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Indies Featuring Zac Efron, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey Crowd the Early Summer Box Office
Summer means popcorn movies, superheroes and sequels at the box office. But before the season begins, specialty labels jockey to get their films into prime counter-programming position, and this week ...
NBC Primes Nonstop Reality Show ‘Million Second Quiz’
NBC will keep the clock ticking 24 hours a day for 12 days straight with “The Million Second Quiz,” a stress-inducing combo reality/trivia competition show aimed at engaging audiences on TV and on...
Zach Braff Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Fund 'Garden State' Follow Up
Zach Braff is going on the internet hat in hand with the hopes of raising $2 million to fund his follow-up to "Garden State." The "Scrubs" star said he was inspired to solicit dona...
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Screenvision Adopting TV Approach to Selling Ads in Movie Theaters
One of the big companies putting advertising on movie screens hopes to entice ad buyers with guarantees, better pricing and new services like Shazam.read more
Feng’s ‘Back to 1942′ Wins In Beijing
BEIJING — China’s most popular helmer Feng Xiaogang scooped the best feature film award at the Beijing Intl. Film Festival for his famine pic “Back to 1942,” as the third editi...
Watch: Emma Watson Wants to "Lead a Country" in First Full Trailer for Sofia Coppola's 'The Bling Ring'
It's the final stretch until the June 14th release of Sofia Coppola's newest exploration of nihilism, material excess, and Los Angeles, the based-on-true-events "The Bling Ring," and the first ful...
Stephen Colbert: Chris Christie in Deep Scooby-Doo Doo Over Lie (Video)
It isn't very often that the news media is able to catch a politician in a flat-out lie -- but that's what Stephen Colbert says happened when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told a 4-year-old c...
Zach Braff Launches Kickstarter Push For Feature
Zach Braff has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $2 million in 30 days from fans to fund production of the feature drama “Wish I Was Here.” Braff plans to star and direct from a screenp...
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The China Clusterf--k: Is Hollywood Fed Up?
Erratic decisions, murky agendas: Frustrated studios are up against a not-so-secret agenda of the world's second-biggest box office market as they try to build their own entertainment studio system.re...
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CNN Films Snaps Up Richard Nixon Documentary (Exclusive)
Penny Lane's "Our Nixon" -- made up of intimate home videos shot by aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman -- will debut in August.read more
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Cole Hauser Joins Johnny Depp in 'Transcendence' (Exclusive)
Christopher Nolan is executive producing the heady sci-fi thriller. read more
Nicole Kidman, Christoph Waltz and Ang Lee Included on Steven Spielberg's Cannes Jury
With Steven Spielberg heading this year's Cannes jury, the festival has pulled out all the stops to have him be joined by some of the biggest names in film. Early this morning, the Cannes officials an...
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Humphrey Bogart Film Fest to Honor Jack Huston (Exclusive)
The “Boardwalk Empire” star is the grandson of screen legend John Huston, who had a long creative partnership with Bogie. read more
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Motion Picture Museum: $2.5 Million Buys You a Green Room
David Geffen's $25 million theater was just the beginning as the $300 million project hits a new, aggressive fund-raising phase that includes multiple naming rights.read more
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Tribeca: A Crazy, Freezing Month in the Wild With John Slattery and Friends
The "Mad Men" actor headed north with Broadway star Amy Morton to make the movie "Bluebird," and got lessons in directing from an unexpected source.read more
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Zach Braff Explains Why He Turned to Kickstarter for New Indie Film
Braff tells THR that he turned to Kickstarter over financiers because, "When you’re trying to make these smaller personal art films, the idea of giving final cut away to someone else, it doesn’t m...
Tonys Tap Four to Receive Special 2013 Honors (EXCLUSIVE)
Veteran legiters William Craver and Peter Lawrence, nonprofit org Career Transition For Dancers and North Carolina’s long-running historical drama “The Lost Colony” are set to receive the 2013 T...
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Visa and Fandango Mobilize Buying Movie Tickets
Visa and Fandango today are extending their three-year digital partnership with a feature called Tixpress in the latter company's mobile app. In a promotion running through August, Visa Signatur...
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'Tonight Show's' NYC Move To Save NBC $20 Million in Tax Credits
A THR analysis shows that while producing Jimmy Fallon's show at "30 Rock" will cost more, the difference will be handily offset by incentives.read more
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Robert Redford: Great Britain 'Has Better Support for Arts' Than the U.S.
The actor, in London for the sophmore edition of the Sundance London film and music festival, also says he is a big fan of rock band The Eagles.read more

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