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UNIVERSAL DEVELOPS ‘THE ROCKFORD FILES’ FOR VINCE VAUGHN TO PLAY JAMES GARNER ROLE Universal can call it “The Rockford Files,” but it won’t be “The Rockford Files.” Vince Vaughn’s a good guy, but “The Rockford Files” IS James Garner —

Today’s superhero movies can’t come right out and say they love their country. The 2006 “Superman Returns” reboot featured Daily Planet editor Perry White distorting the iconic line, “truth, justice and the American way” into, “Does he stand for truth,

This past February, Thailand was added to a high-risk blacklist by an international organization many people have never heard of. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was established by the Group of Seven (G7) in 1989 to combat money laundering

Last Tuesday, Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) accused his primary opponent, Democrat Eric Swalwell of accepting bribes while sitting on the Dublin council. Stark suggested that Swalwell took “hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes” from a local family that is

READER QUESTION: WHERE TO BUY BLU-RAYS I have a Blu-ray disc question for you.  I have a thing about having the disc in my hands, the slip case listing the features, and the ability to watch it whenever I want. 

What do you get for the couple who has everything … literally? Celebs may be pondering that question today after news that A-listers Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are engaged … at long last. The famous couple, dubbed Brangelina by

Wednesday, Breitbart News reported that DreamWorks, the film company co-founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, had received a $200 million bailout from India’s Reliance Entertainment, a company with a questionable history and ties to the Obama administration:

CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS: AMAZON PRIME VS. NETFLIX I agree with all of this but would add one very important note: Amazon Instant is an absolute mess. The television programs and films are not organized in a way that makes anything

YOU CAN STREAM THE NFL SUNDAY TICKET THROUGH PLAYSTATION 3 Someone tweeted me this information. See, we’re figuring out how to defeat the evil of bundled cable together. ‘SOUTH PARK’ DOES MORE TO COMMENT ON BULLYING 19 SECONDS… About says

Other than the fact that there are 2.1 billion Christians in the world and Hollywood chose not to produce a single film aimed at that demographic during the holiest weekend of the year, there’s no real news here. Actually, that isn’t

Thirteen years after “American Pie,” the adolescents from the worldwide hit movie are back for a fourth helping, still tempted by the juicy bits despite having grown up, somewhat, in the meantime. Released in 1999, the original was the latest

In 1999, then-State Senator Barack Obama invoked the late radical Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who passed away in 1996, to promote a universal health care law he co-sponsored and which Illinois voters had overwhelmingly rejected.  The bill incorporated language directly from the

“American Reunion,” the fourth film in the “American Pie” franchise, hits theaters on Friday. It’s a sequel to the profitable film series, and Universal is making sure everyone knows about it via an aggressive marketing campaign including billboards and a

Deadline doesn’t usually miss with their headlines, but in the case of this particular story, this headline… Netflix Could Undermine UltraViolet As Low Cost Rentals Trash Studio Profits …seems a little out of place with this blockbuster report: Moguls will need

Thousands of people in Hong Kong noisily protested on Sunday against the city’s incoming leader and decried Beijing’s alleged interference in the election that propelled him to the top job. Holding banners and chanting slogans such as “One person, one

The domestic box office continues to explode, especially when compared to Hollywood’s awful 2011, but Julia Roberts did not benefit from the resurgence. Though she was out front in the advertising campaign for Relativity’s take on the Snow White tale,

COURT UPHOLDS EVIL THAT IS BUNDLED CABLE Well, this sucks: The U.S. Court of Appeals in Pasadena would have turned pay TV upside down today if it had sided with consumers in a suit that took on virtually every major

Obamacare has become one of the most polarizing pieces of legislation ever passed. There was so much heat surrounding its passage that people got caught up and blinded by the rhetoric. On one hand, we were told that it had

We have to assume the Navy and the USO have either seen the film or at least read the script, so it’s great news that both have — along with a number of corporate sponsors — enthusiastically joined the film’s promotional

(AP) Box Office Preview: ‘Hunger’ to take huge bite By PAUL DERGARABEDIAN For The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Lionsgate’s much-anticipated adaptation of the bestselling “Hunger Games” book series is about to unleash itself on a ravenous movie-going public. With massive

THR: Paramount is giving Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer a 21st century makeover. … The storyline is being kept under wraps, but the project is described as a re-imagining in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman, focusing on

An argument over whether an anti-Israel terrorist group had been scheduled to address the UN Human Rights Council this week may have been motivated by concerns about the political implications for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. On Monday, the Jewish

No surprise here:  In recent weeks, LinkedIn, the networking website, and the Council of Economic Advisers have reported that the press is “America’s fastest-shrinking industry”, measured by jobs lost; the Newspaper Association of America has shown that advertising sales have halved since 2005 and

Yesterday, the Administrative Committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a public statement denouncing what it called “an unwarranted government definition of religion.” The Conference spelled out what the debate over President Obama’s birth control mandate is about:

Los Angeles Times: In what is certain to go down as one of the biggest box office flops of the year, the $250-million-plus “John Carter” debuted with a disappointing $30.6 million this weekend. Instead, last weekend’s No. 1 film, “Dr.

Due to scheduling conflicts, there will be no HomeVideodrome podcast this week.  Head on over to The Film Thugs for other shows and update. Adam Sandler movies are my comedy comfort food. Ever since the one-two punch of “Billy Madison”

Andrew and I first met three years ago at a party. We would run into each other everywhere: at parties, functions, and left-wing protests we both happened to be crashing. I was at the time a lesser-known 22 year-old freelance

Judge Mark Martin–now infamous for presiding over the “Zombie Muhammad” case–was incorrectly identified by me as a self-professed Muslim, based upon a faulty audio recording of the court proceedings (see blogs here and here by Andrew C. McCarthy for the

HUGE NEWS: ‘THE ARTIST’ WILL MAKE PAY CABLE DEBUT ON NETFLIX STREAMING Now can I say “I told you so?” Actually, things are happening faster than even I expected. The studios have to go to where the customers are going.