How Low Can You Go: Blockbuster Trots Out The 99-Cent Rental (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
In a move to attract cost-conscious consumers, Blockbuster will offer 99-cent DVD rentals for the first time, Reuters reports. Full details—like which titles renters will pay a buck for and how long they can keep them—are still being worked out, but it's the latest sign that the once-mighty movie retailer is struggling in the fight against rivals like Netflix .
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Viacom and NBC Universal Are Latest to Trim Jobs (New York Times)
More than 850 employees were let go at Viacom and about 500 at NBC as advertising slows.
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Demand from Potter fans prompted new book: Rowling (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Author J.K. Rowling said on Thursday that it was demand from Harry Potter fans that prompted her to publish her latest work "The Tales of Beedle the Bard."
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Tech 'fixer-uppers' see gains in tough times (Chicago Tribune)
Almost 36 percent of shoppers bought consumer electronics this year, roughly unchanged from 2007. But consumers are being more selective and making new use of technology they already own. This year will be one of "technology as a fixer-upper," said Stacy DeBroff, the chief executive of Mom Central, a Web site for mothers.
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McLean County-born filmmaker to christen latest project in Normal (The Pantagraph)
“This was my time to be alive, even if it were only for a moment.” — Dennis Neal Vaughn, from his short story, “The City Was Electric.” If you’re a small-town McLean County native like Dennis Neal Vaughn, you can’t be farther from the heartland average than Market and Castro streets in San Francisco — ground zero for the Bay City’s pioneering gay scene.
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Apple, RIM winners in shrinking smartphone market (Ars Technica)
The latest smartphone sales figures show how quickly the iPhone has caught on, as Apple is now number three in sales, and the iPhone OS passed Windows Mobile in market share during the third quarter of 2008. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion was the other big winner, while Nokia suffered. Read More...
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NorthJersey.com: providing local news, sports and classifieds for Northern New Jersey! (The Record)
Police officials bring accused killer Joseph Pallipurath back to New Jersey on a Continental flight from Georgia. Antonia Verni, a 2-year-old Cliffside Park girl, was left a quadriplegic in a 1999 accident caused by a drunken football fan. Video was shot in November 2007.
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Film factbook: Argentine cinema (CNN)
A blossoming of cinematic creativity has swept Argentina in recent years, bringing about a second golden age of film.
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Carrey movie ‘Yes Man’ includes Nebraska scenes (Lincoln Journal Star)
Nebraska officials couldn’t say no to the latest Jim Carrey movie filming in Memorial Stadium. “Yes Man’’ opens Dec. 19, and some scenes were shot at Memorial Stadium during Nebraska’s loss to Oklahoma State in October 2007.
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Film: Capsule Reviews Of Current Releases (Cleveland Scene)
Australia - Is Baz Luhrmann's sprawling epic Australia a love story? An adventure pic? A war flick? In the grand tradition of old-school Hollywood movies, Luhrmann's $130 million movie is all of these. Set in 1939, on the eve of Australia's involvement in World War II, English aristocrat Sarah Ashley (played with proper stick-up-her-ass form by Nicole Kidman) inherits property in Australia. A ...
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