NEW YORK (Hollywood Today) 11/19/09 – With midnight showings poised to kick off the second installment of the wildly popular “Twilight” book-to-movie series Friday morning, “New Moon” has already dominated the box office.  According to Entertainment Weekly, the film has broken the record for most presale tickets sold by ticket services Fandango and MovieTickets.com.
Starring Kristen [...]

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NBC, FX and Reveille executives define new TV business models at Variety Tech Summit
Robin Rowe interviews Marc Graboff, John Landgraf and Mark Koops

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 10/19/2009 – “People don’t watch networks anymore,” says The Biggest Loser executive producer Mark Koops. “They watch shows or they go to websites or they go to applications. It’s [...]

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Three new films in top ten, Where the Wild Things Are leads with $11M Friday box office
By Robin Rowe
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 10/17/2009 – Films opening in theaters this weekend, from October 16th, 2009, include Where the Wild Things Are, Citizen and Stepfather.
Where the Wild Things Are was positioned as the big opener this week [...]

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By Jeffrey Jolson
MONTREAL (Hollywood today/RPRN) 10/17/09 — By Jeffrey JolsonStartup Camp Montreal5, Montreal’s very own startup conference, on Thursday October 15, showcased some of the Canada’s finest new ventures. The evening successfully saw the pitches of five up-and-coming Canadian companies along side inspirational talks by Chris Shipley,

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p>‘Transformers’ hottie fashion house’s newest body
By Matthew B. Zeidman
NEW YORK (Hollywood Today) 10/15/09 – Her role as a bisexual seductress in “Jennifer’s Body” wasn’t enough to suck in theatergoers last month, but Giorgio Armani is hoping that fanboy favorite Megan Fox will bring in “Transformers”-sized business as its newest underwear model.
The fashion company announced Wednesday [...]

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Southern California’s top venture capital conference brings together start-up companies with angel investors, venture capitalists and private equity firms
By Robin Rowe
COSTA MESA, CA (Hollywood Today) 10/8/2009 – In a live event similar in concept to the ABC TV reality series Shark Tank, VentureNet invites Southern California’s most promising companies and entrepreneurs to meet with investors, [...]

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A TV network in last place looks to Jay Leno and slashes costs with wolves at the door
By Robin Rowe
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 10/2/2009 – Why is GE ready to talk to Comcast now about selling 51% of NBC Universal? Could it have anything to do with Jay Leno? Will Leno save NBC?
At the Beverly [...]

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Secret Service Investigates Facebook Obama Poll
By Andrea Archibald
Sunnyvale, CA (Hollywood Today/RPRN) 09/29/09 — On Monday, September 28 2009, Facebook announced that it is working with the U.S. Secret Service in their investigation into the online poll that asked whether President Obama deserved to be killed. The Secret Service is looking to identify the individual behind [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC (Hollywood Today / LBN) 9/19/09 — With world leaders pouring into the country for the G-20 summit next week, President Obama used his weekly radio address to tout American efforts to reign in the finance industry. Saying the U.S. “must lead, not just by word, but by example,” Obama specifically took on executive [...]

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By Andrea Archibald

Sunnyvale, CA (Hollywood Today/RPRN) 09/18/09 — Txteagle provides supplemental income to developing world’s rural poor; wins the North American QPrize
Thursday night, September 17 2009, yet another tech conference was held in Silicon Valley. Plug and Play Tech Center’s Mobileplay focused on the business of mobile technology—from smart phone apps to text-based service providers.
Mobileplay [...]

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By Andrea Archibald
Sunnyvale, CA (Hollywood Today/RPRN) 09/13/09 — By

Upcoming Expos Are Perfect Venues For Developers To Show and Share Ideas
The quarterly Smartphone Intelligence survey, released Thursday September 10 2009, shows that iPhone and other smart phone users use apps that are personal and social.  Entertainment, games, music, social networking and weather are all among [...]

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Celebs and Family Gave Final Farewell to Michael Jackson
September 4, 2009
by Ane Howard

LOS ANGELES, CA (Hollywood Today-RPRN) 09/04/09 — Michael Jackson may finally rest in peace as his family members and 200 of his closest friends bade him farewell in a Hollywood hillside, at the famed Great Mausoleum at the Forest Lawn cemetery in [...]

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