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UP Unveils Extensive Slate Of Original Movies And Series For First Half Of 2014

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ –Â UP, America’s favorite channel for uplifting family entertainment, has unveiled an ambitious 2014 programming slate that will build on the momentum of 2013, a year in which the channel rebranded as UP and established new ratings highs among W18-49, W25-54, A18-49 and A25-54.Â The 2014 slate is headlined by 18 exclusive UP Original Movies, with a …

January 14, 2014 No Comments

Gun Violence In PG-13 Movies Has Tripled Since 1985

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The amount of gun violence depicted in â€˜PG-13â€™ movies has tripled since 1985, the first full year the rating was in use, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics . The international team of study authors noted that the amount of gun violence in the most popular PG-13 movies of 2011 and 2012 was much greater than R-rated movies of the …

November 11, 2013 No Comments

Kids May Be Affected By Alcohol Scenes In Movies

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online While American children are seeing less tobacco use in the movies these days, theyâ€™re also more likely watching alcohol consumption in those same films, according to new research in JAMA Pediatrics . The study explicitly showed the success of passing restrictions on the film industry, the study authors said, referring to regulations placed on …

May 29, 2013 No Comments

'Disney Fairies' tops DVD sales chart

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 (UPI) — The animated adventure “Disney Fairies: Secret of the Wings” is the top-selling DVD and Blu-ray in the United States, Rentrak said Monday.

November 13, 2012 No Comments

Amazon Wants To Be A Player In TV And Movies

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com â€“ Your Universe Online Amazon is creating movies and TV programming with the data it gathered while climbing to the top of the ranks as the world’s largest Internet retailer.

October 11, 2012 No Comments

DVD: Cabin in the Woods

When a gang of good-looking students goes to stay in the eponymous holiday accommodation, theyâ€™re soon being menaced by supernatural forces.

September 23, 2012 No Comments

Bond 50 Giveaway: Snag Massive Blu-ray Box Set Celebrating Half-Century of 007

James Bond is turning 50. The impossibly rugged British spy character, created 50 years ago by intelligence-officer-turned-novelist Ian Fleming, has been incarnated by six actors over the past half-century, and massive new box set Bond 50 assembles all 22 Bond films for the first time on Blu-ray. The massive collection, slated to hit stores Sept.

September 22, 2012 No Comments

DVD: Nostalgia For The Light (12)

An intensely moving documentary, set in the extraordinary lunar terrain of Chile’s Atacama Desert, where the “translucency of the sky” was ideal for the country’s impressive, 1970s astronomy programme.

September 22, 2012 No Comments

Movies and who you watch them with

In 2011, 1,286,007,721 tickets to movies were sold in theaters across the country, according to the-numbers.com U.S> Movie Market Summary. As you can see, as Americans we spend a lot of time watching movies. But have you ever thought about the different types of situations that occur while we watch those movies?

June 11, 2012 No Comments

Movies Hot Ticket: A 'Safe' haven for action fans

If there’s one thing we know about British action star Jason Statham, it’s that he’d just as soon break your face as look at you, especially if you are a goon, a thug, an enforcer or some other nefari

April 26, 2012 No Comments

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