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Alan Alda tips hat - albeit reluctantly - to Saints for breaking `MASH' ratings record

Alan Alda isn't too angry about the New Orleans Saints' Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts getting a bigger audience than the series finale of his hit CBS sitcom "MASH," but his statement about it doesn't seem like he's...

Posted to Company Town by Company Town on Mon, Feb 8 2010

Saints' Super Bowl win nips 'MASH' finale for most-watched show ever

Move over Hawkeye Pierce, looks like Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints just took your ratings crown along with the Super Bowl title. A record 106.5 million people watched the Saints write a storybook ending to their dream season...

Posted to Company Town by Company Town on Mon, Feb 8 2010

Filed under: CBS, Nfl

Watching your younger self on screen.

In an interview with the Independent, Shirley MacLaine reveals what might possibly be the only interesting thing about the big, bloated "Valentine's Day" monster coming our way. During an argument with her husband (played by director Garry Marshall's good-luck charm Hector Elizondo), the 1958 film "Hot Spell" screens in the background -- representing the couple's on-screen marriage, sure, but also showing us how much/little MacLaine's changed in fiftysomething...

Posted to Indieville by IFC.com - Indie Eye on Mon, Feb 8 2010

Filed under: Odds, Clint Eastwood, Vera Farmiga, Shirley MacLaine, George Clooney, Up in the Air, Jackie Chan, The Spy Next Door, Tommy Lee Jones, Valentine's Day, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, Hector Elizondo, James Garner, Mark Romanek, Garry Marshall, Donald Sutherland, Space Cowboys, Johnny Cash, Joan Crawford

Kevin Smith's next movie might land you in the "Red."

Kevin Smith's first studio-backed comedy "Cop Out" (there's a red band trailer here), hasn't yet hit theaters, but the director is already talking about a return to the independent world. As in really independent, with his long-rumored horror script "Red State." Smith once told MTV the proposed film was "not a commercial movie by any stretch of the imagination." So instead of shopping the script around to studios, Smith spilled the beans during a roundtable...

Posted to Indieville by IFC.com - Indie Eye on Mon, Feb 8 2010

Filed under: Kevin Smith, Biz, Facebook, Twitter, Ashton Kutcher, Billy Dead, Red State, crowdsourcing, fan financing, Keith Gordon, Yair Landau, MySpace, Mass Animation, Clerks II, Cop Out

The Morning Fix: Dave, Jay and Oprah steal advertisers' thunder! Kadafi on Line 2. History at Lifetime. 'The View' goes wonky

After the coffee. Before finding out if Abe Vigoda is available for pilot season. Maybe they can all get along. Never mind Tim Tebow and his mom or those Bud Light ads, the hottest commercial in the Super Bowl was...

Posted to Company Town by Company Town on Mon, Feb 8 2010

Filed under: Morning Fix

Leno and Letterman have some fun with a little help from Oprah in Super Bowl spot.

Jay Leno's rehabilitation tour continued in full force on Super Bowl Sunday when he appeared in a commercial with archrival David Letterman and queen of talk Oprah Winfrey during CBS' coverage of the game. The spot, shot last week, is...

Posted to Company Town by Company Town on Sun, Feb 7 2010

'Crazy Heart' gets biggest Oscar boost at the box office

Academy Awards voters may not have given it one of the 10 best picture slots, but moviegoers made "Crazy Heart" the biggest beneficiary of Oscar momentum at the box office this weekend. Fox Searchlight's country-music drama "Crazy Heart...

Posted to Company Town by Company Town on Sun, Feb 7 2010

Filed under: Box Office

First look: 'Dear John' steals first place from 'Avatar' while 'From Paris With Love' flops

In the first major box office shocker of 2010, tearjerker "Dear John" displaced "Avatar" from the top of the chart with a very strong $32.4-million opening in the U.S. and Canada, according to an estimate from distributor Sony Pictures...

Posted to Company Town by Company Town on Sun, Feb 7 2010

Filed under: Box Office

Opening day: 'Dear John' headed toward surprise win over 'Avatar'

The reign of "Avatar" at the box office is ending a week earlier than expected. Based on Friday ticket sales, Sony Pictures' romantic tear-jerker "Dear John" is headed toward a much stronger-than-expected opening weekend of more...

Posted to Company Town by Company Town on Sat, Feb 6 2010

Filed under: Box Office

Sources: JP Morgan raises financing to pay for rollout of digital cinema

Lifting a road block to the roll out of 3-D in theaters, investment firm JP Morgan has raised nearly $700 million to finance the digital conversion of thousands of screens around the country, three people familiar with the matter said...