Warner Bros. hiring students to spy on torrent websites

In a bid to fight copyright infringement, Warner Bros. Entertainment UK is recruiting students to be part of its anti-piracy taskforce. The internship at the University of Manchester requires students to create...

WB And DC To Announce Their Movie Slate!

On August 31, 2009, the Walt Disney Company announced that it would purchase Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. On December 31 they finalized the deal. In-between those two dates, Warner Bros launched DC...

Australian Film Industry Loses iiNet Pirated Movie Copyright Case

While international laws against Internet copyright infringement are still being negotiated, an Australian court case has set an important legal precedent. The Australian film and television industry -Village...

Netflix Gives In to Warner Bros Greed

Netflix has given in to Warner Bros' greed. I just can't think of a nicer way to say it. Netflix has agreed to wait 28 days after a Warner Bros DVD release before making those DVDs available to the legion of...

Harry Potter Themed Party Canceled Due to Warner Bros Copyright

Single mum and restaurant owner in Kilburn, London, was forced to cancel her Harry Potter themed dinner parties with butterbeer and cauldron cakes after Warner Bros sent her a letter and asked her to stop infringing...

REVIEW: Trick 'r Treat

Paranormal Activity is the most buzzed about horror movie in theaters at the moment. The most talked about on DVD is Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat. Originally set for release on October 5, 2007 it was...

'Watchmen' War is Over: Film to be Released March 6th

Fox and Warner Bros. have finally settled their dispute over the Watchmen film — whose spring 2009 release had been put in limbo, as the studios fought over revenue sharing agreements. But now that an agreement...

'Day the Earth Stood Still' Remake Tops Weekend Box Office

'The Day the Earth Stood Still', Hollywood's latest Keanu Reeves-starring attempt to recreate a science-fiction movie classic, has debuted at the top of the weekend box office. "'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' a...

Mayor of Batman Turkey Sues Batman Movie Makers

This ain't no Thanksgiving chicken, kids. Huseyin Kalkan, mayor of Batman, Turkey, is suing the studio responsible for producing the Batman franchise and Christopher Nolan, the director of The Dark Knight, for...

The Future of DC Comics Adaptations

Variety has posted an interview with the heads at Warner Bros where they discuss the future of adaptations based on DC Comic Books. Link. Excerpt: Warners and DC (both Time Warner entities) have labored in vain...

Party's Over: WB Jumps HD DVD Ship

This is just... sad. Imagine throwing a cocktail party and the guest of honor flakes. Not only does that guest flake, but he removes you from his social networking profile... oh, the humiliation."The HD DVD...

Hollywood's Muscle Sculpted, & Vital

"Invited to the symposium "The Business of Show Business" are members of Congress, federal and state officials, think-tank scholars and the media, who will get an earful from directors and moguls about the industry's global economic muscle, how movies are made and its...

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