Daniel Frankel
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‘Despicable Me’ Wins Foreign Box Office with $25.7M
Universal animated 3D film finally enjoys its full Euro rollout 15 weeks after its U.S. release; film has surpassed $400M worldwide
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Justin Bieber Investigated After Laser Tag Altercation
Canadian police are looking into incident involving 16-year-old pop star and a 12-year-old boy
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Barbara Billingsley, ‘Leave It to Beaver’s’ June Cleaver, Dies
Actress who played 1950s prototype TV mom died in Santa Monica on Saturday
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Jackass 3D’ Way Over-Performs at $50M
Paramount’s stunt fest enjoys the biggest October opening ever; Summit’s “Red” is solid, too, at $22.5M; Oscar hopefuls “Conviction” and “Hereafter” are slow out of the gate
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Box Office: ‘Jackass 3D’ Readies for $35M Jump
Paramount’s sophomoric stuntfest is set for a solid debut, with Summit’s Bruce Willis action-ensemble “Red” also tracking strong at around $20M
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Play It Again, Fox: Stuck on Sequels, Remakes & Reboots
More so than other major studios, Twentieth Century Fox stands out for its penchant for sticking with familiar territory
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Research Firm: 3D TV Sales Slower Than Projected
Turns out that selling an expensive consumer-electronics display format in the middle of a global economic downturn is proving to be not as easy as anticipated
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Lionsgate: Merger with MGM a ‘Natural Fit’
Studio releases statement citing benefits of proposed merger
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PGA: Look for Our New Union Label, ‘p.g.a.’
The Producer’s Guild rolls out a new credit, its latest attempt to effectively delineate who actually did work on a film
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Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’ Pushed to Dec. 28, 2011, in DreamWorks Schedule-Shift
Shawn Levy’s “Real Steel” also among the studio’s films getting 2011 date changes
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Chicago Tribune Goes NC-17 Again; Top Exec Says He’s Sorry
Company-wide memo including links to off-color online videos comes a week after scathing NYT story outlined crude, juvenile behavior among upper management
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L.A. Film Production Flat Again in Q3
Permitting body Film L.A. reports that shooting in the city was up only 0.3 percent year to year, with state tax incentives dried up
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ to Become Cartoon Network Series
After grossing $493.2 million worldwide, 3D title will now be a Cartoon Network series
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NBC Cancels Jimmy Smits ‘Outlaw’ Series
A week after putting the new Friday-night legal drama on hiatus, NBC decides to pull the plug
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Lucasfilm to Break Ground on Singapore Facility
Building will be the first production facility the company has built outside the U.S.