Movie critics, who tend to be somewhat older than the target group of Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour, can't quite figure out what all the fuss is about when it comes to the 15-year-old star of the concert movie. Jan Stuart in Newsday calls it "assertively upbeat but melodically negligible." (The remark evokes memories of similar comments directed at the Beatles after their 1964 debut.) Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News describes the music as "spunky pop." Andy Webster in the New York Times sniffs that Cyrus's "attire isn't tawdry, and it appears that she can sing." And Christy Lemire of the Associated Press reveals that she sat through the entire movie wishing "desperately for Miley Cyrus, the singing, dancing, songwriting, trendsetting dynamo, to avoid turning into Britney Spears."

The ghost comedy (Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times labels it a "ghostcom") Over Her Dead Body, starring Eva Longoria Parker and Paul Rudd, doesn't have a ghost of chance of doing big business at the box office this weekend, most critics agree. Kyle Smith in the New York Post says that as a result of watching the film, "I think I picked up psychic powers ... I see dead box office." Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal says that watching it "is an out-of-brain experience." Kevin Crust in the Los Angeles Times calls it "uninspired, a frothy concept that offers little satisfaction in the way of execution." Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News thinks of it as "the Casper of supernatural sex farces." Gene Seymour in Newsday says the movie "makes its 93 minutes seem more like nine hours." But A.O. Scott in the New York Times gives the movie its best review, concluding that it "is not bad."

It may be hard to figure out why, but Hollywood loves to program the Super Bowl with low-budget fright flicks, and usually they perform quite well. Last year, for exaple, The Messengers took in $14.7 million on Super Bowl weekend. In 2006, When a Stranger Calls debuted with a strong $21.6 million, and in 2005 Boogeyman raked in $19 million. Lionsgate's The Eye, starring Jessica Alba, is expected to do equally well. Like the others, it was not screened for critics.

Plans by the company releasing U2 3D, the rock group's concert movie, to expand the film on Valentine's Day were shot through the heart Thursday when it appeared that Disney might want to use many of the same 3-D theaters to extend the run of Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour. Disney had originally planned a one-week run at 683 3-D theaters for the tween concert film which begins today (Friday) -- but, with many of the screenings sold out, it reportedly now plans to expand the film into additional venues through February 15. Even though it is showing in only a handful of theaters -- compared to the thousands that the other major releases command -- the Miley Cyrus film is expected to dominate the box-office this weekend, especially since most adults will be at home watching the Super Bowl this Sunday. With tickets at many theaters selling for as much a $15-20 apiece, box office gurus are predicting that the film could take in as much as $20-25 million over the weekend. It reportedly cost $7 million to produce.

Terry Semel, the former Warner Bros. co-CEO, who moved on to become chairman and CEO of Yahoo!, where he rode it on a roller-coaster ride for nearly five years, has quit the Internet company. Last year, as Yahoo!'s shares began slipping, Semel was stripped of his CEO title and was replaced by the company's co-founder, Jerry Yang. However, the stock price continued to drop even more precipitously under Yang, falling 32 percent since he took over to $19.18 on Thursday. The announcement of Semel's resignation came one day before the announcement that Microsoft had offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion (a 62-percent premium), an announcement that sent shares of the company soaring more than 45 percent in mid-morning trading on the Nasdaq to $27.75.

Successful efforts by publicists and friends of Heath Ledger to force two celebrity gossip television shows to yank a two-year-old video showing Ledger at a party where drugs were being used may have led to a proliferation of the video on numerous websites Thursday. Posters, in turn, were excoriated by Ledger fans. One YouTube poster defended himself by saying that his attackers were trying to sweep the matter under the rug and making it impossible for others to learn from what had occurred. Meanwhile, it was reported that Ledger's publicists, ID-PR, had sent email messages to other PR firms and agencies saying that airing the video "is not journalism, it is sensationalism. It is a shameful exploitation of the lowest kind, to a talented and gentle soul, undeserving of such treatment." Meanwhile, today's (Friday) New York Post reported that Ledger had become addicted to cocaine and heroin in the past year and cited a "member of Ledger's entourage" as saying, "He was really into heroin. He wasn't sleeping or communicating with anyone." Dr. Drew Pinsky, of VH1's Celebrity Rehab, who viewed the tape, said on Entertainment Tonight Thursday, "I am convinced that if this heart-wrenching video had aired, it would have gotten through and had a positive effect on young people in America. Perhaps it could have even saved lives."

Shares in TiVo fast-forwarded Thursday after a U.S. appeals court ruled in its favor in its patent dispute against Dish Network, which provides a similar digital video recorder to customers. The court ruled that the DVR itself did not violate TiVo's patents, as TiVo had claimed, but that the software used with it did. It ordered Dish to pay $73 million in damages. Dish, which vowed to appeal the ruling, said that the decision will not affect its operations since it has already provided subscribers to its satellite service with different software that does not violate TiVo patents. TiVo investors also got news Thursday that the company had signed a major deal with CBS for its research service, which tracks the behavior of its DVR users. It had previously signed up NBC.

The transformation of Court TV into truTV has resulted in Star Jones's latest program being booted off the air. The website TVNewser said Thursday that the cable network sent out a memo to staff saying that the Jones show would air for the last time today (Friday) "due to the rebranding and programming refocus of the network." The show debuted last August. In the memo, truTV General Manager Marc Juris said, "We've long said that the launch of truTV would be followed by a gradual evolution in programming." Nevertheless, the show that reportedly will replace Jones's is also courtroom-based, Arrest & Trial.

Bob Schieffer says that he is hoping CBS treats him the way NBC treated Tom Brokaw after he stepped down as anchor of NBC Nightly News. Schieffer, who disclosed to the Associated Press earlier this week that he plans to leave his post as weekly host of CBS's Face the Nation following the inauguration of a new president next January, told Broadcasting & Cable Thursday that he hoped he would always have some association with CBS. "Tom Brokaw is kind of my hero," Schieffer said. "He bowed out, and then he still shows up from time to time when important stories are going on, and I think CBS will treat me in that same way." The network has frequently been criticized for effectively relegating former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite to limbo after forcing him to retire in 1981.

Veteran newspaper and magazine TV critic Mark Schwed, 52, who spent 11 years as a writer and columnist for TV Guide and its cable channel and before that worked as the TV critic for the now defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, was found dead in his Palm Beach, FL apartment Thursday. He had currently been working as a feature writer for the Palm Beach Post. The newspaper said that Schwed had been in apparent good health until Monday, when he called in sick. Friends became alarmed when they did not hear from him after that; a co-worker entered his apartment Thursday and found his body. No cause of death has been determined.

Departing from its usual format, the long-running British soap opera EastEnders featured a half-hour "soliloquy" performed by 80-year-old actress June Brown in which her character, Dot Branning, records a tape for her ill husband, Jim. The episode, which aired Thursday on BBC1, was watched by 37 percent of the British TV audience.