Daniel Frankel
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Starz Media Sells ‘Simpsons’ Animation House, Film Roman
Continuing to focus on its core business, Starz sells the studio to a group of investors led by former Film Roman president Scott Greenberg
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Hanks, Goetzman Get PGA Norman Lear Award
Producers will receive lifetime achievement for TV work when org hands out its trophies Jan. 22
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Box Office: Facebook Film Beats Heigl & the Horse
Sony’s Mark Zuckerberg biopic drops just over 30 percent to $15.5M; Warner’s “Life as We Know It” soft at $14.6M; so is Disney’s “Secretariat” at $12.6M
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Heigl Flick Edges Facebook Movie Amid Soft Friday Box Office
Warner chick flick “Life as We Know It” opens to $5.3M, narrowly ahead of Sony holdover “The Social Network’s” $4.9M; Disney’s “Secretariat” slow out of the gate at $4M; overall weekend gross down 14%
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Fox Ad: Dish Is Gonna Take Away ‘Glee,’ Too!
Fox using print ads to link impasse over cable channels with separate contract covering local channels; Dish says conglomerate is trying to scare consumers
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Box Office: Heigl, ‘Secretariat’ Look to Log Off ‘Social Network’
Warner chick comedy and Disney horse-racing drama seek to unseat Sony’s Facebook movie — but none of them are expected to exceed $20 million
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Disney Theatrical Shutters Burbank Office, Lays Off 11
Company says re-org is part of a long-term plan and that “business is booming”
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Charlie Matthau Options Youth Detective Novel ‘Huge’
With his adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s “Freaky Deaky” set to start production early next year, indie producer buys movie rights to James Fuerst novel
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FX vs. Dish: ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Creator Dishes on Ratings Loss
With FX embroiled in a carriage war with Dish Network, Kurt Sutter is prepared for his top-rated biker drama to take a hit
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AFTRA Investigates Trustee Browde Over Sagwatch.net
AFTRA trustee David Browde stands accused of operating pro-merger website; org launches an investigation
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Pellicano Mess Lands John McTiernan in Jail
“Die Hard” director sentenced to an year and a $100,000 fine for lying to the feds; judge lets him post bail pending appeal
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Box Office: At $23M, ‘Social Network’ on Target, but Below Hype
David Fincher’s Facebook movie enjoys solid, if unspectacular opening; “Case 39” and “Let Me In” get lost in the horror glut
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AT&T Is Only Acting Like It’s Too Incompetent to Sell Me Services: Genius!
The more the monolithic service provider thwarts my efforts to buy DSL, wireless and cable the more I wonder: Is it all some brilliant marketing plan?
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A Few Bad Apples Spoil ‘Social Network’s’ Rotten Tomatoes Score
Two critics kept David Fincher’s Facebook movie from matching the feat of “Toy Story 2” in 1999: 100 percent “fresh”