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'Narnia,' 'Syriana' Knock Out Boy Wizard (AP)
AP - Another fantasy world has joined Hollywood's instant-blockbuster club. Disney's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" — adapted from C.S. Lewis' tale of enchantment, epic battles and talking animals — debuted as the weekend's top movie with $67.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Paramount Buying Film Studio DreamWorks (AP)
 AP - Paramount Pictures on Sunday agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. for nearly $1 billion cash in a deal designed to help both companies reverse their troubled fortunes.
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Richard Pryor Made Audiences Laugh, Think (AP)
 AP - It is one of those indelible images from the late 1960s that remains locked in the minds of those who were there.
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Actor, Friend Face Charges in Police Death (AP)
 AP - An actor who once played an aspiring mobster on "The Sopranos" faces murder charges along with another man in the death of an off-duty police officer, authorities said Sunday.
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O'Connor brings impassioned vocals to reggae tunes (Reuters)
Reuters - Although the spectacle of a
waifish, doe-eyed, shaven-headed white woman singing roots
reggae might be incongruous, Sinead O'Connor overcame any
reservations in her concert Friday night at New York's Webster
Hall.
Paramount Buying Film Studio DreamWorks (AP)
AP - Paramount Pictures on Sunday agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. for nearly $1 billion cash in a deal designed to help both companies reverse their troubled fortunes.
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Paramount Buying Film Studio DreamWorks (AP)
AP - Paramount Pictures on Sunday agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. for nearly $1 billion cash in a deal designed to help both companies reverse their troubled fortunes.
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Paramount Buying Film Studio DreamWorks (AP)
AP - Paramount Pictures on Sunday agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. for nearly $1 billion cash in a deal designed to help both companies reverse their troubled fortunes.
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Paramount Buying Film Studio DreamWorks (AP)
AP - Paramount Pictures on Sunday agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. for nearly $1 billion cash in a deal designed to help both companies reverse their troubled fortunes.
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'Peace mom' Sheehan in new play by Nobel winner (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who
won wide attention with a vigil outside President George W.
Bush's ranch in the name of her soldier son killed in Iraq, is
the subject of a new play by Nobel laureate Dario Fo.
Paramount Buying Film Studio DreamWorks (AP)
AP - Paramount Pictures on Sunday agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. for nearly $1 billion cash in a deal designed to help both companies reverse their troubled fortunes.
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Prisoner of love: 'Saw II' DVD due February 14 (Reuters)
Reuters - A gruesome horror pic
will join the sea of romantic comedy DVDs due out on
Valentine's Day.
'Wal-Mart' DVD nears 100,000 sales (Reuters)
Reuters - The controversial
anti-Wal-Mart film "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" has
sold nearly 100,000 DVDs its first month in release, peaking at
No. 5 on Nielsen VideoScan's documentary sales chart.
'Producers' loses sizzle in third incarnation (Reuters)
Reuters - Perhaps the most telling
thing about "The Producers," the film version of Mel Brooks'
Broadway musical hit based on his celebrated 1968 film comedy,
is that the best two performances belong to Uma Thurman, as a
Swedish smorgasbord of feminine delights known as Ulla, and
Will Ferrell, as unrepentant Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind.
'Narnia,' 'Syriana' Knock Out Boy Wizard (AP)
AP - Another fantasy world has joined Hollywood's instant-blockbuster club. Disney's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" — adapted from C.S. Lewis' tale of enchantment, epic battles and talking animals — debuted as the weekend's top movie with $67.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
AFI honors best of 2005 film, TV (Reuters)
Reuters - Critics' darling
"Brokeback Mountain," the upcoming effects extravaganza "King
Kong" and the raucous comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" are among
the 10 films that the American Film Institute has judged as the
most outstanding motion pictures of the year.
L.A. critics org goes indie route with 'Brokeback' (Reuters)
Reuters - Surveying a year in
which major studio films failed consistently not only with
critics but also with moviegoers at the boxoffice, the Los
Angeles Film Critics Assn. leaned heavily toward independent
and foreign-made films, albeit in several cases films produced
or acquired by studio classic divisions.
'Brokeback' tops noms for Critics Choice (Reuters)
Reuters - Figuring in eight
categories including best picture, Ang Lee's "Brokeback
Mountain" dominated the nominations announced Sunday for the
11th annual Critics' Choice Awards.
Richard Pryor Made Audiences Laugh, Think (AP)
AP - It is one of those indelible images from the late 1960s that remains locked in the minds of those who were there.
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"Brokeback" Breaks in Award Season (E! Online)
 E! Online - Brokeback Mountain and happy endings don't go
together--except on Saturday night, when the drama about cowboys in
dangerous love was named Best Picture by the Los Angeles Critics
Association.
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Paramount Buying Film Studio DreamWorks (AP)
AP - Paramount Pictures on Sunday agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. for nearly $1 billion cash in a deal designed to help both companies reverse their troubled fortunes.
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Garth, Trisha Tie the Knot (E! Online)
 E! Online - The country crooner got hitched Saturday to fellow Nashville star Trisha
Yearwood, his publicist confirmed.
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Foxx out to prove his musical side is no joke (Reuters)
Reuters - A funny thing happened to Jamie
Foxx on the way to starting a music career.
Gospel artists Lawrence, Moss in Stellar form (Reuters)
Reuters - Donald Lawrence and J. Moss lead
the list of nominees for the 21st annual Stellar Gospel Music
Awards with 10 nominations each.
Merry music: A critic's sampling of holiday albums (Reuters)
Reuters - The holiday albums have been
coming fast and furious this year, and, as usual, some are
strong additions to the seasonal canon, while others are the
aural equivalent of a lump of coal. Here goes our random
sampling of some new offerings.
Soprano Dessay keeping busy on many fronts (Reuters)
Reuters - There is no doubt that this winter
belongs to Natalie Dessay. The French soprano offers a
one-two-three knockout this season, starting with a string of
lavishly praised recent performances at the Metropolitan Opera,
an appearance on PBS later this month and the release of a new
album just after the new year.
O'Connor brings impassioned vocals to reggae tunes (Reuters)
Reuters - Although the spectacle of a
waifish, doe-eyed, shaven-headed white woman singing roots
reggae might be incongruous, Sinead O'Connor overcame any
reservations in her concert Friday night at New York's Webster
Hall.
Bocelli Samples New Album at Private Show (AP)
AP - Italian pop and classical singer Andrea Bocelli sampled from his forthcoming album at a private concert.
Dolls hold off Madonna to top UK pop charts (Reuters)
Reuters - The Pussycat Dolls, the all-girl band
from Los Angeles, stayed on top of the British pop charts for a
second week running on Sunday holding off a resurgence from
Madonna's latest hit, the Official UK Charts Company said.
World Stars Honor Nobel Peace Laureate (AP)
 AP - Global celebrities, including Hollywood stars Salma Hayek and Julianne Moore, praised Nobel peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei Sunday for his efforts to save humanity from nuclear weapons.
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