Nikki Finke points to Keith Boesky‘s comparison by the numbers of the release of Halo 3 (the video game) to Spider-Man 3 (the movie). Pretty impressive at first glance… Even though the media trumpeted how the launch of Halo 3 was the largest single day financial event in entertainment history, the articles fail to address…
I am lucky enough to know some pretty influential people in the entertainment world. When I say “influential” I mean people who have positions where they can “green light” work. They can give the “yes” to make your idea a reality or hire you to work on an existing project. I have been fortunate in…
Here’s a story that speaks for itself. From today’s Chicago Sun-Times PM Edition: "Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt are missing their clothes and Fred Flintstone and the Teletubbies are just plain missing after a raid on wax figures owned by Ireland’s National Wax Museum. At least 50 figures were stolen or wrecked…
Walt Disney Studios has signed an exclusive multi-year deal with Stan Lee and his production company POW! Entertainment Inc. Lee and POW! will be developing and producing "all sorts of entertainment," according to the House of Mouse. After a nearly unbroken string of successful movies based on characters and/or concepts which Lee helped to develop,…
Lots of entertainment websites are breathlessly exhaling the news that Kirsten Dunst has spoken out in favor of reasonable use of marijuana, still considered a taboo subject in her home country, and therefore a guaranteed attention-getter. What should have billions and billions of science fans investigating the facts on THC, however, was Dunst’s quote, "My…
Let’s face it, we live in a hyper-capitalist society. Everything’s a commodity, and the worlds of business and entertainment are so inextricably linked that items about business deals have all but become entertainment in their own right. And that’s cool when a spinoff of a story is also another form of that story, as with…
Perhaps it’s a sign of aging when you’re more attuned to what came before than what’s going on now, especially in entertainment. Oh, I’m up on what’s going on with movies and TV (less so in music) and I certainly have my faves in those areas. Recently, however, I’ve been re-discovering some music I’d had…
