BigScreen Journal

With Blu-ray becoming the HD heir-apparent to DVD home video, it has to deal with four major issues facing it before it can achieve mainstream success. The first two are the price and quality of...

The teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is now available in multiple formats on the Trailers & Videos page!As was announced on Monday, the trailer was shown on...

Lucasfilm Ltd and Warner Bros. have announced that Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be released in theaters on August 15, 2008.Heroic Anakin Skywalker and his new padawan learner Ahoska find themselves...

Academy Award-winning director, writer, and producer Martin Scorcese is urging moviegoers to not interrupt the movie with their cell phones in a spot that appears before the movie starts.The spot is...

Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm have announced that the teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will debut in theaters worldwide on Thursday, February 14, 2008.The...

I've been a big proponent of the HD DVD format, as readers here will know. While the rival Blu-ray format had the better specs on paper, HD DVD had the better players and movies that actually made...

I'm not sure how many more of these kinds of hits HD DVD can take before it stays on the mat...According to a story by Reuters, Netflix has announced that it will only buy Blu-ray high definition...

Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Corporation have announced that the sequel to the popular 3D underwater documentary Deep Sea 3D will be called Under the Sea - 3D.Scheduled for release next February,...

The HD DVD format has taken its share of licks and it's always stayed standing. Repeated pronouncements by the Blu-ray group last year that Blu-ray had won the format war when no such evidence...

As I was writing the Journal article about the HDNet Movies airing of Lawrence of Arabia in HD, I discovered that the AMC Cinerama 1 (aka Seattle Cinerama Theatre) is showing that movie, as well as...

HDNet Movies has announced the high definition premiere of the classic movie Lawrence of Arabia on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 6:15pm ET. The 1962 movie won seven Academy Awards®, including Best...

The B & B Theatres chain is the most recent addition to the long list of theaters that make buying tickets online easy and convenient for their customers!According to their web site, B & B...

Eastern PromisesHD DVD /DVD Combo DiscUniversal Studios Home Entertainment101 minutesList Price: $39.98 (Check Price at Amazon.com)Available 12/23/2007Additional Movie Details  TheatricalThis HD...

New Releases on Home Video for the Week of January 20 - January 26: No ReservationsTyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?We Own the NightGone, Baby, GoneBecoming JaneMartian ChildIn the Shadow of the...

At the end of January, The BigScreen Cinema Guide finished its 13th year of delivering movie information, theater information, and showtimes. It was in January of 1995 that I began publishing this...

Universal Pictures and Working Title Films announced that the World Premiere for the upcoming romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe, starring Ryan Reynolds and Abigail Breslin, will be held Tuesday,...

Variety is reporting that Joe Johnston has replaced Mark Romanek as Director of The Wolf Man which is due in theaters in 2009.Romanek reportedly left the production over "creative...

According to the Southtown Star, the Marcus Orland Park Cinemas will not see the three-screen addition that was approved for it five years ago:Marcus now says it wants to build an 8,000-square-foot...

Walt Disney Studios announced on Sunday that they would be extending the length of the run for Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour: Digital 3D due to popular demand.The 3D...

Our Coming Soon page in Now Showing is the best way to find out what movies are coming to movie theaters in the next week, the next month, this summer, and in 2010!An E-Mail from one of our readers...