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The website for the Tribeca Film Festival has finally put up video from the Q&A session that followed its closing-night presentation of The King of Comedy, but, alas, it's just an excerpt. I was hoping that the discussion ? which included the film's director Martin Scorsese and its stars, Robert... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
It's hard to believe that it's been nearly three years since Joel and Ethan Coen's last movie, True Grit , was turning into their biggest box office hit to date. Rumor has it that its follow-up and their most recent film Inside LLewyn Davis has been finished for a number... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Jennifer Hudson performed for guests including John Legend, Jenny McCarthy, Regis Philbin and first lady Laura Bush at Samsung?s 11th Annual Hope For Children Gala. Catt Sadler stopped by the Sunset Strip The Movie after-party at Lure, Hollywood's new hotspot! Tika Sumpter was spotted celebrating her birthday with pals and... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
So you're looking for a new career as a fashion photographer. To kickstart your job, look no further than today's iMore post by Rene Ritchie where he asked Mobile Nations' David Lundblad to take high-fashion photos of model Amanda Del Duca in Manhattan's Bryant Park with an iPhone. Videographer Martin... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Back at GDC earlier this year, I was invited to what I was told was a very limited meeting with Zynga. The company, which of course made its name with social Facebook games and recently has been trying to pivot to mobile platforms like the iPhone and the iPad. Most... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Tonight, movie fans around the United States everywhere are lining up for midnight showings of Marvel's Iron Man 3. It's the evening of May 2nd and the 2013 summer movie season is about to begin. Marvel jumped on this slot to follow-up The Avengers with another summer opening to pave... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Yesterday I reported on the clever economics behind Apple's US$17 billion bond deal, specifically pointing out that the interest Apple will owe on each share it repurchases will be less than the dividend it would have otherwise been responsible for. Going a bit further, Businessweek did some calculations surrounding Apple's... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Busy filmmaker Steven Spielberg will be adapting another autobiography next. American Sniper will be the title, and it’s the story of the most lethal sniper in United States history. Chris Kyle, a Texas native, was in the news recently when he was tragically killed. Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook), who... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
I've always been a sucker for soundscapes -- those looping sound effect CD's that whisk you away to the beach, or a rainforest or whatever. As I have a hard time "shutting down" my brain, these sounds give me something to get lost in and focus on, helping relax me.... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
In spite of Iron Man 3′s release tonight, Warner Brothers and Man of Steel have released a new poster. It shows Superman (Henry Cavill) flying over the blurred cityscape. It’s tough to get super excited about a movie just from a poster, but at least they’re not using the back-to-the-camera... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Mason is now a big brother! Kourtney Kardashian gave birth to Penelope Scotland Disick early on July 8 at Cedars-Sinai in LA. It?s the second child for Kourtney and Scott Disick, her boyfriend of five years. Although the reality star considered having a water birth, Penelope was delivered naturally and... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Hide the scissors! It's the season five finale of Jerseylicious this Sunday and it's packed with hair, high fashion and lots of drama. Olivia Blois-Sharpe gets her chance to shine as an on-air commentator at the fashion show she helped plan. Too bad the cat fights are overshadowing the catwalk.... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
On this week's episode of The Golden Briefcase, Tim and Jeremy are joined by Brian Salisbury of Spill.com and Film School Rejects to go through their latest picks of the week, the newest in DVD & Blu-ray releases, new trailers for Zal Batmanglij's The East and Eli Roth's Chilean horror... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Founded 12 years ago, Atlanta's Big Nerd Ranch is well-known among the Apple developer community as a prime source for corporate and individual training. Created to provide professional services for Apple technologies, its mission has grown to include both contract programming as well as instruction for Android, iOS, HTML 5,... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
After the initial trailers for The Wolverine depicted our favorite stogie-smoking X-Man in a vulnerable state, his adamantium blades are singing once more. This CinemaCon clip features Hugh Jackman's character battling a barrage of baddies, including the fierce-looking Silver Samurai, and taking on some heavy arrow damage. Not everyone wants... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
It’s been a tumultuous ride. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has tried (and failed) to become a movie many times. Based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel (of the same name), it’s a mashup of Jane Austen’s classic (Pride and Prejudice) and zombies. Why not, right? Zombies have been the recent... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
EXCLUSIVE: Here is a shocker. Al Pacino and Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have parted company on Despicable Me 2. Pacino had long ago signed to provide the voice of the film’s villain, Eduardo, in the follow-up to the 2010 hit. The surprise here is timing: the film has a... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
As expected, Marvel Studios' Iron Man 3 is kicking off the summer in a big way with Disney reporting that the 9pm Thursday night previews and midnight screenings for the threequel brought in an estimated $15.6 million. Last year, Marvel's The Avengers grossed $18.7 million in its midnight showings on... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Eclipse is one of the most popular board games around right now -- it's a vast, involving epic "4X" game, where those four Xs stand for eXploration, eXpansion, eXploitation (as in mining crops and resources from various planets) and eXtermination (as in finishing off your alien opponents). It was recently... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
It was a tragic weekend for Usher and his estranged wife, Tameka Foster. The 33-year-old entertainer?s stepson, Kyle Glover, was taken to a hospital in Atlanta after being hit in the head by a personal watercraft on July 6. The 11-year-old was declared brain dead two days later. Usher and... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Annette Bening and Bobby Cannavale appear set to replace the previously attached Julianne Moore and Jeremy Renner in Dan Fogelman's Imagine , says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . Al Pacino remains attached to headline. The film sees Pacino's character, an aging rock star, discovering that he has an... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
In Summer 2013, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek Into Darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for,... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
Adobe's Lightroom product manager Tom Hogarty has shown off an early beta of Lightroom for iOS, according to CNET. Hogarty made the semi-announcement on an episode of The Grid this week. Here's what CNET's Stephen Shankland had to say: He wouldn't promise when the app would ship or what exactly... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
FRIDAY AM, 3RD UPDATE: The Summer 2013 movie season officially opens today with a much-anticipated tentpole from Disney and Marvel. The North American theater count for Iron Man 3 will be a whopping 4,253 venues beginning today. There were fewer theaters for its late night run which started at 9... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog
The cast of "Star Trek Into Darkness" invaded London today (May 2). Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, and Zoe Saldana were all on hand for the UK premiere of their new movie. Leading ladies Eve and Saldana were every male Trekkie's dream, looking gorgeous on the red... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at michellemcKarhanagan's blog