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The premier source of entertainment news. Turn to Variety.com for timely, credible articles, reviews and analysis of film, TV, music, theater, video, gaming and movie and television production -- information vital to your showbiz career.
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Antonio Banderas moves to WMA
Film News: Ed Limato signs actor away from CAA -- Antonio Banderas has signed with WMA. Banderas had long been repped by CAA, but signed with WMA vet Ed Limato.
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Tribeca holds 'Cool' competition
Film News: Contestants to re-shoot Disney sports pics -- The Tribeca Film Institute will hold a competition to re-shoot scenes from Disney's "Cool Runnings" and "Remember the Titans."
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John Curran to direct 'Damned'
Film News: Filmmaker to helm Keira Knightley drama -- John Curran is set to direct "The Beautiful and the Damned," a Film Department period drama that will star Keira Knightley. Pic begins production in March.
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Box office resists recession
Film News: Ticket sales for year hit $9.63 billion -- The record-breaking 2008 domestic box office proves Hollywood isn't as dependent on by-the-book franchises as everyone feared.
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Actor Pat Hingle dies at 84
Film News: Played Commissioner Gordon in '90s 'Batman' -- Pat Hingle, a veteran actor whose career spanned stage, film and TV, including a recurring role as Commissioner Gordon in several Batman movies in the 1990s, died Saturday of cancer. He was 84.
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Relativity snaps up Rogue
Film News: Film unit closes deal to buy horror label -- After more than two months of negotiations, Relativity Media has closed a deal to buy Rogue Pictures from Universal Pictures for roughly $150 million.
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Foreign grosses rise to new record
Film News: International box office hits new high in 2008 -- With tentpoles driving overseas moviegoing, Hollywood majors saw 2008 foreign grosses rise 4% and set a new record of $9.9 billion.
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'Marley' still top dog at box office
Film News: Four films find favor over holiday frame -- Twentieth Century Fox's Owen Wilson-Jennifer Aniston starrer "Marley and Me" remained best in show at the weekend box office, fetching a winning gross of $24 million from 3,505 runs for a cume of $106.5 million in only 11 days.
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NSFC names 'Bashir' best picture
Film News: Animated war doc named best picture by Critics -- "Waltz with Bashir" edged "Happy-Go-Lucky" and "WALL-E" to win the 43rd annual best picture prize from the National Society of Film Critics.
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'Shadow' illustrator Cartier dies at 94
Film News: Artists' work appeared in several sci-fi novels -- Edward D. Cartier, whose illustrations graced "The Shadow" and numerous other science fiction and mystery publications in a career that spanned several decades, has died at 94.
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