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Upfronts Show Cracks in the Facade of Networks
VarietyForgive the major broadcast networks for feeling a bit like the evil "Queen in Snow White" and the Seven Dwarfs these days. When asking their Magic Mirror for positive reinforcement, the answer is seldom completely satisfying. Still the fairest of them...Tags: Bowl Championship Series, Television Industry, Bible, The CW (tv network), Television
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After 'Gatsby' sank at Sony, it swam to Warner Bros.
It may seem strange that anybody would pass on financing a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. But when Baz Luhrmann was trying to make “The Great Gatsby,” with the “Titanic” star cast in the lead role, every studio in town said no...
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Talent Agency IPO: Could It Happen?
VarietyWith private-equity money backing CAA and WME, itâs no surprise that both agencies are the subject of IPO rumors. But while the U.S. economyâs slow recovery from the 2008 financial crisis is among factors that have increased investorsâ appetites,...Tags: Financing and Stock Offerings, FTI Consulting Inc., Initial Public Offerings, Cinema Industry, Relativity Media
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'Willy Wonka' director Mel Stuart dies at 83
VarietyMel Stuart, who directed 1971 children's classic "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," among more than 180 producing or helming efforts in a career that spanned more than five decades, died Thursday, Aug. 9, from cancer in Los Angeles. He was 83....Tags: Richard Pryor, Music Industry, William Friedkin, Nazi Party, Cancer
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Vega a go to star in 'Standby Lovers': Role reteams Spanish thesp with Pedro Almodovar
VarietySpanish thesp Paz Vega is set to reteam with her "Talk to Her" helmer Pedro Almodovar on his new film, "Standby Lovers." Vega joins Jose Maria Yazpik ("The Burning Plain") and Javier Camara in the romantic comedy, whose logline the filmmaker is not...Tags: Pedro Almodovar, Javier Camara, Wanted (movie), Jose Maria Yazpik, Paz Vega
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TV producer Lillian Gallo dies at 84
VarietyTelevision producer Lillian Gallo, perhaps best known for critically acclaimed 1975 telepic "Hustling," based on Gail Sheehy's book on prostitution in America, died June 6 at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, Calif., of Alzheimer's...Tags: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Connie Stevens, Television Industry, Valerie Harper, The Pentagon
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Oscars by the Numbers
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Woo Hoo! FOX orders two more seasons of "The Simpsons"
FOX has renewed THE SIMPSONS, the longest-running comedy in television history, for an incredible 24th and 25th season, bringing the series total to an astonishing 559 episodes. THE SIMPSONS airs Sundays (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
In the words of...Tags: American League, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Andy Rooney, The Simpsons (tv program), Television
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Dick Van Dyke helps PBS recall television's view of American life
Zap2ItLovers of classic television always are game to hear the people who made it talk about it. After its two "Pioneers of Television" documentaries, PBS returns to that turf with "America in Primetime," a four-week series filled with familiar actors and...Tags: Mary Tyler Moore, Television, CBS Corp., Steven Bochco, Roseanne Barr
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Polly Platt dies at 72; Oscar-nominated art director
Polly Platt, the Oscar-nominated production designer of such films as "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endearment" and producer of "Broadcast News" and "Say Anything," has died. She was 72.
Platt died Wednesday of Lou Gehrig's disease at her home in...Tags: John Wade, Wes Anderson, Arts, Diseases and Illnesses, Peter Bogdanovich
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Dakota Johnson takes the plunge in Oliver Peoples' latest short
All The RageOliver Peoples debuted the Lisa Eisner-directed short film "Float" at the center of its spring and summer 2012 advertising campaign at a star-studded Chateau Marmont cocktail party on April 20 that included Ray Liotta, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken,... -
Laura Ziskin dies at 61; 'Spider-Man' producer
When disagreements between some of Hollywood's most powerful people began to roil plans for a fourth "Spider-Man" movie several years ago, some in the entertainment industry were advising filmmakers to walk away.
But Laura Ziskin, the franchise's...Tags: Chemotherapy, Barbra Streisand, University of Southern California, Sally Field, Celebrities
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