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Lawmakers get few answers on Comcast/NBC deal
3/11/2010 2:57:10 PM
Reuters - U.S. lawmakers on Thursday raised concerns that the Comcast deal to take control of NBC Universal could limit customers' access to programing and drive up cable prices.
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Miamisburg filmmaker gets award for his film
3/11/2010 2:46:48 PM
Mike Webber said it was an honor to have one of his films screened last month at the 2010 Sedona International Film Festival in Arizona.But Webber, co-owner of MainSail Productions in Miamisburg, said it means more that his film won the Director’s Choice Award for Best Independent Documentary.
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Fly Fishing Film Tour Tonight at NC Auditorium - Casper
3/11/2010 2:20:08 PM
The Fly Fishing Film Tour" sponsored by the North Platte River Fly Shop is a traveling collection of films that aim to inspire and invigorate anglers by showcasing them in a true theater environment.
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Group takes Berlusconi to rights court on TV control
3/11/2010 6:02:35 AM
Reuters - A pro-democracy institute founded by billionaire financier George Soros filed a brief to the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday saying Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's grip on Italian TV was undemocratic.
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What's Next for Asian Film?
3/11/2010 1:47:28 AM
Asian and Asian American movies were shut out of the Oscars this year, but the director of The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival says
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Berwick Academy film to aid Haiti
3/11/2010 12:28:52 AM
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Members of the Berwick Academy Outreach Program have produced a documentary film about the Eben Ezer School, a small, independent school in northern Haiti whose local ties had inspired the project long before the Jan. 12...
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South by Southwest's film festival is hospitable
3/10/2010 6:24:58 PM
They don't have much in common -- the Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker," the independent film on aging "That Evening Sun," and the upcoming comic book adaptation "Kick-Ass" -- except for the same U.S. premiere location.
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Twitter mourns Corey Haim
3/10/2010 4:24:07 PM
Colson Whitehead, Jeremy Piven, Lisa Marie Presley and others tap out their grief in 140 characters or less
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NY Times outlook now stable
3/10/2010 3:03:32 PM
Reuters - Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday changed its outlook on The New York Times Co to stable, from negative, saying the newspaper publisher's revenue declines are likely to moderate.
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Oscar for Iraq war film well-timed
3/10/2010 1:38:28 PM
This past weekend, Iraq had a real election and in spite of threats and bombings, millions of voters participated in record numbers. It is a giant step forward in Iraq's road to democracy and has the potential to be a beacon for others in this battle-scarred region.
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Ex-ITV boss takes over at EMI Music as CEO goes
3/10/2010 5:47:53 AM
Reuters - EMI Music, which is seeking new funds to avoid breaching debt covenants, said Chief Executive Elio Leoni-Sceti would step down shortly, just a month after he was tasked with finding a new business plan.
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PNP film fest: Showcase of talents or grand PR campaign?
3/10/2010 4:31:52 AM
The Philippine National Police opened its first ever film festival Wednesday amid criticisms that it is "exploiting" upstart filmmakers just to give its image a much-needed boost. An official of the Film Academy of the Philippines, however, accused the PNP of "exploiting" young filmmakers.
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Film review basis of lawsuit
3/10/2010 4:20:28 AM
LOS ANGELES - IN A step that is unusual even for litigation-heavy Hollywood, the maker of 'Iron Cross,' a small independent film that has yet to find a distributor, charged in a complaint filed Tuesday that the trade paper Variety had damaged the movie.
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Charles B. Pierce, Director of ‘Boggy Creek,’ Dies at 71
3/9/2010 11:11:09 PM
DOVER, Tenn. (AP) — Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made documentary-style 1972 horror movie “The Legend of Boggy Creek” influenced the hit film “The Blair Witch Project” decades later, died on Friday at a nursing home here. He was 71.
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