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Universal Pictures and Gore Verbinski will remake the 2006 Bong Joon-ho-directed Korean thriller The Host, with commercials director Fredrik Bond making his feature helming debut and Mark Poirier to write the ...

PC Magazine, which has documented the explosive growth of the personal computer since 1982, announced on Wednesday that it was dropping its print edition next year and going online only.

CTV Inc. will lay off some employees, freeze hiring and cut spending to cope with "sharp decreases" in advertising as the television industry braces for a deep slump.

The streaming Netflix movie service for Xbox Live has hit a bit of a snag. It seems that a few hundred titles from Columbia Pictures are now unavailable for viewing.

The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday it agreed to deliver five movies via IMAX theaters beginning with the 3-D movie 'A Christmas Carol,' starring Jim Carrey, in November 2009.

Future films may also include those made by director Tim Burton and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, the studio said.

Imax Corp. is in the midst of rolling out digital projection technology at its large-screen theaters and the Disney slate takes advantage of that.

As of September, Imax had 320 theaters worldwide and aims to have up to 50 converted to digital technology by the end of the year.

A man who said a bad diagnosis caused him to lose his penis and a testicle to flesh-eating bacteria while in prison has won a $300,000 settlement from Washington state.

'WALLE' : Call "WALLE" the little robot that could. That's because Pixar Animation Studios has done it again, and this time they've stretched the boundaries into space, as "Finding Nemo" writer-director Andrew ...

A group of business executives on Tuesday urged President-elect Barack Obama to quickly implement a large stimulus package soon after taking office.

Big radio broadcasters Cumulus Media Inc. and Clear Channel Radio said Tuesday that they've agreed to switch to Nielsen Media Research's radio-ratings service from the measurement system used by Arbitron Inc.

Wall Street appeared ready to retreat again Tuesday, as stock futures sank amid nervousness about the fate of Detroit's Big Three auto makers.

On Tuesday, executives of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC and the head of the United Auto Workers union will testify at a Senate Banking Committee hearing. The automakers, seeking $25 billion in government aid, have the backing of Democratic congressional leaders, but the Bush administration and Republican lawmakers are against the proposed bailout.

The makers of 3121 are none too happy with Prince 's performance. Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics Inc.

Nov 18 - Yahoo said Jerry Yang will step down as chief executive as soon as the board finds a replacement.

MADISON - University of Wisconsin chancellor Biddy Martin said today she's building a relationship with the state's largest business group, which her predecessor has slammed as an impediment to economic ...

Patrick Albanese has slightly less hand for his sleight of hand, and he blames Martha Stewart.

Superbug on the march Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonies from a Seattle hospital patient grow in a blood agar plate at a local lab.

Read our interview with Peter C. Newman, who explains how he wrote his biography of business-empire builder Izzy Asper, founder of Canwest Global, in Saturday's Gazette.

Talk about kicking investors when they're down. A required year-end practice by mutual funds is about to whack many people with capital gains taxes at the cruelest of times: when funds already have declined by ...

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities Friday 14th November 2008 - 11:07am Pest control called in after live scorpion found at Pinewood Studios The film studios where Abba blockbuster Mamma Mia! ...

Lee Enterprises Inc., publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and other papers, reported Thursday that its fourth-quarter net profit fell 73 percent but the decline in its advertising revenue slowed in ...

The latest James Bond film "Quantum of Solace," already a big hit overseas, set a new opening record for Bond movies in North America with estimated weekend sales of $70.4 million, distributor Columbia Pictures ...