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 Paramount Loses
 $450M Funding Deal 

The failure is part of a larger trend as liquidity dries up

Jul 15, 08 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A $450-million deal with Deutsche Bank that would have financed up to 30 films for Paramount is off the table, the Financial Times  reports. Perhaps an unlikely casualty of the credit crunch, Paramount walked after a lack of enthusiasm in the market led to terms that were unattractive, persons familiar... More »

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Deutsche Bank • Transformers • Paramount Pictures • liquidity • Star Trek • movie financing • weakening economy • movie industry • investment banks

ANALYSIS

 Dark Days Ahead
 for Little Movies 

Big money has bankrolled some bad small films lately; now it's pulling back

Jun 30, 08 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - This has been a banner year for Hollywood blockbusters, but things look dour for explosion-free cinema, David Carr writes in the New York Times reports. Small movies have flooded multiplexes, choking each other out—a sign, producer Mark Gill says, of big-money backing meeting the ease of digital film-making. The... More »

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independent film • film • movie industry • Hollywood studios • art-house movies

 Documentaries: 
 Box Office Wimps 

Even with critical acclaim, they can't draw decent audiences

Jun 20, 08 5:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Although big-name documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth and Sicko have raised the genre's profile, recent ones just aren't pulling in audiences, the Los Angeles Times reports. The critically acclaimed steroid film Bigger, Stronger, Faster has grossed only $164,000 since its release three weeks ago, and the Oscar-winning Taxi ... More »

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Hollywood • movie industry • steroid use • documentary film

 LiLo at Work:
 'So Far,
 So Good' 

Producers surprised by actress' professionalism, talent

Jun 17, 08 11:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan is back at work on the set of the comedy Labor Pains, and after a week, the movie's producers are impressed with her skill and professionalism. "We were a little bit reluctant to work with her," producer Lati Grobman tells People. "But she's been amazing.... More »

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Lindsay Lohan • Los Angeles • celebrity • film studio • producers • movie industry • acting career

 Is This a Joke?
 Brooks Leaving Movie Biz 

Quietly closes movie production company

May 30, 08 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Are Mel Brooks' days in Hollywood over? The comic king is quietly closing his Brooksfilms, the New York Post reports. He founded the LA-based production company in 1980 to produce more serious films such as The Elephant Man but also put out classics such as Spaceballs. Brooks, who turns 82... More »

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Los Angeles • retirement • Mel Brooks • movie industry

Lohan Dumped From Movie About Manson

Producers can't find big-name actresses
to work with her

May 9, 08 11:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan has been dumped from the upcoming Manson Girls movie—and not for the official reasons being circulated, says Deadline Hollywood columnist Nikki Finke in LA Weekly. Apparently, Lohan has become something of an industry pariah—the producers couldn’t find a single name actress willing to work... More »

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film • Lindsay Lohan • movie industry • Charles Manson

ANALYSIS

Stars Losing Gravitational Pull, Hollywood Finds

Franchises, concepts drive movie receipts more than A-list personalities

May 2, 08 6:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The lure of A-list movie stars is on the wane, the Hollywood Reporter notes after an examination of recent box-office receipts and extensive polling of Tinseltown insiders. Due in part to ubiquity on the internet and magazine racks, big names like Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts have seen their films... More »

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Hollywood • Brad Pitt • Pirates of the Caribbean • Julia Roberts • Tom Hanks • box office • Matt Damon • The Bourne Ultimatum • George Clooney • The Bourne Identity • The Bourne Supremacy • movie industry

DreamWorks
to Theaters: Where's the 3D?

