Last ‘Wall-e’ shots to keep you warm at night
June 18th, 2008 at 4:18 am

The last couple of photos of our beloved ‘Wall-e’ came in. I honestly think Disney has a new goldmine ready for release. Not only for in theaters, but also for in the shops.

The $120 million ‘Wall-e’ might not make the $864 million ‘Finding Nemo’ made worldwide in 2003, but I fully expect it to pass ‘Cars’ with $461 million in 2006.

Walle Walle Walle Walle

Walle Walle Walle

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Return of TV causes slump in online video views
June 17th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

Computer Gollum

With YouTube becoming the biggest ‘thing’ on the net, you would expect the distribution channel to grow and grow. But not last April. When the fresh TV episodes returned after the writers’ strike last winter, online video viewing fell 4.2%.

In the US, about 11 billion videos were viewed in April, down from 11.5 billion the month before. Because when ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘House’ returned, millions of people left their computers for dead, to return to their loved TV Sets.

135 million people (down from 139 million in March) watched an average of 82 videos. That’s 71% of the online audience, with about 228 minutes per viewer.

I reckon that’s the time the average person spends watching TV in a day. Maybe online video isn’t yet such a big threat as some make it out to be?

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‘Bruno’ to kick off next summer season
June 17th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

Sacha Baron Cohen will join ‘Angels & Demons’ to kick off the 2009 summer blockbuster season. The comedian, famous for ‘Borat’ and ‘Ali G,’ will release his new movie ‘Bruno’ May 15, 2009.

The $42 million picture is set to become the comedy of next year, if Fox will market the movie as hard as it did with ‘Borat.’ The $18 million ‘Borat’ made $261 million worldwide in 2006, of which half in the US.

Although I’m sure the comedy will get some stiff competition from Sony’s marketing department. Like all the ‘Spider-Man’ movies and ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ‘Angels & Demons’ will be one of the most heavily marketed movies of 2009. Jeff Blake will make sure it will.


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