Fox Business loves to hear media moguls talk about Fox Business. Last week, they had CNN thinker-upper Ted Turner show up to talk about new Fox Business employee Lou Dobbs. Now they’ve invited their leader Rupert Murdoch to discuss the most pressing matters of the day—like how awesome Fox Business is. “Fox Business, Fox News” are News Corp.’s “best growth engines,” he said. “Seriously.”

A new ad, promoting a book by GOP Reps Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy, has been eliciting some interesting reactions from fellow travelers. Former GOP Congressman and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough torched the “Young Guns” on his show, re-dubbing them “The Young Turds,” and leading a veritable Friar’s roast of the ad by his panel.

We reached out to the Democratic National Committee to see if the Young Guns would fare any better with the opposition. The results might surprise you.

The world’s most beloved film critic, Roger Ebert, is not a fan of the current 3-D trend. In an article in the current Newsweek, Ebert claims that 3-D movies are nothing but a trashy gimmick whose only real purpose is to steal extra money from audiences and this writer, at least, thinks he’s 100% right.

Avatar Director James Cameron played Hardball on MSNBC yesterday, and Chris Matthews delighted in exploring the environmental issues portrayed in the blockbuster movie.

But he also hit on another Cameron favorite – Glenn Beck. Oh, and Stephen Hawking and his ‘aliens will wipe us out’ theories.

Glenn Beck is not making many friends in high profile places these days. Yesterday Cokie Roberts was quoted calling him “worse than a clown. He’s more like a terrorist.” Today comes word that Avatar director James Cameron does not think terribly highly of the Fox News powerhouse, either. To put it mildly.

Just because the Academy Awards happened two weeks ago doesn’t mean that it’s too late for Michael Moore to say his piece. Mainly, that Kathryn Bigelow‘s The Hurt Locker was a piece of crap because it was “lazy” and that James Cameron‘s Avatar was amazing because of its portrayal of how we “privatized war” and treated the planet.

The Oscars are over, the final ballot counted and final award given. But we know the Oscar voting results you’re really looking forward to haven’t been announced yet: ours! That’s right, after receiving an impressive 100 submissions, we’re here to announce who’s taking home our top prize. And the mittens go to…

Many of you have probably spent the past few weeks since the last major televised award show (for the record, that would be the Grammys, held way back on January 31) suffering withdrawals…but fear not, the Academy Awards are coming Sunday to satisfy your insatiable hunger for those oh so meaningful thank you speeches. What should you expect when the action starts in the Kodak Theater? Read on to find out.

According to the Wall Street Journal, James Cameron confirmed Tuesday night that he, James Cameron, the highest-grossing film director of all time, will turn Avatar into a novel.

How interesting, considering that the best parts of the movie were its special effects.

The four-day Valentine’s Day/Presidents Day double-feature weekend is shaping up to be a record breaking one at the box office. Yesterday, Valentine’s Day (the movie, not the holiday, which is tomorrow — yes, I know this is all very confusing) made about $15 million at the box office. If Valentine’s Day (the movie) becomes a popular date night activity on Valentine’s Day (the holiday), then there is quite a good chance the movie will earn up to $60 million over this four-day holiday weekend.

ohn Nichols and Robert McChesney, this was a book promotional event and an opportunity to outline their recommendations to save traditional journalism. It was a setup for a predictable night full of previews of what’s contained inside yet another “save journalism” solution book. Yet, thankfully, David Carr took a topic that has been spoken about to death and breathed new life into the discussion.

It was another early morning in Hollywood today as Anne Hathaway helped announce the 2010 Academy Award nominations. This years Academy Awards are notable in that the Best Picture category has expanded to 10 nominees for the first time in over half a century. Click the link here for the full list of nominees, but here are my instant thoughts:

The 2010 Oscar nominations are being announced as we speak. We’ll update this post as we go. Full list is here and Jonathan Fuhrman’s smart reactions here. Best Picture:

“Give it up for yourselves,” said James Cameron last night, accepting the Golden Globe for Best Picture for his giant blue 3D masterpiece, Avatar. He had already taken the Best Director nod — besting ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who he generously acknowledged in his speech, and causing a minor Twitter firestorm by actually speaking in his [...]

3D is old news. Yeah, it’s coming to TV in real-time, and James Cameron seems to have an affinity for it.* Great. But the technology has been around forever. As in, since the 1890s. The classic image of people wearing 3D glasses at the movies is from the 1950s, after all – half a century [...]

Move over, humanoid Pandoran blue creatures – ESPN is getting into the 3-D game, launching the first all-3D sports channel starting with a World Cup match on June 11.

Did everyone go to the movies last weekend? Sure seems like it – the box office numbers were off the charts, with a three-day U.S. total of $278 million, shattering the previous record. Yes there was Avatar, pulling them in for the second weekend straight — in the business this is what we call a film that has “legs”, and Hollywood hasn’t seen legs this nice in a long long time — but for boffo B.0. like that, there needs to be more. And there was.

Hollywood puts more cinematic gifts under your Christmas tree than at any other time of year (outside of the big summer movie season, but these are Oscar bait). But how does a movie-goer determine what is the must-see film to put at the top of the list? It’s all about the buzz — and the film to beat at the box office during the last days of 2009 is Avatar. I think perhaps you have heard of this movie.

If you haven’t seen Avatar, but have been tracking its coverage over the past year or so, you already know all you need to know about the film’s success. Actually seeing it is, at best, superfluous to understanding why this one never had any chance but doing anything but packin’ em in and stuffing ‘em with popcorn and soda.

This weekend, I did what the advertisements told me to and went to see Avatar in IMAX 3D. Truth be told, it was kind of a disappointment. The problem isn’t the uncanny valley — the alien Na’vi look real enough — but the roteness of it all. At that, it is a good thing for society that James Cameron made it. Why? Because the film poured so much money into technological innovation, and that innovation will carry over to movies and projects to come.

If you’ve followed any entertainment press in the past few weeks, you’ve been hit by the bright blue alien splatter that is Avatar‘s promotional campaign. Director James Cameron scored profiles in magazines like The New Yorker and Wired, while every nerdy and/or cynical blog either mocked the Jar Jar Binks-ness of it all or peed themselves in anticipation. Now, reviews of the film, which were supposed to be embargoed until December 18th in the U.S., are everywhere. Welcome to the internet!