Katzenberg bemoans industry's slow move
to digital screens

Apr 30, 08 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Movie theaters just aren’t adding digital and 3D screens fast enough, says DreamWorks animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, a big believer in the technology. DreamWorks has pledged to make all future releases available in 3D, at a cost of $15 million per film. But theater chains haven’t matched his... More »

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Jeffrey Katzenberg • DreamWorks • movie industry • movies • animated movie • movie theaters

 17 Best Peace-Loving War Films  

Stop-Loss latest in a long line of anti-combat movies

Apr 2, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stop-Loss is hardly the first blockbuster to take a hard line on war. Entertainment Weekly lists 17 of the best anti-war films of all time.
  1. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930): One of the earliest anti-war films follows naïve German troops into battle in WWI.
  2. Paths
... More »

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Steven Spielberg • peace • Francis Ford Coppola • movie industry • movies • Robert Altman • Stop-Loss • Three Kings • Platoon • anti-war movies • Das Boot • M*A*S*H • Paths of Glory • All Quiet on the Western Front

Lindsay Lohan to Play Teen in Manson Family

Signs on to portray
rich Malibu girl mesmerized by Charlie

Mar 28, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Actress Lindsay Lohan will play a member of the violent Manson family in the upcoming movie Manson Girls, reports E! Online. LiLo will portray Nancy Pitman, who grew up well-to-do in Malibu and was just 16 when she met Manson through a  friend and quickly became one of his followers. More »

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Lindsay Lohan • actor • movie industry • movies • Charles Manson • Nancy Pitman

 Ready for $35 Movie Tickets? 

Gold Class Cinemas brings luxury moviegoing stateside

Mar 26, 08 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Think your movie-going experience could be more than sticky floors and greasy popcorn? Village Roadshow Gold Class Cinemas agrees. The high-end theater chain is making its debut in America, offering a bar selling cocktails and sushi, reclining lazy-boy style seats (with service buttons to call waiters), and valet parking for... More »

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Chicago • luxury • ticket sales • concierge • movie industry • movies • movie theaters • Gold Class Cinemas

Film Biz
Goes Bananas
Over Hannah

Tween star's 3-D concert success may bring similar ventures

Mar 12, 08 10:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Film execs looking to inject life into the dormant sphere of alternative content—showing concerts, sporting events, etc., in theaters—are turning their eyes toward teen star Miley Cyrus and her cash-cow alter ego, Hannah Montana. Cyrus dominated conversation today at an industry conference because her enormously popular 3-D concert... More »

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concert • Hannah Montana • Miley Cyrus • film studio • movie industry • alternative content • movie theaters • teenager

Movie Industry on a Roll

Despite writers' strike, Hollywood sets $26.7B box office record in 2007

Mar 6, 08 8:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Nearly 30 films took in more than $100 million each last year as the movie industry recorded its best box office year ever, reports the Wall Street Journal. The writers' strike, rising costs, and a spate of so-so releases at the end of the year put a damper on... More »

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Hollywood • film • box office • film studio • Hollywood writers' strike • movie industry • movies • blockbusters

Hollywood Had Math Wrong on College Movie Downloads

Study overestimated students' illegal grabs

Jan 23, 08 5:55 PM CST
(Newser) - College students aren't such movie thieves after all. Hollywood laid heavy blame for illegal downloading on colleges when a 2005 study alleged that 44% of domestic industry losses came from students downloading films. Now the industry has revised to 15%, citing "human error" in the study. Critics, however, say... More »

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Hollywood • file sharing • student • entertainment industry • colleges and universities • illegal downloading • movie industry

Ang Lee's 'Lust' Too Hot for Hollywood

Ratings group slaps 'Brokeback' director's new flick with NC-17

Aug 25, 07 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Focus Features says it will stand by Ang Lee and his racy new war flick “Lust, Caution,” even though a movie trade group branded the film NC-17. The film industry's Scarlet Letter could cost the pic audiences, ad dollars, and theater distribution, but Focus CEO James Schamus said... More »

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Hollywood • film • MPAA • movie review • World War II • Universal Pictures • adult films • Ang Lee • Focus Features • Chinese • Brokeback Mountain • Lust, Caution • movie industry • movies

MPAA Snuffs Onscreen Smoking

Flicks with cancer
sticks will draw
tougher rating

May 11, 07 5:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cigarette and cigar smoking will be considered alongside violence, profanity, nudity, and drug use in assigning ratings, the MPAA announced yesterday. Any film that glamorizes the habit or features lighting up outside of "an historic  or other mitigating context "could face a box-office-busting R.  More »

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film • MPAA • smoking • cigarettes • tobacco • Motion Picture Association of America • audiences • smoking ban • movie industry • movies

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