LANGHORNE, Pa., Oct. 4, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Casual games developer and publisher eGames, Inc. (Pink Sheets:EGAM) today announced a publishing agreement with Freeze Tag, Inc. for the distribution of Mystery Masterpiece(tm): The Moonstone throughout North America.

• A social worker learns that there is more than meets the eye to a girl she saved from abuse.
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• The story of the founding of Facebook and the lawsuits that followed in its wake.
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• A misfit boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) befriends the strange new girl (Chloe Moretz) who lives next door.
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"The Social Network" may or may not be the movie of the year. There's still three months to go, after all. Here are Ty and David Denby giving reason to think it might be. What "The Social Network" definitely is is the latest example of a very old and successful Hollywood defense mechanism: absorbing competing media, subverting them, or both.

Make no mistake. Social media like Facebook are a bigger threat to the movie box office than anything since the arrival of television six decades ago. Ask a 14-year-old whether he or she would rather go to a movie or be on Facebook, and chances are the question won't even have been heard since he or she is actually already on Facebook and too engrossed in it to pay attention to what you're saying. Going to a movie used to be one of the best ways to escape parents. Now escape is just a mouse click away. It's not that moviegoing has lost its appeal to teens or is likely to. It's that moviegoing as a habit threatens to. Video games were bad enough. But Hollywood's been on to them at least since "Tron" ("Tron: Legacy" is coming out in December). More generally, movies have become bigger-screen versions of video games, courtesy of pinball editing, Krakatoa-scale explosions, and lowest common denominator character motivation.

DANVILLE, Calif., Oct. 1, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ActionView International, Inc. (Pink Sheets:AVEW) today announced additional professional match-ups scheduled for the October 16, 2010 World Championship Full Contact (WCFC) event at The Rail Event Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The October 16th pro-am event will feature three professional fights, including the previously announced match between "Super" Steven Siler from the Riven fight team and Steven "Razor" Sharp of Absolute MMA, and 7 amateur bouts with fighters from some of the western United States' top mixed martial arts facilities, including Absolute MMA, The Academy, The Bernales Institute, Kingdom Klub, and Wicked Ways Muay Thai.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Despite MSG Media's attempts since early this year to engage DISH Network in good faith negotiations, no agreement was reached for DISH Network to continue to carry MSG Network and MSG Plus. Therefore, as of midnight last night, DISH is no longer carrying the networks on its channel lineup, and New York area sports fans will now miss exclusive live coverage of the Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, Devils and Sabres.

NEW YORK and KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 1, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) and Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE:RGC), today announced an expansion of the companies' joint venture agreement to include installation of an additional 16 to 25 new IMAX(r) theatres in the United States. These theatres, which are part of an amendment to the parties' original 2008 joint venture agreement, are in addition to Regal's previously committed rollout of 39 IMAX joint venture theatres, 34 of which are in currently in operation. As part of the agreement, Regal also plans to upgrade eight of its existing film-based IMAX theatres with IMAX's digital projection technology.

One of the best, dirtiest movies ever made about the intersection of the media business, gossip, and the human soul, 1957's "Sweet Smell of Success" also features the Tony Curtis performance to watch if you ever doubted the man could act. Playing Sidney Falco, the two-bit press agent with the collapsible spine, the 32-year-old Curtis sleazes his way up and down Broadway in glorious black and white, firing screenwriter Clifford Odets' lethal dialogue like hollow-point bullets. Burt Lancaster's powerful gossip columnist calls Sidney "a cookie full of arsenic," and the movie's great irony is that the character poisons only himself. But everything about this performance moves with the restless, aggressive chutzpah it took Bernie Schwartz from the Bronx to become Mr. Tony Curtis of Hollywood. In the words of Falco himself, the star went about his career "avidly, avidly."

It's funny: When I heard this morning that Curtis had passed away, at 85, of a heart attack, those two words were the first thing that popped into my head. The Globe's Mark Feeney, in his obituary for Curtis, references the same line of dialogue and for the same reasons: It goes to the enthusiastic, sardonic playfulness of the man, and to the kind of self-starting urban energy that makes a slum kid like Falco or Curtis choose big words with care. The star was never truly taken seriously by Hollywood or the media, in part because he was so pretty when he started (Exhibit A above) and because, in Feeney's wonderful phrasing, he had a voice "like a man with a head cold sipping an egg cream." We never let him forget he was Bernie Schwartz, but on a lot of levels that was okay, since he never pretended he was anyone else.

GUANGZHOU, China, Sept. 30, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amico Games Corp. (OTCBB:AMCG) an interactive entertainment media company specializing in developing some of China's most popular massive multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) for mobile phones, today announced that it has retained Raney & Associates and launched www.amicogamesus.com to enhance its presence in the U.S.

Arthur Penn, who died yesterday of congestive heart failure at his Upper West Side apartment in New York, may have had the strangest career arc of any major Hollywood director. That's Penn, standing on the right, on the set of "Bonnie and Clyde," with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.

For the better part of a decade, from "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) to "The Missouri Breaks" (1976), he was pretty much it among American directors until Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese came along. There was a special excitement attached to Penn's name. And why shouldn't there have been? "Bonnie and Clyde" was the most revolutionary movie made in this country since "Citizen Kane." No movie since has matched its impact. Its blend of humor and tragedy, its frank yet poeticized presentation of violence, the across-the-board excellence of its acting, even the hilarious yet pitch-perfect way it used Flatt and Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain Breakdown": All these elements and more combined to blow open the doors of Hollywood and usher in its Silver Age. There's lots of credit to go around (Beatty, who produced as well as starred; Robert Benton and David Newman's script; Robert Towne's script-doctoring; Dede Allen's gangbusters editing; the cast, too, of course). But it was Arthur Penn's movie.

BOSTON, Sept. 29, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Boston Conservatory, the oldest performing arts conservatory in the nation, today announces Tommy Tune as the honoree and special guest at the celebratory performance commemorating the grand opening of the "Hemenway Project," a $32 million, 16-month-long renovation of the Conservatory's theater building, Saturday, October 16th.