Category: Entertainment

An array of new choices – Google TV, Apple TV, and internet TV – is reshaping the market. read more

Top Gun director Tony Scott has fallen to his death from a Los Angeles bridge, Los Angeles County coroner’s officials have told US media. read more

The AFL could be the first major Australian sporting body to sell footage of matches directly to fans via high-speed broadband after its chief executive suggested talks with NBN Co had begun. read more

Silicon Valley is finally getting the treatment once reserved for rowdy housewives and excitable chefs: its own reality TV series. But the tech world is not quite ready for its close-up. read more

FX has acquired commercial TV premiere rights to Ted, the Seth MacFarlane-directed raunch comedy that topped the domestic box office this past weekend with a $54 million haul. read more

Video game graphics, silly buzzwords and even two people typing frantically on the same keyboard at once – Hollywood has often had a bit of fun when it comes to computer hacking. Read more

Online movie rental company Quickflix (ASX: QFX) is to stream movies to PlayStation3 starting later this year under an agreement with Sony.

It’s a steamy day in early September and the “Family Guy” writers and producers are huddled in the lobby of a nondescript third-floor office in Los Angeles. 20th Century Fox TV chairman Gary Newman checks his watch while his partner Dana Walden makes small talk with Fox’s Kevin Reilly and Peter Rice. They’re all waiting…

If your response to this is a big, hearty “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” then you and Darth Vader have something in common. read more

The BitTorrent-powered VODO network has released what is arguably its highest-quality film to date. ‘A Lonely Place For Dying’, with Hollywood star James Cromwell as Executive Producer, prefers the BitTorrent community over Hollywood’s own funding mechanisms and debuts online before making its way to various movie theaters. A new distribution model is born. read more