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The Walt Disney Co. has wasted no time in finding replacements for Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper as hosts of the syndicated At the Movies . Two days....

Read news story: DISNEY SWIFTLY REPLACES EBERT AND ROEPER

Although some industry analysts had contended that Warner Bros. had inflated its estimate of what The Dark Knight took in on Sunday so that it could....

Read news story: BATMAN IS ROBIN THE BOX OFFICE

At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper will apparently become another entertainment magazine show along the lines of Entertainment Tonight following....

Read news story: ROEPER QUITTING AT THE MOVIES

Disney learned Sunday that its High School Musical brand has limits to its success. Only 4 million viewers tuned in to High School Musical: Get in....

Read news story: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL HITS SOUR NOTE

Far from receiving congratulations from the African-American community for finally producing an animated feature with a black princess, Disney is....

Read news story: FROG BITES DISNEY

Amazon on Thursday launched a beta version of its new Amazon Video on Demand service, which allows users to watch any of 40,000 movies and TV shows....

Read news story: AMAZON VIDEO ON DEMAND IS LAUNCHED

Lil Wayne has retained the number one spot in the US album chart. The rap star's Tha Carter III returned to the top of the Billboard Hot....

Read news story: LIL WAYNE CELEBRATES FORTNIGHT AT TOP OF US ALBUM CHART

Despite repeated denials from both sides of the negotiations, Disney and the Chinese government are expected to announce following the summer....

Read news story: REPORT DISNEY TO ANNOUNCE SHANGHAI DISNEYLAND AFTER OLYMPICS

Despite repeated denials from both sides of the negotiations, Disney and the Chinese government are expected to announce following the summer....

Read news story: REPORT DISNEY TO ANNOUNCE SHANGHAI DISNEYLAND AFTER OLYMPICS

The superhero take-over of the box office continued apace over the weekend as Universal's Hellboy II: The Golden Army took over first place with....

Read news story: SUPERHEROES SHOW BOX OFFICE STRENGTH

Federal Judge Warren Ferguson, whose decision in the so-called Betamax case in 1979 set the stage for the home-video revolution, died on June 25 in....

Read news story: JUDGE IN BETAMAX CASE DIES

Lil Wayne has reclaimed the number one spot in the US album chart. The rap star's Tha Carter III returned to the top of the Billboard Hot....

Read news story: LIL WAYNE REGAINS US NUMBER ONE ALBUM SPOT

Will Smith displayed his superpowers at the box office over the weekend as his poorly reviewed Hancock opened in first place with $62.6 million,....

Read news story: WILL SMITH IS GOLD AT BOX OFFICE

Warning that "content may no longer be kind in the entertainment business," Lehman Bros. cut the stock ratings of the top entertainment companies....

Read news story: MEDIA STOCKS PLUNGE

The writer of a book about Miramax founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein has sent the New York Post a 1996 recording of a telephone conversation between....

Read news story: WEINSTEIN-ROTH PHONE CONVERSATION DISCLOSED

Coldplay have remained at the top of the US album chart for a second week, it has been confirmed. The four-piece's new album Viva La Vida or....

Read news story: COLDPLAY STAY ATOP US ALBUM CHART FOR SECOND WEEK

Disney/Pixar's WALL-E performed about as expected at the box office over the weekend, taking in $63.1 million dollars, according to final figures....

Read news story: WANTED BIG WEEKEND STAR

Following its rare win over all broadcast networks with Camp Rock last Friday, Disney Channel is pulling out all stops to get a sequel on the air....

Read news story: BACK TO CAMP

In a word, Disney Channel's TV movie Camp Rock Friday night rocked. With 8.9 million viewers counted by Nielsen, not only did it beat....

Read news story: TEEN MUSICAL DOMINATES RATINGS

Pixar animators working with the Disney Imagineering team have together created an elaborate amusement park ride, Toy Story Midway Mania, that is....

Read news story: PIXAR ANIMATORS HELP CREATE COMPUTERIZED THEME RIDE

Two features from Marvel Entertainment, a company that only ten years ago was forced into bankruptcy, landed among the box office's top ten over....

Read news story: MARVEL-OUS WEEKEND

Susan Lyne, who became CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia shortly after she was fired as president of ABC Entertainment in 2004 -- and at about....

Read news story: LYNE LEAVES MARTHA STEWART

The Walt Disney Co. says that it will stream several full-length movies on its website, www.Disney.com, for one week after they are broadcast on....

Read news story: DISNEY STREAMING MOVIES ONLINE -- FREE

Each of the major studios is considering ways of scaling back the number of films it produces each year, even as they cram a surfeit of movies....

Read news story: STUDIO EXECS PREDICT FEWER FILMS

Stephen Spielberg is planning to make DreamWorks a separate, independent film company again -- and is trying to raise more than $1 billion in....

Read news story: SPIELBERG WANTS TO TAKE BACK DREAMWORKS

With the top two films earning nearly $100 million between them, the studios and exhibitors had a very good weekend, final reports by Media by....

Read news story: BOX OFFICE SOARS

Angelina Jolie has criticized the Walt Disney Co. for failing to produce an animated film featuring a black princess. Jolie, whose adopted child....

Read news story: JOLIE WHERE ARE DISNEYS BLACK PRINCESSES

ANGELINA JOLIE has blasted filmmakers DISNEY for not featuring an African princess in their films - because it upsets her multi-cultural family.
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Read news story: JOLIE HITS OUT AT DISNEY

Even the box office estimates for the opening weekend of Warner Bros.' Sex and the City turned out to be too conservative as the film earned a....

Read news story: LADIES DAY RETURNS TO THEATERS

Walt Disney Co. chief Robert Iger and News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch each predicted that movies will be released on video-on-demand platforms on....

Read news story: VOD AND DVD RELEASES WILL SOON COME ON SAME DAY SAY MOGULS