The increase in consumer spending on movies for home use was fueled by a 50% jump in sales of digital copies. The home entertainment business is growing again, albeit slowly, despite the fact that people continue to spend less on DVDs. Â Â Â Â
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Terrorist plots in movies including ‘Iron Man 3’ and ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ go where Hollywood once feared to tread to give real-life relevance to fantasy. Think you can escape the world’s troubles by heading to the multiplex this summer?
Writer Richard Matheson, the prolific author of science fiction, fantasy and horror whose works inspired famous “Twilight Zone” episodes and such movies as “I Am Legend,” “The Incredible Shrinking Man” and “Real Steel,” sometimes found his inspiration in movies.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and the Texas Legislature may be stranger than them all.
There’s no tribute more fitting — or eerie — than a well-known actor who dies, then materializes months or years later on the movie screen.
“Man of Steel” and “This is the End” aren’t the only game in town for moviegoers this weekend. If you’re looking for an alternative to the big new summer movies, revival theaters, museums and archives have classics and rarely seen vintage films on tap for this week.
The fifth season of HBO’s vampire series “True Blood” maintained its spot atop the DVD and Blu-ray sales chart, while the action crime film “Gangster Squad” knocked off Tom Cruise’s “Jack Reacher” to take the top spot in rentals. Â Â Â Â