Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has launched a branded Oscars channel on YouTube www.YouTube.com/Oscars – featuring Academy Awards show highlights and exclusive video interviews with members from each of the Academy’s branches. Participants include Quincy Jones, Alfred Molina, Sidney Poitier and John Travolta. Designed to create greater awareness about the Academy, its membership and its activities, the collaboration marks the first time the Academy has partnered with an online video community. “The Web is an ideal platform for distributing content about who we are and what we do,” said Janet Weiss, the Academy’s director of marketing. “The YouTube community is filled with movie…

Here’s another killer new trailer from “John Rambo” by director Sylvester Stallone from Revver. Synopsis: The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by a group of Christian human rights missionaries to protect them against pirates, during a humanitarian aid deliver to the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers. (Source: Aintitcool.com)

Check out the latest music video “Love Me Sexy” from the upcoming comedy “Semi-Pro” by director Kent Alterman and starring Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson and Andre Benjamin featured on YouTube. Plot: Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association’s Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true.

Watch the movie trailer from the 1968 sci-fi classic “Planet of the Apes” by director Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall. Synopsis: Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

This is a bit off topic, but definitely entertaining. Just after midnight last night, the royal family opened the official Youtube website http://www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel. The royal family Youtube site which promises to be updated frequently, features both recent and archive footage of the Queen and the royal family. Other notable news is that Queen Elizabeth II’s traditional Christmas speech will be available as a podcast on the British monarchy’s official Web site www.royal.gov.uk says the Associated Press.

Watch the infamous “Wizard of Oz” hanging scene, where rumor has it that a munchkin supposedly hung himself during the making of the film. If you look carefully toward the middle of the path you will notice something swinging between the trees as the scarecrow trips. Is this really a suicide? or something else? I personally think its just a piece of equipment or part of the set dressing falling…but you be the judge!

Check out the latest movie trailer for the upcoming horror film “Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem” aka AvP-R by directors Greg and Colin Strause on Fox Youtube!

Check out the latest tv spot for the upcoming action film “John Rambo 4″ by director Sylvester Stallone from Revver.

Check out the first official trailer for the upcoming fantasy film “Hancock” by director Peter Berg and starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman. Synopsis: A hard-living superhero (Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Theron) of the public relations professional (Bateman) who’s trying to repair his image.

Check out the latest internet movie trailer for the upcoming action film “John Rambo 4″ by director Sylvester Stallone from the official Rambo Youtube page.