Network names meaningless
While walking around the show floor at this week’s Cable Show in Los Angeles, I was reminded again of a pet peeve I have had for years about cable network names.
My peeve: network names have come to mean nothing at all.
As I walked past the booth for TV Guide Channel promoting all its celebrity and [...]
I hate Ebert hating 3D
First of all, thanks to Roger Ebert for joining my warnings to the industry about their approach to 3D in his recent posting for Newsweek.
But while I agree to a certain extent with some of Ebert’s specific concerns, I do not agree with his overall premise that 3D is being over-used and I do not [...]
Misleading eye-popping 3D ads
If Hollywood filmmakers and TV producers are going to insist on having the latest wave of 3D push only behind the screen rather than popping out, then they need to alert advertising people.
Is there any ad you’ve seen yet for 3D TVs or, really, anything else 3D, that doesn’t show stuff coming way out of [...]
Slam Dunk 3D in theaters
There’s a lot of 3D to take in at theaters these days.
Within just a few hours on Saturday night at a single Krikorian theater in Monrovia, California, I saw the first Final Four game in 3D, the big-screen world premiere of the We are the World 25 for Haiti music video in 3D, and “Clash [...]
I like pre-movie 3D stuff
Is it just me or does anyone else get as impacted by the pre-movie branding logos in 3D as I do?
For some time now I have been telling people I go to the movies with to be sure to watch the IMAX visual and audio countdown before each film (actually, you can’t miss it). I [...]
3D MLB coming sooner
DirecTV, Fox Sports, and Major League Baseball may be pitching baseball in 3D a few days earlier than expected with discussions taking place to telecast the New York Yankees at the Seattle Mariners the weekend before the July All-Star game in 3D.
And sources say ESPN will deliver the Home-Run Derby in 3D the day before [...]
Alice, Avatar: only make cash
Former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan once famously criticized his wide receiver Cris Carter because all he did was catch touchdown passes. The 5,500-plus voting members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences seem to be delivering the same head-scratching sentiment to movies that score the biggest box-office cash.
Showcasing once again the cavernous gulf [...]
Stewart: Magic & Bird is magic
During my nearly 35 years as a sports television columnist – first for the old Los Angeles Herald Examiner and then the Los Angeles Times – I have attended at least a hundred screenings.
But only once was I at a screening that got a standing ovation.
That took place only a couple of weeks ago at [...]
Harry Potter World sneak peek
Surely the biggest and most anticipated theme park attraction in the world to open this century and back to at least the mid-1990s is The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
The folks at Universal Orlando Resort are keeping a tight lid on details about the roughly 20-acre section of Islands of Adventure reported to have a [...]
Custom DW Dragon for Olympics
We’ve seen DreamWorks Animation SKG create customized promos for “Shrek” tailored to Wal-Mart stores, but this year the studio has created a barrage of TV spots for the upcoming 3D release “How to Train Your Dragon” that are designed specifically to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Last year about this time during the Super Bowl, [...]
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