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Beverly Hills, CA ? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Yes, she's in the Twilight movies. But right now she's best known within the Industry as the actress who steals the probable Oscar nominated Up In The Air. This is the time of year when the major agencies hunt for awards-touted talent. [...]
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Number of comments: 3 UPDATES: Oprah Promises Cable Show "Smaller & Different"; Wants Biz In LA Not Chicago; "Why Would Anybody Stay? It's Freezing Here, And I Have A Mansion In Montecito That I Haven't Been Able To Enjoy"
Hollywood is convinced her decision was all about the bottom line. (After all local TV stations [...]
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Number of comments: 9 NEW: Oprah Says "Much Prayer And Months Of Careful Thought" Led To Her Decision
UPDATES TOLDJA! Oprah Exits Syndication In 2011
UPDATES THE END OF 'OPRAH': Daytime Diva Giving Up Syndie Talk Show
EXCLUSIVE: This morning I have more information behind the scenes and about the future of the daytime diva's decision to end [...]
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"PHENOMENAL! BREAKING RECORDS!" 'New Moon' Doing 'Dark Knight' Midnights
Here are New Moon anecdotal reports from theaters around North America (photos coming):
MIAMI - AMC SUNSET: The lines were impressive because the venue had a TWILIGHT Event. They showed TWILIGHT first at 9PM and then NEW MOON at midnight. The crowd was huge [...]
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Number of comments: 9 BREAKING NEWS! FRIDAY AM UPDATE: Summit Entertainment just announced its New Moon debuted with $26.27M in 12:01AM screenings from 3,514 theaters. That sets a new midnight opening record, smashing The Dark Knight's $18.4M on July 18, 2008, and Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince's $22.2M on July 15, 2009. (Summit's [...]
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Number of comments: 9 UPDATE (includes Harpo letter): Both Broadcasting & Cable & Variety, followed by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and every other media outlet just came out today with news headlines reporting what I did first on November 5th: That Oprah Winfrey will end her long-running talk show in 2011. They say [...]
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Number of comments: 9 UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. ? November 19, 2009 ? NBC's "Chuck" returns to the NBC lineup on Sunday, January 10 with back-to-back original episodes in its season premiere (9-11 p.m. ET) before the series -- starring Zachary Levi in the title role -- moves to its regular day and time (Mondays [...]
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Number of comments: 2 ABC announced today the premiere of the 6th and final season of Lost, with a special all-night event on February 2nd. A recap special will kick off the night from 8:00-9:00 PM ET, followed by the two-hour premiere from 9:00-11:00 PM. The series will then air in its regular time [...]
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Number of comments: 4 The comedian who writes, authors, produces, directs, acts and does stand-up has signed with ICM. He'll continue to be managed by 3 Arts Entertainment. [...]
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Number of comments: 9 These are all estimates. But in Australia today, NEW MOON's midnight results were the highest grossing midnight screening since STAR WARS: EPISODE 3 (which garnered $1.2M USD in May 2005). NEW MOON played on 466 screens and grossed a phenomenal $1.6M.
On Wednesday, NEW MOON launched No. 1 in France with [...]
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Number of comments: 9 You know I'm a shameless whore when it comes to videos mentioning me... But the 8th annual Junior Hollywood Radio and Television Society Holiday Party benefitting Feeding America on December 3rd is a good cause. The past two years have seen big increases in the JHRTS membership base, and the [...]
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Number of comments: 9 EXCLUSIVE: Here's the message Garth Ancier just sent to his staff. I can't say this is a surprise: I'd been hearing rumors to this effect. UPDATE: I've learned Ancier told BBC 5 months ago in July of his plans to step down.
This morning we will announce that I intend to step [...]
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Number of comments: 9 UPDATES EMAILS TELL THE STORY: A-List Board & Foundation Members Hiding From MPTF
Kevin Spacey has responded with this letter to me after I posted that email exchange between his London PR and an Independent UK journalist about the Motion Picture & Television Fund: [...]
