Business News: Actress expressed frustration over contract — Justine Bateman has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild’s national board of directors, blasting the moderates who control the board and repeating her characterization of AFTRA as a “scumbag” union.
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Film Reviews: Poised to be the singing-and-dancing rainstorm after the drought, “New York” is the first major Bollywood release after last year’s strike, but it’s hardly business as usual.
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Film News: ‘Public Enemies’ takes $6.6 million from 3,319 — Paramount’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and Twentieth Century Fox’s 3-D toon “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” ended Thursday in a photo finish at the domestic box office, with “Transformers 2″ narrowly winning.
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Assessing the career of a performer, especially one as lengthy and complicated as Karl Malden’s, is not an easy matter.
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Music News: 20,000 tickets available for Staples Center event — City officials in Los Angeles are scrambling over the holiday weekend to try to figure out how to accommodate a public memorial service for Michael Jackson at a venue that can hold no more than 20,000 people.
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Music News: 11,000 tickets available inside Staples Center — Details of next Tuesday’s public memorial for Michael Jackson are being released in Los Angeles by the owners of Staples Center.
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Business News: ‘Button’ vfx company to pay $2 million in damages — In a verdict handed down Thursday evening in Malibu, Christian Bradley ???Brad??? Call has won his wrongful termination suit against visual effects shop Digital Domain and has been awarded approximately $2 million in damages.
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Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning character actor who for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television, from “A Streetcar Named Desire” to “The Streets of San Francisco,” died on Wednesday …
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Web Exclusive: Project scheduled for 2010 release — Fox has tapped Nimrod Antal (”Vacancy”) to direct “Predators” for producer Robert Rodriguez through his Troublemaker Studios.
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Business News: Citi’s had attempted to restructure Sony deal — Citigroup and Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media have settled their lawsuits over Citi’s attempt to restructure the terms of their five-year slate financing deal involving Sony Pictures Entertainment.
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