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‘This wasn’t like the usual scenario we’ve seen again and again. This is a case of a corporation taking a productive, profitable plant and closing it, and refusing to sell it to anyone else.’ Private equity firms like Cerberus Capital Management --

...Time," and "Hello Hello" - set to brand new staging and choreography by Ron Lewis. Accompanying Liza onstage is Johnny Rodgers ,Cortes Alexander, Jim Caruso and Tiger Martina. Starting February 3rd with a kick-off signing event at the Lincoln Center Barnes...

...available funds. The TV Guide Network joins properties that include FearNet, an on-demand cable channel operated with Sony Corp. and Comcast Corp. that features horror films, and Epix, a channel Lions Gate is developing with Viacom Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

...that launches this fall, a joint venture with Viacom and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. Lionsgate is also a partner with Sony and Comcast on FearNet, an on-demand and online service. The structure of the latest TV Guide Network deal allows Macrovision -- which...

...a path to Hollywood in search of new sources of revenue amid the financial crisis. This week, the Financial Times reported that Icap, the London-based inter-dealer broker, had entered the market for broking independent films with the purchase of Moving Pictures,...

...Howdy Doody for NBC and later taught a new generation of artists, including Pixar founder and current Disney creative chief John Lasseter, at the California Institute of the Arts. "About a year ago, my grandfather said he wanted to photograph and catalog his...

...of its own short animated films, as well as numerous television shows, all set to instantly recognizable theme music composed by Henry Mancini. The film franchise was successfully re-launched in 2006, with Steve Martin in the role of Inspector Clouseau. The...

...up for tickets in the lobby of Metro Cinema, a 70-year-old art deco theater originally built for the Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and now run by India's Adlabs Films Ltd. Some of the gunmen fired at crowds standing across from the Metro during...

With Mumbai still mourning its recent terror attacks, Bollywood faces a balancing act of showing solidarity with the residents of India's entertainment heartland _ while gently nudging locals back into movie theaters to boost an industry already

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...Naval officer in The Caine Mutiny, has died. He was 92. Johnson died Dec. 12 at Tappan Zee Manor, a senior citizens home in Nyack, N.Y. No cause of death was immediately reported. Starting in the late 1940s, Johnson took many viewers and reviewers by surprise...

...western "Siege at Red River" (1954) for one reason: "For 12 years, I begged Metro to put me on a horse -- just once. No dice." Charles Van Dell Johnson, whose father was a plumbing contractor, was born Aug. 25, 1916, in Newport, R.I. His parents divorced,...

...and comedies who later proved his chops in meatier dramas. He died Dec. 12 at Tappan Zee Manor, a senior citizens home in Nyack, N.Y. No cause of death was immediately reported. Injures from a car crash prevented Mr. Johnson from being drafted during the war....

...new Sci Fi series, "Stargate Universe," has cast Scottish actor Robert Carlyle in a leading role. "Universe" is a spinoff of the "Stargate SG-1" and "Stargate Atlantis" franchises that have been chugging along for more than a decade now. The network is looking...