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Number of comments: 9 On its first airing, the Peter Berg-produced Trauma drew just 6.9 million viewers and a 2.3 rating in the key 18-49 category. On the bright side, Trauma did build on its lackluster Heroes lead-in. Also, the reviews were disappointing, a backlash came from the Emergency Medical Services community, and a hefty pricetag made it one of NBC's most [...]
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Number of comments: 9 EXCLUSIVE: You know I'm insecure about my geek bonafides which I've been trying to improve in recent years. (Heck, I grew up never reading a single comic book.) But I'm aware that the Internet has been afloat with Spider-Man 4 casting rumors in recent days. While Sony Pictures insists no [...]
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Number of comments: 9 Beverly Hills, CA ? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Eighty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by [...]
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Number of comments: 2 The film is opening in about 1/4 as many territories as 2012 is already playing in its 2nd week. So don't expect the vampires and werewolves to beat the end of the world pic this weekend. New Moon will be in 75 territories total, rolling out from today through Sunday [...]
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Number of comments: 1 UPDATES Hollywood Thinks 'New Moon' Can Do 'Iron Man' Numbers
UPDATES Fandango: 'New Moon' #1 Advance Online Seller
Now MovieTickets.com says New Moon today became its No. 1 on its list of the Top 10 Advance Ticket Sellers of All Time. It unseated Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and film franchises including Harry [...]
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Number of comments: 9 UTA board member Tracey Jacobs made the announcement this morning to the agency that talent agents Billy Lazarus and Shani Rosenzweig have been promoted to the UTA partnership. Both joined the agency about 10 years ago. Lazarus, who reps clients such as Elizabeth Banks, Patrick Dempsey, Sigourney Weaver, Joseph Fiennes, Sandra [...]
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Number of comments: 7 It's for an 8th season, launching on February 19th, with new hour-long editions debuting Fridays at 9:00 PM (ET/PT) for the first time, followed by an encore presentation at 11:00 PM. [...]
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Number of comments: 3 UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. ? November 18, 2009 ? NBC will broadcast the "62nd Primetime Emmy® Awards" live on Sunday, August 29 (8-11 p.m. ET; other time zones delayed), it was announced today by Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios.
"NBC is excited to host television's [...]
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Number of comments: 3 News reports say DirecTV will announce today that Michael White, CEO of PepsiCo International and vice chairman of PepsiCo, will be the new No. 1 at DirecTV. White replaces Chase Carey, who left to become the No. 2 at News Corp. White will start in January and join DirecTV's board of directors. DirecTV is in [...]
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Number of comments: 5 UPDATES: Have Oscar Producers Found A Director? Negotiations Are Underway
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences just announced:
Beverly Hills, CA ? Hamish Hamilton will direct the 82nd Academy Awards® telecast, show producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today. It will be Hamilton?s first time directing the Oscar show.
?Hamish [...]
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Number of comments: 3 10:25 AM UPDATE: Final North America theater count for New Moon: 4,024. Estimated theater count for midnight shows: 3,500. Final theater count for Twilight re-issue: 2,057.
Of course Summit Entertainment is lowering expectations, privately saying that the Twilight sequel will do $85 million from 4,000+ theaters on Friday, including Thursday midnights. That's despite all [...]
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Deadline Hollywood's email alert functionality was buggy last night, to the point that it sent out 4 messages when I didn't even push the button to send out 1. I apologize for the annoyance. [...]
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Number of comments: 6 The only interesting part of this deal is that now CBS Films will compete with Paramount films. Look what Sumner Redstone's dunderhead decision to completely separate them into public companies has wrought. It's finally official that CBS Films is doing their own domestic theatrical and television distribution as well as [...]
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My favorite Graham King story starts with him valet parking cars in Santa Monica a long, long time ago. Now he makes movies with Marty and Leo and Johnny. Which is why hope springs eternal for Hollywood wannabes. Still, I've always considered the television biz way more cutthroat than the [...]
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