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ASCAP launches iPhone/iPad app
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3 hours 13 min ago
Music News: App is first of its kind for perf rights org -- The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the performing rights organization made up of approximately 390 members, has announced the launch of ASCAP Mobile, an application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
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CBS peeks at Ludlum spy project
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3 hours 18 min ago
TV News: 'CSI' maven Zuiker on board to exec produce -- CBS is eyeing a spy drama based on aspects of Robert Ludlum's novels about the spies who work for the secretive Treadstone Corp.
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Union merger central issue in election
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3 hours 33 min ago
H'w'd and D.C.: Perlman sends missive to members -- With the Screen Actors Guild's election season in full swing, the renewed push for a merger between SAG and AFTRA has become the dominant issue in the guild's upcoming board election.
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Wigutow to pen 'Osterman Weekend'
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4 hours 42 min ago
Film News: '8 Mile' scribe to rewrite Summit actioner -- Summit Entertainment's moving forward on "The Osterman Weekend," tapping Jesse Wigutow ("8 Mile") to rewrite its long-gestating action-thriller, based on Robert Ludlum's novel.
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'Sarah's Key' to close San Sebastian
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6 hours 3 min ago
International News: Olivia Williams to rep 'Ghost Writer' -- Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key," toplining Kristin Scott Thomas, will close the 58th San Sebastian Film Festival.
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Guerin returns as 'Guest'
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6 hours 58 min ago
Venice Show Dailies: Filmmaker blurs fact and fiction with latest offering -- For Venice audiences and critics, "In the City of Sylvia," which world preemed there in 2007, established Spaniard Jose Luis Guerin as a talent to track.
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'Passion' plays for laughs
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7 hours 1 min ago
Venice Show Dailies: Mazzacurati tackles contempo issues in Venice competition comedy -- There is somewhat of a paradox in Carlo Mazzacurati's comedy "The Passion," which screens today.
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Woo works to marry East and West
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7 hours 4 min ago
International News: Golden Lion winner reflects on "Assassins," China and Hollywood -- John Woo dominated the Lido on Friday when he received the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement just as martial arts epic "Reign of Assassins," which he helmed with Su Chao-Pin, world preemed to warm response.
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Film financing finds Backup plan
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7 hours 12 min ago
International News: Investor fills the gap as banks pull out of risky biz -- On the Lido with Alex de la Iglesia's "Balada triste," which plays in competition on Monday, France's Backup Films, a pic consultancy-turned-investor, is stepping up to the plate.
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Bedrooms
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7 hours 13 min ago
Film Reviews: Pic intercuts between four stories in which characters face essential truths in the titular room.
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The Burn (La quemadura)
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7 hours 14 min ago
Film Reviews: A emotional docu on the impact the Chilean and Argentine military juntas of the 1970s and '80s.
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La pecora nera (The Black Sheep)
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7 hours 15 min ago
Film Reviews: Pic's sensibility is too idiosyncratic and voiceover too theatrical to make much of an impression.
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Toho dominates, Japan percolates
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7 hours 34 min ago
Spotlight: Japanese Cinema 2010: B.O. giant doesn't diminish country's diverse offerings -- The Japanese film biz is booming -- that is, if you happen to be Toho (by far the biggest distrib) or its TV network partners, who serve as backers and producers of the Toho slate. Eight of the top 10 domestic B.O. pics for 2009 were released by Toho -- and this year will probably be no different.
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Japanese films plot a third path
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7 hours 34 min ago
Spotlight: Japanese Cinema 2010: Offbeat and extreme pics seek non-arthouse auds -- How to succeed in the Japanese film biz means really trying … something different.
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Japan treads slowly in 3D
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7 hours 34 min ago
Spotlight: Japanese Cinema 2010: Technology hasn't received full embrace -- Hollywood may be steadily producing 3D films, but in Japan, 2D domestic pics still dominate at the B.O.
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Majority (Cogunluk)
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7 hours 36 min ago
Film Reviews: A schlubby young man struggles with self-definition under the shadow of his authoritarian father.
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Hermaphrodite (Hermafrodita)
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7 hours 37 min ago
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Unions tout benefits via Twitter
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7 hours 52 min ago
Business News: American Rights at Work, four unions team on effort -- Four major performer unions will be touting the benefits of unions via Twitter during Labor Day weekend.
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