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Steve Cooley and Alan Jackson join Hollywood legal battle
Former Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley and former Deputy Dist. Atty. Alan Jackson have joined a high-stakes Hollywood legal battle related to the failed movie business dealings of construction magnate Ron Tutor and a partner. Last month,...
Tags: Criminals, Steve Cooley, Corporate Crime, Economy, Business and Finance, Blackmail and Extortion
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L.A. City Council and film industry again clash over green bike lanes
The L.A. City Council and the film industry are once again on a collision course over a green-colored bike lane downtown. City officials painted a 1.5-mile strip of Spring Street neon green in 2011 for a bike lane as part of a larger effort pushed by...
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Rupert Murdoch, Screen Actors Guild
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When the film industry drives you to drink, open a wine shop: Domaine L.A.
Jill Bernheimer is the proprietor of the sweet little wine shop Domaine LA. After working many years in the film business for producers and then as an independent producer, she says laughingly, the film business drove her to drink. “Wine was...
Tags: Rivera, Dining and Drinking, Wines, Bars and Clubs, Alcoholic Beverages
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Cannes keeps being film industry's place to be
— It's been 42 years since I first covered the Cannes Film Festival. Arriving on the French Riviera this week, I was struck by how Cannes has remained the quintessential place for film, despite enormous changes in the cinema landscape. Cannes...
Tags: France, Jack Nicholson, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Cannes Film Festival
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Sony shares jump as hedge fund urges IPO of entertainment unit
Sony Corp. stock soared in afternoon trading after New York hedge fund Third Point proposed that the electronics and media giant make an initial public stock offering of up to 20% of its entertainment arm. That unit, known as Sony Entertainment Inc.,...
Tags: Media Industry, Mutual Funds, Community (tv program), Science and Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
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Cannes 2013: Alec Baldwin, director James Toback feel 'Seduced and Abandoned'
CANNES, France — At last year's Cannes Film Festival, Alec Baldwin and director James Toback were pitching their idea for an Iraq-set love story to financier and sales agent Avi Lerner. Lerner waved them aside, saying he could make the duo's movie...
Tags: Natalie Portman, 30 Rock (tv program), Meryl Streep, Cannes Film Festival, Film Festivals
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Seeing red over a green bike lane
The reason the bike lane on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles is bright fluorescent green is so drivers and bicyclists alike can see it easily and avoid running into one another. However, the very conspicuousness of that color has brought on a...
Tags: Jose Huizar
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Marvel filming most of latest 'Captain America' movie in L.A.
On the fourth floor of a vacant wing of St. Vincent Medical Center near downtown Los Angeles, some 150 crew members crowded the hallways, joining actors Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson as they prepared to film a scene for "Captain America: The Winter...
Tags: Interior Policy, Marvel Entertainment, Inc., Photography and Video, Music Industry, Pension and Welfare
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Hollywood bets big on blockbusters, starting with 'Iron Man 3'
Summer is the season for blockbusters at the box office, and this year Hollywood is going all in. Midway through a year of declining attendance and ticket sales, the major studios are betting heavily on big-budget spectacles that can fatten the bottom...
Tags: Management (movie), Genres, Johnny Depp, The Heat (movie), Jonah Hill
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Grand Park filming fees temporarily lowered
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to temporarily lower filming fees at their newly opened Grand Park downtown. Movie and television crews previously had to pay $20,000 a day per block of park space they used. Many entertainment executives...
Tags: About Last Night (movie), Michael Antonovich , Don Knabe
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Author Salman Rushdie sold 'Midnight's Children' rights for $1
This post has been corrected. See note below.Author/filmmaker Salman Rushdie joined Jon Stewart Tuesday night on "The Daily Show" to talk about the forthcoming film version of his bestselling novel "Midnight's Children." The 1981 novel won a slew of awards -- including the Man Booker Prize, the...Tags: Life of Pi (movie), Authors, Arts and Culture, Literature, Truman Capote
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John Woo to direct 'Flying Tigers' as two-part feature
Director John Woo, who has primarily relocated from Hollywood to Asia, will next make the World War II drama “Flying Tigers” as a combination movie-television miniseries in China. The production, announced in Shanghai this week, will be co-...
Tags: China
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