X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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.

News Corp. Gives a “Wolverine” Review a Thumbs Down. Way, Way Down.

Peter Kafka in Media on April 6, 2009 at 4:18 am PT

Fox News columnist Roger Friedman loves the new “X-Men” movie with Hugh Jackson. But his employers hate his review, which is based on an unfinished version that leaked to the Web last week. It may cost him his job.