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Universal wins rights to adapt film from unreleased game

By Jeffrey Bloomer on 9:21 AM on November 4, 2008

The video game hasn’t even been announced yet, but several Hollywood studios have already burned through a bidding war for rights to make a movie from a new EA project with the working title Dante’s Inferno. Universal Pictures snapped up rights, beating out major bids from Paramount, MGM and others....  read more

Found in: Games, News

Hollywood studios to help theaters pay for 3D technology

By Jeffrey Bloomer on 12:15 PM on October 6, 2008

In a rare collaborative effort for the major Hollywood studios, word from Reuters is that Disney, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros. are close to an agreement worth upward of $1 billion to finance the installation of thousands of digital screens at theaters across North America....  read more

Found in: Movies, News

B.B. King: One Kind Favor

By Bud Scoppa on 4:29 PM on September 22, 2008

“Times have changed so much, music has changed so much, but those old records still sound pretty good,” said B.B. King recently...  read more

Found in: Music, Reviews

Wes Anderson to write (and direct?) My Best Friend

By Mary Kate Varnau on 12:16 PM on September 12, 2008

Wes Anderson has just signed on for his first project with Imagine, a re-make of the 2006 French comedy Mon Meilleur Ami. Anderson has agreed to write My Best Friend, which will be released through Universal....  read more

Found in: Movies, News