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| CA-ENTERTAINMENT Summary Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 11:51 PM PDT Paramount, China Movie Channel to produce "Transformers 4" LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures said on Tuesday it reached a deal with the government-run China Movie Channel and its online movie service partner, Jiaflix Enterprises, to produce "Transformers 4" in China. China Movie Channel said in the joint announcement that the deal marks the first time it will work with a western studio to produce a film in China, although other studios such as Walt Disney Co have entered deals with other parties to produce films there to tap the booming Chinese box office. ... Full Story | Top |
| Korea's "Bourne Identity" film highlights peninsula tensions Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 11:51 PM PDT  By Jane Chung SEOUL (Reuters) - When North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong's arms deal for Pyongyang goes wrong in Berlin, he knows it is time to flee with his wife from agents of the vengeful and isolated state - a country that recently said it was "in a state of war" with its neighbor. Part of the thinking behind that belligerence, which has sent tensions on the Korean peninsula sky-rocketing, is on display in "The Berlin File," known as Korea's "Bourne Identity", which is currently showing in the United States and Canada as well as drawing millions of viewers in South Korea. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-TELEVISION Summary Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 04:50 PM PDT Muppets matriarch Jane Nebel Henson dies at age 78 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jane Nebel Henson, the former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson who was influential in the creation of the popular U.S. TV puppet program, died on Tuesday following a long bout with cancer, The Jim Henson Company said. She was 78 years old. Henson, who died at her home in Connecticut, was an "integral creative and business partner" in the Muppets, the company, owned by the Hensons' five children, said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-PEOPLE Summary Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 04:50 PM PDT Muppets matriarch Jane Nebel Henson dies at age 78 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jane Nebel Henson, the former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson who was influential in the creation of the popular U.S. TV puppet program, died on Tuesday following a long bout with cancer, The Jim Henson Company said. She was 78 years old. Henson, who died at her home in Connecticut, was an "integral creative and business partner" in the Muppets, the company, owned by the Hensons' five children, said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
| Muppets matriarch Jane Nebel Henson dies at age 78 Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 04:49 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jane Nebel Henson, the former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson who was influential in the creation of the popular U.S. TV puppet program, died on Tuesday following a long bout with cancer, The Jim Henson Company said. She was 78 years old. Henson, who died at her home in Connecticut, was an "integral creative and business partner" in the Muppets, the company, owned by the Hensons' five children, said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-MUSIC Summary Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 03:07 PM PDT Wrongful death trial to revisit Michael Jackson's checkered life LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Tuesday in a Los Angeles civil trial that will revisit the checkered life and sudden death of superstar Michael Jackson before a planned comeback that he had hoped would revive his tattered personal and musical reputation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Wrongful death trial to revisit Michael Jackson's checkered life Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 03:07 PM PDT  By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Tuesday in a Los Angeles civil trial that will revisit the checkered life and sudden death of superstar Michael Jackson before a planned comeback that he had hoped would revive his tattered personal and musical reputation. Jackson's elderly mother Katherine is suing AEG Live, the promoters of a never-realized series of 2009 London concerts, for the wrongful death of her son, alleging they were negligent in hiring Dr Conrad Murray to care for the singer while he rehearsed for a planned series of 50 shows. ... Full Story | Top |
| Angelina Jolie to sell jewelry line to fund overseas schools Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 02:54 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie has opened another girls school in Afghanistan and plans to fund more from the proceeds of a jewelry line going on sale this week that she helped to design, celebrity website E! News reported on Monday. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, funded the girls-only primary school in an area outside Kabul that has a high refugee population, E! News said in an exclusive report. The school educates 200-300 girls, E! said. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-FILM Summary Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 01:07 PM PDT Paramount, China Movie Channel to produce "Transformers 4" LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures said on Tuesday it reached a deal with the government-run China Movie Channel and its online movie service partner, Jiaflix Enterprises, to produce "Transformers 4" in China. China Movie Channel said in the joint announcement that the deal marks the first time it will work with a western studio to produce a film in China, although other studios such as Walt Disney Co have entered deals with other parties to produce films there to tap the booming Chinese box office. ... Full Story | Top |
