One of the things we certainly would rather not think about is movie adaptations of computer games. Defrag is oddly excited about the forthcoming release of the Max Payne movie, even though deep down we know we’ll be disappointed. This is because every movie based on a game has thus far been so awful that [...]

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The changes, outlined in a memo to employees last week, come ahead of Motorola’s quarterly report on Thursday. The Illinois-based telecom-equipment maker is expected to report on plans to split itself into two companies, separating its troubled cellphone unit from the rest of Motorola, the home and networks mobility unit and its public-safety radios division.
The [...]

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Her daughter, whose summer wedding on a simply dream-like Greek isle is the be all and end of all of the script, is a major find. She is talented, musical and beautiful in equal measure.
Which brings me to Pierce Brosnan. Now, I think he’s a real cool cat, good-looking, wry, understated and the best dresser [...]

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While a film student at Yale University, director Scott Kirschenbaum began writing a screenplay.
The Phoenix native wanted to tell the story of a young Sudanese refugee’s experience in trying to find her place among her new world.
Filming at Cherokee and in Arizona was a logical choice for Kirschenbaum, who splits his time between New York [...]

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IT’S THE hottest day of the year 91 degrees and Phil Rosenthal is stacking almond wood kindling in the pizza oven of his Hancock Park home. In little more than an hour, a cook from Pizzeria Mozza will arrive, as he does most Sunday nights, and begin kneading dough and sprinkling cheese for the 25 [...]

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Movie buffs never had it so good. The rapidly-growing movie rentals on one hand and the competitive direct-to-home (DTH) market on the other, promise to take home entertainment market to a new high. While four DTH players are betting big on movies-on-demand, biggies such as Reliance and Nimbus have entered the movie-rental business even as [...]

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Sherif J. Mityas has been appointed to COO and president of retail operations, effective June 16. He replaces Jeffrey S. Stubbs, who resigned.
The movie rental company, which is the second-largest in the nation, has struggled in the last year. It declaring bankruptcy and named a new president and CEO in May around the time it [...]

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Empire has posted a very cool featurette for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s Wanted. The behind-the-scenes look might actually make you excited to the the film.
Intercuting panels from the comic book with sequences from the film, the cast and crew from the film explain why this movie might actually be worth looking [...]

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A smattering of yellow signs on Wayland’s streets pointed drivers to the set of a Disney movie called “The Surrogates,” a portion of which was being filmed on Moore Road yesterday.
Star Bruce Willis, though, didn’t make an appearance in town.
On Tuesday and yesterday, crews from a Los Angeles-based unit pointed cameras at what’s been called [...]

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British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is Mike Terry, operator of a Los Angeles Jiujitsu academy. The form of Brazilian martial arts Mike practices is virtually his religion, demanding the utmost in physical, mental and spiritual purity.
It may be good for Mike’s soul, but not his pocketbook. The academy is circling the financial toilet bowl, creditors are [...]

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