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How an extreme movie makeover saved 'Fast & Furious' from going direct to DVD
ReutersLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Fast & Furious 6" has become a road race to riches without a finish line in sight. Roaring into theaters Friday, the movie is expected to generate $80 million or more over the Memorial Day weekend - astounding numbers for a...Tags: The Hangover (movie), Ludacris, Michelle Rodriguez, Memorial Day, Vin Diesel
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6 lessons Hollywood needs to learn from 'The Fast & The Furious'
ReutersLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Fast & the Furious 6" is widely expected to dominate the Memorial Day box office and potentially become the highest grossing film in the lucrative franchise's history. For a franchise keep growing as it enters its second...Tags: Michelle Rodriguez, Inception (movie), Saw (movie), Annapolis, James Franco
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How an Extreme Movie Makeover Saved 'Fast & Furious' From Going Direct to DVD
ReutersMay 23 (TheWrap.com) - "Fast & Furious 6" has become a road race to riches without a finish line in sight. Roaring into theaters Friday, the movie is expected to generate $80 million or more over the Memorial Day weekend -- astounding numbers for a...Tags: The Hangover (movie), Ludacris, Michelle Rodriguez, Memorial Day, Vin Diesel
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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: Marketing, Business, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., White House, Barack Obama
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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: Epic (movie), Star Trek into Darkness (movie), Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut), Blockbuster, 2010 Census
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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: Economic Policy, The Avengers (tv program), Pittsburgh, Movies, Iron Man 3 (movie)
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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: Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), White House, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Clinton, Microsoft Corporation
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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: Skyfall (movie), China, Censorship, World War Z (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: R Rated Movies, 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...
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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: Vehicles, Motorcycles and Motorbikes, Port of Baltimore, Dundalk, Recording Industry Association of America
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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: Gaming, Joe Biden, White House, Comcast Corporation, Gun Control
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