Daniel Frankel
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Box Office: ‘The Help’ Grosses Big $19M to Beat ‘Apollo 18’ and ‘Shark Night’
DreamWorks’ long-legged Civil Rights drama wins the box office for a third straight week; Focus’ ‘The Debt’ finishes No. 2 with strong $12.6M Labor Day weekend
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‘The Help’ Tops ‘Apollo 18,’ ‘Shark Night’ for Another Box Office Crown (Updated)
Slow Labor Day box office sees middling openings from two low-budget horror films, “Apollo 18” and “Shark Night 3D”
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Box Office: Wednesday Release Worth Only $958K for Focus’ ‘The Debt’
Opening in 1,768 locations domestically Wednesday, Nazi-hunting drama averages just over $540 a theater
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Death Star PR: ‘Alderaan Wasn’t Blown Up, It Spontaneously Combusted!’ (Video)
Indie producers look to raise $30K for web series focused on the Empire’s spin factory
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Ken Howard on the SAG/AFTRA Merger: ‘A Hurricane Couldn’t Stop Us’
Despite nasty weather, labor groups carry on with weekend merger meeting
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‘The Help’ Creams ‘Conan,’ ‘Fright Night,’ Wins Weekend Box Office With $20.5M
DreamWorks period drama drops just 20% in 2nd weekend; “Conan the Barbarian” and “Fright Night” remakes flounder; “Spy Kids 4” hits its unspectacular tracking
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‘The Help’ Tames Comatose ‘Conan’ at Friday Box Office
DreamWorks’ Southern Society drama enjoys strong start to its second weekend, as remake of Schwarzenegger barbarianism classic bombs; “Spy Kids 4” opens solid, but not “Fright Night” and “One Day”
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Warner Passes $2B in Foreign Box Office Receipts
Huge Harry Potter performance pushes studio past key benchmark before September; studio seeking to break its $4.8B global record in 2011
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AMC Renews ‘Breaking Bad’ With 16-Episode Order
Deal ends tense standoff and provides for the final season of the Emmy-winning series
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Relativity Sets Chinese Production/Distribution Partnership
Studio enters partnership with several top Chinese investment arms and entertainment companies to co-produce films and distribute in China; it remains unclear as to how much cash Relativity will net
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AMC Exec’s Fake Twitter Account: ‘We’ve Slashed The Killing’s Chewing-Gum Budget’
With his network standing accused of cheapness following the expensive re-upping of “Mad Men,” original programming head Joel Stillerman comes under humorous fake-Twitter account fire
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IKEA Australia Takes on Mundane Home Decor, ‘Braveheart’ Style (Video)
Thirty-second ad for Swedish chain’s Down Under operation parodies everything in the movie except Mel’s face paint and crazy eyes
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Death Toll Up to 5 in Indiana Sugarland Stage Collapse (Video)
Gust of high winds collapses rigging at Indiana State fair
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Box Office: ‘The Help’ Has Strong $25.5M 1st Weekend, But Can’t Hold Off ‘Apes’
Fox’s “Planet of the Apes” sequel wins another weekend with $27.5M; “Final Destination 5” ($18.4M), “30 Minutes or Less” ($13M) and the “Glee: 3D Concert Movie” ($5.7M) all miss the mark
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‘Final Destination 5’ DOA at Weekend Box Office, as ‘Apes’ Rises Again
Latest “Planet of the Apes” sequel is No. 1 Friday with $8.1M, while New Line’s fate-themed horror film falls well below tracking at $7.3M; DreamWorks’ “The Help” has nearly $18M after three days