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"Chronicle" wins tight box office race
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Teen boys with superpowers helped lift the movie box office to unexpected heights over Super Bowl weekend as thriller "Chronicle" edged "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe's haunted house movie "The Woman in Black." "Chronicle" brought in an estimated $22.0 million from U.S. and Canadian theaters, studio estimates released on Sunday showed. The movie with largely unknown ...

Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies
"Chronicle" is working its mind-bending powers on critics, earning some of the best reviews in a crowded weekend of new releases.

Sony Pictures Classics to buy Sundance hit "Smashed"
LOS ANGELES, Feb 5 (TheWrap.com) - Sony Pictures Classics is about to buy the Sundance movie "Smashed," starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead as an alcoholic schoolteacher who decides to get sober, TheWrap has learned. James Ponsoldt directed the film, which he wrote with Susan Burke. "Smashed" is about Kate and Charlie, a married couple whose alcoholism sends their lives spinning out of control ...

‘Chronicle’ Tops Box Office With $22 Million in Ticket Sales
“Chronicle,” the film about three teens who acquire psychic powers, opened as the top movie in theaters in the U.S. and Canada, taking in $22 million for News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox.

Matching fans to music tops record industry agenda
After a decade-long battle against file-sharing, music and technology giants are now pushing users to share to their hearts' content, with online music recommendations a key issue at the MIDEM trade fair that wrapped up Tuesday.

Director Marc Webb Opens Up About 'The Untold Story' in 'Amazing Spider-Man'
Explaining the term 'The Untold Story' used in the marketing campaign of the superhero movie, Webb says that he wants people to know that 'this isn't a remake of Sam Raimi's movie.'

January 2012 Comic Book Sales - a DC/Marvel Split Decision
Powered by a rare clean sweep of the industry's Top 10 in comic book sales, DC Comics and their New 52 intitiative s back on top after a month off of the comic book Direct Market Unit Market Share chart for comic book and graphic novel sales in January 2012, but Marvel Comics for the second month in the row is the industry leader in Dollar Market Share.

Tony Oller lands starring role in "Vigilandia"
LOS ANGELES, Feb 3 (TheWrap.com) - Tony Oller, who played Danny on the Disney Channel's "As the Bell Rings," has been offered the young male lead in Universal's upcoming sci-fi thriller "Vigilandia," TheWrap has learned. Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey star in the movie, which James DeMonaco wrote and is directing. Oller most recently starred alongside Dennis Quaid in "Beneath the Darkness." Before ...

Book provides patient's perspective on joint pain
Former Topeka resident Robert Faught Jr. has written a book about joint pain and its treatment from a patient's perception. -->

Surfing pals find much more than good waves in "Shelter" Shelter is a film that follows the story of two Southern California gay guys who fall for each other while doing what they love most: surfing. Naturally, Jonah Markowitz, the film's director, knows what's going to happen next. "Dante's Cove" Where gothic meets gay Caution to all 19th-century warlocks seeking vengeance on a coven of rogue witches: When executing a plot to marry one of said witches, thus gaining access to the coven's most guarded secrets, be very, very sure that the bride-to-be doesn't catch you sleeping with the butler. Gay Sex in the 70s Former ABC producer/director Joseph Lovett attempts to direct and document the New York gay scene in the aftermath of the 1969 Stonewall riots to the first cases of AIDS in 1981. Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds Eating Out is a soft-core sex comedy that keeps throwing out comic variations on the idea of the line between gay and straight sexuality. In this cheerful but one-note low-budget farce, gay men pretend to be straight, straight or bisexual men pretend to be gay, lesbians pretend to be bigoted heterosexuals, and a homophobic ex-gay support group proves to be full of backsliders and hypocrites who keep getting caught out of the closet. This sequel revolves around the further exploits of Kyle, a gay character from Eating Out masquerading as a heterosexual. The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green quickly brings anyone not familiar with the gay comic strip of the same name up to speed: “Ethan is a man unlucky in love,” states the intro. “Don’t feel sorry for him. It’s his own damn fault. Really.” Book Explores Being Gay & Turning Thirty While developing ideas for the sequel to his critically acclaimed debut novel, A Time Before Me, author Michael Holloway Perronne went through what is often a traumatic experience for many gay men living in a youth obsessed culture. He turned thirty. The turning of thirty, which many in the gay community consider "middle-aged", led not only to the author's self reexamination of his life but to the plot of his follow-up book, Falling Into Me. "This Film is Not Yet Rated" Explores Anti-Gay Bias of MPAA Ratings System The film is an unprecedented investigation into the Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system and its profound influence on American culture — including its impact on representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in film. "Poster Boy" Away at college and reveling in his sexual liberty, the gay son of a conservative U.S. senator becomes potential fodder for a gay activist.

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