A record 3 million stream Super Bowl online
By Jake Coyle
The Super Bowl was streamed online by 3 million people, an increase from the 2.1 million who watched the big game online last year, according to U.S. network CBS.
The Super Bowl was streamed online by 3 million people, an increase from the 2.1 million who watched the big game online last year, according to U.S. network CBS.
“Argo” — Directing just his third feature, Ben Affleck has come up with a seamless blend of detailed international drama and breathtaking suspense, with just the right amount of dry humor to provide context and levity. He shows a deft handling of tone, especially in making difficult transitions between scenes in Tehran, Washington and Hollywood, but also gives one of his strongest performances yet in front of the camera. The story of a rescue during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis sounds like eat-your-vegetables cinema, and mixing it with an inside-Hollywood comedy sounds impossible, but Affleck and screenwriter Chris Terrio pull it all off.
The face is hardly wrinkled and the long blond locks appear unchanged, but Brad Pitt, who will turn 49 in December, is increasingly preoccupied with the passage of time and the thought that his rarefied place in movies is fleeting.
The weekend box office was not only undeterred by the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, it was buoyed by it.
When the playwright Tony Kushner recently grabbed a microphone and sat down for a post-screening Q&A with a filmmaker and the film’s cast, he mumbled that he felt like Richard Pena.
Robert Pattinson was nearing the end of shooting the last “Twilight” film, concluding a chapter of his life that had picked him out of near obscurity and was preparing to spit him out … where exactly? “Twilight” had made him extravagantly famous, but his next steps were entirely uncertain.
Director Christopher Nolan expressed sorrow and devastation Friday as the movie industry struggled with the deadly Colorado shooting at a midnight screening of Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” one of the most anticipated films in years now enmeshed with a horrifying tragedy.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. “This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family,” Holmes’s attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday. “Katie’s primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter’s best interest.”
On the surface, “Burning Love” is eerily identical to “The Bachelor.” All of the hallmarks of the ABC reality series are here: the steady, melodramatic winnowing of suitors, the shallowness masquerading as romance, the cheesy up-lighting on a remote mansion.
If Shia LaBeouf has his way, this year’s Cannes Film Festival is just a beginning. After previous trips to the festival with blockbusters “Transformers” and “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” LaBeouf is here with his first film in competition, the Prohibition-era “Lawless,” as well as a short he directed, “Howard Cantour.com.”
The slime came fast and furious at the 25th annual Kids’ Choice Awards, where even celebrities get doused in bucket loads of green gunk.
YouTube is launching a film festival that will play out online and ultimately send 10 finalists to the Venice Film Festival.
