LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Movieclips.com , which launched Wednesday, has signed licensing agreements with six of the major studios so that it can offer more than 12,000 two-minute clips culled from a diverse collection of movies.
The free, ad-supported site has deals in place with Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rampant Black Friday discounting, promotions and ubiquitous Disney merchandisers in large chains like Best Buy had a marked impact on the national home video sales chart for the week ended November 29.
Disney's "Up" regained its top spot on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, while the newly released "Santa Buddies," the latest in what must be the most successful dog franchise in movie history, debuted at an impressive No. 4 despite its direct-to-disc release.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday listed the 64 films that will compete for awards at the upcoming premiere event for independent films, which for 2010 has a new director and three opening night offerings.
The festival, backed by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah, has long been a launch pad for first-time filmmakers and some of the best low-budget movies shown in art houses, including current Oscar hopeful "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire."
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Fans of Creed will be able to check out the rock band's show from the comfort of a theater seat Monday (December 7).
As part of the Sony Digital Cinema Music Series, a full-length Creed concert will be broadcast on 142 theater screens across the country.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester are set to star in the country music drama "Love Don't Let Me Down."
In "Love," Hedlund plays a young rising singer-songwriter who becomes involved with a fallen country singer played by Paltrow. They embark on a career resurrection tour with her husband-manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester). Romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the glow of the success of "New Moon," independent film studio Summit Entertainment is ratcheting up its development slate with two projects that couldn't be further from vampire-romance territory.
The company is developing a feature version of the Top Cow comic book "Alibi," tapping John Hlavin to write the adaptation, to be produced by Mandeville's David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. It also is teaming with Participant Pictures in acquiring the Ben Magid alien-attack spec script "Invasion," which would see Strike Entertainment pair with horror filmmaker Eli Roth to produce.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Keith Arem, the talent director of the record-breaking Activision Blizzard video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," will make his feature directing debut with the action thriller "Frost Road."
Arem also wrote the script and is developing a companion graphic novel with co-creator Brandon Humphreys and artist Christopher Shy.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Universal Studios Home Entertainment will introduce so-called flipper discs, containing traditional video on one side and an HD version on the flip side, for planned special-edition releases of "The Bourne Identity" and its two sequels.
USHE and other studios occasionally have offered DVD and Blu-ray discs in one "combo pack" but never both versions on one disc.
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PANAJI, India (Reuters) - British actor Ben Kingsley, best known for his Oscar-winning role as Mahatma Ghandi, is looking to India again, this time for financing for another historic Indian role -- Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
Kingsley, 65, told Reuters that the film, titled "Taj," is a dream project for him, but one that would cost up to $27 million -- money he hopes Indian producers will put up despite the global economic downturn.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jesse Corti, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal and Cornell Womack are lending their voices to "Night of the Living Dead: Origins," the 3D CGI reimagining of the George A. Romero zombie classic.
The story again follows a group of humans trying to stay alive during a zombie attack. Newcomer Zebediah de Soto is directing.
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