This past weekend, Hollywood studios received bad news. The number of tickets sold during Hollywood's all-important summer season -- the first week in May through Labor Day weekend -- shrank to 532 million in 2012. That's off 4 percent from last year and on track to be the lowest summer attendance in almost 20 years, according to preliminary estimates from Hollywood.com.
Ailing Finnish smartphone maker Nokia Oyj (NYSE: NOK) is betting the company that two new Lumia smartphones based on the new Windows 8 OS from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, will be international hits.
Bombshell Hollywood actress Elisha Cuthbert is reportedly engaged to her longtime boyfriend, hockey player Dion Phaneuf.
Labor Day 2012 is finally here, marking the end of summer and bringing in the autumn season. The national holiday is a time for a lazy break from work, a final summer barbeque and major retail sales.
Academic researchers out of Madrid have been able to determine the IP addresses and locations of the Pirate Bay users that upload most often to the site. This news comes after the arrest of the company's founder and increased pressure on the torrent site to shore up privacy.
Voters in Quebec next week could either resucitate the separatist bloc or reaffirm their provincial bond with the rest of Canada.
We celebrate the ending of summer and beginning of fall with a Labor Day celebration, but what is Labor Day really all about? Surprise your friends and family this year with some interesting Labor Day facts and trivia that you may have not known before.
The trailer for Sarah Polley's latest film, "The Stories We Tell," was released on Wednesday. The film illustrates her family's history through candid interviews, personal photographs, and video footage.
Russia's agricultural ministry will meet Friday to discuss limiting wheat exports as the country's key Black Sea-producing region has been wilted by drought, but few believe it will repeat the total ban on exports it implemented in 2010 during similar drought conditions.
Victoria's Secret Stores Inc. and their parent company, Limited Brands Inc., are being sued by Zephyrs for $15 million since they have allegedly been "knockoffs" to their own customers, according to WWD.
Where to watch live coverage of Tuesday's play at the US Open, plus a full preview.
Demonoid has been out of service for over a month now, but some of its loyal users are holding on to the belief that it could come back. The BitTorrent site has developed a reputation over the years for resurrecting itself, and this could be another opportunity to defy anti-piracy efforts.
Regional accents are vanishing across the U.S. and English-speaking world.
Somebody get CTV anchor Andrew Johnson a dictionary. After a news report on CTV's Vancouver Island station, the anchorman accidentally propositioned coworker Astrid Braunschmidt, asking if she wanted to "canoodle" before she delivered the weather.
Meghan McCain blasted Prince Harry's Vegas pictures as a "rookie move," saying she never allows cell phones or video cameras around when she parties it up in hotel rooms and telling the royal to grow up.
If you were shocked about Canadian singer Avril Lavigne's engagement to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, then join the club. (Whatever happened to Brody Jenner?!) This is not a very tardy April Fool's day joke, the couple spoke to Hello! Canada to dish on their surprising relationship and flash Lavigne's big engagement rock.
While it may not be on par with news about fellow Canadian Justin Bieber, the newly announced Avril Lavigne/Chad Kroeger engagement has fans excitied on both sides of the border. Canadians will be even more proud now that video has surfaced of a young Avril playing hockey as a child.
One of the longest-running printed video game magazines in the U.S. in Canada, Nintendo Power magazine will finally close its doors after a 24-year run. Nintendo Power is dead. Long live Nintendo Power.
Five 2012 Little League World Series games are scheduled for Aug.20. Here?s how to watch a free live stream online for each contest.
Colleen Shannon, who was a Playboy Playmate in 2004, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly smuggling a man across the U.S. border.
Asian markets were mixed in the week as investors maintained a watchful mode awaiting monetary easing measures from policymakers around the world to tackle the weakening of the global economic growth.
In a world where personal and urban mobility is dominated by the bland dorkiness of the Segway, a 13 year old girl and her inventor father are hoping the RYNO Motors microcycle, a motorized unicycle, will revolutionize how mall cops, Arab sheiks and Hollywood's flush rising stars travel.
