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 The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “August:
Osage County,” the Tony winner for best play, including four other awards, “Rogers
and Hammerstein’s South Pacific,” which earned seven awards, “In the Heights,”
which won the award for best musical, “Boeing-Boeing,” the winner for best play
revival, “South-Pacific,” nominated for 11 Tony...
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 Steven Spielberg aims to raise more than $1
billion in third-party financing to reinvent DreamWorks as a separate company
that owns the movie it makes, according to the Hollywood Reporter. As for
distribution of the films, there were rumours that Spielberg wants to distribute
through Universal Studios (NVBC’s sister company).
On...
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 The Walt Disney Company said it would
stream through the summer for the first time selected full-length movies on its
Website. The project is a part of “Wonderful World of Disney” series on ABC.
ABC is a part of Disney’s entertainment and news television properties.
“Finding Nemo” is now available for viewers
through Friday,...
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 MTV went on with its annual movie awards at the Universal
Studios lot on Sunday, just a few hours after a huge fire devastated chunks of Hollywood history nearby, Reuters reports. The host of
the 17th annual MTV Movie Awards was Mike Myers.
“Transformers” is the winner of best movie at the 2008 MTV Movie
Awards, and director...
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Frank Rich, an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times, signed on with HBO as
a creative consultant, Reuters reports.
Rich will contribute to the network’s original programming development, and
could become a producer on any projects he helps shepherd. He said his role would
be “to bring ideas, to vet ideas, everything from...
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 Former music mogul Lou Pearlman, the man
who launched Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, was sentenced to 25 years in federal
prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy and single counts of
money laundering and presenting a false statement during a bankruptcy
proceeding.
But Pearlman had the chance to cut his
prison...
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 Regal Entertainment Group signed a deal to
bring 1,500 more 3-D movie screens from RealD Corp. to its theatres in the domestic
market. Regal Entertainment Group is one of the largest cinema chains in the United States. This
measure is supposed to be a step forward in the struggle to keep customers
coming to movie theatres rather than...
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 “South Pacific” won five prizes at the
Drama Desk Awards, including best musical revival. The first-ever revival of
South Pacific also received prizes for actor-musical, Paolo Szot;
director-musical, Bartlett Sher; sets-musical, Michael Yeargan, and sound
design, Scott Lehrer.
The musical, with music by Richard Rodgers,
lyrics...
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 Librarian of Congress James Billington announced the 25
additions to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress as part
of its efforts to preserve the nation's aural history by archiving recordings
deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant,” Reuters
reported.
The titles range from Michael...
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 A three-panel work by Francis Bacon has broken the artist’s record at auction selling for more than $86 million after three bidders vied for it, Sotheby's spokeswoman Lauren Gioia said.The $86,281,000 price for “Triptych, 1976” also broke a record for contemporary art auctions, a spokesman for the auction house said. The identity of the...
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