| Paramount, China Movie Channel to produce "Transformers 4" Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 01:07 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures said on Tuesday it reached a deal with the government-run China Movie Channel and its online movie service partner, Jiaflix Enterprises, to produce "Transformers 4" in China. China Movie Channel said in the joint announcement that the deal marks the first time it will work with a western studio to produce a film in China, although other studios such as Walt Disney Co have entered deals with other parties to produce films there to tap the booming Chinese box office. The Chinese box office grew 36 percent to $2. ... Full Story | Top |
| Autopsy shows Gandee of 'Buckwild' died from carbon monoxide poisoning Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 12:50 PM PDT  (Reuters) - An autopsy on Shain Gandee, a cast member of MTV reality show "Buckwild," showed he died from carbon monoxide poisoning, Kanawha County Sheriff's Department said on Tuesday. Deputy Brian Humphreys told Reuters that the deaths of Gandee, 21, his uncle David, 48, and friend Donald Robert Myers, 27, on Monday morning were ruled "accidental" after coroners completed autopsies on all three men. Gandee was found dead in the driver's seat of his Ford Bronco pick-up truck in Sissonville, in Kanawha County, a rural West Virginia community. ... Full Story | Top |
| ''Finding Nemo'' film sequel ''Finding Dory'' gets 2015 release Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 11:49 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Following years of speculation about whether it would be produced, the sequel to the Oscar-winning animated film "Finding Nemo" will be released in 2015, studio Disney-Pixar said on Tuesday. "Finding Dory" will focus on the absent-minded and chatty blue tang fish voiced by comedienne Ellen DeGeneres, who was a big hit with audiences. "I'm excited that it's finally happening," DeGeneres said on her daytime talk show, "Ellen." "I read the script and it's fantastic, it's hilarious, it's warm, it's everything that you want it to be," she added. ... Full Story | Top |
| Trump withdraws "orangutan" lawsuit against comic Bill Maher Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 10:21 AM PDT  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump is withdrawing his lawsuit against television host and comedian Bill Maher seeking $5 million that Maher said he would give to charity, in a seemingly facetious offer, if Trump could prove he was not the son of an orangutan. The lawsuit stems from comments Maher made during an appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show" in January in which he said an orangutan's fur was the only thing in nature that matches the shade of Trump's trademark hair. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tom Hanks makes solid Broadway debut in so-so play: critics Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 10:04 AM PDT  By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tom Hanks impressed critics with his Broadway debut in "Lucky Guy", Nora Ephron's final play, but the late Hollywood writer and director did not fare so well with her newsroom-set drama that opened on Monday night. As tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, who won a Pulitzer Prize covering New York police scandals and lurid crimes for the Daily News and New York Post, Hanks rewards audiences "with a committed, generous performance by the real-deal star," Entertainment Weekly said. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-INDUSTRY Summary Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 07:13 AM PDT DISH Network announces debt offering (Reuters) - DISH Network Corp said it plans to offer around $1 billion in debt, potentially using the money for wireless and spectrum-related transactions. It will offer about $1.0 billion of its senior notes, subject to market and other conditions, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Greek court rules deliberations in suit against Reuters invalid ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek court has ruled deliberations in a lawsuit by Piraeus Bank against Reuters over a story it published were inadmissible on technical grounds. ... Full Story | Top |
| DISH Network announces debt offering Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 07:12 AM PDT  (Reuters) - DISH Network Corp said it plans to offer around $1 billion in debt, potentially using the money for wireless and spectrum-related transactions. It will offer about $1.0 billion of its senior notes, subject to market and other conditions, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. DISH has been looking to diversify beyond its core pay-TV business, which has matured and faces tough competition from cable, telecom and Internet video providers. In January, DISH put in a bid of $3.30 per share for Clearwire, which had already agreed to sell itself to majority owner Sprint Nextel for ... Full Story | Top |
| Meat Loaf says he really is on his final tour Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013 04:02 AM PDT  By Edward Baran LONDON (Reuters) - After more than 35 years of touring, American rocker Meat Loaf is quitting the road. Meat Loaf, whose 1977 "Bat Out Of Hell" remains one of the biggest selling albums, said his "Last At Bat" tour starting in Britain this week and heading through Europe, would be his last, after struggling with health problems in recent years. While other ageing rockers like the Rolling Stones are returning to the lucrative tour circuit, Meat Loaf said he has had enough. "This is really it ... ... Full Story | Top |
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