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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, Wines, Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking
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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: Cannes Film Festival, Jack Nicholson, The Washington Post, Arts and Culture, Film Festivals
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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: Television, Phil McGraw, News Corp., Skyfall (movie), Entertainment
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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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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: Skyfall (movie), Management (movie), The Heat (movie), Labor Day, Iron Man 3 (movie)
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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: Don Knabe, About Last Night (movie), Michael Antonovich
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China's film, TV business generate $15.5 billion in annual revenue
China’s film and television business generated revenue of $15.5 billion, or 100 billion yuan in local currency, and supported more than 900,000 jobs in 2011, according to a new study by the Motion Picture Assn. and the China Film Distributors and...
Tags: Television, China, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Entertainment, Services and Shopping
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L.A. learns the perils of regulating porn
So which is more important, porn actors’ safety -- or the jobs, fees and tax money the porn industry provides? Los Angeles County voters decided on the former in November when they passed Measure B, requiring the use of condoms during film...
Tags: Pornography, Sports, Voting, Elections, Politics
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One film's rise is fueled by another's demise
Gil Kofman suspected that making a movie in China wouldn't be easy. The Los Angeles-based director doesn't speak a word of Mandarin, he wasn't acquainted with the film's inexperienced financiers and he assumed communist government censors might have...
Tags: Organized Crime, China
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Film production on L.A.-area streets rises in first quarter
Box office revenues are down, but film crews are having a good year on the streets of Los Angeles. Overall film production activity in Los Angeles jumped 18% in the first quarter, mostly the result of a flurry of low-budget movies, sitcoms and...
Tags: Television, TNT (tv network), Entertainment, Credit and Debt
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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: Arts and Culture, Truman Capote, Literature, Authors, Midnight's Children (movie)
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Hong Kong film industry changes focus to mainland
HONG KONG — When Mabel Cheung, one of this city's leading directors, shot her historical-political drama "The Soong Sisters" in China in the mid-1990s, the nature of the exchange for the co-production was simple: Beijing provided inexpensive...
Tags: China, Entertainment, The Departed (movie), Beijing (China), Peter Chan
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