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12 Entertainment Books You Should Read This Summer
Yes, Virginia, there is something other than "Fifty Shades of Grey" to tote to the beach this summer. Here are 12 books about the entertainment industry worth loading onto your iPad, Nook or Kindle or...
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Morgan Freeman Sounds Off On Religion, Aliens and Batman
Morgan Freeman exudes gravitas. He has played the president and God. His name is almost synonymous with authority. So as he patiently explains that aliens might be traveling to Earth to eat us, you...
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President Obama Rallies Hollywood's Gay Community With Help From Some Famous...
President Obama made his second campaign stop in Los Angeles in as many months on Wednesday, capitalizing on the goodwill he gained from his recent marriage-equality endorsement with two fund-raisers...
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CBS Is Making Great Efforts To Shatter ABC's 'Big Brother' Replica 'The Glass...
CBS asked a judge to issue a temporary restraining order to keep ABC's "Glass House" off the air until CBS' case accusing it off ripping off its own "Big Brother" can go to trial. In a motion filed...
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Director Peter Berg Admits He Wasn't Passionate About Making 'Battleship'
"Battleship," the high-concept but underperforming action film released by Universal earlier this year, made a surprise appearance in discussions about risky movies and passion projects at the...
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Warner Bros. TV Is Buying Alloy Entertainment
Warner Bros. Television Group is buying Alloy Entertainment, with which it already collaborates on shows including "Gossip Girl," "The Vampire Diaries" and the upcoming "666 Park Avenue." WBTVG has...
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BAD NEWS L.A.: No One's Producing Television Dramas Out West
Los Angeles remained by far the most popular location for comedy pilots this past pilot season but continues to lose drama pilots to other areas, thanks in part to production incentives and more crews...
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Battle For 'Second Screen' Dominance Leads To Improved Apps
It's called the "second screen." And the battle is on to see who can conquer it. Nielsen data suggests that the vast majority of television viewers use a tablet, smartphone or laptop while they're...
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Good News Dish Network Customers, You're Getting Your Channels Back
Dish Media has made a new deal with Hoak Media that will restore Dish subscribers' access to 14 channels in six states. Dish Network customers had lost access due to Dish's dispute with the...
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Charlie Sheen Says He's Retiring After 'Anger Management'
Charlie Sheen's next acting gig -- starring in FX's upcoming "Anger Management" -- will also be his last, Sheen told The New York Times. The 46-year-old says that when he wraps the new series, he...
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Universal Will Start Paying Songwriters And Producers Royalties On Music Videos
The National Music Publishers’ Association has negotiated a far-reaching licensing deal with Universal Music Group on music videos, the group announced on Tuesday. It is the first major-label deal to...
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Weinstein Company Gets Two Huge Lenders To Finance Future Films
The Weinstein Company has secured $225 million in financing for two new credit facilities with UBS and Union Bank, TheWrap has learned. The facilities will allow the company to continue financing...
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WME Drops A Cool Seven Figures In Social Video Start-Up Chill
William Morris Endeavor and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have led an $8 million Series A investment round in social video start-up Chill, the company announced on...
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Comcast Will Pay Hundreds Of Thousands In FCC Fines
Comcast has agreed to pay an $800,000 fine and continue offering a standalone, affordably priced broadband service through at least Feb. 15, 2015 under a consent decree with the FCC, the agency said...
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The Supreme Court Turns Away Janet Jackson's 'Wardrobe Malfunction' Case
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to review a lower court decision that threw out the FCC’s $550,000 fine for CBS over Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” during the network’s live coverage of...
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NBC News Launches A Latino Website
NBC News on Monday launched NBCLatino.com, a news and lifestyle website that will draw from NBC News, MSNBC, and NBCUniversal property Telemundo. The site, which will feature English-language news and...
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Buzz Media Acquires Music Publication 'Spin' Magazine
Spin magazine has been purchased by blog network Buzz Media, where the 27-year-old music publication known for charting the rise of so-called alternative music will join thriving blogs and sites like...
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NBC Universal Bundles 7 Local News Channels Into One National Network
NBC Universal is folding seven local digital news and lifestyle subchannels into a single national channel that will air retro reruns during the day and lifestyle programs in primetime, the network...
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Everyone's Going Batty For 'The Dark Knight Rises'
"The Dark Knight Rises" is a monumental, satisfying summation to Christopher Nolan's blockbuster trilogy of Batman films. That, at least, is the consensus from the first round of reviews of the July...
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It's Official: MSNBC.com Is Now NBCNews.com
Msnbc.com renamed itself NBCNews.com after Comcast bought out Microsoft's share of it for a reported $300 million. The sale, which had been expected for weeks, ends the partnership of the internet...
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