Last week some quotes came out of a Cop Out roundtable interview where Kevin Smith talked about the notion of accepting money donated from fans to finance his movie Red State. Smith said that he would match donations based on the plan that had been considered so far (a point I think a lot of...

“I tell beatmakers all the time, you gotta do more than beats. If you want your career to go right, you just gotta do more than beats.” — 9th Wonder 9th talks the talk, then walks the walk by remixing both new and old tracks…again. 1. Babyface – Grown and Sexy (9th Wonder Please Talk To...

La Toya Jackson , the older sister of the late Michael Jackson, is speaking out about Dr. Conrad Murray in the wake of the physician's surrender over involuntary manslaughter charges related to the King of Pop's death. La Toya tells ET: "Michael was murdered and although he died at the...

In what seems like a testament to our ever-shortening attention spans, one company is offering downsized versions of books for the Nook and Kindle . Instead of a full version, the books are between 1,000 and 2,000 words and cost about $2 each, kind of like a digital version of Cliff's Notes....

Just last week, we pondered the question "Why is Warner Bros. trying to hide the fact that Kevin Smith directed Cop Out ?" And now, after being barraged with a series of Valentine's Day TV commercials over the weekend, we would like to ask another fairly simple question of the...

Filed under: Spy Photos , Geneva Motor Show , Europe , Crossover , Hatchback , Hyundai Hyundai HED-5 - Click above for high-res image gallery It's been nearly two years since the Hyundai HED-5 concept bowed at the Geneva Motor Show , but in late 2008, the Korean automaker announced that a...

9to5Mac reports Amazon significantly lowering prices on Mac Box Sets for US and UK customers, “an impressive £40 off the usual cost to UK customers, and a pleasing $32 price cut for readers in the US.” While most of us Apple fanatics have switched to Snow Leopard for most of their machines,...

Dr. Conrad Murray 's lawyer Ed Chernoff spoke out Monday afternoon, a short time after his client was booked on involuntary manslaughter charges related to Michael Jackson 's death. During a press conference, Chernoff told the assembled press, "This has been a nightmare for him for many...

Recently Apple launched the Ipad ( could you possibly have missed this? ) and now rumors says that Google is working on a tablet PC too. On the Google site The Chromium Projects you can see visual explorations of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look on actual hardware. The site has a strip of...

Cnet has word that Netflix will be upgrading their very popular Instant Streaming service to 1080p with 5.1 surround sound audio, later this year. Netflix's current capacity maxes out at 720p on an High Definition-compatible box (X Box 360, Playstation 3, and Roku). No release date has been...

Apple has spent years fine-tuning its incredible reputation for secrecy - doing everything from investigating its own employees when information is leaked to the media to silencing teenage bloggers who appear to know too much. The latest individual on the receiving end of the company's appears to...

Universal Pictures has a couple more minor release date changes, including a new date for the Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off, Get Him to the Greek. The story, written and directed by Nicolas Stoller, follows a fresh-out-of-college record company intern named Aaron Greenberg (Jonah Hill) who...

ET has learned what happened inside the Aspen, CO courtroom today, where Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller appeared related to an alleged domestic violence dispute last Christmas. Three counts were filed against Sheen -- a felony menacing count and two misdemeanors (3rd degree assault and...

Within the next few years, you can safely expect to see just about every film genre reworked for teens -- the last few that haven't already been fed into the Teen Machine will be lined up right quick. Not that there's anything wrong with that, necessarily. Skewing a film young doesn't mean it...

Twitch has posted a short teaser trailer for the upcoming animated film from Japan's Studio Ghibli titled Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers). Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who served as a key animator on Hayao Miyazaki's classics Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle or Spirited Away, makes his...

I'm not sure that you can really call this a 'reboot', but there's word that Fox and Regency Enterprises are working on a new Mr. and Mrs. Smith film that would, in effect, be just a new film story entirely. The new movie, called Mr. and Mrs. Jones, would essentially be a way to keep the core...

The Mets have named Mookie Wilson as the team’s minor league outfield and base running coordinator. Wilson had been the team’s first base coach, and managed Single-A Brooklyn in 2005. “It’s good to be back,” said Wilson, in a team press release. “This is where I started and I’m...

At the end of each year we usually publish a couple video montages showcasing the best movies of the last 365 days. /Film reader Paul Proulx decided to take it one step further and put together a video montage of the films of the last decade - the films of the 2000's. Watch the montage embedded...

photos by Tim Griffin Josh Rouse played two nights at (Le) Poisson Rouge Thursday, February 4th and Friday the 5th with Christina Courtin. The pictures here are from that second show. He, like Those Darlins who were at Bowery Ballroom...Source : Brooklyn Vegan (subscribe)

In honor of the return of this Australian trio to New York, here's the full MP3 of their transcendent performance from my radio show back almost exactly one year ago (why do they keep leaving the warmth of the southern...Source : WFMU's Beware of the Blog (subscribe)