Movies
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Blacklight Does Transmedia: The Future of Storytelling — and End of Lame Movie Tie-Ins
TheGrill@Tribeca: The benefits of working across different media channels to create a broader, unified experience
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Mel Gibson Talks About Quitting, Cozies Up to HFPA
Controversial star plays the victim in one interview, schedules session with the always-friendly Hollywood Foreign Press
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Drake Doremus on Low-Budget Filmmaking: Eliminate People With Walkie-Talkies
TheGrill@Tribeca: “It’s not about feeling like a filmmaker, it’s about being a filmmaker"
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Indie Film Streamers Fandor, Snagfilms: Netflix Leaves Us an Opening
TheGrill@Tribeca: “Netflix’s growth into a traditional mass market media company parallels cable televisions channels’ outreach and move to a more and more mass audience”
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Tribeca: Two British Comics Raise (Michael) Caine
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon screen their their new mostly-improvised pseudo-doc, “The Trip”
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Harvey Weinstein: ‘2011 Will Be Our Most Profitable Year’
TheGrill@Tribeca: Co-chairman of the Weinstein Company says 2011 will "outgross the Miramax years"
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‘Tree of Life’ Photo Confirms It: Penn, Pitt … and Dinosaurs
The year's most tantalizing movie offers new stills, including a glimpse of prehistoric life
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Premium VOD Is Here: DirecTV Alerts Its Subscribers
Satellite service touts new Home Premiere offering with Thursday-night email to customers: “From the big screen to your screen. First,” ad slogan says
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Warner Wins Bidding War for Fogelman-Penned Cruise Drama
Studio pays more than $1.5 million for the project, which is set to star Tom Cruise as a perfect man who makes a single mistake; a bidding war was started on the strength of writer Dan Fogelman’s pitch
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Brian White Doing ‘Good Deeds’ With Tyler Perry
EXCLUSIVE: “I Can Do Bad All By Myself” actor will reunite with Perry in a romantic drama
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Jeremy Renner to Star in Universal’s Next ‘Bourne’ Movie
Universal chose the Academy Award winner for the lead role in the spinoff movie
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IFC Midnight Acquires Slasher Film ‘Saint’ at Tribeca
The movie imagines Santa Claus as a murderous bishop
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‘Rio’ Nudges Tyler Perry for Big Friday, But Overall Box Office Down 20%
Fox’s “Elephant” drama and Tyler Perry’s latest “Madea” movie hit their tracking, as does Disney’s new lion-themed nature documentary; none of it helps the broader market, which is down 20% this weekend
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‘Water for Elephants’: Edward Cullen Goes to the Circus
Pattinson’s no Leo DiCaprio, and after a nice start with its period detail, the movie’s well goes dry
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Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling in ‘Gangster Squad’ Talks
If the negotiations are successful, Penn will play the mobster Mickey Cohen and Brolin and Gosling will play the police officers who go after him