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Sundance 2013: 'Fruitvale' wins Grand Jury Prize
PARK CITY, Utah--"Fruitvale," a drama based on the real-life story of a young man shot to death at an Oakland BART station, took home the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night. The movie also won the Audience Award for U.S....
Tags: Film Festivals, Arts, Liz Garbus, Forest Whitaker, Ed Burns
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Participant hires execs for new cable channel: Kent Rees, Belisa Balaban, Ben McLean come onboard
VarietyParticipant Media has announced a new team of execs that will spearhead the summer launch of its yet-to-be-named cabler targeting millennials. Kent Rees has been tapped exec VP of marketing, scheduling and operations; Belisa Balaban, senior veep of...Tags: Current TV (tv network), AMC (tv network), Television, Satellite and Cable Service, Sundance Channel (tv network)
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Participant Media to create pro-social cable channel
Participant Media, the film company behind "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Charlie Wilson's War," has acquired two cable channels and plans to combine them to form a new network featuring programming with social themes. The channel, which does not yet have...
Tags: Current TV (tv network), OWN (tv network), Satellite and Cable Service, Oprah Winfrey, DirecTV Group Inc.
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Participant to launch new cable network: Evan Shapiro to head channel that will focus on social issues
VarietyCalling Participant Media's entry into the cable TV business "not an investment for the faint of heart," chairman Jeff Skoll says his shingle is bullish about launching a new network next summer. Having just bought out Documentary Channel and Halogen TV,...Tags: Television Industry, Demographics, Television, Matt Damon, Time Warner Cable Inc.
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2013 Grammy Award nominees
Indie-rock trio Fun. and R&B/hip-hop star Frank Ocean scored big in Grammy Award nominations, scoring six nods apiece mostly in the top Grammy categories. The Recording Academy announced the nominations Wednesday during a show in Nashville. The 55th...Tags: Dave Brubeck, Bruce Springsteen, Carrie Underwood, David Byrne, Maxwell
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2012 Grammy Nominations
KTLA News1. Record Of The Year Lonely Boy The Black Keys The Black Keys & Danger Mouse, producers; Tom Elmhirst & Kennie Takahashi, engineers/mixers; Brian Lucey, mastering engineer Track from: El Camino [Nonesuch] Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) Kelly Clarkson...Tags: Beyonce, Dave Brubeck, Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, Carrie Underwood
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Governors Awards: Jeffrey Katzenberg's phone skills revealed
They all talk about the phone calls — Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks. What binds them is the relentless prodding they’ve all received from Hollywood’s most bullish fundraiser, Jeffrey Katzenberg. At the fourth-annual...
Tags: Animation (genre), John Lasseter, Jason Clarke, Aretha Franklin, Arts
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'Won't Back Down' review: It's that easy!
** (out of four) “Inspired by actual events,” reads the opening of “Won't Back Down,” which feels inspired but not by actual events. Armed only with rah-rah determination, this drama presents the troubled school system merely as a...
Tags: Rosie Perez, Charter Schools, Viola Davis, Teaching and Learning, Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Toronto giving docus Gala treatment: Toronto Int'l Film Festival 2012
VarietyNever in the history of the Toronto Intl. Film Festival has a non-music based doc been included in TIFF's prestigious Gala Presentations lineup. That changes this year, as not just one but two documentaries, Liz Garbus' "Love, Marilyn" and Shola Lynch's...Tags: Toronto International Film Festival, Marilyn Monroe, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liz Garbus, Robert Redford
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'Looper' in the loop to open Toronto: 'Cloud Atlas,' 'Much Ado,' 'Hyde Park' among fest screeners
Variety"Looper," helmer Rian Johnson's time-travel thriller starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt, will open the 2012 Toronto Film Festival with a genre groove echoing the populist tone set by 2011 opener "From the Sky Down," Davis...Tags: Noah Baumbach, Mike Newell, Bradley Cooper, Javier Bardem, Tom Tykwer
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Trailer released for Obama campaign documentary [Video]
In a campaign thus far dominated by 30-second ads and debate sound bites, President Obama's reelection effort is taking a more expansive approach is it begins making its case to voters in earnest.
Obama 2012 on Thursday released a two-minute trailer...Tags: Osama bin Laden, Rahm Emanuel, Tom Hanks, Mitt Romney, White House
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