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Germany's New Cinema Hope: 'Oh Boy' Director Jan Ole Gerster
Critics hail Gerster's b&w debut, tipped to beat "Cloud Atlas" at Germany's Lolas awards on Friday, as the film of his generation. read more
IFC Teams With BuzzFeed For Movie Programming Initiative (Exclusive)
IFC has partnered with BuzzFeed for “BuzzFeed Block,” a Saturday night movie programming block that offers a BuzzFeed list created exclusively for IFC’s website to complement each br...
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Disney Channel's Bella Thorne Inks YA Book Deal
The "Shake It Up" actress will co-write the multi-book series "Autumn Falls" about a girl whose life is transformed by magic.read more
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'Vampire Diaries': Claire Holt on Rebekah's 'Originals' Dilemma and a Finale 'Shocker'
"I read the last two scripts of the season and I was almost overwhelmed by the scale of them," Holt tells THR of remaining season-four episodes.read more
Kinosmith Kicks Off Hot Docs Sales
TORONTO — On the eve of the 20th edition of Hot Docs, Kinosmith has sparked sales action nabbing Canuck rights to world-preeming opener “The Manor” and to Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Sundance...
YouTube Yuks It Up with Comedy Week Stunt
YouTube has lined up more than 40 comedians, actors and digital comedy producers for its first Comedy Week, a weeklong online event to run May 19-25. There is no advertising opportunity with vidsite&#...
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YouTube to Hold First Star-Studded Comedy Week
The week-long event, featuring Vince Vaughn, Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, Ed Helms and Ken Jeong, will kick off May 19 with a worldwide live show.read more
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The 'Bible' Effect and the Resurrection of TV Miniseries
Fox's "Shogun," FX's "Fargo" and Lifetime/History's "Bonnie & Clyde" are bringing life back to a genre once considered dead.read more
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Cannes: StudioCanal, Aardman Animations Team Up for 'Shaun The Sheep' Film
Mark Burton and Richard Starzak will co-write and direct the claymation feature based on characters from the Oscar-winning short "A Close Shave."read more
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Imax First-Quarter Earnings Rise Despite Fewer Theater Installations
The giant-screen exhibitor is looking ahead to the international release of "Iron Man 3."read more
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Time Warner Cable First-Quarter Financials Rise, TV Subs Decline
The second-largest U.S. cable operator lost 119,000 residential TV customers, more than in the same period a year ago. read more
TV Review: ‘Family Tools’
Poor Kyle Bornheimer. He’s rifled through failed sitcoms on so many different networks he’s actually begun to recycle. So after his last ABC stop in “Romantically Challenged,” he’s b...
‘The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius,’ ‘Karma’s a B*tch!’
Two Discovery networks trot out new shows this week, each with marketable titles: “The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius” on flagship Discovery; and “Karma’s a B*tch!” on the alw...
Aardman, Studiocanal Team On ‘Shaun the Sheep’
PARIS — U.K. shingle Aardman Animations and film-TV group Studiocanal, Europe’s biggest movie producer-financier, are teaming on “Shaun the Sheep,” a toonpic that marks the big-screen debu...
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BBC Boss Proposes New Severance Pay Cap
"These are difficult economic times for people across the country, and the BBC is not immune from them," Tony Hall says.read more
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Time Warner CEO: 'Nobody' Will Pay for Aereo Service
Jeff Bewkes also answers latest questions about the competition from Netflix after the streaming video service passed HBO in its U.S. subscriber count. read more
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'Breaking Bad', 'Homeland' Compete With Euro Stars at Monte Carlo TV Festival
Danish series "Borgen" and "The Killing" and Britain's "Downton Abbey" and "Dr. Who" are also among the nominees for the international television festival.read more
Are Hollywood Millionaires Ruining Kickstarter? Let's Ask the Internet
Twitter exploded Wednesday with the news that Zach Braff, former "Scrubs" star and emo "Garden State" director, had launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his next movie in the wa...
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'Iron Man 3' Premiere: Robert Downey Jr. Mingles With Marvel Royalty
Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Joss Whedon hit the red carpet.
Film Review: ‘Iron Man 3′
Despite the inevitable franchise fatigue, this solid production still delivers more than enough of what fans expect.

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