Redstone agrees partial sale of 1,500 cinemas
Media mogul Sumner Redstone has reached agreement with his daughter, Shari, to put some of National Amusement?s 1,500 cinemas on the block rather than the entire division, as part of debt-restructuring discussions to avoid selling more shares of Viacom and CBS , according to people familiar with the matter.

Dark Knight to get US re-release
Batman film The Dark Knight will be re-released in US cinemas in January, while its star speculates on its Oscar chances.

Israeli Film Festival schedule
The Israel Film Festival opens with a gala Tuesday and continues through Dec. 18. All films are at Sunrise Cinemas Intracoastal 8, 3701 NE 163rd St., North Miami Beach. Prices and other information at 1-877-966-5566 or israelfilmfestival.com. Also check with the theater at 305-949-0064 because films and times may change.

Nobel Son
Matching the mess made of his August opener "Bottle Shock," writer/director Randall Miller returns to cinemas with the equally-as-troubled "Nobel Son." Well, return is a strong word, since "Son" was shot three years ago and is barely seeing a legitimate theatrical launch.

Film: Review: Lakeview Terrace
Just like the rest of this week?s releases, here?s another what should be straight-to-DVD affair that?s somehow found its way into cinemas.

Midnight movies: A fitting swan song for Union South
With all the reminiscing going on about the closing of Westgate Cinemas (its last day is still set for Dec. 14, if you want to catch "Appaloosa" in its friendly confines), it's easy to overlook yet another popular movie spot of sorts that is going kaput. Union South, 227 N. Randall St., is going out in more dramatic fashion, too, getting demolished next month to make way for a spanking new ...

New movie theater opens next week
The curtain will soon go up on a big player at the Shops at Lake Havasu Regional Lifestyle Center. UltraStar Cinemas announced Thursday that the company?s second Arizona operation ? UltraStar Lake Havasu 10 Cinemas ? will open to the public a week from today.

Chandler Cinemas shows 'REPO! The Genetic Opera' Dec. 4
Think the mortgage crisis is out of hand? Imagine a future in which an all-powerful biotech corporation sells replacement organs to desperately ill Americans, only to dispatch scalpel-wielding ?repo men? to retrieve the merchandise when the buyers fail to make their loan payments?

Get first glimpse of PSA
The Ventura County Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children Inc. will hold a premiere social for its violence prevention and awareness public service announcement "Teen Murder Prevention" at 7 p.m. Mon., Dec. 8 at Plaza Cinemas 14, 255 W. Fifth St., Oxnard.

Tickets are in hot demand for lavish epic
Australia will screen at an exclusive New Zealand premiere at the brand new SKYCITY Cinemas complex at Manukau City on Monday 15 December from 6.30pm, with all proceeds to Variety -The Children?s Charity.

Muppet Christmas to be shown at Charlestowne 18
ST. CHARLES ? Classic Cinemas' Charlestowne 18 Theatre will host a free showing of "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie" at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13. The theater is at 3740 E. Main St. (Route 64) in the Charlestowne Mall.

Henry Barnes: How Hollywood grew up about teen sex
Parents! Do you know what your teenage son has got himself into? The answer, according to the people behind such films as new teen comedy Sex Drive , which swings into UK cinemas in January, is socks, apple pies, soft fruit and his friends' mums. If it's inanimate or inappropriate, he's been there. Apologies for crassness, but that's exactly the kind of humour regularly employed by ...

Digital Imax cinema first in Europe
A digital Imax auditorium, the first of its kind in Europe, has been previewed in Britain, paving the way for a new generation of cinemas. Odeon has splashed out £1.5 million on two new digital Imax auditoriums at cinemas in Wimbledon and Greenwich.

Redstone, Daughter Agree to Seek Sale of Some Theaters, FT Says
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Sumner Redstone and his daughter, Shari, have agreed to seek a buyer for some of the 1,500 cinemas owned by their family holding company, National Amusements Inc., the Financial Times reported.

Bruce Campbell enthralls Madison fans with My Name Is Bruce at Sundance
A Winter Weather Advisory would keep most people in their homes, and would likewise keep most out-of-towners from venturing into Madison. That was not the case on Wednesday night for fans of B-movie icon Bruce Campbell, nor for the man himself, as he hosted four spirited screenings of his new film at Sundance Cinemas.

The Ticker
Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari agreed to seek a buyer for some of the 1,500 cinemas owned by their family holding company, Dedham-based National Amusements, the Financial...

'My Name Is Bruce': a C movie that could have been a B
"My Name Is Bruce" isn't a great movie. It's too self-conscious to be good in that bad, guilty pleasure way, and too hackneyed to be good any other way. Needless to say, that's completely irrelevant. For the crowds that turned out to four sold-out screenings at Sundance Cinemas Wednesday night, it was yet another delicious offering from their B-movie icon, Bruce Campbell, as well as a chance to ...

Being there
The global popularity of the live, high-definition broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York astonished even the Met officials who were willing to experiment with beaming live transmissions to outlying cinemas.

Today: H -1 /L -6
Two new movies open on the big screens in Canada this week, Cadillac Records and Punisher: War Zone. The Princess Cinemas in Waterloo opens I've Loved You So Long and brings back Synecdoche, New York. The Bookshelf in Guelph opens JCVD (Jean Claude Van Damme) and brings back Passchendaele.

Hollywood Feels the Credit Crunch