Uncategorized

Wouldn’t it be more realistic if they just shot each other? Hardcore brawling with the Def Jam peeps: What happens when you bring together the world’s hottest music label and the world’s biggest videogame publisher? “Culture clash” doesn’t begin to describe it. In November, Def Jam Records and Electronic Arts …

Robotic much? To create a hit movie directors need to combine seven essential elements in the right proportions to ensure they have success, according to university lecturer Sue Clayton. Her research has revealed that the blueprint for a perfect feature must have: action 30pc, comedy 17pc, good v evil 13pc, …

Consensus has it today that the FCC is going to significantly loosen media ownership rules on June 2, based upon leaks from the FCC itself and media insiders. It would appear hearings and protestations from a variety of sources have changed Chairman Powell and the Republican 3/5 of FCC commissioner’s …

Federal appeals court revives lawsuit by civil rights icon Rosa Parks against the rap group OutKast over their song “Rosa Parks”: A federal judge in Detroit had dismissed Parks’ lawsuit in 1999 over the song “Rosa Parks,” saying OutKast’s use of her name was protected by free speech, and the …

We (Americans) don’t seem to do “interim” very well. We are totally tits at accomplishing specific tasks – deposing evil regimes, incapacitating opposing militaries, yanking down odious statues – with efficiency and alactrity, but seem to drift when the mission isn’t well defined, as during “interim” periods such as Iraq’s, …

British book So You Think You Know Harry Potter coming to the U.S.: So you think you know all about Harry Potter, his friends, his adversaries, and his amazing adventures? This book is the ultimate test, as tough as making one of Professor Snape’s potions and as slippery as a …

Dow Jones reports WMG and BMG are the latest majors in merger talks: AOL Time Warner Inc. and Bertelsmann AG are in active talks to merge their music divisions into an entity that would rival Vivendi Universal SA’s Universal Music Group, the industry leader, and have a roster of artists …

Casting my damaged memory back 30+ years, I used to actually get up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons, where the animated fruits of the network’s imaginations were fed to kids like some national electronic breakfast. I especially loved the music cartoons like the Banana Splits, Archies, Beatles, Fat Albert, …

Crap (and urine) produced.

Sen. John McCain said he wanted satellite TV to compete with cable more effectively to keep cable prices down, is Murdoch the answer? Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch told a congressional committee yesterday that a merger of his News Corp. television-and-movie empire with the nation’s leading home satellite TV service would …