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TV renewals: UPN said Monday that it had given full-season orders to its freshmen series “Veronica Mars” and “Kevin Hill.”
Hot DVD: DreamWorks Animation SKG said Monday that, in its first weekend of release, “Shrek 2” sold 11 million DVDs and an additional 1.1 million videocassettes, producing retail revenue of about $185 million.
“Cholera” script: New Line Cinema said Monday that it had acquired the rights to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1985 novel “Love in the Time of Cholera” from producer Scott Steindorff and had hired Oscar-winner Ronald Harwood (“The Pianist”) to adapt it for the screen.
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