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Lois, Lex Lock Into Superman
By Borys Kit, Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Jan. 7) - Superman has found his Lois Lane and his Lex Luthor.
Kate Bosworth is in negotiations to play the Man of Steel's plucky fellow reporter, and Kevin Spacey is set to play the superhero's nemesis in Bryan Singer's Superman movie for Warner Bros. Pictures.
The comic book movie would reunite the two actors, who currently appear in Spacey's "Beyond the Sea" as Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin.
The casting of Lane was a long process that ultimately rested on a chemistry test between the actress and Brandon Routh, who is playing Superman, sources said. Bosworth reportedly beat out the likes of Claire Danes, Linda Cardellini and Michelle Monaghan.
Sources said Singer wanted Spacey early on but that the Oscar-winning actor's commitment to London's Old Vic Theatre, where he is artistic director, caused scheduling snafus on the road to making a deal. Spacey, who is in rehearsals for "National Anthems" at the Old Vic, will do a limited run of "The Philadelphia Story" at the theater before moving to the Superman movie, which has a March start date.
Reuters/VNU _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
"Superman can't be emo. He can't cut himself."-CP
Sun Jan 09, 2005 1:46 am
ROBRAM89
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Knowing the Wachowskis, they WILL find a way to turn V for Vendetta into a big-budget action movie. _________________ I am Jack's Fight Club reference.
Sun Jan 09, 2005 11:10 pm
dougisfunny
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unless PMS hits them _________________ The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:13 pm
Daikun
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News Corp. Monday said it would buy the remaining 18 percent of its Fox Entertainment Group Inc. unit in a stock swap worth roughly $6 billion, which analysts said would simplify the media conglomerate's structure.
The deal gives News Corp. full ownership of its U.S. entertainment assets such as 20th Century Fox film studios, Fox Network, Fox News Channel, and its stake in satellite broadcaster DirecTV, which could make it easier for Rupert Murdoch to pursue acquisitions.
"He has one currency now, it makes life simpler," said Mario Gabelli, fund manager of Gabelli Asset Management.
News Corp. is the parent company of the Fox News Channel, which operates FOXNews.com.
Holders of Fox Class A shares will receive 1.90 shares of News Corp. Class A shares, representing a premium of about 7.4 percent over Fox's closing price Friday of $31.22 on the New York Stock Exchange.
News Corp., which was recently reincorporated in the United States, currently holds about 82 percent of the equity and 97 percent of the voting power of Fox.
The transaction comes after Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone raised his voting stake in News Corp. to 18 percent, and News Corp. enacted a poison pill provision to make a hostile takeover prohibitively expensive.
News Corp. originally sold an 18.6 percent stake in Fox Entertainment in an initial public offering in late 1998, yielding $2.8 billion at $22.50 a share. At the time, the company, whose other businesses include newspaper, magazine and book publishing as well as cable and satellite television operations in Asia and Europe, said the market undervalued its U.S. media assets. _________________ Toonami visual schedule - UPDATED AUGUST 2, 2015
Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:06 pm
ROBRAM89
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Wow, so now NewsCorp. owns...their own company. Damn the business world is boring. _________________ I am Jack's Fight Club reference.
Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:10 pm
Daikun
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G4, the only 24/7 television network dedicated to video games, screeches into 2005 with announcements of a new name, look, and feel, as well as two new series, Formula D and Girls Gone Wired. Charles Hirschhorn, founder and CEO of the network, announced the channel's official name as G4 - Video Game Television - earlier today at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour. The name change and new network look and feel will take effect on February 15, 2005.
"We're heading into 2005 with a well-defined and focused brand," commented Hirschhorn. "Video games offer us a distinctive voice that resonates with our target audience and G4 delivers the highest concentration of males 12-34 of any other television network." Hirschhorn also announced plans for a multi-million dollar marketing and advertising campaign to launch the G4 brand.
The full story is available here. I'm not posting the rest because it's just plugs for G4's new crap.
The full story is available here. I'm not posting the rest because it's just plugs for G4's new crap.
TechTV, R.I.P.
"Sorry Doc, but you know I gotta desecrate the corpse."
This is horrid.
P.S.- "Formula D"? Giving Tokyopop's stupid ideas legitimacy *shudder*... _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
"Superman can't be emo. He can't cut himself."-CP
Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:45 am
Nobuyuki
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Lee Wins Suit Against Marvel
By Maxie Zeus, Toon Zone News Ticker
01-19-2005, 11:29 AM
Stan Lee is entitled to 10% of certain profits that Marvel Enterprises has made off of movies based on its characters, a court has ruled.
