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| US-INDUSTRY Summary Friday, Apr 26, 2013 06:28 PM PDT Time Warner Cable shifts away from "triple play" (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc, the second-largest U.S. cable provider, will no longer aggressively push "triple play" packages of Internet, video and voice on its customers, moving away from the long-held industry practice of bundling the services together. Time Warner Cable is the first cable company in the U.S. to acknowledge that customers would prefer to only pay for television and Internet, as demand for landline service has been declining steadily with many people only using cellphones, even at home. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hyundai Motor suicide ad draws ire for South Korean company Friday, Apr 26, 2013 06:28 PM PDT  By Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co has been forced to apologize for an advertisement that sought to promote the zero carbon emissions of one of its cars by featuring a man failing to commit suicide using a hose attached to the exhaust. The ad debacle is the latest to hit the carmaker, the world's fifth largest by sales when combined with its Kia Motors affiliate, after it exaggerated fuel performance figures in the United States, and announced a large-scale vehicle recall this month. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-FILM Summary Friday, Apr 26, 2013 02:56 PM PDT "Django Unchained" gets May China release after "issues" resolved LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Quentin Tarantino's violent slavery revenge fantasy "Django Unchained" will be released in China in May, its U.S. distributors said on Friday, and a Hollywood source said additional cuts had been made after Chinese authorities halted the film's initial rollout this month. The movie was pulled from theaters in China minutes into its debut screenings on April 11 for "technical reasons," according to a Shanghai movie theater official. "Iron Man 3" goes back to basics in a quest to save the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Django Unchained" gets May China release after "issues" resolved Friday, Apr 26, 2013 02:56 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Quentin Tarantino's violent slavery revenge fantasy "Django Unchained" will be released in China in May, its U.S. distributors said on Friday, and a Hollywood source said additional cuts had been made after Chinese authorities halted the film's initial rollout this month. The movie was pulled from theaters in China minutes into its debut screenings on April 11 for "technical reasons," according to a Shanghai movie theater official. The Chinese government censors all movies before they can be released. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-MUSIC Summary Friday, Apr 26, 2013 02:17 PM PDT South Korean rap sensation Psy honored at Tribeca Film Festival NEW YORK (Reuters) - South Korean rapper and Internet sensation Psy was honored as a transcultural phenomenon by the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday along with a host of other luminaries ranging from choreographer Twyla Tharp to controversial media host Glenn Beck. "Who knew, right?" Psy said as he was presented his Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award. "Giving me this award in itself is innovation, I think. ... Full Story | Top |
| South Korean rap sensation Psy honored at Tribeca Film Festival Friday, Apr 26, 2013 02:17 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - South Korean rapper and Internet sensation Psy was honored as a transcultural phenomenon by the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday along with a host of other luminaries ranging from choreographer Twyla Tharp to controversial media host Glenn Beck. "Who knew, right?" Psy said as he was presented his Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award. "Giving me this award in itself is innovation, I think. ... Full Story | Top |
| UK designers Westwood, Hamnett join campaign to save bees Friday, Apr 26, 2013 11:39 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - Top British fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Katharine Hamnett joined bee campaigners outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Friday to urge the government to support a proposed European Union (EU) ban on pesticides which harm bees. Britain is currently one of a group of countries blocking attempts to introduce a Europe-wide ban on the world's most widely used insecticides, neonicotinoids, arguing their impact on bees is unclear. A vote takes place in Brussels on April 29 on whether to ban the poisons on flowering crops. ... Full Story | Top |
| CA-ENTERTAINMENT Summary Friday, Apr 26, 2013 11:07 AM PDT Country singer George Jones dead at 81 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George Jones, a classic country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of honky-tonk turmoil, died on Friday at age 81, his spokesman said. Jones, whose career spanned more than six decades and included hits such as "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Window Up Above," died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-PEOPLE Summary Friday, Apr 26, 2013 11:07 AM PDT Country singer George Jones dead at 81 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George Jones, a classic country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of honky-tonk turmoil, died on Friday at age 81, his spokesman said. Jones, whose career spanned more than six decades and included hits such as "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Window Up Above," died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville. ... Full Story | Top |
