The prestige event now serves to launch big studio movies — including three major titles this year — and generate Oscar buzz. NEW YORK — For years, the New York Film Festival was a quaint afterthought on the fall festival circuit, good for locals to catch up on prestige titles but devoid of much Hollywood fizz.
It looks like the newest “Star Trek” movie is living long and prospering.
New Star Was movies will include origins tales as well as standalone films featuring characters from original trilogy Disney has confirmed that its planned spin-off Star Wars movies will be origins stories . The studio, which bought all rights to the long-running space opera saga last October with its purchase of LucasFilm for $4.05bn, has long said it plans a new film each year from 2015
“Now You See Me,” which became a surprise hit when it was released in theaters in May, is topping charts in home entertainment.
The amount of Internet bandwidth used to illegally download movies, TV shows, music, books and video games has jumped 160% since November 2011, a study says. Despite the growth of Netflix, Amazon.com and other legal channels for watching entertainment online, the volume of pirated movies, TV shows, music, books and video games online continues to grow at a rapid pace
Heartbreaking and truthful, ‘Candelabra’ shows what divided and united Liberace and Scott Thorson Behind the Candelabra
Fast & Furious 6 on DVD is too much of a dubiously good thing, but Curzon on Demand’s classics are well worth streaming There was a time when two-hour-plus films were the preserve of languorous art cinema and porridgey Richard Attenborough-style biopics. Nowadays that’s still true – though you can add the cheerfully petrol-brained Fast & Furious franchise to the list. Clocking in at 135 minutes …
A swarm of TV zombies has overwhelmed newly released movies. In its first week in release, the third season of the AMC series “The Walking Dead” was the top-selling DVD and Blu-ray title, beating film titles “The Great Gatsby” and “Pain & Gain.” Â Â Â Â
Plus, ‘Parade’s End,’ ‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,’ ‘Homeland: The Complete Second Season’ and more. Star Trek Into Darkness
TORONTO — Two movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival will be leaving audiences hungry once they open their theatrical runs later this year.