Sunday, February 3, 2013

Daily News: Entertainment - CBS says honoring Super Bowl ad commitments despite outage

Sunday, Feb 03, 2013 07:42 PM PST

CBS says honoring Super Bowl ad commitments despite outage 
Sunday, Feb 03, 2013 07:42 PM PST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS said on Sunday it was honoring all of its commercial commitments for the Super Bowl, which was disrupted by a 35-minute power outage. "We utilized CBS's back-up power and at no time did we leave the air," Jennifer Sabatelle, vice president of communications for CBS Sports, said in an email. During the interruption, CBS Sports' Steve Tasker, Solomon Wilcots and its studio team reported on the outage as a breaking news story. "All commercial commitments during the broadcast are being honored," Sabatelle said. (Reporting By Susan Zeidler; Editing by Paul Tait)
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Beyonce sings, reunites Destiny's Child at Super Bowl half-time show 
Sunday, Feb 03, 2013 07:39 PM PST
Beyonce and Destiny's Child perform during the half-time show of NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game in New Orleans(Reuters) - Singer Beyonce strutted and shimmied her way through football's Super Bowl half-time show and thrilled fans by reuniting with her former Destiny's Child bandmates on Sunday in New Orleans. Beyonce, wearing a revealing black leather jacket and miniskirt combination, was surrounded by bursts of fire, smoke and silhouettes as she performed at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. More than 100 million television viewers were tuned in to the NFL championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens. ...
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Year of the Snake may smile on Psy, but health woes could bite 
Sunday, Feb 03, 2013 06:49 PM PST
South Korean rapper Psy performs during a concert in BangkokTAIPEI (Reuters) - The coming lunar Year of the Snake is likely to smile on South Korean rapper Psy with increased prosperity, but he will need to leave Korea to make money and could risk exhaustion. As Chinese communities around the globe prepare for the lunar New Year on Feb 1, which ushers in the Year of the Snake, a Taiwanese fortune teller predicted a mixed bag of luck for famous "snake" people around the world. ...
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Zombie love story "Warm Bodies" heats up Super Bowl weekend 
Sunday, Feb 03, 2013 11:24 AM PST
Chastain and Ramirez greet each other at the premiere of "Zero Dark Thirty"at the Dolby theatre in HollywoodLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Warm Bodies," a romantic comedy featuring a warm-hearted zombie, lured teenage girls to the theater, collecting $20 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada to take the box office title on a weekend dominated by Super Bowl parties and football watching. Playing in more than 3,000 theaters, the odd-pairing of a pale-faced zombie with his breathing girlfriend faced little competition among new films and easily mauled last weekend's winner "Hansel and Gretel," an updated version of the classic fairy tale with witch-hunting siblings. The film collected $9. ...
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The top films at the North American Box Office 
Sunday, Feb 03, 2013 10:23 AM PST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Following are the top 10 movies at North American box offices for the weekend starting February 1, led by Warm Bodies at No. 1, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters. 1 (*) Warm Bodies................................$20.0 million 2 (1) Hansel and Gretel..........................$ 9.2 million 3 (3) Silver Linings Playbook....................$ 8.1 million 4 (2) Mama.......................................$ 6.7 million 5 (4) Zero Dark Thirty...........................$ 5.3 million 6 (*) Bullet to the Head.........................$ 4.5 million 7 (5) ...
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Affleck wins directors award as 'Argo' hurtles to Oscars 
Sunday, Feb 03, 2013 01:54 AM PST
Ben Affleck poses for photographers with the Feature Film Award at the 65th annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor-turned-filmmaker Ben Affleck won the top honor from his peers at the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for the movie "Argo", cementing the Iran hostage drama's frontrunner status for the Oscars. The Hollywood directors' recognition for Affleck, however, is an awkward result for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which failed to nominate him for Best Director in what is considered one of the biggest snubs of this year's Oscars. ...
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