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DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Home’ Posed to Earn $53M This Weekend
Lately DreamWorks Animation has been weathering gloom and doom. The studio posted close to $300M in losses last year from flicks that failed to perform. They sold off their Glendale, CA campus and laid off 500 people. However, this weekend is looking a little brighter for DreamWorks Animation as their sole 2015 feature film Home, via 20th Century Fox, is leading the charge at the box office with an estimated $15M Friday and a $52.7M weekend.
8:53 PM EDT 3/28/2015
James Bond is back with Paramount’s upcoming Spectre. Now here is a look at the first full extended trailer of the 24th film in the James Bond franchise, starring Daniel Craig.Read more
8:49 PM EDT 3/28/2015
Lolita Davidovich and David Clennon of Gone Girl have joined the cast of Katie Jacobs and Nick Wechsler’s independently produced medical drama pilot Dr. Del, inspired by Peter Hessler’s New Yorker piece “Dr. Don,” according to a report by Deadline.Read more
8:45 PM EDT 3/28/2015
Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds star in the upcoming Woman in Gold.Read more
8:43 PM EDT 3/28/2015
Trevor Noah is the most likely candidate to replace Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.Read more
8:40 PM EDT 3/28/2015
Masi Oka will reprise his role as Hiro Nakamura in a guest-starring arc for the upcoming Heroes Reborn of NBC this fall.Read more
9:24 AM EDT 3/28/2015
AMC and other AMC Networks channels including IFC, Sundance, and WeTV have joined PlayStation Vue, Sony's new cloud-based TV service that is currently available in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, but only for the PS4 and PS3 game consoles.Read more
9:16 AM EDT 3/28/2015
Active Uber accounts are for sale on a dark web marketplace for as little as $1 each, with one seller claiming he has “thousands” of user logins for sale, according to tech news site Motherboard.Read more
9:11 AM EDT 3/28/2015
Google and Johnson & Johnson have announced that they will be collaborating together in the development of an advanced, robot-assisted surgery platform. The joint effort will involve “capabilities, intellectual property and expertise” from both companies, along with Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon, maker of medical devices.Read more
9:02 AM EDT 3/28/2015
New start-up company LiveLoop, maker of the PowerPoint plug-in that allows users to collaborate with others on a document simultaneously, has been acquired by Microsoft for an undisclosed sum.Read more
8:59 AM EDT 3/28/2015
Smartphone maker OnePlus last week promised that it will be releasing the Lollipop-based new OxygenOS and the CyanogenMod 12S (CM12) update for the OnePlus One handsets by March 27 and March 30, respectively. Now, the company confirms that neither deadlines will be met.Read more
8:55 AM EDT 3/28/2015
Customers who pre-order Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Batman: Arkham Knight which is set for release date on June 23 on PS4, Xbox One and PC, will get a special Harley Quinn DLC pack, including four exclusive challenge maps. Players would get to control Harley Quinn navigating these maps and complete them using her “unique weapons, gadgets and abilities.”Read more
8:50 AM EDT 3/28/2015
Nintendo's upcoming Legend of Zelda game for Wii U won't be launching within the year after all. ometime later. Series producer Eiji Aonuma announced the news today in a video message posted on Nintendo's social media channels.Read more
8:45 AM EDT 3/28/2015
According to game developer Bungie, “The House of Wolves,” the second major downloadable content expansion pack for the online first-person shooter video game Destiny will launch sometime in the second quarter of 2015, sometime within the April-June time-frame. However, before that, Destiny players are advised to avail themselves of Patch 1.1.2, which makes a few tweaks to the game, including increasing players' in-game vault space.Read more
8:40 AM EDT 3/28/2015
Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto V is coming to PC on 14th April and to mark the event, the game publisher, via Eurogamer, has released 15 new screenshots showing how the desktop version looks on a tricked out kit. Digital pre-orders for the game's PC port come with $1.5m in-game currency, with $1m being devoted to GTA Online while the remaining $500K is for the single-player campaign.Read more