Mar 12, 2012 | Forbes
John Carter earned $100 million on its opening weekend: $30 million of it in the United States and $70 million more overseas. Russia accounted for $17 million of that, including $6.5 million earned on its opening—the biggest in its history. So why did it do so well in...
Mar 11, 2012 | Forbes
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister HBO has released a third trailer for the second season of Game of Thrones, which means that the network either loves us and wants us to be happy, or it hates us and wants to torment us. And if you’ve been paying attention to the...
Mar 11, 2012 | Forbes
Lynn Collins as Dejah Thoris As a fan of both the Edgar Rice Burroughs book, A Princess of Mars, and of Andrew Stanton, who directed WALL-E, I wasn’t really that surprised that John Carter would turn out to be an entertaining adventure. (And my fellow Forbes bloggers...
Mar 8, 2012 | Forbes
Finnish company Rovio, the creators of the wildly successful game Angry Birds, has announced that a new version, Angry Birds Space, will be released on March 22. Rovio has found an out-of-this-world way to share this news: it had working NASA astronaut, Don Pettit,...
Mar 8, 2012 | Forbes
There’s a reason that UK film company Hammer Film Productions is known as “the studio that dripped blood.” In its 1955-1974 heyday, its main output consisted of public-domain monsters wreaking havoc in glorious Technicolor. Now Hammer, the film company that made...