Lee sued Marvel, claiming he was due a cut of profits that Marvel made off the Spider-Man movies and other film and TV projects that use Marvel characters. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has now agreed with Lee and ruled that he is entitled to 10% of the profits Marvel has received since November 1998 from studios for the right to produce motion pictures and television productions based on Marvel's characters. Lee is also entitled to a cut of the profits from the movie-based toys manufactured and sold by Marvel itself.
The court, however, rejected Lee's claim to a share of Marvel's profits off of third-party merchandising fees. Also, the court ruled that a jury will have to resolve Lee's claim to profits from a joint venture between Marvel and Sony and from Marvel's Hulk licensing program with Universal.
Marvel says it will appeal the decision. _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
"Superman can't be emo. He can't cut himself."-CP
Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:23 pm
Daikun
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It's official: Vin Diesel's career is now officially over.
If only that were true...no wait, I'm thinking of The Rock. _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
"Superman can't be emo. He can't cut himself."-CP
Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:35 am
Daikun
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Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell submitted his resignation and will leave in March, the FCC announced Friday.
Powell, a member of the FCC since November 1998 and the chairman since early 2001, said in his statement that he is proud of changes in FCC rules and regulations made during his tenure.
Powell has been a high-profile chairman of what had generally been a quiet regulatory agency. He has pushed for increased fines for obscenity and indecent content by the nation's broadcasters and backed a change in media ownership rules that allowed for greater consolidation by the industry's largest conglomerates.
In September the FCC fined Viacom, which owns CBS, $550,000 for the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show in which Janet Jackson's breast was briefly revealed during a musical number. The media conglomerate is challenging that fine.
Viacom agreed in November to pay a record $3.5 million to settle a number of complaints involving alleged indecent comments on its radio stations, including remarks by its most popular radio personality, Howard Stern.
Partly to get away from FCC oversight, Stern has signed a contract to move to satellite radio provider Sirius in 2006. On his show Friday, before the official announcement, Stern cheered reports that Powell would be leaving.
"Thank God he's gone," he said. "This is a great day in broadcasting."
Who's next?
The New York Times reported on its Web site Friday that replacements for Powell being considered by the Bush administration include Kevin Martin, one of the other Republican members of the five-member FCC; Becky Klein, a former head of the public utility commission in Texas; Patrick Wood III, the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and Michael Gallagher, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the Commerce Department.
Martin has been somewhat more conservative than Powell. In the Super Bowl halftime decision, Martin wrote a separate opinion that the FCC should have investigated complaints about the alleged lewdness of the entire halftime show, not just the brief exposure of Jackson's breast.
Powell was originally appointed to the FCC by President Clinton before being given the lead of the agency by President Bush. The Atlanta Journal Constitution speculated late last year that he may be interested in a run for governor of Virginia, although Powell declined to comment on his plans when questioned several times last year.
Not all the controversies involving Powell have been on high profile issues such as obscenity and media ownership. He has pushed to shift TV stations from the current analog broadcasting spectrum they've used since the invention of television onto more efficient digital broadcasting.
But station owners have balked at making the investment necessary for the change before many viewers have the televisions that can receive the new signals. Powell conceded in September Congressional testimony that the 2006 deadline is likely to be pushed back to 2009.
He was also blocked in efforts to deregulate the local phone market.
The statement from the FCC included seven pages of accomplishments during Powell's tenure, including setting up a "Do-Not-Call" list to block phone solicitations, the ability of cell phone users to keep their phone numbers when they changed providers and the increased availability of wireless Internet connections in homes, offices and coffee shops.
"During my tenure, we worked to get the law right in order to stimulate innovative technology that puts more power in the hands of the American people, giving them greater choices that enrich their lives," said Powell in his statement. "Evidence of our success can be seen increasingly in the offices, the automobiles and the living rooms of the American consumer. The seeds of our policies are taking firm root in the marketplace and are starting to blossom."
Powell is the son of Colin Powell, the retiring Secretary of State. Before joining the FCC, Powell served as chief of staff of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, and as a policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney when Cheney served as Secretary of Defense during the administration of President George H.W. Bush. _________________ Toonami visual schedule - UPDATED AUGUST 2, 2015
Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:22 pm
Nobuyuki
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They're at it again!
Comcast cable channel targets Asian viewers
New network will feature strictly Asian-themed programming
By Andrew Wallenstein
Hollywood Reporter
Updated: 6:17 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2005
LOS ANGELES - Cable giant Comcast Corp. will expand its efforts in ethnic-targeted programming with the conversion of a recent channel acquisition into an all-Asian network.
International Channel Networks (ICN), which Comcast acquired from Liberty Media Corp. in July, will yank in-language programming for U.S.-based European and Middle Eastern audiences from its flagship network, International Channel. It will be rebranded and replenished with strictly Asian-themed programming in the second quarter of the year.
