He has played lots of characters, from Romeo to the man in the iron mask, from crook to aviator, but this role is a first time for Leonardo DiCaprio: in Christopher Nolan‘s latest movie he plays a dream thief. No, he does not steal dreams, instead he steals information from the head of others (usually [...]
DivX TV(TM) Receives Widespread Support from Consumer Electronics Companies and Content Providers DivX, Inc. announced the launch of DivX TV(TM), a comprehensive embedded Internet TV platform that provides access to a diverse line-up of online media content streamed directly to any connected device from any manufacturer. Eliminating the need for a PC or a separate, [...]
Sandra Bullock has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2009 in Quigley Publishing Company’s 78th Annual Poll of Exhibitors and is the first female to win since Julia Roberts in 1999. Bullock is the eighth woman chosen #1 in the Poll’s 78 year history. She appeared in three films in 2009, “The Blind Side,” [...]
The 17th China – Shanghai International Wedding Photographic Equipment Exhibition & International Children’s Photography, Theme Photography Exhibition, which is the first wedding photographic equipment show to be held in Shanghai next year, will be staged on January 20th, 2010 in three venues: INTEX Shanghai (77, Xingyi Rd., Shanghai), ShanghaiMart (99, Xingyi Rd., Shanghai), and Shanghai [...]
Pulp fiction is back as entertainment, according to box office and publishing reports. America’s fascination was evidenced with Hollywood’s top-grossing films for the first decade of the 21st century, of which 8 of the top 10 were either stories written during fiction’s golden age in the 1930s, 40s and 50s like Lord of the Rings [...]
Word of Mouth Most Effective Form of Promotion Friends rank as the largest influencing factor in the purchase decisions of video games, according to a study released by global integrated communications agency Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, and Harris Interactive. Industry trade groups say the [...]
Annual Traveler Survey Discovers a Flu-nomenon as U.S. Respondents Becoming Far More Cautious When it Comes to Germs U.S. Travelers Expect to Take More Leisure Trips in the Coming Year Troncones, Mexico is 2010′s Top Up-and-Coming Travel Destination TripAdvisor®, the world’s most trusted source of travel advice, today announced the results of its annual travel [...]
Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT has reached a box office gross of $200 million worldwide, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced. The film has taken in $61 million domestically and more than $140 million internationally. Commenting on the announcement, Jeff Blake, Chairman of Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing and Distribution said, “Moviegoers and film critics everywhere have truly [...]
A recent survey of 10,000 university students by the University of Reading, found that 75% of students download music, rather than buy in stores or pay for on music-streaming sites. Despite the recent popularity of music-streaming sites such as Spotify, 75 percent said they wouldn’t pay for a music-streaming service but would rather use sites [...]
Nearly 87 percent of travelers who looked into the availability of vacation rentals in the past plan to stay in one in 2010 – Demand for vacation rentals in New Orleans is up by more than 300 percent in third quarter of the year – About 60 percent of vacation rental owners report bookings in [...]