Iron Man (movie)

Did Cannes premiere pay off for 'Gatsby' at foreign box office?

2013-05-20 09:46:00

With its glitzy opening night premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last week, "The Great Gatsby" arrived overseas with a splash. Or at least that's what Warner Bros. was hoping for as the movie played for the festival crowd days before it debuted in...

'Gatsby' does great. Upfront week! Bruce Rosenblum on way out.

2013-05-13 06:27:00

After the coffee. Before getting through two upfronts in one day. The Skinny: It's a beautiful day here in New York. Too bad I'll spend it indoors at the NBC and Fox upfronts, and then running in and out of Starbucks to steal their Wi-Fi to file blog...

'Iron Man 3' rules again, but 'Great Gatsby' is still celebrating

2013-05-12 08:56:00

“The Great Gatsby” wasn’t the No. 1 film at the box office this weekend, but Warner Bros. executives may be breaking out the bubbly anyway. Baz Luhrmann's 3-D take on of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s novel lost out to “Iron Man 3,&...

Disney's 'Iron Man 3' also a boon for Paramount

2013-05-10 11:46:00

Paramount Pictures will be getting a payday for "Iron Man 3" -- a film released by its crosstown rival Disney. The Walt Disney Co.'s�Robert Downey Jr. action sequel has already sold $794 million of tickets worldwide -- a massive success for the...

'Iron Man 3': Solid, with some cracks in the armor, reviews say

2013-05-03 12:25:00

After headlining two of his own movies and teaming up to save the world in "The Avengers," the billionaire-playboy-turned-superhero Iron Man is a known quantity. Anytime he shows up, audiences can rest assured that high-tech battle suits, scheming...

Hollywood reacts to death of visual effects guru Ray Harryhausen

2013-05-07 12:04:00

Directors, actors and animation fans of all stripes saluted Ray Harryhausen on Tuesday as news of the visual effects pioneer's death reached Hollywood. Harryhausen, the stop-motion animator of such classics as 1955's "It Came From Outer Space," 1958's...

'Iron Man 3' rockets to second-best opening ever

2013-05-05 08:56:00

"Iron Man 3" surpassed everything except "The Avengers." The third Tony Stark movie from Disney’s Marvel Studios enjoyed the second-best opening in box-office history, grossing an estimated $175.3 million in its debut weekend, Disney said Sunday....

Small-town movie theaters threatened by shift to digital cinema

2013-05-04 05:00:00

MONTE RIO, Calif. — On the redwood-lined banks of the Russian River, dozens of local residents and tourists gathered in a grassy field on a hot Sunday afternoon, lining up to buy raffle tickets and $10 plates of barbecued chicken as a bluegrass...

Marvel filming most of latest 'Captain America' movie in L.A.

2013-04-24 05:30:00

On the fourth floor of a vacant wing of St. Vincent Medical Center near downtown Los Angeles, some 150 crew members crowded the hallways, joining actors Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson as they prepared to film a scene for "Captain America: The Winter...

Review: 'Iron Man 3' smartly reboots the suit midflight

2013-05-02 16:36:00

Batman's done it. Spider-Man too. Superman is about to try. As studios attempt to inject new life into overly familiar comic-book franchises, reboots — with changes in tone, directors and stars — are all the rage. But "Iron Man 3" proves there...

Duo behind YouTube's FreddieW channel pioneer Web filmmaking

2013-04-30 06:00:00

On the campus of "Video Game High School," gamers are the ultimate jocks. The best players appear on television chat shows. They even get dates. The nine-part original Web series, which combines high school romances and dramas with video game-inspired...

In the eastern Sierra, cinema buffs look for frames of reference

2013-04-29 19:27:00

LONE PINE, Calif. — As howling winds tore through the eastern Sierra, Dan Gillespie and his wife Carol trudged along a narrow gravel path, their eyes alternating between photos they carried and the contours of a cove guarded by granite walls. At...

The historic Silent Movie Theater successfully raised $158,541 for renovations and new equipment. "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. donated more than $60,000 toward a new digital projector.

2013-04-15 00:00:00

Drama Premise: An apocalyptic event which wipes out all forms of technology forces a group of survivors to adapt to life without much of what we take for granted.

2012-05-11 00:00:00

On "Supernatural": Osiris, the not-so-honorable judge of Dean's worth in 704, "Defending Your Life." You know him as: Adwin Kosan on SyFy's "Warehouse 13," and Raza in the first "Iron Man" movie.

2012-04-24 20:35:00