Motion Picture Association of America

Zanni: City ready for hacker threat

2013-05-08 01:04:02

Mayor Stephen Zanni said Methuen IT workers are on alert after the hacker activist group Anonymous attempted to infiltrate city and school computers in retaliation for last week's terror-threat arrest of a high school student. "We're keeping on top of...

'Iron Man 3' Launches Spanish-Dubbed Blockbuster Movies In Bloomfield

2013-05-02 11:30:00

People who go to Digiplex Bloomfield on Monday night to see "Iron Man 3" may need to answer a question at the box office: Are you here to see "Iron Man 3," or "El Hombre de Hierro Tres"? On May 6, the cineplex at 863 Park Ave. in the Wintonbury Mall...

N.C. lawmakers attend special 'Iron Man 3' screening

2013-04-29 00:54:04

How did U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., spend his weekend? Catching up on Iron Man and Iron Man 2 with his son, Stephen, so they would be prepared for Sunday's screening of Iron Man 3 at the Regal Mayfaire Cinema 16. "We had to keep pausing it so...

Hollywood yielding to China's growing film clout

2013-04-24 05:37:00

Coming soon to a theater near you: China's Communist Party. From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of sex and violence, Beijing is having increasing success in pressuring Hollywood...

More blood, less wit when the 'Evil Dead' return ★★

2013-04-08 14:34:00

In the Book of the Dead, the barbed-wire-wrapped volume causing the fuss in "Evil Dead," one lavishly illustrated page states that after the forest demon "feasts on five souls, the sky will bleed again." Translated into franchise terms: If this grim,...

$1.5M of counterfeit goods seized from Dundalk flea market

2013-03-13 18:34:00

Baltimore County police seized $1.5 million worth of counterfeit merchandise after a raid at a Dundalk flea market last month, the department announced Wednesday. Charges are pending against 19 people who rent space in the market, not the flea market...

Baltimore County police raid Plaza Flea Market for counterfeit goods

2013-02-16 12:50:00

As regulars perused handmade jewelry, discounted bedsheets, slightly-worn stuffed animals and other knick-knacks, dozens of Baltimore County police officers swarmed into a bustling Dundalk flea market Saturday morning to bust vendors allegedly selling...

Biden, NRA clash over gun control proposals

2013-01-10 22:13:00

WASHINGTON -- Despite fresh opposition from the National Rifle Association, the Obama administration is assembling proposals to curb gun violence that would include a ban on sales of assault weapons, limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines and...

By the finale, 'Twilight' vampire series is mostly anemic ★ 1/2

2012-11-15 08:13:00

The fifth and very likely final "Twilight" picture boasts one moment, perhaps three or four seconds in length, so delightfully intense and uncharacteristically juicy that the rest of the film — most of the rest of the whole series, in fact —...

Peeking in Gillian Flynn's vault of horror

2012-07-28 17:08:00

In the early days of their marriage a few years ago, Chicago attorney Brett Nolan and his wife, the thriller novelist Gillian Flynn, were having drinks with a group of friends when Flynn posed a surprising question. "Does anybody have any idea," she asked...

Gamers will get a kick from maniacal 'Raid: Redemption' ✭✭ 1/2

2012-03-22 00:00:00

Gamers will be slain, over and over, by the insanely violent multilevel bash "The Raid: Redemption," in which a skeezy 15-story tenement complex serves as the setting for a series of stabbings, slicings and a showcase for the Indonesian martial art...

John Waters has mellowed, but his humor remains twisted, his sensibilities bizarre

1998-04-19 12:57:00

Wholesome little Appleton, Wis., slips past the passenger window without arousing any visible interest in tonight's guest lecturer. A shop selling sewing machines. A Christian bookstore. The Martin School of Hair Design. Not very promising. The...

Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America Christopher Dodd and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt attend An Artist At The Table, a benefit for the Sundance Institute during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

2013-01-18 11:49:00