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National Lampoon CEO gets 45 months for conspiracy
(AP)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
AP - The former CEO of entertainment company National Lampoon Inc. has been sentenced in Philadelphia to nearly four years in prison in a stock price manipulation scheme.
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Stephen King's "Tower" gets film, TV treatment
(Reuters)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Reuters - Stephen King's epic fantasy series "The Dark Tower" is being turned into a film and television franchise by the Oscar-winning team behind "A Beautiful Mind."
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Hong Kong model arrested after Nevada desert event
(AP)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
AP - A Hong Kong fashion model was busted on felony drug charges at the Burning Man counterculture festival in Nevada and crashed her rented motor home into Reno's landmark arch the next day, authorities said Wednesday.
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Venice: Tsui revives Chinese hero Detective Dee
(AP)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
AP - Hong Kong's action film master Tsui Hark returns to the big screen with "Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame", a new cloak-and-dagger martial arts blockbuster set in the Tang dynasty.
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Zhang Yimou romance to open Pusan Film Festival
(AP)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
AP - Zhang Yimou's new romance will kick off the 15th edition of Asia's leading film festival, and Oliver Stone and Juliette Binoche will be among the event's guests, organizers said.
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Ronald Reagan movie planned for 2011
(Reuters)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Reuters - The story of Ronald Reagan's life -- from boyhood to Hollywood actor to leader of the free world -- is about to spill out on the big screen in a way quite different from the miniseries that caused such a stir seven years ago.
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Disney hires new marketing guru for "Pirates 4"
(Reuters)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Reuters - Disney has taken the unusual step of bringing in a consultant to handle the marketing of its fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" film, a move bound to raise questions about the marketing boss hired by the hit-starved studio five months ago.
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Ken Burns hits again with new baseball documentary
(Reuters)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Reuters - It's not a Telluride Film Festival without documentarian Ken Burns greeting festivalgoers and filmmakers on the streets.
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Zhang Ziyi to star as Mulan in English production
(AP)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
AP - The folk story of an ancient Chinese woman who replaces her father in battle will get its second live-action adaptation in recent years — this time in English starring Zhang Ziyi.
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Venice film sets love story amid Chile's 1973 coup
(Reuters)
Monday, September 06, 2010
Reuters - "Post Mortem", a Chilean film premiering at the Venice festival on Sunday, sets a doomed love story between a morgue worker and a dancer against the backdrop of the 1973 military coup that toppled Salvador Allende.
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