Daniel Frankel
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‘The Help’ Needs No Help at the Box Office: Debuts to Solid $5.5M
Emma Stone Civil Rights-Era novel adaptation enjoys big first day in theaters
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Hulu to Launch in Japan
Internet video company to embark on its first international expansion; doesn’t reveal any info about the new service
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Exclusive: E! Staffer Held in Stabbing Death of Estranged Wife, a Former E! Editor
Longtime facilities manager Sherman Dion Dorsey is being held on $2.7M bail in the attack, which also injured another E! employee
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Code Blue! Sony Greenlights ‘Smurfs 2’
Studio sets August 2013 date for its second troll-themed kiddie film
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Starz Signs Big Original Programming Deal With BBC
The deal could provide Starz with $300 million for programming and generate more than 100 hours of original TV, the Wall Street Journal reports
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Anthony Pellicano to Newsweek: Those News of the World Guys Were Amateurs
An in exclusive interview, the jailed detective/hacker tells the weekly pub, “I was ahead of my time”
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‘Harry Potter – Deathly Hallows 2’ Is the No. 1 Film of All Time (Not Directed by James Cameron)
With $1.334 billion at the global box office through Sunday, the final Harry Potter film is 3rd all time at the global box office, trailing only “Avatar” and “Titanic”
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‘You Betcha!’: The Other Palin Documentary Preps for Toronto (Video)
“Whether Sarah chooses to run or not,” filmmaker Nick Broomfield notes, “what’s astonishing is how close she’s already gotten to the White House.”
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Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkeys: ‘Apes’ Rises to Big $54M at Weekend Box Office
Fox’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” finishes about $20M over tracking; Universal’s “The Change-Up” misses mark at $13.5M
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Friday Box Office: ‘Rise of the Apes’ Does Huge Monkey Business – $19.8M
Latest installment of primates-gone-wild series is on pace to over-perform projections by about $20M; audiences whiff on “The Change-Up”
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Showtime Restructures Marketing and Creative Services Department
Frank Pintauro and Don Buckley promoted to top executive positions; move comes amid the anticipated move of division head Len Fogge to NBC
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Billion-Dollar Babies to Superhero Busts: 5 Lessons of the Summer Box Office
After an ice-cold winter, receipts are up over 3% — and for the first time, three films crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide
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Another $1B Box Office Earner: ‘Transformers 3’ Makes the Mark
The third of Michael Bay’s fighting-robots saga has grossed more than $663 million at the foreign box office
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Matt Damon Takes on Libertarian Reporter (Video)
A young Reason.com reporter tries to educate the shorn-headed Bostonian actor on the supposed wonders of the profit motive. Damon has a lesson for her, too