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Paramount has confirmed to me exclusively that it's hired 8-pack-abs Taylor Lautner for the lead in Max Steel, instantly creating perhaps the next young big action star. (The Twilight Saga phenom is only 17 years old, and the Summit Entertainment folks predicted to me a year ago that he'd end up ...
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Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Seventy-one pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order ...
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LOS ANGELES (December 4, 2009) - Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, elected new officers Bill Condon, Rodrigo Garcia, Alan Poul and Stephanie Allain to its Board of Directors. Director/producer Bill Condon ...
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WME's post-merger pains following massive layoffs have been news for most of 2009 on my website. Now I've learned that yesterday's motion picture staff meeting set out to foster better relations between the remaining staff of the two combined agencies as the year closes.
Everyone at Endeavor ...
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Warren Littlefield last night held his annual NBC refugees dinner at Dan Tana's. This year, there was a long, long, long table of the ex-TV execs. Jeff Zucker's ears must have been burning.
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When last we left the tug of war over the future of The Terminator franchise, it was out for bid, and at least one potential buyer was Joss Whedon (prepared to ante all of $10,000). Today Halcyon Holding Group, which announced it was contemplating selling its rights to Terminator after filing ...
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CULVER CITY, Calif., December 3, 2009 – Sony Pictures Releasing International will pass $2 billion at the box office this coming weekend, powering Sony Pictures Entertainment to its best-ever box office year worldwide, it was announced today by Jeff Blake, chairman of Sony Pictures Worldwide ...
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The last remaining items from the hit show will go on the auction block from December 8th through March 5th. This is the final online auctions props and costumes from Battlestar Galactica, which concluded its series run on the Syfy channel last March 20th. NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music ...
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National Board of Review of Motion Pictures announced its awards today:
Best Film: Up in the Air (Paramount)
Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Invictus (Warner Bros)
Best Actor(s): George Clooney, Up in the Air; Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, An Education (Sony Pictures ...
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Posting will resume shortly after critical computer problems have plagued me all morning on one of the busiest news days.
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This morning's press call is scheduled for 7:30
AM Pacific Time by Comcast Chairman/CEO Brian Roberts, GE...
Chairman/CEO Jeff Immelt, Comcast COO Steve Burke, and NBC Universal President/CEO Jeff Zucker. There was an earlier conference call for investors at 5:30 AM PT wiith Roberts, Burke, ...
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The combined assets and properties owned or controlled by the new Comcast-GE-NBCU joint venture will include some of the best known brands in the entertainment industry, among them:
• Several of television’s most successful cable networks, including USA, Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, Syfy, E!, Style, ...
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According to this morning's announcement, these are the key elements of the transaction:
· NBCU will borrow approximately $9.1 billion from third-party lenders and distribute the cash to GE.
· NBCU, valued at $30 billion, will be contributed to the newly formed joint venture. Comcast will ...
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PHILADELPHIA, PA and FAIRFIELD, CT – Dec. 3, 2009 – Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture that will be 51 percent owned by Comcast, 49 percent owned by GE and managed by Comcast. The ...
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EXCLUSIVE: It's the well-liked Rick Olshansky, head of all business affairs for the NBCU TV studio and network and who reported to Marc Graboff. Not anymore. They let Olshansky go yesterday even though a long time was left on his contract. "He's a really good guy who basically just got a bullet ...
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AP sources say Comcast's NBC Universal stake will cost $13.75 billion in cash and assets.
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UPDATES About Hollywood's Coming-Out PR Guru
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, he says: "The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It ...
