The second coming of Icon
If a movie studio had a first-look deal with a producer whose last picture made $153 million in its first eight days of release, Hollywood logic suggests the studio would do anything short of making…
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Great not-just-White Way
In "Drowning Crow," Regina Taylor's contempo African-American adaptation of "The Seagull" now on Broadway, young writer C-Trip rails about how black auds are fed "the same old 'A Raisin in the Sun'…
Inside Move: Ad-vantage U.S.
Hollywood's commercials biz has a healthy glow to it for a change. Off-lot production cratered last spring with monthly totals under 300 days due to the one-two punch of a lousy economy and the lure…
E-Village plans narrows to fit new corridor
It was a grand and glamorous plan back in 1999: to erect the Entertainment Village, known as E-Village, at the cost of 790 million ringgit ($208 million), as part of Malaysia's ambitious high-tech…
Sony spins measured Spidey campaign
This year, the date is July 2. That's the day Spider-Man will swing back into theaters, two years after the masked web crawler took the movie industry, and the country, by storm and in one weekend…
After slow start, Brits get digital
Three years ago, the prospect of reaching the government's 2010 target for switching off Blighty's analog TV signal looked like pie in the sky. Not anymore.
Plexes pump B.O. volume
With multiplexes helping to drive the Indian box office, it's no wonder the battle to build them is heating up.
Inside Move: Gallic disciple
Tarak Ben Ammar is courting controversy in Gaul by taking on "The Passion of the Christ."
Witching hour
Noises Off: Here's a strange pairing: the author of "Annie" and the mind behind Spy magazine.
From bada-bing to ka-ching
Brian Lowry: Tuning In