| Country singer George Jones dead at 81 Friday, Apr 26, 2013 11:06 AM PDT  By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George Jones, a classic country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of honky-tonk turmoil, died on Friday at age 81, his spokesman said. Jones, whose career spanned more than six decades and included hits such as "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Window Up Above," died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville. He had been hospitalized since April 18 with fever and irregular blood pressure, spokesman Kirt Webster said. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-TELEVISION Summary Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:51 AM PDT Back from the dead, two soap operas woo viewers online LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The biggest drama in soap operas these days isn't who's cheating, fighting amnesia, or waking up from a coma. It's whether the backstabbing and love triangles that hooked afternoon TV viewers will work on the Internet. In a bold wager to revive canceled ABC soaps "All My Children" and "One Life to Live," a pair of Hollywood veterans are taking the 40-year-old dramas online, remaking them for lifelong fans and a younger, Internet-savvy audience. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Community's" Jim Rash Talks Writing 'Freaky Friday' Episode, Getting Revenge on Joel McHale Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:51 AM PDT  (Note: Strong language in para 8) By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Jim Rash hasn't let his Oscar for co-writing "The Descendants" go to his head. "Oscar or no Oscar, it doesn't matter," Rash told TheWrap. "It's like, 'You did that, great. Now, do it again' or 'Let's see if you got what it takes.' The pressure is always going to be there no matter what," he continued. "So I feed off that pressure, because obviously I want to do the best job as I can. But, it really doesn't mean anything. You can still write a piece of crap next time around. ... Full Story | Top |
| Brad Grey Discusses Piracy, Failure of DreamWorks Deal During 'Charlie Rose' Appearance Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:49 AM PDT By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Brad Gray kept dodging questions during an appearance on "Charlie Rose" Wednesday about why the Paramount's deal to purchase DreamWorks SKG ended with the exits of Steven Spielberg and David Geffen from the studio lot, but the tenacious anchor would not let the studio chief duck his queries. Grey insisted he did not want to speak ill of anyone. He dissembled. He leaned back on the old standby, "I don't know."] Pressed about reports that personality clashes with Geffen had doomed the pact, Grey countered with praise. ... Full Story | Top |
| A Minute With: Colin Firth from royal to ordinary "Arthur Newman" Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:20 AM PDT  By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After winning a Best Actor Oscar for playing a stuttering British royal in 2010 film "The King's Speech," Colin Firth is back on screen as a character who appears ordinary to the point of boring in indie drama "Arthur Newman." Opening in select U.S. movie theaters on Friday, Firth plays an American man who is dissatisfied with his life and hits the road with a new identity. Things get derailed when he meets Mike (Emily Blunt) a troubled young woman fleeing from her own issues. ... Full Story | Top |
| Late actor Larry Hagman's flashy "Dallas" belt buckle up for sale Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:20 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A ruby-adorned silver and gold belt buckle from the U.S. television drama "Dallas" forms the centerpiece of an auction of personal items of late actor Larry Hagman, who played the conniving oilman J.R. Ewing on the hit series. The buckle, with the initials "J.R.," is as garish and brazen as the character who wore it and is expected to fetch between $3,000 and $5,000 in a May 5 sale, Los Angeles auction house Bonhams said on Thursday. The large buckle has four rubies framing the initials of the villain on the show that was first broadcast between 1978 and 1991. ... Full Story | Top |
| MTV eyes TV series based on "Scream" film franchise Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:19 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - MTV has set its sights on turning the popular "Scream" horror film franchise into a television series, the U.S. cable network said on Thursday. MTV said it has ordered a one-hour pilot episode and that producer Dimension Films is in negotiations with the franchise's director, Wes Craven, to direct the pilot. The series is expected to air in summer 2014, said MTV, a unit of Viacom. The film series, about a masked serial killer who stalks his victims, began in 1996, and it had follow-up instalments in 1997, 2000 and 2011. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hands off "Game of Thrones", says U.S. ambassador to Australians Friday, Apr 26, 2013 01:16 AM PDT  SYDNEY (Reuters) - Taking to Facebook, the U.S. ambassador to Australia is urging Australians to cease their illegal downloads of "Game of Thrones", saying that they are among the world's worst pirates of the wildly popular medieval television drama. In a post titled "Stopping the Game of Clones", Jeffrey Bleich - himself a devotee of the HBO series - compared the rampant piracy of online thieves to the plotting and machinations of the noble houses in the show. ... Full Story | Top |
| Back from the dead, two soap operas woo viewers online Friday, Apr 26, 2013 12:22 AM PDT  By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The biggest drama in soap operas these days isn't who's cheating, fighting amnesia, or waking up from a coma. It's whether the backstabbing and love triangles that hooked afternoon TV viewers will work on the Internet. In a bold wager to revive canceled ABC soaps "All My Children" and "One Life to Live," a pair of Hollywood veterans are taking the 40-year-old dramas online, remaking them for lifelong fans and a younger, Internet-savvy audience. Starting Monday, new 30-minute episodes will appear each Monday through Thursday on the free Hulu. ... Full Story | Top |
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