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Exclusive: EU cites Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE for trade violations
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe's top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines. European Union Trade...Tags: Beijing (China), White House, Telecommunication Equipment, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Marketing
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'Iron Man 3' Launches Spanish-Dubbed Blockbuster Movies In Bloomfield
The Hartford CourantPeople who go to Digiplex Bloomfield on Monday night to see "Iron Man 3" may need to answer a question at the box office: Are you here to see "Iron Man 3," or "El Hombre de Hierro Tres"? On May 6, the cineplex at 863 Park Ave. in the Wintonbury Mall...Tags: Hartford County, Lisbon (New London, Connecticut), Star Trek into Darkness (movie), Movies, Blockbuster
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As Opposition to N.C. Film Credits Mounts, MPAA Claims 'Iron Man 3' Created 2,000 Jobs
ReutersApr 30 (TheWrap.com) - As opposition to film tax incentives intensifies in North Carolina, the Motion Picture Association of America is using the upcoming blockbuster "Iron Man 3" to make the case that film production is a shot in the arm to the states...Tags: The Avengers (tv program), Pittsburgh, Movies, Entertainment, Economic Policy
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Harvey Weinstein: Paying Royalties Won't Break Google
ReutersApr 26 (TheWrap.com) - Harvey Weinstein unleashed a biting attack on Google on Friday, telling a Washington audience that Google's failure to compensate performers and content providers for YouTube videos amounts to stealing and is making technologists...Tags: Theft, Google Inc., White House, Movies, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie)
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Hollywood yielding to China's growing film clout
Coming soon to a theater near you: China's Communist Party. From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of sex and violence, Beijing is having increasing success in pressuring Hollywood...
Tags: V for Vendetta (movie), World War Z (movie), Beijing (China), Django Unchained (movie), Arts and Culture
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More blood, less wit when the 'Evil Dead' return ★★
In the Book of the Dead, the barbed-wire-wrapped volume causing the fuss in "Evil Dead," one lavishly illustrated page states that after the forest demon "feasts on five souls, the sky will bleed again." Translated into franchise terms: If this grim,...
Tags: Movies, R Rated Movies, Evil Dead (movie, 2013), Entertainment
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$1.5M of counterfeit goods seized from Dundalk flea market
Baltimore County police seized $1.5 million worth of counterfeit merchandise after a raid at a Dundalk flea market last month, the department announced Wednesday. Charges are pending against 19 people who rent space in the market, not the flea market...
Tags: Recording Industry Association of America, Dundalk
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Baltimore County police raid Plaza Flea Market for counterfeit goods
As regulars perused handmade jewelry, discounted bedsheets, slightly-worn stuffed animals and other knick-knacks, dozens of Baltimore County police officers swarmed into a bustling Dundalk flea market Saturday morning to bust vendors allegedly selling...
Tags: Viagra (drug), Recording Industry Association of America, Motorcycles and Motorbikes, Vehicles, Port of Baltimore
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Biden, NRA clash over gun control proposals
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Despite fresh opposition from the National Rifle Association, the Obama administration is assembling proposals to curb gun violence that would include a ban on sales of assault weapons, limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines and...Tags: Firearms, White House, Gaming Industry, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress
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By the finale, 'Twilight' vampire series is mostly anemic ★ 1/2
The fifth and very likely final "Twilight" picture boasts one moment, perhaps three or four seconds in length, so delightfully intense and uncharacteristically juicy that the rest of the film — most of the rest of the whole series, in fact —...
Tags: Twilight (movie), Movies, Kristen Stewart, PG-13 Rated Movies, Wildlife
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Peeking in Gillian Flynn's vault of horror
In the early days of their marriage a few years ago, Chicago attorney Brett Nolan and his wife, the thriller novelist Gillian Flynn, were having drinks with a group of friends when Flynn posed a surprising question. "Does anybody have any idea," she asked...
Tags: The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Movies, Arts and Culture, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie)
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Gamers will get a kick from maniacal 'Raid: Redemption' ✭✭ 1/2
Gamers will be slain, over and over, by the insanely violent multilevel bash "The Raid: Redemption," in which a skeezy 15-story tenement complex serves as the setting for a series of stabbings, slicings and a showcase for the Indonesian martial art...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Movies, The Raid (movie), The King's Speech (movie), Action (Movie Genre)
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Nov 15, 2012
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Jul 28, 2012
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Mar 22, 2012
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