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Lions Gate rejects Icahn offer to buy shares
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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday rejected an offer from activist shareholder Carl Icahn to boost his stake in the movie studio by buying up to 13.2 million shares.
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NYC ex-model sues over use of photo in comedy film
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A former model says she’s appalled that her nearly decade-old bikini photo became a randy prop in the film "Couple’s Retreat."
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Chavez thanks Sean Penn for slamming his critics
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is grateful that actor Sean Penn has defended him against his critics within the U.S. media.
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Disney to release Indian film in southern dialect
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Encouraged by the reception of its Hindi animated movie, Disney is shooting a new adventure film in the southern Indian dialect of Telugu as it deepens its localization drive in the populous country.
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Sushi chef charged with serving illegal whale
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Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and endangered whale meat.
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3-D boosts box office worldwide to record $30 bln
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The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Witherspoon: First lady is DC’s top fashionista
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Actress Reese Witherspoon says her "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation’s capital by first lady Michelle Obama.
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Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition
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Corey Haim’s story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
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Mexico hopes to lure filmmakers with subsidies
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Mexico has implemented a new program subsidizing filmmakers in a bid to attract more cinema business to the country.
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Summary Box: 3-D lifts world box office to $30 bln
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3-D BOOM: 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009.
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Robert De Niro set to play Vince Lombardi in movie
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Robert De Niro is set to play Vince Lombardi in an upcoming movie.
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Man stabbed with meat thermometer at movie in CA
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Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a Southern California movie theater.
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Lindsay Lohan takes swipe at E-Trade babies
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Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.
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Girls Gone Wild associate fined $5,000; no prison
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A Hollywood associate of Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis was fined $5,000 Monday but spared prison time for his role as the "bag man" in the bribery of jail guards to help Francis when he was held in Reno on tax evasion charges in 2007.
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Oscar’s big question: How did David slay Goliath?
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For Hollywood pundits, industry folk and Oscar fans still paying attention on Monday, a major question remained: How did David slay Goliath?
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’Alice in Wonderland’ races to $116.1M opening
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Johnny Depp and Tim Burton found a pile of money on the other side of the looking glass.
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TV ratings smile on Oscar as viewership rises
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An estimated 41.3 million people saw "The Hurt Locker" top the popular "Avatar" for best picture in the most-watched Academy Awards telecast since 2005.
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Argentine president celebrates local film’s Oscar
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is congratulating the director and actors of the "The Secret in Their Eyes," a local film that won the Oscar for best foreign-language film.
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Veteran Oscar reporter offers view from audience
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Talk about fantastic finishes. Just when Hollywood figured James Cameron would win the directing and motion picture awards for his super moneymaker "Avatar," it didn’t happen that way.
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A-listers, Olympians mingle at Oscar after-parties
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With his shaggy red hair, black leather jacket and skintight American flag-printed jeans, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White upstaged even glam Oscar winner Sandra Bullock at a pack of parties around town following the Academy Awards.
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Polanski’s wife says husband’s jailing changed her
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Roman Polanski’s wife said her husband’s imprisonment in a 32-year-old sexual abuse case has diminished her carefree spirit and terrified and disoriented the couple’s two children.
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Japan defends dolphin hunt in Oscar-winning ’Cove’
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The Japanese fishing village featured in "The Cove," which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins Monday as a part of a long tradition.
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Bigelow pioneers Oscars with `Hurt Locker’ win
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Kathryn Bigelow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker" to the screen.
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The popular Mr. Clooney and other Oscar vignettes
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Her Oscars in hand, Kathryn Bigelow bellied up to the bar at the Governor’s Ball immediately after the Academy Awards, not for a celebratory drink but to have her name placed on her new trophies.
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How top Oscar Winners fared at the box office
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Domestic box-office totals through February for the most-honored films at the 82nd annual Academy Awards:
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