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'Twilight' DVD sales off to fast start
DVD shoppers can’t get enough of “Twilight.” In its first weekend of release, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2” sold an estimated 3.85 million DVDs, better than the home entertainment debut of the first...
Tags: The Host (movie), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Twilight (book), Entertainment, Jack the Giant Slayer (movie)
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White House reiterates its support for cellphone unlocking. Now what?
The White House drew plaudits from Internet advocacy groups Monday for supporting a petition to make cellphone unlocking legal. But consumers shouldn't get their hopes up about being free to use cheaper foreign SIM cards overseas or selling their unlocked...
Tags: Media Industry, U.S. Congress, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Federal Communications Commission, Crime, Law and Justice
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The western rides again with George O'Brien, Universal collections
They don't make westerns like they used to; in fact they pretty much don't make them at all anymore. Which makes a pair of new DVD releases especially welcome to fans of the genre. Riding up from the distant past is "George O'Brien," a collection of...Tags: Budd Boetticher, George O'Brien, Donna Reed, Raoul Walsh, Entertainment
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'Twilight Saga' bites into DVD and Blu-ray sales chart
Summit Entertainment’s “Twilight Saga” vampire series landed two titles on the most recent top 10 DVD sales charts, while the tense dramas “Taken 2” and “Flight” retained their top positions on the rental charts....
Tags: Downton Abbey (tv program), Sony Corp., Entertainment, Blu-ray Discs, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Oscars 2013: James Bond's not-so-secret life on the charts
This post has been updated. See note below for details. With the motion picture academy’s salute to James Bond coming up at the Oscars on Sunday, here are seven factoids about films and music that have sprung up in service of the world’s...
Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, James Bond (fictional character), Entertainment Events, Carly Simon
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Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane could've learned from Clint Eastwood
So where's Clint Eastwood when you need him? Sure, he hijacked Mitt Romney's convention with his bizarre soliloquy, a man and his chair. But the moment was spontaneous, surprising and captivating in the can't-turn-away fashion of an impending train...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Jaws (movie), Tampa, Celebrities, Entertainment
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The Oscars show, nominated films shortchanged in China
BEIJING — Cecilia Wu, 18, is a self-described film freak. Despite the heavy workload of her senior year of high school here in the Chinese capital, she sees a movie every two or three days and has caught most of the films with Academy Award...
Tags: Media Industry, Entertainment, Life of Pi (movie), Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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A Playstation retrospective on eve of Sony’s big PS4 announcement
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThe Sony Playstation used to be the new kid on the block. It was an inexperienced newcomer when it tried ...... -
'Argo,' 'Lincoln' spare no expense in Oscar best picture race
Forget about the price of gasoline: The real skyrocketing expense this year is the Oscar race. With two deep-pocketed studios locked into one of the closest best picture duels in recent memory and Academy Award voting extended by two weeks, the battle...
Tags: Apple iPod, Media Industry, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Entertainment, George Clooney
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'Argo' heads week's new releases
Argo Warner Bros., $28.98; Blu-ray, $35.99 Available on VOD beginning Tuesday Ben Affleck completes his evolution from movie star to action director with the hit, multi-award-winning and remarkably entertaining thriller based on actual events....
Tags: Joe Wright, Anna Karenina (movie), Atonement (movie), Battlestar Galactica (tv program), Undefeated (movie)
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Daum: Amazon's algorithm of love
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Amazon, the behemoth online retailer and knower of all habits and tastes, has released a list of America's 20 most romantic cities. It's high time. Gandhi might have said the best measure of a society is how it treats...
Tags: E-Commerce Industry, Luther Vandross, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Amazon Kindle, Barry White
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D.C. is an issue in Oscar campaigns
Hollywood director David O. Russell took a meeting this week to talk about a movie. But the man in the room with him wasn't a studio executive or an actor hoping for a role — he was Vice President Joe Biden. Russell met Biden and spoke on the...
Tags: Bipolar Disorder, U.S. Congress, Entertainment, Voting, Ben Affleck
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