Sony Pictures Entertainment received court approval to bring Michael Jackson to the big screen, and it set a release date on what just may be the toughest weekend of the year at the U.S. box office. The court’s authorization, announced Monday in Probate Court by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff, allows them to edit more than 80 hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage into a movie. Although several studios expressed interest, Sony emerged the winner by agreeing to pay Jackson’s estate and AEG Live at least $60 million for the film rights.
FilmTotalG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Par.$54,713,046Julie & Julia, Sony$20,027,956G-Force, BV$9,870,594Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, WB$8,928,349Funny People, Uni.$7,986,435The Ugly Truth, Sony$6,750,125A Perfect Getaway, Uni.$5,948,555Aliens in the Attic, Fox$4,021,478(500) Days of Summer, FoxS$3,739,702Orphan, WB$3,674,306
Roberta Reardon was unanimously re-elected to a second two-year term as national president of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists at the union’s biennial national convention Saturday in Chicago. Representatives of the union’s 32 locals and chapters also approved a $300 increase in the initiation fee to join[…]
The 66th Venice Film Festival has announced the nine films in contention for the event’s first 3-D prize and all are from the U.S. Two of the pictures appear in the fest line-up — “Up” by Pete Docter, which features in the Venice Pixar program, and “The Hole” by Joe Dante, which has its world premiere.
John Hughes, who captured the zeitgeist of 1980s teen life as writer-director of “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles” and produced and scripted family hits such as “Home Alone,” died Thursday of a heart attack in Manhattan while taking a walk. He was 59.
Sony Pictures Entertainment received court approval to bring Michael Jackson to the big screen, and it set a release date on what just may be the toughest weekend of the year at the U.S. box office. The court’s authorization, announced Monday in Probate Court by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff, allows them to edit more than 80 hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage into a movie. Although several studios expressed interest, Sony emerged the winner by agreeing to pay Jackson’s estate and AEG Live at least $60 million for the film rights.
FilmTotalG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Par.$54,713,046Julie & Julia, Sony$20,027,956G-Force, BV$9,870,594Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, WB$8,928,349Funny People, Uni.$7,986,435The Ugly Truth, Sony$6,750,125A Perfect Getaway, Uni.$5,948,555Aliens in the Attic, Fox$4,021,478(500) Days of Summer, FoxS$3,739,702Orphan, WB$3,674,306
Roberta Reardon was unanimously re-elected to a second two-year term as national president of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists at the union’s biennial national convention Saturday in Chicago. Representatives of the union’s 32 locals and chapters also approved a $300 increase in the initiation fee to join[…]
The 66th Venice Film Festival has announced the nine films in contention for the event’s first 3-D prize and all are from the U.S. Two of the pictures appear in the fest line-up — “Up” by Pete Docter, which features in the Venice Pixar program, and “The Hole” by Joe Dante, which has its world premiere.
John Hughes, who captured the zeitgeist of 1980s teen life as writer-director of “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles” and produced and scripted family hits such as “Home Alone,” died Thursday of a heart attack in Manhattan while taking a walk. He was 59.
Sony Pictures Entertainment received court approval to bring Michael Jackson to the big screen, and it set a release date on what just may be the toughest weekend of the year at the U.S. box office. The court’s authorization, announced Monday in Probate Court by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff, allows them to edit more than 80 hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage into a movie. Although several studios expressed interest, Sony emerged the winner by agreeing to pay Jackson’s estate and AEG Live at least $60 million for the film rights.
FilmTotalG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Par.$54,713,046Julie & Julia, Sony$20,027,956G-Force, BV$9,870,594Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, WB$8,928,349Funny People, Uni.$7,986,435The Ugly Truth, Sony$6,750,125A Perfect Getaway, Uni.$5,948,555Aliens in the Attic, Fox$4,021,478(500) Days of Summer, FoxS$3,739,702Orphan, WB$3,674,306
Roberta Reardon was unanimously re-elected to a second two-year term as national president of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists at the union’s biennial national convention Saturday in Chicago. Representatives of the union’s 32 locals and chapters also approved a $300 increase in the initiation fee to join[…]
The 66th Venice Film Festival has announced the nine films in contention for the event’s first 3-D prize and all are from the U.S. Two of the pictures appear in the fest line-up — “Up” by Pete Docter, which features in the Venice Pixar program, and “The Hole” by Joe Dante, which has its world premiere.
John Hughes, who captured the zeitgeist of 1980s teen life as writer-director of “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles” and produced and scripted family hits such as “Home Alone,” died Thursday of a heart attack in Manhattan while taking a walk. He was 59.