A new Walt Disney film about a rapping chihuahua that mixes Aztec warrior history and romance jumped to the top of the US and Canadian box office over the weekend, figures showed Sunday.
“Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” a computer-animated production featuring a dog cast set in ancient Mexican ruins, took 29 million dollars on its debut weekend, [...]

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Forget Batman vs. the Joker, or Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden. The most enthralling head-to-head dust-up this year is the latest round in the epic battle between movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and producer Scott Rudin, two of Hollywood’s most ruthless characters.
Weinstein and Rudin, who are rumoured to have hated each other for years, have been [...]

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“The Cheetah Girls One World” stars former Girl Scouts Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams and was made through a collaboration between the Girl Scouts of the USA and the Disney Channel.
“This Bollywood-themed Girl Scout event, celebrating ‘The Cheetah Girls One World’ movie, will help girls appreciate global diversity and allow them to experience [...]

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“Over the last two seasons, as Roger has bravely coped with his medical issues, I’ve continued the show with a number of guest co-hosts, from celebrities such as Jay Leno, Harold Ramis and John Mellencamp, to critics such as A.O. Scott of the New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune. It’s never [...]

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In an exclusive deal that will give its movies a home on cable TV, the Weinstein Co. has agreed to a seven-year deal to show its films via CBS Corp.’s Showtime Networks Inc.
The move comes nearly three months after Paramount Pictures, Showtime’s corporate cousin at Viacom Inc., spurned the cable channel and formed a cable [...]

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It looks like John Travolta and Kelly Preston will have a holiday bash in Ocala this November. Only instead of turkey, there will be a serving of Travolta’s upcoming animated movie about a dog named Bolt.
Travolta supplies the voice to Bolt the title character in the Disney film, which also features the voice of teenage [...]

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Apple has made its iTunes Movie Store available to customers in the UK, starting with around 700 feature films for rental and purchase.
Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers and Lions Gate UK are among the major studios offering films through iTunes.
Apple will offer separate pricing for older ‘library’ titles and new releases in line with the US [...]

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A smattering of yellow signs on Wayland’s streets pointed drivers to the set of a Disney movie called “The Surrogates,” a portion of which was being filmed on Moore Road yesterday.
Star Bruce Willis, though, didn’t make an appearance in town.
On Tuesday and yesterday, crews from a Los Angeles-based unit pointed cameras at what’s been called [...]

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Movie director Kenny Ortega once again will channel the spirit of his former mentor, dancing legend Gene Kelly, when he begins filming the third “High School Musical” in Salt Lake City Saturday.
“Every once in a while, I feel his presence in the room with me, and I get a smile and a little, ‘Atta boy,’ [...]

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The reporter, Anita M. Busch, said two men in a dark Mercedes nearly ran her down outside her own home in August 2002. I remember thinking I was going to die, she said through tears. I thought, This is how it ends. But Mr. Ovitz, once a top talent agent and later president of [...]

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