Screen scribes game the system

Source: Original Signal: Movies

If you're playing a videogame, you're not watching television. It's a reality many scribes are coming to terms with as more of their target audience, especially younger males, power up their Xboxes, PlayStations or Wiis for the ...
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China boosts Taiwan film biz

Source: Original Signal: Movies

BEIJING -- Taiwan cinema is booming, reaping the benefits of closer cooperation with mainland China as well as government funding and a surge of creativity inspired by the success of pics from the self-ruled island. Films such as "Monga," "Cape No. 7," a ...
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Projecting a sure thing

Source: Original Signal: Movies

If you want a predictable business, selling soap beats showbiz every day. That's real soap, not soap operas. The Value Line Investment Survey publishes an "earnings predictability" score for most of the 1,700 sto ...
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Source: AME Info

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The Voice UK: Bo Bruce’s song tonight, Charlie Brown, is for her ill mother

Source: Unreality TV

Bo’s mum Rosamund was diagnosed with cancer in January, and a friend of the family has revealed that the song became something of an “anthem” for Bo as she came to terms with her mother’s illness. The source told TV Biz, “That Coldplay song has kept her ...
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Yo Gotti

Source: LA Weekly

This scrappy Memphis rapper — best known for his series of Cocaine Muzik mixtapes — didn't quite set the world on fire earlier this year with the release of Live From the Kitchen, his long-delayed studio debut for RCA. But Yo Gotti's ...
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ITC Q4 Profit Zooms 24%

Source: Topnews.in

ITC closed the fourth quarterly period of 2011-12 with an increase of 26% in its post-tax profit that remained at Rs 1,614.4 crore on a net income of Rs 6,861 crore that remained 17.6% up as against the corresp ...
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VIDEO/DVD: Why Most Music Startups Fail - Hypebot Sessions @ Narm

Source: All About Jazz

Earlier this month, Hypebot hosted a series of panels during NARM's Music Biz 2012 in L.A. One, hosted by Kyle Bylin, examined of why most music startups fail and but others succeed. Why Most Music Startups Fail Ther ...
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The Voice UK: Cheryl Cole says she WON’T use autotune tonight!

Source: Unreality TV

As fans of The Voice will doubtless know, Cheryl Cole is performing live on the show tonight, and she’s vowed that her performance will be all her own, with no autotuning. She’s set to sing her new track, Call My Name, live at 6pm, ...
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