August 2009 - Posts

Writers Guild Presidential Candidate John Wells calls out Verrone by Company Town

John Wells fired back at the outgoing president of the Writers Guild of America, West, accusing Patric M. Verrone of lying about his involvement in last year's contract negotiations. Verrone and John Bowman, who chaired the guild's negotiating...
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Station Fire threatens station towers by Company Town

The Station Fire continued its unimpeded march up Mt. Wilson, home to the bulk of transmitting towers for Los Angeles' local television stations as well as about a dozen FM radio stations. Should the fire knock out the TV towers,...
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Academy to use preferential voting to pick best picture by Company Town

Get out the calculator -- Oscar voting just got more complicated. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today took the long expected step to ensure that this year's best picture winner won't be hated by 90% of its...
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Marvel characters tied up in numerous movie, TV, theme park and video game deals by Company Town

Just because Walt Disney Co.is buying Marvel Entertainment doesn't mean that Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America will be showing at the studio's human resources office to fill out their W-4s anytime soon. Many of Marvel's best-known characters...
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Don't look for surge of deals in wake of Disney-Marvel by Company Town

The ink isn't even on dry on Walt Disney Co.'s just-announced $4-billion stock and cash deal to acquire Marvel Entertainment, and speculation is already starting as to whether a new round of consolidation is about to start. The usual suspects...
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Disney-Marvel union will bring plenty of costume changes by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Business

By Steven Zeitchik The news this morning that Disney was buying Marvel for $4 billion in cash and stock elicited the reaction that acquisitions of this kind and size usually elicit: shock, followed by the (reflexive) nodding that this "makes... Read...
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The Morning Fix: Disney buys Marvel; Robinov to be renewed by Warner Bros.; Viacom's Beatle bet; Paris Hilton in Dubai by Company Town

After the coffee. Before deciding if your Marvel Comics just shot up in value. Disney buys Marvel. Walt Disney Co. announced a deal this morning to buy Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion. Marvel's characters include Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain...
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Disney to acquire Marvel in deal worth $4 billion by Company Town

The Walt Disney Co. today announced that it had agreed to acquire comic-book giant Marvel Entertainment, creator of such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man, in a cash-and-stock deal worth an estimated $4 billion. The acquisition would give Disney access...
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Viacom hoping the Beatles will change its money-losing ways in video games by Company Town

After spending over $325 million, Viacom is ready to start making money on video games. That's exactly what the conglomerate will start doing, executives say, with this fall's The Beatles: Rock Band, a pricey and high profile new addition to....
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No Fiction? 'Basterds' may become highest grossing QT pic by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Business

By Steven Zeitchik It's still not likely, but 10 days into the release of "Inglourious Basterds," there's an outside chance the WWII pic could become Quentin Tarantino's biggest grosser ever. The revenge-fantasy/character ensemble...
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Moviegoers line up for horror films; 'Final Destination' gets big 3-D boost by Company Town

The battle of the horror films produced one big winner and no real losers this weekend. "The Final Destination" landed at No. 1 with a healthy $28.3-million take, according to studio estimates."Halloween II" came in well behind, with...
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'Halloween 3D' coming in summer 2010 by Company Town

"Halloween II" may not have won the box office this weekend, but Weinstein Co. is taking a lesson from the movie that did as it prepares a sequel for next summer. The independent studio's co-Chairman Bob Weinstein said today that...
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First look: 'Final Destination' arrives at No. 1; 'Basterds' beats 'Halloween' by Company Town

Warner Bros. won a head-to-head horror battle with the Weinstein Co. at the box office as "The Final Destination" easily beat the competition this weekend, earning a studio-estimated $28.3 million. "Halloween II," meanwhile, sold ...
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Why can't Ang Lee catch a break? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Business

By Steven Zeitchik Poor Ang Lee. The last four years have seen the versatile helmer do some of his best work of his career (which is saying something). And yet the American movie gods have sprinkled on the rain. The... Read More...
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Opening day: 'Final Destination' scares up bigger Friday than 'Halloween,' 'Basterds' by Company Town

What looked like a close weekend at the box office is shaping up to be an easy victory for "The Final Destination," as the fourth movie in Warner Bros.' horror series easily beat the competition Friday. Helped by the 53%...
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