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Time Warner and CBS Avert Programming Dispute

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:35 GMT

Time Warner Cable extended a deal to carry CBS television stations, CBS said on Tuesday, avoiding what could have been another heated industry dispute.

ITV invests in Carbon Media

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:41 GMT

Business News: U.K. broadcaster takes 25% stake -- Blighty?s biggest private terrestrial web, ITV, has taken another stake in a shingle as the broadcaster attempts to beef up its global content activities.

Courbit invests in music talent site

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:32 GMT

International News: MyMajorCompany looks to expand into U.K. -- Gallic media entrepreneur Stephane Courbit, the former prexy-CEO of Endemol France, has acquired a 49% stake in French website MyMajorCompany.

Hungarian event favors fresh talent

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:13 GMT

International News: Seven first-time films to screen -- The 18-strong feature competish lineup of the 40th Hungarian Film Week, which runs Jan. 27-Feb. 3, will include seven pics by frosh helmers.

Berlinale market unveils initiatives

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:12 GMT

International News: EFM struggles to match 2008 attendance -- While the world?s financial crisis may result in fewer participants at the Berlinale?s European Film Market next month, it hasn?t hampered reservations at the mart?s main venues.

Viasat takes Shaw Bros. classics

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:49 GMT

International News: Kung fu films head for E. Europe audiences -- Shaw Brothers' library of classic kung fu films will soon be coming to TV sets in Russia and other former Soviet countries.

FX's "Damages" the best drama on TV

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:50 GMT

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If you don't love "Damages," you may well be in a coma -- or at least in the throes of some sort of brain rot.

Martin Scorsese supporting Italian crime drama

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:47 GMT

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Martin Scorsese will lend his name to IFC Films' U.S. release of the Italian crime drama "Gomorra."

Moviegoers must step through death's door

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:15 GMT

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - As Jim Morrison sang, "No one here gets out alive." Maybe he was referring to a modern-day movie theater?

Music Review | Yefim Bronfman: Where Undercurrents of Electricity Crackle Beneath a Serene Surface

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:54 GMT

Yefim Bronfman’s chamber music concert with musicians from the New York Philharmonic seemed to owe something to Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives program.

Directors and studios sharing economic pressure

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:44 GMT

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Catherine Hardwicke had every reason to celebrate as her latest film, "Twilight," opened to nearly $70 million in November.

Advertising: HBO Is Hiding Little About ‘Big Love’

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:05 GMT

HBO’s “Big Love” is beginning an aggressive ad campaign to remind its audience just what was happening to the polygamous Henrickson family.

Studio to Buy TV Guide

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:05 GMT

The Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation agreed to buy TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com from the Macrovision Solutions Corporation for $255 million.

Music marketers target female shoppers at home

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:56 GMT

NEW YORK (Billboard) - With CD sales dropping fast, the music business is exploring nontraditional ways to expose consumers to recording artists. Among the new sales and marketing vehicles are Tara Leigh Music Party and musicShop.

Gemma Elizabeth Locke

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:39 GMT

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U.K. homevideo sales climb 3%

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:35 GMT

International News: 'Mamma Mia!' becomes fastest-selling DVD -- U.K. homevid sales climbed 3% last year even though the credit crunch torpedoed a number of DVD retailers and hit consumers in the pocket.

Publicis promotes silver lining in crisis

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:06 GMT

Maurice L�vy, chief executive of the world's fourth-largest advertising group, is optimistic that it will fare better than its competitors and emerge stronger from the recession

NBC bumps Ann Coulter, denies conspiracy

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:52 GMT

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News denied Monday that conservative author Ann Coulter has been banned from the network after "Today" dropped her from Tuesday's program because of breaking-news events.

USC names Scripter finalists

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:49 GMT

Web Exclusive: 'Button,' 'Slumdog,' 'Iron' among films chosen -- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Iron Man," "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road" and "Slumdog Millionaire" have been named finalists for the�21st annual USC Libraries Scripter Award.

Cuba opens Hemingway archives to scholars

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:40 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO DE PAULA, Cuba (Reuters) - Cuba on Monday made the first of thousands of digitized documents, photographs and books that belonged to writer Ernest Hemingway available to scholars after the items languished for decades in the basement of his home outside of Havana.