Friday, August 6, 2010

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News


Movie review: 'The Other Guys'

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg is funny and clever. Just don't think too hard.

The comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg is funny and clever. Just don't think too hard.


Movie Projector: 'Other Guys' to finally displace 'Inception,' not many will dance to 'Step Up 3D'

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 01:22 PM PDT


The Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy "The Other Guys" is virtually certain to be the most popular movie domestically this weekend with a $30-million opening.


Tough summer for events promoter

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Gary Richards hopes to forget the last few months, including a canceled L.A. show and fallout from a mega-rave that he was not involved in. Coming Saturday is his Hard festival at an L.A. park.

Gary Richards hopes to forget the last few months, including a canceled L.A. show and fallout from a mega-rave that he was not involved in. Coming Saturday is his Hard festival at an L.A. park.


Rosie O'Donnell heads to Oprah's OWN network

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 04:37 PM PDT


Rosie O'Donnell will not replace Oprah, but she will work for her.

Rosie O'Donnell will not replace Oprah, but she will work for her.


TLC's 'Sister Wives' reality show will document a polygamist family

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The program about a man, his three wives and their 13 children will premiere in September.

Get ready for a reality show version of "Big Love."


Beach Boys vs. Katy Perry? A warning, not a lawsuit

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 03:34 PM PDT


The publishing company that control the rights to the Beach Boys' 1966 hit "California Girls" isn't suing Katy Perry and rapper Snoop Dogg.

The publishing company that control the rights to the Beach Boys' 1966 hit "California Girls" isn't suing Katy Perry and rapper Snoop Dogg.


Next James Bond film in limbo

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


MGM's financial woes, star Daniel Craig's unavailability and the lack of a completed script look to delay the lucrative franchise's return until 2012 at the earliest.

MGM's financial woes, star Daniel Craig's unavailability and the lack of a shooting script look to delay the lucrative franchise's return until 2012 at the earliest.


Movie review: The exhilarating power of dance powers 'Step Up 3D'

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


The exhilarating power of dance powers Jon M. Chu's film.

An exhilarating summer treat for all ages, "Step Up 3D" celebrates the transformative power of dance. The third installment in the popular series, it is the first American dance drama shot in digital 3-D and in its unpretentious way is the very model of the organic film musical in which there is a taut integration of cinematography, production design, choreography and dynamic music. The story line flows into dance numbers, and the use of very sharp 3-D images resists mere gimmickry to express the exuberance of the dancers leaping right off the screen and sheer youthful energy and high spirits.


Movie review: 'Twelve'

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Destructive Upper East Side adolescents run crazy. Director Joel Schumacher provides the flourishes that leave viewers numb.

Twenty-five years ago, Demi Moore huddled in an empty room with billowing curtains for Joel Schumacher's "St. Elmo's Fire" and an iconic if cheeseball visual cue for spoiled-youth loneliness was born. In "Twelve," the director's latest dive into the indiscretions of adolescent brats, the possibilities are endless: a drug-addled teenage girl's hallucination that her stuffed bears are talking to her, a broodingly handsome drug dealer's mopey timeout in a street-construction hole or maybe that hair-trigger rich kid in the police interrogation room breaking down on a phone call from absent Daddy. So much to choose from.


Old titles help Activision increase profit 12%

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT


Downloads for Call of Duty and World of Warcraft offset poor sales for some of the video game maker's new offerings.

Despite launching four new games last quarter, video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. continued to see a pair of older titles account for most of its business in its most recent quarter.


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