Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Viral Videos: 10 Most Viewed Movie Trailers Online, Including "Mega Shark"–But Is Trouble Ahead for Hollywood?

Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2010 at 3:06 am PT

BoomTown has been struck by the $1 billion-plus haul that tech-heavy “Avatar” brought in over the holidays. Does this mean movies in theaters are holding their own against online incursions? It would seem so, according to box office reports for the year. Tallies for the U.S. alone were up 10 percent to close to $10 billion for 2009. Or is there trouble ahead for Hollywood, since another key revenue stream–DVD sales–is weakening at an even faster pace?

It Won't Be Baaaaaaack: "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" Canceled (But Here's a Resistance Video From John Connor!)

Kara Swisher in News on May 19, 2009 at 12:04 am PT

Big, giant and prolonged sigh–as well as a cranky-old-lady shake of the fist–to our distant cousins over at the Fox television network who dinged BoomTown’s favorite sci-fi show, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” today. I am officially in a Summer Glau funk, with major gadget withdrawal. Loosely based on the movie franchise, the show garnered a passionate fan base online and off, but not enough to merit being renewed. It’s ironic since the latest film in the cyborg-versus-man epic, “Terminator Salvation,” will open this Thursday. But one of the TV show’s stars is fighting back online. All hail the Resistance!

Here Comes the Summer Movie Geektravaganza: Trek to Demons to Bots to Cyborgs to Potter!

Kara Swisher in News on May 4, 2009 at 12:34 pm PT

With bootleg copies ripped on the Internet or not and with an $87 million opening weekend for “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” it looks like the nerdiest summer movie season ever is off the races. Hollywood, caught in the digital maelstrom, certainly is fine and dandy making bank by co-opting all the techie themes, gadgets and special effects, with a slate of movies over the next months that are like catnip to geeks of all kinds. Including BoomTown, for example, which plans to fork over a lot of dough to pay for all the techtastic entertainment that those old media moguls can dish out before they collapse.