Thursday, February 24, 2011

Pic tix drop but 3D pops, Backstory: How 'Breakout Kings' found new life at A&E, more

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TODAY'S TOP STORIES
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Pic tix drop but 3D pops
Biz sets global box office record in 2010
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Backstory: How 'Breakout Kings' found new life at A&E
Fox had originally passed on the pilot
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Cablers seek wedded blitz
TV nets all over Prince William, Kate Middleton wedding
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Blockbuster owes some late fees to the studios
Studios say vidtailer owes nearly $40 mil
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TODAY'S FILM NEWS
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MPTF to maintain long-term care facility
The Motion Picture and Television Fund will keep its long-term care
facility open, reversing its two-year-old plan to shutter the Woodland
Hills facility.
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Chris Columbus to remake 'Hello Ghost'
Chris Columbus will remake the Korean pic "Hello Ghost," directed by
Kim Young-Tak, via his 1492 Pictures.
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Wilson, Marsden eye 'Loft' space
Patrick Wilson and James Marsden are in talks to star in the indie
thriller "Loft," Anonymous Content's remake of the 2008 Belgian
picture.
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Stephen Root cast in 'J. Edgar'
Stephen Root has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood's Leonardo DiCaprio
starrer "J. Edgar," in production for Warner Bros.
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TODAY'S TELEVISION NEWS
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'Idol' still scoring for Fox
Despite the biggest changes in the show's nine-year run, the beat goes
on for "American Idol."
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Cable toppers chat biz at HRTS lunch
Cable network toppers remain appreciative of their broadcast
counterparts because they help fill their own programming pipelines.
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ABC exec moving on
Jim Murphy, ABC's senior exec producer on "Good Morning America," is
leaving the program for Anderson Cooper's upcoming syndie skein.
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DirecTV reports record quarter
Nobody is cutting the cord at DirecTV, that's for sure. The satellite
company said Wednesday that it added 677,000 new subscribers in the
period ending Dec. 31, marking its best quarter in a decade.
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TODAY'S MUSIC NEWS
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Bieber leads Grammy surge on charts
Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never: The Remixes" vaults to No. 1 on the
U.S. album chart this week, as sales in the rest of the top 10 are
lofted by the Grammys telecast.
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Linkin Park, U.N. talk relief efforts
Politics made for typically strange bedfellows Tuesday as rap-rock
hybrid group Linkin Park and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
convened for a discussion on efforts to rebuild Haiti after the 2010
earthquake.
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TODAY'S LEGIT NEWS
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Bedford, Houdyshell to join 'Earnest'
Brian Murray and Jayne Houdyshell are among the thesps stepping into
roles in the Roundabout Theater Company's Broadway revival of "The
Important of Being Earnest."
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Last-minute 'Heart' transplant
Okay, now we're full up.
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Two lined up for Second Stage Uptown
A pair of world preems, Michael Mitnick's "Sex Lives of Our Parents"
and Anna Kerrigan's "The Talls," are on tap for the 2011 summer season
of Second Stage Theater Uptown.
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TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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Venice fest lowers prices, improves services
The Venice Film Festival is finally making a push to become more
competitively priced and user-friendly.
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Frankfurt launches Content for Films
The Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's biggest book and content biz
confab, is creating Content for Films, a two-day program targeting
film and TV producers.
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Fox Retro scores nostalgic high
Two years after its launch in Italy, Fox Intl. Channels' Fox Retro
station is proving a top draw on Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia paybox,
leading to the likely launch of FIC's vintage skeins station elsewhere
in Europe.
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Endemol expands int'l ops
Endemol Worldwide Distribution is expanding its international
operations by opening offices in Miami and Moscow.
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TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY NEWS
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Brightcove pacts with LG
LG Electronics, like all the major TV manufacturers, is filling up its
new flatscreens with iPhone-like programs.
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Ushio inks deals for 3D projectors
Ushio, a leading maker of lighting-related equipment, has inked a deal
with Japanese exhibs Warner Mycal and Shochiku to supply 3D-capable
digital cinema projectors (DCP) to all their theaters by 2012.
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