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`Avatar' is such a smash it's lifting News Corp - 01/08/2010

Blue-skinned aliens are helping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. see green. The runaway global success of James Cameron's 3-D spectacle, "Avatar" _ his first feature film since the record-breaking "Titanic" in 1997 _ has prompted analysts to lift earnings estimates for News Corp., the owner of movie studio 20th Century

Tobey Maguire talks `Spider-Man' production delay - 01/08/2010

Tobey Maguire doesn't think "Spider-Man 4" has become a tangled mess. The 34-year-old star of the web-slinging superhero franchise said preproduction snags aren't dampening his mood about the fourth installment. The next "Spider-Man" film had been scheduled to swing into theaters May 6, 2011, but that seems unlikel

Winslet, Cher will be presenters at Golden Globes - 01/08/2010

Kate Winslet, Jennifer Garner, Kiefer Sutherland and Cher will be among the presenters at this year's Golden Globe Awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association says the actors _ all Golden Globe winners _ will hand out trophies at the 67th annual ceremony. They'll join an all-star cast of presenters that includes Jennifer Aniston,

NY judge: Perelman must pay ex-wife Barkin $3.4M - 01/08/2010

A New York judge has ruled that Revlon cosmetics mogul Ronald Perelman must pay more than $3.4 million to a production company he started with his ex-wife, actress Ellen Barkin. The couple divorced in 2006. Since then, they have been embroiled in various lawsuits relating to the company, Applehead I. Manhattan state Supreme

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