Daniel Frankel
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AMC Renews ‘Walking Dead’ After Big Week 2 Performance
Zombie series declines 11 percent in total viewers from premeire
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‘Megamind’ Opening Sends DreamWorks Stock Slipping … Again
Film’s box-office-leading $47.7M opening is about $10M short of what Wall Street was expecting; stock drop is not as bad as earlier declines following “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Shrek 4”
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‘Megamind’s’ Middling $47.7M Leads Strong Overall Box Office
DreamWork’s latest 3D toon perks up Saturday but still opens soft; $154M overall box office is biggest first weekend of November ever
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SAG and AFTRA Reach New Major-Contract Deal With Producers
As suspected, talent unions get only 2% minimum wage increases on new tentative three-year broadcast TV/theatrical agreement; they do secure 10% health and pension funding increases
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Roadside Attractions Acquires ‘Thunder Soul’
Company picks up the North American distribution rights to Mark Landsman’s music documentary
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Influential CAA Agent Martin Baum Passes On
Joining the agency a year after it started in 1976, he was instrumental in building the company’s motion-picture department
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Friday Box Office: ‘Megamind’ Does Not Impress at $12.4M
DreamWorks’ latest 3D-animated movie unspectacular out of the gate; “Due Date” on track for $34 million weekend
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‘Megamind’ Heads Up Mega-Crowded Weekend Box Office
3D toon opens wide alongside “Due Date” and “For Colored Girls”; “127 Hours” and Valerie Plame biopic “Fair Game” make limited debuts
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Exclusive: SAG/AFTRA Near Deal With AMPTP — at Just 2% Wage Increases
Talent guilds aren’t likely to surpass what other entertainment unions secured recently — nor will they get significant health and pension bumps
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NBC Pulls the Plug on J.J. Abrams’ ‘Undercovers’
Network declines to pick up the back nine from producer Warner Bros. TV; series will depart its regular Wednesday 8 p.m. time period Nov. 17
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ABC Greenlights Mark Burnett’s ‘Expedition Impossible’
New reality-competition series will feature teams of three “solving problems while racing across deserts, over mountains and through rivers
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Bob Schreck to Head Legendary Pictures’ New Comics Division
Veteran comics editor put into lead editorial role, to publish four to six graphic novels a year
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AFM: FilmDistrict’s ‘Drive’ Pick-Up Leads Busy First Day of Acquisitions
Film adaptation of James Sallis’ thriller stars Carey Mulligan and Ryan Gossling and will be released next year by Peter Schlessel and Bob Berney’s distribution company
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Bewkes: Time Warner to Kick Off Premium VOD Next Summer
Conglomerate will be the first to implement new service that delivers just-released movies into homes
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Fox News Wins Election Night Averaging 7M Viewers
News Corp.’s conservative cable news channel doubles its audience over the last midterm election in 2006; CNN and MSNBC both down