One Night Only: Hollywood’s Drive-In Cemetery

Michael Stailey — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:50:43 +0000

If you happen to be in the Los Angeles area next week and are looking for a unique summer movie experience, you might want to check out the special screening of the new film Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The full details, after the jump.

Grand Theft Auto could be Hollywood’s biggest competition this summer

adam arseneau — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:05:52 +0000

With Hollywood still stinging from the financial impact of a prolonged writer’s strike, it goes without saying that executives everywhere have a lot riding on this summer. A lot of new franchises, a lot of remakes, and some sequels all vying to scrape up as much money as possible in a few short weeks before the next film hits, desperate to make up for lost time. Things are understandably tightly packed—you get in, you make the dough, and you move onto the next film.

But there is an unexpected contender in the marketplace distracting patrons from the movie theater this summer, one that might take a bite out of the official May 2nd kickoff weekend—a video game.

With an estimated $400 million in projected sales, Grand Theft Auto IV may be making some folks out west a bit nervous. It may even be the early harbinger of a new trend: checking video game release calendars for potential conflicts in targeting movie release dates. The big movie for this Friday, Iron Man might find its core audiences—young males—unexpectedly absent from the theater, opting instead to partake in the immersing fantasy of Liberty City.

With more and more money being put into video games lately (and the dividing like between cinematic movies and cinematic games getting thinner) do you guys think this could be the start of something? Or is this merely fantastic speculation?

(via canada.com)

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One Night Only: Hollywood’s Drive-In Cemetery

Grand Theft Auto could be Hollywood’s biggest competition this summer