The retargeting reflects the increased attention being paid to the Asian-American market, which is 12.5 million strong and heavily concentrated in major urban areas. Although their sum is about one-third the size of the black and Hispanic population, they represent half the spending power — an appealing factor for advertisers.
The sector has attracted other all-Asian channels as well, including WorldAsia and ImaginAsia. Comcast, meanwhile, also has a stake in TVOne, a new channel targeting blacks in the 25-54 demographic.
International Channel, which is available in 10 million homes, is looking to drive distribution growth with the conversion. To help along that goal, ICN recently allowed cable operators to transmit International and premium channel TV Asia at no extra cost to give viewers access to Asian news broadcasts during the tsunami disaster.
The new channel’s morning block will be composed of acquired news broadcasts that originally air just hours earlier all over the Asian continent.
In primetime, the focus will be on English-language original programming, which International already has found success with through a block called Asia Street. ICN will triple its investment in original programming for efforts including an animated series pilot in development titled “Cooleyville,� which chronicles an Asian-American family.
Most of the channel programming will be composed of acquisitions in a mix of Asian languages, everything from Korean dramas to Bollywood films from South Asia.
ICN will still serve audiences no longer represented on its flagship network through its suite of 21 premium channels catering specifically to languages including Italian, Polish and Arabic. _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
"Superman can't be emo. He can't cut himself."-CP
Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:35 am
Daikun
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News Corp. is preparing to announce this week plans for a new cable/satellite channel devoted to unscripted programming, sources said. Scheduled to bow in the first quarter of 2005, the network -- to be known as Fox Reality Channel -- is being developed at Fox Cable Networks Group under the direction of Fox Networks Group chief Tony Vinciquerra. The channel is expected to combine original programming from Fox's various production entities with Fox's vast library of unscripted fare, including "Temptation Island." Rumors that News Corp. was preparing to add a reality outlet to its growing portfolio of digital cable/satellite channels have swirled for months, especially now that News Corp. has a strong launching pad for new networks in satellite provider DirecTV. _________________ Toonami visual schedule - UPDATED AUGUST 2, 2015
Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:28 pm
Daikun
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The folks over at Bloody Disgusting recently got a pretty good scoop regarding the future of the EVIL DEAD franchise. In an interview their correspondent Superheidi did with Raimi, he mentioned "there will be an Evil Dead 4, and there will ALSO be an Evil Dead Remake. The remake will be produced by Ghost House pictures, (his company with Tapert) and it will star a new cast and a completely new director. The point of Ghost House is that we want to bring new directors (like Takashi Shimizu of "the Grudge" to Hollywood and give them a chance to make a good horror film." Further, Raimi will be directing EVIL DEAD 4 with Bruce Campbell coming back as Ash. According to Raimi "this is the project I really want to make. The remake can belong to someone else, but part 4 will be a continuation of the original." I know a lot of people are skeptical about this and it may be that Raimi is doing this just for the money but he's a great director who's revisiting a franchise he loves and now with a relatively unlimited budget. You can't go wrong with that. Right?
'Fantastic Four' Exits July 4 Box Office Derby
'Fantastic Four' will now compete with 'Bewitched' at the box office, opening on July 8.
By Nicole Sperling, Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 8) - So much for 20th Century Fox's Fourth of July-themed launch for "Fantastic Four," its big summer superhero movie.
The studio said Monday it would now open the movie Friday, July 8, a week later than scheduled, ending a looming face-off with director Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," starring Tom Cruise, which is set to open Wednesday, June 29.
"We are not running from 'War of the Worlds,"' Fox president of distribution Bruce Snyder said. "This (new) date just works better for us."
Fox's adaptation of the Marvel superheroes title, starring Michael Chiklis and directed by Tim Story, will now go up against Sony Pictures' film adaptation of the popular '60s TV show "Bewitched," with a cast headed by Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell.
With the two high-profile sci-fi movies sharing the same opening weekend, fireworks had been expected to erupt over the Fourth of July holiday. Fox had been first to plant its banner on that ground, staking a claim in late 2003. But then Paramount began eyeing the same territory and said in September that it would open "War" two days before "Fantastic Four."
Initially, Fox appeared to stand its ground. On Jan. 14, the distributor began running trailers for "Fantastic Four" tied to the release of its superhero film "Elektra." Marketing materials made specific use of the July 4 date, with the "Fantastic Four" trailer declaring, "On July Fourth . . . 4th . . . 5 people will be changed . . . forever . . . 4-ever."
Paramount began running a teaser trailer for "War" during the Christmas season. On Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast, it unveiled a 30-second commercial for the film, containing the first footage seen of Cruise in character.
Fox isn't abandoning July 1 altogether -- instead it is moving "Roll Bounce," starring rapper Bow Wow, onto that date in a bit of counterprograming. _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
"Superman can't be emo. He can't cut himself."-CP
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