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Twentieth Century Fox has confirmed the widely expected promotion of studio veteran Emma Watts to president of production. For two years Watts had shared the job with Alex Young, who left last month to become a producer at the News...
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Emma Watts has emerged as the sole president of production for 20th Century Fox after sharing the job with Alex Young for two years. Young vacated his post this week after the partnership between them fizzled and will become a...
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20th Century Fox asked a federal district court in Delaware to dismiss the civil suit brought by Redbox, claiming that the antitrust claims raised by the maker of DVD-rental kiosks don't hold up under scrutiny. Redbox sued Fox on Aug....
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Start popping the popcorn: AMC Entertainment, the nation's second-largest theater operator, is moving back to Hollywood. The Kansas City, Mo., chain, which operates 307 theaters, said Thursday it will open a new film office in Century City to strengthen its...
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DVD rental company Redbox Automated Retail has sued 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment over its attempts to keep newly released titles from appearing in the $1-a-night vending kiosks for 30 days. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Delaware federal court, alleges...
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20th Century Fox is thinking outside the box. Redbox, that is: The studio has just told the DVD kiosk company that it can't have DVDs on launch day. Fox has instructed its DVD wholesalers not to sell discs to Redbox...
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Paramount Pictures is in talks with at least two of its competitors to merge some elements of its home video backroom operations, people briefed on the negotiations said. While negotiations are in a very preliminary stage, the Viacom-owned studio has...
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Gossip columnist Roger Friedman wants more than $5 million in lost wages and damages from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for firing him after he reviewed the company's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" based on a pirated copy of the movie. In a...
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20th Century Fox's high-profile stare-down with theater operators over who would pay for digital 3-D glasses to go with "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" has been settled. But the issues underlying the dispute will almost certainly flare up again....
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DirecTV Chief Executive Chase Carey is in talks to return to News Corp. as Rupert Murdoch's second in command, a person familiar with the matter confirmed. Murdoch has been courting Carey, once a trusted member of his inner circle, since...
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When Fox’s “Prison Break” ran its series finale last month, fans of the show were left wondering if the lead character was really dead. Their response was to go online and post a whole lot of “WTF?s” in chat rooms, fan sites and Twitter, using the Internet acronym for “what the f**k?” For 20th Century...
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Peter Rice may have been a genius when it came to making Fox Searchlight the most successful specialty film distributor in Hollywood with such breakout hits as "Slumdog Millionaire," "Juno" and "Little Miss Sunshine." But when it came to hitting...
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Former America Online Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is expected to join News Corp. in the newly-created position overseeing digital strategy, according to a person familiar with the situation. Miller is a well known figure in digital media, whose name was...
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Former FX and New Line marketing chief Chris Carlisle has been named president of Fox 21, the 20th Century Fox TV production unit behind “Sons of Anarchy” and “Beauty and the Geek.” Mr. Carlisle will be the first executive to hold a president’s title at Fox 21. The unit, which was founded in 2004 as...
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As Yoda would put it: In the premiere of Cartoon Network’s “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” limited will commercials be. The animated series from George Lucas launches this week, and EA Games and 20th Century Fox will be the lone sponsors. EA will be offering viewers a code to help them play its new game...