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This was a great weekend at the movies with the amount of business in theaters making it one of the Top 10 biggest weekends in box office history. A good portion of that business can be attributed to Universal Studios’ surprise hit Wanted, based on Mark Millar & J.G. Jones’ graphic novel, which opened with [...]

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NEW YORK — MTV Networks on Thursday officially launched comedy destination Atom.com, a re-branding of its AtomFilms property.
The site counts MTVN’s Comedy Central as its exclusive partner and it has a show, Atom TV, on the channel, which will air at 2 a.m. on Monday nights.
Atom.com has been conceived out of MTVN’s parent Viacom’s 2006 [...]

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Microsoft will cut the price of its most popular Xbox 360 model, the 20GB Pro, by $50 to $299 in the coming weeks, game industry sources have confirmed.
Microsoft would not comment, but a major retailer, which requested anonymity, said the price move will come before the major video game trade show, E3, which runs July [...]

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“Find the pattern,” growls a voice from your radio.
The gravelly suggestion interrupts a commercial for the Abrams Auto car dealership and concludes with a whisper of “Fox.”
The Fox network is hoping listeners will piece together these mysterious fragments and realize there is indeed a pattern — one that leads straight to the network’s tentpole fall [...]

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Helena Bonham Carter could soon be joining the battle between man and cyborg.
The Oscar-nominated actress is in talks to board McG’s “Terminator Salvation,” the fourth installment in the franchise kicked off by James Cameron in 1984. Roles in the new film have been kept under wraps, but insiders described the Bonham Carter role as small [...]

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Disney/Pixar’s animated family feature “WALL-E” opened with a lively $62.5 million in estimated boxoffice to top the weekend rankings amid a dramatically ebullient domestic marketplace.
Universal’s Angelina Jolie-James McAvoy starrer “Wanted” bowed in second with a surprisingly potent $51.1 million, giving both topliners personal bests and completing a one-two weekend combo that impressively punched up summer [...]

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In Los Angeles, last night, on June 27, comic book creator and artist Michael Turner passed away from health problems.  He’d been battling cancer since 2000, and despite all those years of struggle, he continued to work, and was, by all accounts, a genial and cheerful guy.  He still attended conventions regularly, and a month [...]

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 LOS ANGELES (AP) Heath Ledger is getting a fond tribute from his collaborators on “The Dark Knight” The end credits of the “Batman Begins” sequel include a farewell note to Ledger, who died in January from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs; and to special-effects technician Conway Wickliffe, who was killed last September in a [...]

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Mario and Master Chief seen hi-fiving.
By Ben Silverman

Think you paid too much for your Playstation 3? Don’t expect any sympathy from Sony.
In the company’s fiscal 2008 annual report, Sony revealed that they’ve now lost roughly $3.3 billion (that’s billion with a B) on the Playstation 3 since its launch. That breaks down to $2.16 [...]

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DC is happy to announce that we will again be conducting our Talent Search program at the San Diego Comic Con. What does this mean for aspiring comic artists? Well, it means that if you would like to have your work seen by DC’s top editors and art directors, from all our various imprints, then [...]

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