Spike TV Announces 2009 ‘Guys Choice’ Winners

Winners were announced Saturday night during the boy’s night out of the year, the third annual Spike TV “Guys Choice” held at the Sony Studios in Los Angeles. The show paying tribute to the things guys love most premieres on Spike TV Sunday, June 21 (10:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT). “Fight Club” was inducted into the “Guy [...]

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She’s 13, Can Still Spell Laodicean

Meet Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old speller from Olathe, Kan., who won the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night.  Kavya was named the national champion in the Championship Round after correctly spelling the word “Laodicean” which is defined as “lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics.”  An eighth grader at California Trail Junior High School [...]

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Kris Allen, Adam Lambert Dominate the Billboard Hot 100

The “American Idol” winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert have reached another milestone – domination of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart, with a combined nine debuts on the survey, topped by Kris’ recording of “No Boundaries” at No. 11.   The nine debuting singles by Kris and Adam are:   No. 11: “No Boundaries,” [...]

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The Adventures of Tintin is Coming 2011

Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced their release plans for the 3-D motion capture feature film “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and Kathleen Kennedy. The film will be released by Paramount in the U.S. on December 23, 2011. The film [...]

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Are You a Celebrity Look-alike?

Then here’s a chance for you to shine like a real star. TV Guide Network, home of the celebrity makeover series “Look-A-Like,” is looking for one lucky viewer to experience the transformation of a lifetime. Viewers resembling Hollywood’s hottest celebrities are encouraged to enter TV Guide Network’s “I’m A Celebrity Look-A-Like” contest between now and [...]

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Twitter TV On, Twitter TV Off

The microblogging site Twitter has put an end to all the gossips about it making a TV show. It says it’s not making any such show. As the celebrity world around Hollywood was also abuzz with this hearsay, the No.1 Twitterer, actor Ashton Kutcher, threatened to shun the site while wife Demi Moore expressed her [...]

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Up is Up for Sale

Games developer THQ says the Up video game, based on the Disney-Pixar film, has shipped to retail outlets throughout North America for Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP (PlayStation Portable), and Games for Windows and Mac. The film is releasing May 29.  The Up video game takes players on an exotic [...]

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Disney to Expand in Central and Eastern Europe

The Walt Disney Company today (May 26) announced that it will re-brand its Jetix channels in five Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to become Disney Channel, a leading kids TV brand. Kid-driven, family inclusive Disney Channel is set to launch later this year in Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria, increasing the channel’s [...]

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First: Night at the Museum

While it was largely expected that Christian Bale-led Terminator Salvation will beat others at the box office, it couldn’t despite some heavy pre-release hoopla to promote the film. Then who won? It’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, a comedy sequel to the 2006 Night at the Museum. According to Rentrak Theatrical’s Box [...]

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Romantic Proposal for Mobile Women in China

Harlequin Enterprises, a leading publisher of books for women, says that digital comics based on Harlequin novels will be made available for mobile distribution in China. Harlequin Comics are adaptations based on the publisher’s romance novels. Here are the trends. Warner Bros. Digital Distribution is also offering its first digital comic book “Terminator Salvation” for [...]

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