Tag Archives: Video

Letterman to simulcast on radio: Starting Nov. 11, the “Late Show with David Letterman” will be simulcast each weeknight on 15 major-market radio stations owned by the Infinity Broadcasting network, a corporate sibling of CBS, marking a new avenue of cross-promotion for Letterman. Both CBS and Infinity are owned by …

In conjunction with the forthcoming Bond flick Die Another Day, AMC is going Bond-girl crazy: From Dr. No’s Ursula Andress to Halle Berry in the new movie Die Another Day, Bond Girls were once portrayed as angels with broken wings, yet now emerge as strong, sexy and intelligent women who …

NBC Inc. … will buy Cablevision Systems Corp.’s Bravo cable television network in a deal valued at $1.25 billion, giving NBC an important entertainment outlet on cable. Under terms of the deal, NBC, which is owned by General Electric Co., would swap its 16 percent stake in Cablevision and an …

DVD 80% of sales: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment’s “Spider-Man” swung into action Friday on rental and retail shelves, selling an estimated 7 million combined VHS and DVD units its first day out and capturing the first-day-sales record, which had been held by Disney/Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.” with 4.5 million total units …

In light of the crazy-go-nuts reaction from all philosophical directions to these two posts, this story is a breath of fresh air: When Asma Hasan was majoring in religion and American studies at Wellesley, she decided she wanted to read more about Islam, especially about American Muslims like herself. Most …

Eliot Van Buskirk says DVDs can save the music industry: There’s no arguing that CD sales are down this year, but what no one can agree on is the underlying cause behind the slump. The RIAA points to Internet piracy, of course, citing studies that show CD purchases are lower …

A defense witness appeared to have ulterior motives, but a video tape reputed to show Winona Ryder cutting sensor tags off merchandise never materialized in Friday’s testimony: “I don’t think so, I feel pretty good where we’re at right now,” defense attorney Mark Geragos said when asked if he planned …

New documentary on the big smelly guy on Discovery in January: For decades, a small but loyal legion of Bigfoot hunters has spent countless weekends prowling forests in nearly every state, piling up evidence such as alleged footprints and hair samples that now has a handful of animal experts willing …

The production players are the same: Fox, Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment, the Idol format; but this time I may actually have some interest in actually seeing the performers, who already have some cultural heft to throw around: Fox Broadcasting Co. and Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment are working on a variation …

USA Today goes WAY out on a limb and picks six sequels, all from wildly popular series, as holiday season hits. Their seventh pick for blockbusterdom stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, and is directed by Steven Spielberg – hmm, sounds risky: In each of the past two holiday seasons, …