Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

Whoever owns The Weather Channel is LOADED. NBC Universal just bought the network for $3.5 billion in cash. Of course, buying The Weather Channel is a package deal; not only do you get one of the most watched cable nets, but you also get one of the most visited Web sites, Weather.com. Think of how many people you know that check it before leaving the house, or going on a trip. It’s enough to rank it the 15th most visited site on the ‘net.

Speaking of popular Web sites, YouTube has been ordered by a court to release who watches their videos and when. The ruling comes out of a suit Viacom brought against the Web site for the copyright infringement that occurs when its programs are shown on YouTube. This article explains that the information could be as detailed as giving the IP address of who watched which video, which essentially gives the Viacom the ability to knock on your door and suing you personally, just like what happened a few years ago during the Napster/Music downloading hoopla. As everyone should know by now, nothing is private in the information age.

Aint It Cool News has some new photos up from the new Harry Potter movie, my favorite, left, depicts a very sinister-looking Malfoy.

As if the upcoming Watchmen adaptation didn’t already look cool enough, the comic’s artist Dave Gibbons chimes in on the film’s art design and how it translates in this video . Plus, you get a small glimpse at what Rorschach looks like in the film.

Also in the Cool Video department is this one, which puts you in the shoes of Stanley Kubrick on the set of The Shining. One take + lots of moving parts + Kubrick = advertising genius.

There seems to be an American Gangster sequel in the works. A salsa singer in Puerto Rico has claimed that he’s been cast as a Mexican Cop in the sequel to last year’s mob epic. As the original article points out, it’s probably a DTV sequel about another gangster that has nothing to do with Frank Lucas or Richie Roberts.

If you thought the rescue mission in Colombia last week sounded like something out of a Hollywood action movie, well, it’s about to be. Vertigo Entertainment and a Colombian TV network won the rights to the story of Ingrid Betancourt and the 14 other hostages that were rescued in an undercover operation that involved Colombian officials taking acting classes, pretending to be FARC rebels and eventually confusing the real rebels and walking away with their hostages.

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