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Warner Bros. Wraps 'Smallville' Lawsuit By Settling with Writers
Miles Millar and Alfred Gough had claimed millions of dollars in damages over the way WBTV handled financials on the long-running Superman series.read more
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TiVo Loses Less Money Than Predicted
The DVR pioneer records a $10.3 million loss on $82.6 million in revenue while adding an impressive number of subscribers.read more
Village Roadshow Invests In Irresistible Films
Village Roadshow Entertainment Group Asia has become an investor and partner in Hong Kong-based Irresistible Films L.P. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday at Cannes, were not disclosed. Greg Basser,...
Cannes Film Review: ‘A Castle in Italy’
The helmer's third semi-autobiographical feature touches on themes of mortality and middle-aged panic in a mostly breezy, intelligent style.
The Doors Keyboardist Ray Manzarek Dies at 74
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74.
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WGA Sets 'Fashion Police' Rally at E! Headquarters
The action supports the month-old strike and is part of a larger strategy to unionize unscripted programming.read more
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CBS Wraps TV Season With Landmark Demo Win, Fox Tumbles With 'Idol'
With just days left to the May sweep, the 2012-13 season finishes with CBS pulling top bragging rights among adults 18-49 for the first time since 1991 -- and fatigued reality properties dragging the ...
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Ray Manzarek, Founding Member of The Doors, Dies at 74
The keyboardist, whose snaky Vox organ solos were as much a part of the band's sound as Jim Morrison’s Beat poet vocals, met Morrison while they both attended UCLA’s film school in the early ‘60...
How Tumblr Animated ABC’s ‘Billboard Music Awards’ in Real Time
On the eve of Yahoo’s announcement to acquire the blogging site, Tumblr staged its first live TV integration with ABC’s “Billboard Music Awards” Sunday night — posting animated GIFs to the s...
VH1 Announces Theatrical Release Dates for Alex Winter's Napster Doc 'Downloaded'
Following its showings at SXSW in Austin and Hot Docs in Toronto, VH1 is taking its original documentary "Downloaded" to theaters. The film, which is directed by Alex Winter (yes, Bill of "Bill & ...
Studios Eye Pinterest to Sell Movie Tickets
Retailers are buzzing over Pinterest’s ability to boost sales for their businesses. But Hollywood’s remained mostly silent about its potential to fill movie theater seats. For now.
Jane Lynch Adds Box Office Interest to Broadway ‘Annie’
Spring sales on Broadway continued to bloom last week, with moderate rises at most shows punctuated by standout spikes including one at musical revival “Annie,” coinciding with the addition of “...
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Bonnier Acquires Source Interlink's Motorcycle Titles, Sells TransWorld Group
Less than a week after divesting itself of Parenting and Babytalk magazines, Bonnier is moving ahead with its new testosterone-fueled game plan. Today, the company announced that it had acquired nin...
Foresight CEO Mark Damon Looks Back at Cannes
Foresight CEO and chairman Mark Damon first came to Cannes in the mid-1970s as an acquisitions executive. This year, Damon is celebrating Sony’s multi-territory deal for his Neil Bogart biopic “Sp...
7 Ways Cannes Has Changed: Fest Vet Gordon Steel Remembers
Gordon Steel first came to Cannes as a buyer’s rep for Germany’s Scotia Films in 1982 and has been back almost every year since. With clients including Portugal’s Zon Lusomundo, Ster...
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Eminem's Music Publisher Suing Facebook (Exclusive)
Rather than pulling down an advertisement that allegedly incorporated an Eminem song, the defendant's lawyers attacked hip-hop legend Dr. Dre for stealing from Michael Jackson.read more
Worst National Anthem Flub Ever? Canadian Singer Makes Up Nonsensical Lyrics (Video)
What do you do when you're singing the U.S. national anthem at a hockey game and you don't know the words? Make up new words, of course. That's precisely what Alexis Normand, Canadian singer (...
Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally Drive Their Kids Into the Woods in 'Kings of Summer' Red Band Trailer (Video)
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are hilariously annoying parents in the red band trailer for upcoming indie comedy "The Kings of Summer." In fact, the real-life married couple are so annoyi...
'American Chopper's' Paul Teutul Sr. Lands New CMT Series 'Orange County Choppers'
Discovery Channel's "American Chopper" star Paul Teutul Sr. is returning to television on a new series for CMT. Pilgrim studios will produce eight episodes of the one-hour unscripted sho...
Scribe Jon Vitti Flocks to Sony’s ‘Angry Birds’
Sony has tapped “The Simpsons” and “King of the Hill” comedy writer Jon Vitti to pen a screenplay for the studio’s upcoming 3D toon based on the Angry Birds app from Rovi...

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