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‘Boyz n the Hood’ Director John Singleton Has Died
Taken Off Life Support Earlier Monday American film maker John Singleton has passed away at the age of 51. He is mostly known for his directorial debut Boyz n the Hood (1991). A movie which launched several careers including Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ice Cube. Furthermore, he has also directed…
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Netflix Fires Return Shots At Hollywood Elite Over Oscars
Netflix Hits Back At Hollywood Critics Over the last few years, the popular home streaming service Netflix has been working hard to create a wide range of ‘home-grown’ products. This includes both fantastic films and TV series. There has, however, been much criticism levelled at the streaming service by Hollywood. Specifically,…
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2018 Worldwide Box Office to Reach All-Time High with $41.7B
No Business Like Show Business The year is almost over and if analyst estimates hold true, 2018 box office movie records would end up raking in $41.7 billion worldwide. This is the highest benchmark ever since the movie industry began. Comscore (via Variety) predicts that the international grosses will reach…
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Hollywood Attack On Titan Movie In The Works
Hollywood Attack On Titan Movie In The Works Attack On Titan is, without a doubt, one of the biggest Japanese anime/manga series to have broken out into the west for quite some time. The series which features mankind’s survival against giant humanoids (who incidentally seem to like eating us) has proven…
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Confirmed for Bill & Ted Return
A Most Excellent News It is now official, both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter will be reprising the titular roles of Bill & Ted on the upcoming ‘Threequel’. It has been 27 long years since Bill & Ted’s Bogus Adventure and the third movie will continue on in real time.…
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Quentin Tarantino and JJ Abrams Team Up for Star Trek Movie
In a surprising turn of events, it appears that the next Star Trek movie might be helmed by none other than Quentin Tarantino himself. Tarantino who is infamous for his liberal use of bad words, violence and Samuel L. Jackson in his films, is not the first directer one would…
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Activision Planning Multi-Part Film Series Set in the Call of Duty Universe
Activision’s massively popular military first-person shooter Call of Duty is heading to the big screen, not just as a single blockbuster effort but as several films in a series that takes cues from Marvel‘s contained movie-verse setup. Many of Hollywood’s producers are knocking at the doors of game studios to…
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Compulsion Games’ We Happy Few to Get Movie Adaptation
Hollywood is always on the lookout for that hot new property that they can turn into a multi-movie franchise. Comic books have been a reliable source of this for the past decade now and video games are quickly catching up as well. Unfortunately many video game adaptations either fail to…
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Hollywood Studios Pushing for $30 Home Rentals of Newly Released Movies
Several Hollywood studios have been considering offering movie rentals of freshly theater premiered movies to those who want to watch it from the comfort of their homes instead. Napster Founder Sean Parker has floated the idea last year, suggesting a $50 fee for same day rental for a movie premiere.…
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Napster Founder Bringing $50 Movie Rentals to the Home
Sean Parker, philanthropist, Napster founder, and Facebook investor, is said to be working on a project to bring $50 movie rentals to the home. $50? For a movie? Is he nuts? Well, not exactly. Parker’s plan is to make movies available to home viewers on the day of their cinema…
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Hackers Hit Hollywood Hospital With Ransomware
It seems that no system is beyond the reach of hackers out to line their own pockets. For almost an entire week, the Hollywood Presbyterian Memorial Medical Center has been without its computer systems, due to the system being taken down by a hack that is described as ransomware. Without their…
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Popcorn Time Ramps Up For Full Comeback
When the main fork of popular torrent video-on-demand app Popcorn Time closed in October, citing legal issues and splits within the development team, many suspected that the so-called “Netflix for pirates” was a goner. But it seems that reports of Popcorn Time’s demise has been greatly exaggerated, with the developers…
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Hollywood is to Blame for the Popularity of Popcorn Time
Hollywood is in the midst of an aggressive assault against “Netflix for pirates” movie streaming app Popcorn Time and its users, but the owners of Popcorn Time insists that its VOD service isn’t the problem, Hollywood’s lack of legal rival is. In a statement to TorrentFreak, the Popcorn Time team…
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MPAA Seeking Programmer to Take Down Pirates
Are you a software programmer in need of a job? Do you hate people who torrent the latest instalment in the Twilight franchise (brave stance, I know)? Yes? Then the Motion Picture Association of America wants you! The MPAA is an organisation with a history of throwing its weight around…
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E-mails Reveal MPAA Planned Media Campaign to Smear Google
Back in December last year, we brought you a story revealing that Google had filed a lawsuit against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Mississippi State Attorney General Jim Hood, with whom it is alleged the MPAA has a more than cosy relationship with. The lawsuit accuses Hood…
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