Daniel Frankel
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Box Office: Talking 3D Owls — and a Gekko — Shoot for $20M
Disney’s Jamie Lee Curtis/Sigourney Weaver comedy “You Again” also in the mix
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AMC Adds Jason Fisher as Senior VP of Production
Former ABC Studios exec will join the cable channel as it prepares to ramp up original production
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Ratings: ‘Glee’ Sings Out Loud; ‘Detroit 1-8-7’ Out of Tune
Fox musical sitcom draws the biggest adult-demo number of the night; mediocre start Michael Imperioli’s freshman cop series
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TheGrill: Sarandos Says Netflix Won’t Replace Basic Cable
At TheWrap’s conference on media and the entertainment industry, TheGrill: sports and other live events that cable service programming services hang their monthly bills on; “We’re complimentary to cable,” he explains
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Madison Ave.: Not Much Improvement in Social-Media Marketing
“You’ll have companies that start a Facebook page, and you go back weeks later, and nothing’s changed”
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Yahoo, MSN and the Birth of the ‘No-Risk’ Programming Model
Portals see themselves serving huge audiences with more original content — but don’t ask them to pay TV prices for that programming
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DGA’s Cates: Healthcare Big Priority; New Media? Not as Much
Guild’s negotiating committee chairman says new health plan will be focus of upcoming AMPTP negotiations; digital media not spinning off enough money at this point to worry about
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Box Office: Hot $23.8M for Affleck’s ‘Town’
Warner caper film finishes No. 1 with an estimated $23.8 million; Sony’s low-budget youth movie “Easy A” a solid second with $18.2 million
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Affleck’s ‘Town’ Is the Talk of the Box Office with $8.4M Friday
Warner caper movie beats tracking; set to upset Sony chick flick “Easy A,” which took in $6.8M
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Ratings: Worst ‘Apprentice’ Ever
Reverting back to its non-celebrity format, premiere of NBC reality series draws only 4.7 million viewers
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Box Office: Easy Win for Chick Flick ‘Easy A’
Ben Affleck movie “The Town” and M. Night Shyamalan-produced horror film “Devil” highlight what should be a rebound weekend for domestic moviegoing
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Magnolia Sets Pay-What-You-Want Ticket Price for ‘Freakonomics’
Unique screening program will allow moviegoers to pay anywhere from nothing to $100 to film adaptation of best-seller
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Anchor Bay Acquires Maria Bello film ‘Carjacked’
Film co-stars Stephen Dorff; will begin shooting in November
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‘Cats & Dogs,’ ‘Titans’ Highlight Warner 3D Blu-ray Release Flurry
Studio announces fledgling format-within-a-format’s biggest slate yet
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TNT Renews ‘Memphis Beat’
Jason Lee series becomes TNT’s fifth hourlong renewal in the last several months