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Tintin, War Horse, Mission Impossible Releases Get Pushed Forward

<i>Tintin</i>, <i>War Horse</i>, <i>Mission Impossible</i> Releases Get Pushed Forward

A handful of films’ release dates are getting pushed up this December to avoid conflict with the plethora of competition during the Christmas week. Two Steven Spielberg films, which were already expected to be winter blockbusters, are moving up a few days to better their box office numbers.  read more

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Netflix Acquires Streaming Rights to Dreamworks Over HBO

Netflix Acquires Streaming Rights to Dreamworks Over HBO

For the first time, a Hollywood studio has chosen to give a streaming movie service the rights to their film over a cable channel. Starting in 2013, Netflix will be given the exclusive rights to Dreamworks movies over the current rights holder, HBO.  read more

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DreamWorks Announces First Animated Musical, Monkeys of Bollywood

DreamWorks Announces First Animated Musical, <em>Monkeys of Bollywood</em>

DreamWorks Pictures, the folks behind hit animated films like Shrek and Antz, is now working on an animated musical called Monkeys of Bollywood, Variety reports....  read more

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Megamind Review

<i>Megamind</i> Review

Director: Tom McGrath Writers: Alan J. Schoolcraft, Brent Simons Stars: Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, David Cross Studio: Dreamworks Animation Flipping the script on the superhero flick...  read more

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Zach Galiafinakis' Comedy of E-Mail Errors Gets Picked Up By DreamWorks

Zach Galiafinakis' Comedy of E-Mail Errors Gets Picked Up By DreamWorks

Maybe the mind-control tactics his character uses in Dinner For Schmucks are working....  read more

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Steve Carell to Produce and Star in Raised by Wolfs

Steve Carell to Produce and Star in <em>Raised by Wolfs</em>

As he prepares to walk away from his lead role on The Office, Steve Carell has signed on to star in a new DreamWorks comedy, Raised by Wolfs. According to The Hollywood Reporter, details on the film’s plot have yet to be revealed but “Wolfs is apparently a reference to the main character’s last name.”...  read more

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Avatar's Sam Worthington to Star in Sci-Fi Adventure Film Quatermain

<em>Avatar</em>'s Sam Worthington to Star in Sci-Fi Adventure Film <em>Quatermain</em>

Sam Worthington is confirmed to star in Quatermain. The Avatar star will also make his debut as a producer on the film, which is being given a sci-fi make-over by Dreamworks....  read more

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Zombieland's Emma Stone to Star in The Help?

<em>Zombieland</em>'s Emma Stone to Star in <em>The Help</em>?

Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel The Help—which explores the social hierarchies of race in 1960s Mississippi—will soon be gracing the big screen...  read more

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Showtime and DreamWorks Partner on Movie Deal

Showtime and DreamWorks Partner on Movie Deal

Sure, most TV connoisseurs associate Showtime with its popular original programming like Dexter and Weeds, but the cable network was founded on movies, and they still take up a large part of their airwaves. That’s why when a trio of studios—Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—abandoned their longtime Showtime alliances to begin a new channel, Epix, they also left behind a rather gaping hole in the network’s lineup....  read more

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Disney and DreamWorks Ban Cast from Using Facebook and Twitter

Disney and DreamWorks Ban Cast from Using Facebook and Twitter

In what can only be described as a short-sighted business move by Hollywood moguls, Disney and DreamWorks have both added a clause to their contracts for cast and crew forbidding them to use social networking sites while in production on a film....  read more

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