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• Labor issues boost filming

  - 2008-07-21

  Uncertainty created by contract negotiation between the actors union and the major Hollywood studios led to an increase in on-location filming between April and June. The number of days production companies worked on location increased in the second quarter to 17,375, a 26 percent boost over the same period...

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• Cover your Mouse ears: Disney teams with 'Idol'

  - 2008-02-08

  Travel Now you don't have to stand in lines around the block to get a tryout for American Idol. Starting in late 2008 in Florida, Walt Disney World visitors 14 and older can earn a guaranteed audition for the hit TV show....

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• Hollywood studios, writers resume talks

  - 2007-11-27

  Hollywood studios resumed talks with striking writers Monday under mounting pressure to reach an agreement as more movies and television programs shut down production. The writers walked off their jobs Nov. 5 after negotiations for a new contract broke down over splitting Internet and DVD revenue. The strike...

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• Heat Index; Weekly rating (0-10) of sizzle & fizzle.(Brief article)

  - 2006-04-24

  9 People Time Inc.'s celeb weekly gets out first with the news that the TomKitten had arrived, and that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes named their new daughter Suri. Time to stake out Brangelina's babe. 7 Vivid Entertainment And lo, the porn stars shall lead...

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• DVD Disc Sales Value Slows, But New Technologies Will Spur International Growth

  - 2005-12-09

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c29289) has announced the addition of The Changing Face of Studio Video Sales: Grow New Markets, Push High Definition, Get Interactive to their offering. The major Hollywood studios are facing a changing landscape for the consumption of their home video products. Sony...

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• DVD Disc Sales Value Slows, But New Technologies Will Spur International Growth.

  - 2005-12-08

  M2 PRESSWIRE-8 December 2005-Research and Markets: DVD Disc Sales Value Slows, But New Technologies Will Spur International GrowthC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09122005 Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c29290) has announced the addition of The Changing Face of Studio Video Sales:...

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• Doc Hollywood Studios Acquires Film Production Concern, NovelFilms; Company's Feature Film, OFFICER DOWN, Airs Tonight on Lifetime Television

  - 2005-08-01

  LOS ANGELES -- Doc Hollywood Studios has acquired Hollywood based feature film concern, NovelFilms, it was announced today by Doc Hollywood CEO Steven Saxton and NovelFilms. NovelFilms has been a successful production entity since inception in 2002. NovelFilms will now produce under the Doc Hollywood Productions label a slate of...

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• Foxtel in talks for cheaper Hollywood deal.

  - 2002-11-19

  Nov 18, 2002 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian pay television giant Foxtel is renegotiating its expensive movie supply contracts with major Hollywood studios. Foxtel lost $A100m in 2002-02, largely as a result of the contracts, which are scheduled to run until 2007....

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• Brit pilots head toward the U.S.

  - 1999-10-04

  London-based Channel 4 International is teaming with a pair of Hollywood studios on two potential network pilots. Channel 4 and Warner Bros. Television are co-producing a pilot for a satirical drama, The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star. The British studio is also working...

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• Netter Digital Entertainment Expands Visual Effects Services For Hollywood Studios

  - 1998-03-13

  NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 13, 1998-- Netter Digital Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETT) recently entered the business of providing digital visual effects services to outside clients, and reports the expansion of that business with projects for two major film studios. Jason Netter, director of business development for...

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