Young teenagers who drink alcohol have typically been exposed to drinking on-screen.
Ten to 14 year old children who watch a lot of movies featuring alcohol are twice as likely to drink, according to new research.
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Ticket sales and box-office grosses decline in 2011.
In 2011, Hollywood dropped the ball as the movie business saw a decline in ticket sales and attendance fell to a 16-year low.
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The majority of cinema screens in the U.S. are expected to go digital in 2012.
We are used to seeing the standard 35 mm film in movie theaters but that will be replaced worldwide by digital technology in the next few years, and the hit blockbuster film “Avatar” is to blame for the shift, according to a new report.
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The world still thinks Americans are cool.
Americans may be witnessing their global superpower influence decline in the face of challenges from other emerging players on the world stage, but they have been voted the world’s “coolest nationality” in an international poll.
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The study found that women get more scared than men during horror films.
Have you ever wondered why some women get scared watching horror films while most men stay calm? It’s actually their brains which make females more likely to be terrified by the flicks, a new study has claimed.
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Movies with surprise endings, like The Sixth Sense (starring Bruce Willis and Hayley Joel Osment) are not, it turns out, ruined by spoilers.
We’ve all dodged conversations about who shot JR to covering our eyes when the football results flash up and we go to enormous lengths to not have surprise endings spoiled.
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Avatar’s special 4-D audience effects were a huge hit with Korean movie fans.
Because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versions, Hollywood is starting to convert blockbuster films into 4D.
MoviePass
The Netflix model may be coming to a theater near you. MoviePass, a new $50-per-month service for film fans, will let subscribers watch unlimited movies in theaters using their smartphones as tickets.
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Movies and TV shows online takes up a lot of bandwidth compared with Web surfing.
Netflix movies now take up more of the Internet pipes going into North American homes than web surfing.
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Warner Brothers will rent “The Dark Knight” to American users over Facebook for the equivalent of $3 in Facebook’s currency.
Warner Brothers became the first major media company to offer a movie for rent on Facebook, a move that could position the social network to become a force in the digital distribution of movies, rivaling services like Netflix and iTunes.
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