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| May 29, 2013 | |
Watertower Music is offering up 90-second samples of each track of the soundtrack for the upcoming Superman movie, Man of Steel. The soundtrack is composed by Academy Award®, Grammy, and Golden... | |
| May 21, 2013 | |
A modified 1967 Mustang used during the filming of Gone in 60 Seconds starring Nicolas Cage sold recently at an auction for $1 million.
The "Eleanor" Mustang was one of eleven that were created for... | |
| May 14, 2013 | |
Independent movie web site Indiewire interviewed husband and wife team Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton about their upcoming movie, Black Rock, which opens in a few theaters Friday. They co-wrote the... | |
| May 06, 2013 | |
The Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board has released its 2013 lineup for its "Movies in the Park" series, where you can watch some classic favorites, free, under the stars in parks around the... | |
| May 06, 2013 | |
The Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois is undergoing a restoration and they released a video back in April that shows some of their efforts and some of the hidden surprises that they found.
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| Apr 23, 2013 | |
Santikos Theatres has released a promotional "coming soon" video for the the Santikos Palladium 22, which will be opening in Richmond, Texas on May 16, 2013.
For more information about the... | |
| Apr 18, 2013 | |
On the heels of Universal Pictures' announcement of a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman, they have announced that there will also be a sequel to last year's hit, Pitch Perfect that will arrive in... | |
| Apr 18, 2013 | |
Industry blog Collider is reporting that a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman is in the works for 2015:
Universal Pictures chairman Adam Fogelson hosted the studio’s presentation at... | |
| Apr 11, 2013 | |
AMC Theatres are celebrating the end of tax season with a coupon good for a small popcorn from April 12-15, 2013.
Click the Read link below to visit AMC's site and get your coupon! | |
| Mar 19, 2013 | |
Select Cinemark locations will be showing the 1962 classic Lawrence of Arabia on Tuesday, March 20, 2013. The 216-minute epic movie won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director,... | |
| Mar 04, 2013 | |
Have you ever sneaked into a movie playing in another auditorium after watching the movie you paid to see? Some people admit to doing it when they were kids (essentially spending the day for the low... | |
| Feb 04, 2013 | |
AMC Theatres is offering up discount coupons for concessions and movie tickets in conjunction with the upcoming Academy Awards® ceremony. The discounts vary by day, with the first one being... | |
| Jan 11, 2013 | |
Select Cinemark locations will be showing classic movies on the big screen in January and February 2013, according to their web site.
Already this month, they have shown 2001: A Space Odyssey and... | |
| Dec 10, 2012 | |
NPR featured an interview with famed composer John Williams, who was done more memorable movie scores (the music that plays during a movie) than most others combined. You may not know his name, but... | |
| Oct 23, 2012 | |
Motion picture archivist and historian Bob Furmanek maintains a web site called the 3-D Film Archive, and he and Greg Kintz just published an article titled "An In-Depth Look at CREATURE FROM THE... | |
| Oct 10, 2012 | |
Commentary tracks are nothing to home video, but this is the first time I've ever seen a director make a commentary available while his movie is still in theaters! Rian Johnson directed Looper, which... | |
| Sep 28, 2012 | |
IMAX staffer Hugh Murray posted an entry on the IMAX blog about their first mainstream 3D IMAX release, The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience, which was released in November 2004.
Here is an... | |
| Sep 28, 2012 | |
With the upcoming release of the final Twilight movie, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Twi-hards and other extreme movie marathoners can spend all day watching the five Twilight movies in... | |
| Jul 18, 2012 | |
Reader Ron H. sent us a link to an article in the Los Angeles Times titled "4-D movies: Next big thing for U.S. theaters?" where the theatrical movie experience gets taken to a level that involves... | |
| Jun 06, 2012 | |
79 years ago, the first drive-in movie theater, the Camden Drive-In, opened in Camden, New Jersey. Richard Hollingshead opened the new theater after he was awarded a patent for the idea.
According... | |
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