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Entertaining RSS FeedsDuo ready local 'Rebelde' for Brazil - International News: TV Record, Televisa to co-produce telenovela -- Brazilian net TV Record and Mexico's giant Televisa are gearing up to co-produce a Portuguese-language version of a Televisa telenovela to air next year in Brazil. ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com UTA makes Theresa Peters partner - Front Page: WMA vet brings McAvoy, Dunst to new agency -- Days after Theresa Peters left William Morris Agency, United Talent Agency has hired her as a partner and agent in its talent department.
... 'Quarantine' seals off top of B.O. - Front Page: 'Body of Lies' spies third behind 'Chihuahua' -- Sony-Screen Gems' horror thriller "Quarantine" distanced itself from a fresh batch of October wide entries earning $5.4 million Friday off 2,461 engagements.
... SAG could strike in November - Business News: National board to meet next weekend -- The Screen Actors Guild could go on strike before the end of November.
... 'Dead Men' win at Vancouver fest - Web Exclusive: Nonfiction award goes to 'Born Without' -- Helmer Kari Skogland's "Fifty Dead Men Walking" scooped the Western Canada film award at the 27th Vancouver Film Festival, which wrapped its 16-day run on Friday with a gala screening of Gallic helmer Laurent Cantet's "Entre les murs" (The Class) .
... Soderbergh believes in 'Che' brand - Weekly: Director discusses resonance of Korda image -- In stalls on the streets of Mexico, as on many around the world, the silk-screened image of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is ubiquitous -- a fact on which director Steven Soderbergh is banking.
... Paris plays presidential pretender - Weekly Music and Technology: Hilton, Sheen team for funnyordie.com video -- No matter which way America votes on Nov. 4, we'll always have Paris.
... Say What? - Weekly: Tracy Letts, Amy Mitchell, literary agent
... IFC, Sundance integrate - Web Exclusive: Rainbow Media recently acquired cable net -- Rainbow Media is beefing up the branded integration and digital departments of IFC and Sundance Channel.
... High School Musical 3: Prom Guide (video) - Movie Trailers: Behind-the-scenes look at Disney feature -- Behind-the-scenes look (video) at "High School Musical 3: Senior Year."
... Did Jim Cramer spur a 'Mad' dash? - Weekly Smoke and Mirrors: Finance guru told 'Today' viewers to sell stocks -- Jim Cramer said he'd thought about it all weekend, and that he did not want to say something like it on television. But then he said it anyway:
... MyNetworkTV pins hopes on WWE - Weekly Smoke and Mirrors: Wrestling helps boost channel's viewership -- Who knew that a bunch of wrestlers would have enough muscle to build a TV network?
... Oscar's waiting game - Weekly Film: Films poised at starting line -- With awards, as with comedy, it's all in the timing. When studio execs think a film is a contender, they start building buzz that climaxes in mid-February, when the polls close for the Oscars. This year, as they vow to take back the awards race from their specialty divisions, the majors are trying a new timing tactic: withholding.
... YouTube streaming CBS classics - Business News: '90210,' 'Star Trek' hope to bring in ad dollars -- YouTube has begun streaming vintage episodes from CBS skeins such as "Beverly Hills, 90210," the original "Star Trek" and "The Young and the Restless" in its latest bid wring more coin from the popular vid-sharing site.
... Stars double Oscar chances - Film News: Winslet, DiCaprio, Rudin offer multiple projects -- This year's Oscar race could become a textbook case of multiple personality disorder. A cadre of actors, producers and one director -- Clint Eastwood -- have dueling projects that are being positioned as awards contenders. This has happened throughout Oscar history, but not to this degree, or with quite the same intensity.
... QED bets big on Oliver Stone's 'W.' - Weekly Smoke and Mirrors: Bill Block takes control of his own destiny -- Bill Block has grown up and grown into a new role. Once known as an attention-seeking, gun-collecting, hotshot InterTalent and ICM agent and onetime head of Artisan Entertainment, Block is now co-chief of QED Intl.
... Couric interview revives CBS - Weekly TV: Network upbeat after Palin segment -- Only months ago, as other networks were reaping the benefits of unprecedented interest in the presidential campaign, one network seemed to be left out of the dynamic: CBS.
... Presidential race shies from Latinos - Weekly TV: Campaigns slow to advertise on Hispanic TV -- Long viewed as the sleeping giant of the U.S. electorate, Latino voters have become the focus of even more intense interest in this presidential campaign.
... Directors make fake movie trailers - Weekly: Coixet, Bayona, Plympton contribute to festival -- At the Sitges film fest, helmer Isabel Coixet unspooled a trailer for ?Don?t Talk to Me About Life When I?m Dying,? a follow-up to her Ben Kingsley-Penelope Cruz starrer ?Elegy.?
... Rudin retreats from Daldry's 'Reader' - Weekly Smoke and Mirrors: Producer clashes with Harvey Weinstein -- After a long and bruising battle with Harvey Weinstein over Stephen Daldry's "The Reader," producer Scott Rudin left the arena, exiting the pic last week and taking his name off the film.
... Crash - TV Reviews: Messy at best, the two-episode premiere suffers from wildly uneven performances, beginning with Dennis Hopper at his manic worst.
... City of Ember - Film Reviews: A fabulously designed underground metropolis proves more involving than the teenagers running through its streets in "City of Ember," a good-looking but no more than serviceable adaptation of Jeanne Duprau's 2003 novel.
... Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun - Film Reviews: An antiwar literary classic reaches the bigscreen (again) via stage translation in "Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun." That circuitous route benefits the interior monologue of a soldier robbed of speech, sight and limbs, struggling to maintain sanity in his hospital bed.
... W. - Film Reviews: Oliver Stone?s unusual and inescapably interesting ?W.? feels like a rough draft of a film it might behoove him to remake in 10 or 15 years.
... Body of Lies - Film Reviews: Neither the location-based verisimilitude of Ridley Scott's shooting style nor the estimable Middle East expertise of source-material author David Ignatius can disguise "Body of Lies" as anything other than the contrived phony-baloney it is.
... Appaloosa - Film Reviews: ?Appaloosa? is a decent Western made in an era when a Western has to be pretty darn good to rope people into a theater to see it.
... Project Runway: Season 5 - Episode 4 (Going for the gold. Kind of. ) - TV Reviews: Apparently, many designers have no idea what the term "sportswear" means. The folks on this season believe that athletes would wear purple cocktail attire and that patriotic means gold and white stripped girlie wear.
... American Teen - Sundance Reviews: Undeniably entertaining for its zippy presentation, not to mention the rooting/hissing value assigned various principals, pic is a broadcast natural.
... Paula's Secret (Paulas geheimnis) - Film Reviews: Nifty kidpic "Paula's Secret" handles strong stuff within a clever, frequently humorous tale.
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