high-def DVD players, are designed to persuade consumers to finally choose between HD DVD or Blu-ray
The amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne is back, and this time he clobbered Homer Simpson on his way to scoring the biggest film opening ever for the month of August.
Now legally a wife but hardly desperate, Eva Longoria returned to the set of Desperate Housewives Monday after a three-week wedding celebration and honeymoon.
"Transformers," the big-budget movie about alien robots battling on Earth, raked in $67.6 million at box offices over the weekend to land at No. 1 and bring its seven-day total to a record $152.6 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
Lower oil prices could help stocks rebound in the early going Monday following last week's dismal performance and ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the week.
"Evan Almighty" did not live up to its name at the weekend box office in North America.
In the 1970s, Cerwin-Vega was a big name in the speaker business, but it fell off the radar a while back.
A Canadian author has sued NBC Universal and director Judd Apatow claiming they ripped off the premise of the hit movie "Knocked Up" from her book of the same name
Paris Hilton relished what may have been her last meal as a free woman Sunday night, sampling the spread backstage at the MTV Movie Awards just hours before reporting to jail.
With Pirates of the Caribbean and Johnny Depp taking top prizes, it was arrrrrgh-uably the best MTV Movie Awards in history.
By Francois Bergeron & Craig Hanna
It's media merger mania all over again on Wall Street.
"That was more or less made-up stupid drivel," says General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt about a story in Wednesday's New York Post, which speculates that he is considering a sale of NBC Universal.
Movie superstar Tom Cruise and MGM are partnering to resurrect the historic United Artists movie studio founded by Charlie Chaplin and associates, MGM's CEO announced Thursday.
Stacey Snider, CEO, DreamWorks SKG of Viacom, ranks No. 50 on Fortune's 2006 list of 50 Most Powerful Women.
Punk-pop princess Avril Lavigne has married a fellow Canadian musician.
Universal Pictures and the online rental firm Lovefilm are launching what they say is the world's first download-to-own movie service in Britain next month.
Does the almighty dollar really matter most when it comes to Oscar nominations?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playwright Tyler Perry, who turned his crazy-granny "Madea" character into a lucrative cottage industry, returned to the top of the box office Sunday, exactly one year after stunning the industry with a No. 1 bow for his first film.
The new horror remake "When a Stranger Calls" connected with young thrill-seekers at the weekend box office in North America, but moviegoing generally took a back seat to Sunday's Super Bowl showdown.
The latest Hollywood DVD releases may reach your living room sooner than you think, according to a report published Wednesday.
I BEGAN WORKING WITH SOME WRESTLERS IN my office. It just started with word of mouth. And after a while they said, you know, we could use someone backstage taking care of us. Now I drive seven hour...
W. Mark Felt, better known as "Deep Throat," has sold book and film rights to his life story for undisclosed sums to PublicAffairs and Universal Pictures, the companies said Thursday.
A year after acquiring Universal Studios, NBC Universal chief Bob Wright says he's not done shopping yet, a newspaper report said Monday.
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Stock prices are supposed to reflect companies' prospects, not their past successes and failures. But history matters, and sometimes being a former investor favorite can hurt a stock. Shares of one...
NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) - Stock prices are supposed to reflect companies' prospects, not their past successes and failures. But history matters, and sometimes being a former investor favorite can hurt a stock.
Stock prices are supposed to reflect companies' prospects, not their past successes and failures. But history matters, and sometimes being a former investor favorite can hurt a stock.
DALLAS (CNN/Money) - Typically, when a developer sells roughly 300,000 copies of its game in one week, the team takes a little downtime to unwind and celebrate. At id Software, downtime is a rare commodity.
General Electric Co. credited an improving economy for second-quarter earnings that topped its earlier guidance and Wall Street expectations Friday, but its profit was essentially unchanged from a year earlier.
So "Friends" and "Frasier" are going off the air.
The Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday morning gave a lift to 10 films that could use the boost -- and one that probably doesn't need it.
Is there life beyond Office Space? There is in the celluloid world. Even without that 1999 flick, which focused on surviving a gulag--er, corporate--existence and now enjoys cult status (1.9 millio...
You remember how Michael Eisner turned around the Walt Disney Co. almost immediately after becoming CEO in 1984: He jacked up ticket prices at his theme parks. Realizing that Disney parks were far ...
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For the past year or so, running a broadcast network has meant fighting a losing battle against declining ratings, rising costs, and robust competition from cable. And now, broadcasters face a new ...
Two words. That's all it took for Jeff Montgomery, the CEO of Harvey Entertainment, to hold up a major movie studio, make his company a cool $15 million, and reclaim the rights to a cache of cartoo...
The last time an action show was atop the Nielsens, America swooned over scruffy, sockless Don Johnson, patrolling Miami's streets. Judging by the crop of fall pilots and the breakout success of sh...
We couldn't help but take it as a bad omen that the Dow Jones industrial average fluttered above 6000 in the same October week that Universal Studios re-released Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. Trying ...
So this is the summer you promised to pack the kids in the car for that long trek to Grandma's, the Grand Canyon or Disney World. (Oh, the things you do for your family.) We figured the least we ca...
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Everybody and his uncle, not to mention the present writer's grandson, have been chattering frenziedly about Jurassic Park, the $100 million blockbuster now being rolled out by Universal Pictures. ...
If Japanese companies can supply most of the technology for shooting and showing movies, why can't they make them? With few exceptions, Japanese films not only don't travel, but often lay eggs in t...
Auto manufacturers aren't the only ones in the car business confronting the problems of a still sluggish economy and overstocked lots. So are car-rental firms. Because of an aggressive $45 billion ...
Wouldn't you know? The retail frontier that Bloomingdale's blazed in 1986 with two experimental Bloomie's Express shops at New York's Kennedy Airport is being copied by others in Phoenix, Baltimore...
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Money manager Harvey Eisen, 43, was fascinated upon first learning that the Chinese character for crisis combines the symbol for opportunity with the symbol for danger. Eisen, who is president and ...
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