Author: elegant
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American Sniper
Chris Kyle is the U.S. military’s deadliest marksman in its history. With claims of 255 killed and the Department of Defense officially conformed 160 of them. The famous actor and director Clint Eastwood made it to a movie, American Sniper in 2014 based on the autobiography titled American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal…
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Golden Globes coming to a television near you
The award season typically starts with the infamous Golden Globe Awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association honors the best in film and television both domestic and foreign productions with the Golden Globes. The 72nd Golden Globe Awards are scheduled for January 11, 2015 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California where the show was…
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Will 2015 be better for movies?
Movie ticket sales in the United States are dwindling for many years. The number of movie goers dropped from 1.5 billion ten years ago to 1.3 billion in 2013. Availability of titles online and bigger and better TVs are in the market, ticket sales may continue its slippery slope. However, movie theaters are counting on…
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Is curved TV the future?
Article written by Sid Solomon LG and Samsung believe that curve TV is the future direction of the TV industry. So they are coming up with large curved screens including LG 55EA980W OLED model and Samsung’s UE65H8500 model UHD LED and UE55H800 full HD LED model. Beside its cool factor, the best argument for curved…
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Summer of 2014 Box Office records
The summer of 2014 brought in two successful movies, Paramount Pictures Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Guardians of the Galaxy. Teenage Ninja Turtle pocketed more than $120 million in the U.S. and Canada within the first 11 days of screening. This success is mainly due to kids who are at home during the summer. This…
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New way to watch TV programming
Just concluded 2014 FIFA world Cup in Brazil presented a challenge to groups who held rights to broadcast games worldwide. ESPN had rights to English-language broadcasting in the United States and ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC together managed to broadcast all 64 games live. Not only that all games were also available on smartphones, laptops and…
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Comcast to buy Time Warner cable
Comcast with 23 million television subscribers is offering to buy Time Warner Cable, the second biggest cable TV provider in the US with 11 million subscribers, for $45 billion. The deal needs regulatory approval from the US Federal authorities and both companies are expecting that to occur before the end of the year. If approved,…
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More than American Idol from Ryan Seacrest
In January 2012, Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP announced that it is funding up to $300 million to Ryan Seacrest Media to develop new content and television shows. Ryan Seacrest is the producer and host of the Fox reality TV show American Idol. In 2002, he began as a co-host of…