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Ok, maybe not genius, but there’s something at work. Oh yeah, stupidity.
Lindsay Lohan’s arrest on felony drug charges early Tuesday came at the worst possible time for TriStar Pictures, which plans this weekend to release “I Know Who Killed Me,” a low-budget thriller in which she stars.
And I want to know, what genius at TriStar […]

I suppose someone out there likes the movie. It can’t all be a triumph of marketing over movie making can it?
For Independence Day weekend, Hollywood’s latest apocalyptic picture transfixed droves of moviegoers in one of the fastest-grossing starts on record for a non-sequel.
Rolling out on approximately 7,600 screens at 4,011 theaters, Transformers waged an estimated […]

In my earlier story about the media enabler company, Media Defender, they had set up a fake website hoping to induce people to commit copyright infringement. Well they obviously noticed the traffic from digg and /. because they yanked the website down. They also changed the WhoIs information to hide who own the site. Of […]

If you are terminally stupid, which the MPAA is, you hire a company to “catch” people downloading copyrighted files and keep the information for when you file a lawsuit. The reason the MPAA is terminally stupid is that their contractor committed copyright infringement itself, by illegally offering downloads of copyrighted material.
here’s a taste of the […]

You’d think most people would hate that, but not if it’s in an animated movie.
Disney has put a rodent on top of the box office, though not the studio’s venerable mascot, Mickey Mouse.
“Ratatouille,” an animated comedy about a gourmet rat that gets a chance to cook in a French restaurant, debuted as the No. 1 […]

Yeah I know, there are so few of them. But our know-nothing of the day is Cameron Diaz. When not traipsing around the forest with her big green man, she’s an eco-tourist wannabe intellectual celebrity wandering the globe.
While she explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru’s Andes, Diaz wore over her […]

Well I saw the first movie and was underwhelmed. Why am I not surprised the remake led the pack for the weekend.
Golden Globe-winning films saw significant boosts at the weekend box office, but the action-packed vampire flick “Underworld: Evolution” was the top earner, debuting with $27.6 million in ticket sales.
The blood-drenched thriller, starring Kate Beckinsale […]