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Where The Wild Things Are Wins Box Office

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Law Abiding Citizen, Invention of Lying, Surrogates, Box Office, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Where the Wild Things Are, Movies, Toy Story 3-D, Paranormal Activity, Warner Brothers, Revenue, Zombieland, Wb, Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Couples Retreat, Stepfather, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — "Where the Wild Things Are" proved a bigger hit with adult audiences than family crowds as the adaptation of Maurice Sendak's belo...

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Targeted Quality: The Advent Of On-Demand DVDs

John Farr | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, Video on Demand, Best Movies by Farr, George Feltenstein, Alain Resnais, Warner Home Entertainment, Cary Grant, Thirteen/WNET, Alfred Hitchcock, Amazon.com, Warner Brothers, Reel 13, Warner Archive Collection, John Garfield, Fdr, Classic Movies, Warner Home Video, Criterion Collection, Entertainment News
John Farr

Technology will only offer more quality film choices as time goes by. The trick for savvy consumers and movie fans will be to stay informed as to what's really good..

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Preserving Family and Hollywood History: The Brothers Warner

Paul Katz | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Debbie Reynolds, James Dean, Entertainment, Warner Bros, Dennis Hopper, Harry Warner, Hollywood, Cass Warner Sperling, Warner Sisters, Albert Warner, Warner Brothers, Sam Warner, Hollywood Production Code, Jack Warner, Kate Amend, Samuel Goldwyn, Alain Goldman, Family, Norman Lear, Nick Pileggi, Warner Brothers Pictures, Jack Warner Jr., Entertainment News
Paul Katz

"I realized my family's story would be better served if I did this as a documentary before any fictionalized accounts were put together."

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Slumdog: Greater Insult "Slum," Not "Dog"

Jim Luce | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Poverty Porn, Orphans International Worldwide, Slumdog Millionaire, Cité Soleil, Warner Brothers, Garib Nagar, Extreme Poverty, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Aseema, Anil Kapoor, Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail, Freida Pinto, Sally Struthers, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Dev Pate, World News
Jim Luce

Sally Struthers can stroll the garbage dumps of the world showing you pathetic children, but this is truly pornographic. Children, even impoverished children, may be cute, but there is nothing cute about poverty.

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Warner Brothers Slashing 10% Of Work Force

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 02.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Warner Brothers, Warner Brothers Layoffs, Business News

LOS ANGELES — Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. Entertainment movie studio said Tuesday it is eliminating nearly 800 jobs, or 10 percent of its gl...

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A Review of Chandni Chowk to China

Melanie McGanney | Posted 02.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: India, Heroes, Bollywood, Villains, Warner Bros, Kill Bill, Chinese, Acrobatics, Film, Kung Fu, Movies, Steve Martin, Dancing, Warner Brothers, Chinese Culture, Western World, Singing, China, Chandni Chowk to China, Entertainment News
Melanie McGanney

An embodiment of all things Bollywood, director Nikhil Advani's Chandni Chowk to China interweaves singing, acrobatic dancing and kung fu into this effusive picaresque.

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The Best Bogart Movies By Farr

John Farr | Posted 01.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: George Raft, Warner Brothers, Gloria Grahame, Casablanca, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, Christmas Birthdays, Hollywood's Golden Age., Classic Film, Movies About Hollywood, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Gangster Movies, Jose Ferrer, Lauren Bacall, Fed MacMurray, War Movies, Humphrey Bogart, Entertainment News
John Farr

What follows are my favorite under-exposed Bogie picks. I'm consciously omitting what are arguably his most famous "landmark" films.

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WBTV Lawsuits Over "Two And A Half Men," "Gilmore Girls"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Warner Brothers Television, Warner Brothers, Two and a Half Men, Wb, WBTV, Gilmore Girls, Media News

Warner Brothers Television finds itself embroiled in two lawsuits this week over popular shows — one as the plaintiff, one as the defendant. Fi...

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Studios Push Crowd-Pleasers For Oscar Glory

New York Times | Posted 11.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Warner Brothers, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Film, The Oscars, Disney, Paramount, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES -- Walt Disney is in. This week the studio will break new ground by starting a campaign that boldly offers its "Wall-E" as a contender for...

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Freakazoid! This Weekday Afternoon Cartoon is Better Than You Remembered.

Alex Remington | Posted 11.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Freakazoid, Paul Rugg, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Lewis, Tom Ruegger, Marty Feldman, Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers, Amblin Entertainment, Comedy, Animaniacs, Animation, Freakazoid!, Referential Comedy, The Simpsons, Meta Humor, The Tick, Family Guy, Young Frankenstein, Tiny Toons, Entertainment News
Alex Remington

Stylistically somewhere between the great superhero parody The Tick and Marx Brothers-style vaudeville, Freakazoid! was absurd, nonsensical, but absolutely hilarious.

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Warner Brothers Decides McCain Prison Interview Won't Be Shown Until After Election

New York Times | Posted 11.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Warner Brothers, Hanoi Hilton, John McCain, Film, Warner Bros, Hanoi Hilton DVD, Entertainment News

If Senator John McCain has more to say publicly about his time in a North Vietnamese prison before next month's election, it will not be with help fro...

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Entertainment Weekly Burned By Warner Bros. Delay Of Harry Potter Film

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Entertainment Weekly, Time Warner, Warner Brothers, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Entertainment Weekly, Media News

LOS ANGELES — Maybe Harry Potter should have brought a note from his parents saying he would be missing school. Warner Bros. gave Harry the sch...

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New Line Faces Shutdown

Wall Street Journal | MERISSA MARR, PETER SANDERS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: The Golden Compass, Warner Brothers, Time Warner, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros, Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Michael Lynne, New Line, Jeff Bewkes, Robert Shaye, Peter Jackson, Business News

New Line Cinema, the studio behind the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, has spent the best part of a decade fiercely protecting its turf within Time Warne...

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WB To Use Blu-Ray Exclusively For DVDs

AP | Alex Veiga | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Warner Brothers, Barry Meyer, HD DVD, WB, Warner Bros Blu-Ray, Dvds, Blu-Ray, Business News

Warner Bros. Entertainment said Friday it will release high-definition DVDs exclusively in the Blu-ray disc format, becoming the latest studio to reje...

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Madonna To Sever Warner Bros Ties For New $120 Million Deal

AFP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Madonna, Warner Brothers, Record Industry, Concerts, Entertainment News

Madonna intends to sign a $120 million recording and touring deal with live entertainment promoter Live Nation Inc. and leave her longtime record labe...

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Warner Bros Honcho Decrees: No More Films With Female Leads

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Deadline Hollywood Daily, Warner Brothers, Nikki Finke, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman, Gloria Allred, Jeff Robinov, Entertainment News

This comes to me from three different producers, so I know it's real: Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that "We ...

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