Kino acquires ‘Momma’s Man’ (The Hollywood Reporter)
The latest film to be rescued from financially troubled ThinkFilm’s slate is the 2008 Sundance premiere “Momma’s Man.”
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‘WALL-E,’ ‘Wanted’ team up as $100 million duo (Orange County Register)
Animated film debuts in top spot with $62.5 million. A lonely little robot made millions of friends during the weekend – and even outgunned Angelina Jolie.
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‘WALL-E,’ ‘Wanted’ team up as $100 million duo (Orange County Register)
Animated film debuts in top spot with $62.5 million. A lonely little robot made millions of friends during the weekend – and even outgunned Angelina Jolie.
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Disney’s `Wall-E’ Tops Box Office at $62.5 Million (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
June 29 (Bloomberg) — “Wall-E,” the animated film about a robot who is left behind after humans flee Earth, was the top film at U.S. and Canadian theaters, taking in $62.5 million for Walt Disney Co.
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Disney’s `Wall-E’ Tops Box Office With Sales of $62.5 Million (Bloomberg.com)
June 29 (Bloomberg) — “Wall-E,” the animated film about a robot who is left behind after humans flee Earth, was the top film at U.S. and Canadian theaters, taking in $62.5 million for Walt Disney Co.
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Reuters Entertainment Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Rapper Wyclef Jean working to develop Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE - When Wyclef Jean went to Haiti recently, he had in tow the television cameras you might expect of a big-time rapper and producer. But he also was accompanied by a pool of buttoned-down business types, including the likes of Canadian entrepreneur Belinda Stronach and other potential foreign investors. …
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Reuters Entertainment Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Rapper Wyclef Jean working to develop Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE - When Wyclef Jean went to Haiti recently, he had in tow the television cameras you might expect of a big-time rapper and producer. But he also was accompanied by a pool of buttoned-down business types, including the likes of Canadian entrepreneur Belinda Stronach and other potential foreign investors. …
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Reuters Entertainment Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Rapper Wyclef Jean working to develop Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE - When Wyclef Jean went to Haiti recently, he had in tow the television cameras you might expect of a big-time rapper and producer. But he also was accompanied by a pool of buttoned-down business types, including the likes of Canadian entrepreneur Belinda Stronach and other potential foreign investors. …
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Lure of the titans (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
TOFINO, British Columbia — An early 20th-century photo of Canadian west coast pioneers has always stuck in my mind. Someone had slapped a door on the hollow stump of a gigantic tree and called it home. A stovepipe protruded comically from one side of the trunk.
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Father, son find bond in ‘The Film Club’ (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
A few pages into “The Film Club,” the smart, new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM’s squeaky-clean “Andy Hardy” movies while growing up, they left little impression on him. It’s doubtful that the granite-faced Judge Hardy would have ever told his gawky teenage son (played by Mickey Rooney), “If you don’t want to go to school anymore, …
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