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Entertaining RSS FeedsWBDTD promotes Susan Kantor - Exec Shuffle: Exec to oversee unified cable, broadcast arm -- Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution has established a unified marketing structure for cable and broadcast and has promoted Susan Kantor to oversee it. ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Fox tapping Waters for 'Eva Adams' - TV News: 'Mean Girls' director signs on for pilot -- "Mean Girls" helmer Mark Waters has signed on to direct the pilot of "Eva Adams," the Sony Pictures TV-produced redo of Argentinean telenovela "Lalola" for Fox.
... NBC builds on 'Crusoe' - Gotham: Network erects treehouse to promote show -- NBC is getting ready to add to its Gotham real estate holdings: It plans to erect a giant treehouse at the corner of Broadway and 51st Street to tubthump the Oct. 17 debut of its drama series "Crusoe."
... Lighthearted gets 'Desperate' - Reality TV: Gameshow gives second chance to debtors -- Lighthearted Entertainment has developed a reality-gameshow hybrid appropriate for a world rocked by stock market tumult.
... Carla Gugino set for 'Every Day' - Los Angeles: Actress joins Schreiber, Hunt in drama -- Carla Gugino will complete the triangle in ?Every Day,? joining Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt in a drama that begins shooting in New York this month.
... Thomas Tull resigns Brash board - Technology News: Legendary topper exits videogame publisher -- Thomas Tull is Brash no more. The Legendary Pictures topper has resigned from the board of Brash Entertainment, the videogame publisher he co-founded last year after helping to raise $400 million in private equity funding.
... Ridley Scott takes on 'War' - Los Angeles: Film based on Haldeman novel 'Forever' -- Fox 2000 has acquired rights to Joe Haldeman?s 1974 novel "The Forever War," and Ridley Scott is planning to make it into his first science fiction film since he delivered back-to-back classics with "Blade Runner" and "Alien."
... Khan wins Governor's Award - Web Exclusive: Indian actor honored for 'One' -- Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan was this week given the Malaysian equivalent of a Knighthood ? but the kudos has already sparked a row.
... Overall box office down in Korea - Web Exclusive: Tally slides 5.4% compared to last year -- The box office market share of local films in the Korean theatrical market hit 54% in September, the second highest monthly figure this year. But the overall B.O. in 2008 is down on last year.
... PCCW discontinues auction process - Web Exclusive: Co. falls victim to global financial crisis -- PCCW the property to telecoms giant has seen its attempt to sell its phones and media interests become a victim of the ongoing global financial crisis.
... The Atheist - Legit Reviews: It's a pity the title "The Misanthrope" is taken. "The Atheist," Irish-born American playwright Ronan Noone's creepily compelling portrait of an avaricious journalist, just wouldn't be the same without the hate.
... ?Koltchak,? ?Eye? top hot ?Mamma? - International News: 'Mia' drops from top spot in overseas box office -- Russian epic "Koltchak" and "Eagle Eye" knocked international sensation "Mamma Mia!" out of the top slot at the foreign box office for the first time in six weeks during a typically moderate fall frame.
... Brawny Bergen fest set to unspool - Web Exclusive: Troell's 'Moments' to kick off festival -- The Norwegian Bergen Intl. Film Festival kicks off Wednesday with Jan Troell?s Swedish Oscar hopeful "Everlasting Moments," one of 147 features unspooling in a bigger program than ever before.
... Jetro holds L.A. shorts contest - International News: Japanese org joins with UTB on competition -- The Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro), a Japanese government trade promotion org, will join with United Television Broadcasting Systems (UTB), an L.A.-based Japanese-language broadcaster, to present an unusual competition of Japanese shorts.
... Critic Reich-Ranicki refuses prize - Award Central News: Donounces German TV Awards as 'idiotic' -- Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany's most famous literary critic, stunned the German Television Awards ceremony on Saturday night when he refused its lifetime achievement award and denounced the whole show as "idiotic."
... Specialty box office gets bump - Front Page: Audiences committed to 'Rachel,' 'Religulous' -- The specialty box office continued to pick up the pace over the weekend as Sony Pictures Classics' Anne Hathaway starrer "Rachel Getting Married" expanded successfully and Lionsgate's Bill Maher docu "Religulous" kept audiences rollicking.
... Bastards' wins big at Morelia - Film Festivals: 'Nora' takes home audience prize -- The Morelia Intl. Film Fest handed top honors to one of Mexico's most buzzed-about directors and a breakout female filmmaker in its closing ceremony Saturday night.
... Mipcom Jr. seeks bleak days ahead - Mipcom 2008: TV mart marked by market moves -- A mood of impending doom pervaded children?s television mart Mipcom Jr., which wrapped Sunday.
... Aussies pact with Hengdian - Business News: Orgs, companies form alliance for pic trio -- South Australia's AMPCO, Salon Films of Hong Kong and China's Zhejiang Hengdian Film company have announced the formation of a China-Australia co-production alliance at the Hengdian World Studios to make three pics.
... CIMG brings Style to Singapore - Mipcom 2008: Move adds to Lifestyle Upsize channel tier -- Comcast Intl. Media Group (CIMG) will launch the Style Network on Star Hub TV in Singapore as part of its Lifestyle Upsize channel tier and on the New Media Group?s IPTV platform World On-Demand in Japan.
... Rainbow Media on Europe horizon - Mipcom 2008: Company to launch overseas TV channel -- Rainbow Media is moving into Europe and will launch its first overseas TV channel in a major European market in the first-half of 2009.
... Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals - Videogames News: Company to launch overseas TV channel -- Rainbow Media is moving into Europe and will launch its first overseas TV channel in a major European market in the first-half of 2009.
... Brazilian Girls - Music Reviews: Mellow bacchanalia may sound like a contradiction in terms, but that's precisely the territory that the Brazilian Girls have staked out over the past several years, and never more enticingly than on their recently released Verve Forecast album "New York."
... Quarantine - Film Reviews: Predicated on the idea that whiplash pans, inconstant focusing and other faux cinema verite embellishments can refresh even the moldiest of zombie-movie tropes, "Quarantine" is a modestly inventive, sporadically exciting thriller that nonetheless proves too faithful to its central conceit for its own good.
... 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.
... 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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