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Animator Dick Sutcliffe dies at 90 (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Created 'Davey and Goliath' -- Richard Towne "Dick" Sutcliffe, who created religious claymation TV show "Davey and Goliath" along with Art Clokey and Ruth Clokey Goodell, died May 11 in Dallas of complications from a stroke. He was 90. |
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Univision VOD loses its spice (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Televisa seeks to end its content deal -- U.S. Spanish-language web Univision is set to bow its video-on-demand service in January, but Mexican conglom Televisa's hit content won't be on board. |
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Netco MediaPass acquires Gigantic (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: New media company aims at broadband, mobile -- Netco MediaPass has acquired Gigantic, a shingle founded by musicvid and blurb helmer Kevin Kerslake, and the merged entity has created a series of skeins for broadband and mobile distribution. |
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Australia hands out music awards (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Feist's '1 2 3 4' nominated for Song of the Year -- Canadian singer Feist's catchy "1 2 3 4," co-written by Aussie Sally Seltmann, drew a mention for Song of the Year as nominees for the Australian Performing Rights Assn. awards were released Thursday local time. |
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AFTRA holds firm on online clips (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: June 30 contract expiration looms -- Hopes for the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists closing a primetime deal with the majors soon have started to vanish, with a June 30 contract expiration looming. |
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American Idol: And the winner is... (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: It's the moment we have all been waiting for. The tears, the drama, the singing, the horrible, horrible medleys have come to a close. Count down with us from the Nokia Theater as we find out who is the next "American Idol." |
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Napster trims fourth quarter loss (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Famed music site begins selling MP3 downloads -- Napster, still struggling to find a toehold in the legal digital music biz, narrowed its fiscal fourth quarter loss to $4.3 million from $8.5 million during the year-ago period. |
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Berlin Mayor to expand Film Fund (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Federal coin proving stalwart to local economies -- Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who also doubles as culture minister, is a big supporter of the local film industry. But unlike with many other politicians, it's not just talk -- he's in favor of expanding the $90 million-a-year German Federal Film Fund, which caused an explosion in shooting in the Berlin area. |
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Che (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: No doubt it will be back to the drawings board for "Che," Steven Soderbergh's intricately ambitious, defiantly non-dramatic four-hour eighteen-minute presentation of scenes from the life of revolutionary icon Che Guevara. |
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God's Offices (Les bureaux de dieu) (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Writer-helmer Claire Simon's docu roots decisively win the battle over her dramatic inclinations in "God's Offices," an initially intriguing but finally pointless assembly of interviews with women seeking advice at a family-planning center. |
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ShowStash to pay studios $2.7 million (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Website found guilty of violating copyrights -- Website ShowStash.com is guilty of violating movie copyrights and must pay a total $2.7 million in damages to studios, the Motion Picture of Assn. announced Wednesday. |
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Florence festival visits New York (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Event to hit Big Apple on May 29 - 31 -- Florence?s Int?l Documentary Film Fest, which has been around for half a century in Italy, visits New York for the first time May 29-31 at Staten Island?s Snug Harbor Cultural Center. |
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Cannes' Turkish delight (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: New wave of filmmakers tempt buyers -- Turkish film promoters have been inundated with requests from international festival programmers and buyers for movies from the country's new wave of young, energetic directors as world interest builds in the country's cinema. |
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Stars in with Clint (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Jolie, Pitt, and more attend 'Changeling' gala -- After Clint Eastwood?s ?Changeling? gala debut Tuesday, it was wall-to wall critics at the official black-tie dinner at La Palme d? |
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Marguerite (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: When characters in a musical are reduced to singing the cliche: "Lost are the songs we could have sung," it's a worry. When that lament is followed by the line, "Where are those melodies now?" it borders on the hubristic. |
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Linde, Grass map overseas venture (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Local executives to call the shots -- Universal?s co-chair David Linde and head of overseas production, Christian Grass, touted the studio?s international efforts on an American Pavilion panel moderated by Variety?s Timothy M. |
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Qatar gets into film biz with 'Rumi' (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Project budgeted at $25 million -- The gas-rich Gulf state of Qatar is getting into the international film biz with "Rumi -- The Fire of Love," an English-language biopic of Rumi, the 13th century Persian poet and a founder of Sufism, with Deepak Chopra on board as script consultant. |
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Cannes focus on Wild Bunch (May 22 2008 04:53 GMT) - Web Exclusive: Company has 'Che,' 'Christmas Tale,' 'Lovers' -- As Cannes winds down, all eyes are on Wild Bunch, the freewheeling French sales company that has expanded into film financing of global productions in many languages around the world. |
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