showest

The trouble with PIXAR and DISNEY's 'Ratatouille'

Pixar and Disney are having a hard enough time promoting their latest animated creation, Ratatouille (coming June 29). First hurdle: edumacating the American public on how to pronounce that...

STAR WARS: Fans await the return

Lucas offered a glimpse into the latest creation in his sci-fi universe at the theater-owners convention ShoWest on Thursday, showing a sequence from "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," a computer-animated...

Raunchy Red-Band Trailers Coming Soon to Theaters Near You [Sneak Previews]

After years of studios and exhibitors fighting like cats and dogs about everything from release windows to the ideal temperature for popcorn butter, there's a certain Zen calm in the détente...

Mike Myers: “Jessica Alba is carrying my child.”

Jessica Alba and Mike Myers attended ShoWest in Las Vegas last week and introduced footage from The Love Guru (due June 20th). Myers introduced the pregnant Alba as “the woman carrying my...

Jessica Alba Attends the Bette Midler Show

Jessica Alba hit up Las Vegas for the ShoWest event last week and while in town she hit up the new Bette Midler revue “The Showgirl Must Go On” at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. We are...

Another opening, another ShoWest

Exhibitors, distributors, producers and press are pouring into Las Vegas, where the annual ShoWest convention kicks off Monday morning. It's the calm before the storm here at the Paris hotel. With...

World domination

Officially, the ShoWest program proper begins on Tuesday. Traditionally, International Day, which takes place on Monday, is a kind of curtain-raiser in which the concerns of international exhibitors...

Where's LaBeouf?

ShoWest lucked out last year when it named Jennifer Hudson its female star of tomorrow -- in her case, tomorrow turned out to be right around the corner as she snapped up an Oscar for her debut film...

ShoWest 2007 News: Opening Talks from the MPAA and NATO

ShoWest officially opened yesterday in Las Vegas, with speeches from NATO head John Fithian and MPAA head Dan Glickman. The mood seems pretty bouyant, according to the Variety and Hollywood Reporter...

Video Spam a Growing Problem ... LA Times on Viacom's Motives ... and ShoWest News

- The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a piece headlined, 'Spam Hits Video Sites, Misleading Web Viewers.' Spammers upload videos to advertise a product, but then describe them as...