James Franco

Viral Video: Going Ape for James Franco

Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2011 at 2:25 am PT

BoomTown is a major fan of the entire “Planet of the Apes” Hollywood movie franchise and will not apologize for one single second about this freakish apocalyptic series. Here comes another and, as the late Charlton Heston said: “Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others.”

Oscar’s YouTube No-Show

Peter Kafka in Media on February 23, 2009 at 7:30 am PT

Looking for highlights of last night’s Oscars on YouTube? Good luck. That’s because ABC, which broadcast last night’s show, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which produces the event, don’t want clips of last night’s show on the world’s biggest video site. Instead, they’d prefer that you watch highlights on ABC’s Oscar.com site.