In-Fusio, a digital-content publisher headquartered in France, has licensed mobile gaming rights for the upcoming movie Get Smart from Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.
Based on the motion picture from Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures, the Get Smart mobile game will feature mission-based gameplay, puzzle solving and combat.
Assuming the role of CONTROL operatives, Get Smart mobile [...]

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The movie stars singer-songwriter Norah Jones and an ensemble cast that includes Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz and David Strathairn.
It’s a road movie about the extensive travel required to discover that home is where the heart is. It’s an easy movie to look at, too, and it’s got an attractive soundtrack. But it doesn’t [...]

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The events that precipitated a trial, a manhunt, and a Hollywood movie surfaced when a trio of hikers, walking in the mountains above Santa Barbara, California, heard what sounded like the intense buzzing of bees.
They discovered flies swarming around the fast decomposing body of Nicolas Markowitz, 15, executed in a burst of automatic gunfire.
“All this [...]

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By virtue of mathematical coincidence, every million dollars that Netflix C.E.O. Reed Hastings spends to build a digital download service for his DVD-by-mail company sucks away roughly one penny of profit from each share of its stock.
The simplicity of the calculation could grow increasingly inconvenient for Hastings as he and his management team fend off [...]

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David Berenbaum and Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes have been brought on deck to bring Hasbro’s supernatural game “Ouija Board” to the big screen. The project is set up at Universal, where Hasbro has a six-year strategic partnership.
Platinum Dunes’ Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce “Ouija” along with Hasbro.
Although the specific log line for [...]

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It’s one of the most popular concessions at the movie theater: popcorn.
Now, the price you pay for a tub of popcorn may soon go up. AMC, owner of more than 200 theaters nationwide, raised their popcorn prices by 25 cents this weekend.
Local theaters say they are also dealing with the price of corn and oil. [...]

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Max Markson helped 40-year-old American Alison Dalton and 38-year-old Briton Richard Neely to sell the story of their rescue near the Whitsunday Islands exclusively to an English tabloid newspaper.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says the search cost at least $30,000 and the couple should help pay for their rescue.
Mr Markson says there is strong international media [...]

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The prize, awarded by a jury headed by Sean Penn, came at the end of the world’s most prestigious film festival.
Directed by Laurent Cantet, The Class uses real students and teachers to chronicle a year in their lives.
Hunger, a portrayal of the last six weeks of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands’ life, took the Camera [...]

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The American film industry will be called to testify before a Quebec legislative committee next fall to explain why more Hollywood films aren’t dubbed into French in the province.
A committee studying the issue says it wants to hear from members of the Motion Picture Association, which represents the U.S. film industry internationally.
Quebec’s opposition parties have [...]

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Director Uwe Boll’s stock in trade is making movies out of video games, and Postal is no exception. This latest Boll film is based on a controversial video game featuring a character named the Postal Dude, who does what people who go postal do leave trails of dead bodies behind them.
None of Boll’s movies has [...]

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