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Ledger's lawyer launches suit over $10m insurance payout
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A former lawyer for Heath Ledger has launched a suit against the late actor's insurance company for allegedly refusing to pay out the $10m (£5.5m) in benefits due to Ledger's two-year-old daughter. John S LaViolette maintains that ReliaStar insurance company, with whom the 28-year-old Dark Knight star took out a life insurance policy in 2007, claim the policy is null and void because his death in January this year was suspicious and possibly a suicide, even though officials have ruled that he died from an accidental overdose of painkillers and other medicines. LaViolette claims that he is also listed as a beneficiary in Ledger's policy and is suing ...
Paramount in Threesome with Marvel and Dell. Trade Roughage 09/30/08
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Paramount will continue to distribute films produced by Marvel Studios, including 2010’s Thor, which Kenneth Branagh is now confirmed to be directing. The deal was expected, especially after Paramount’s handling of Iron Man. Also in the news: that film’s first sequel has been pushed back a week from April 30, 2010 to May 7, 2010. Iron Man 3 is also being planned, but hasn’t yet been given a planned release date.
Meanwhile, Paramount and Dell have teamed up to offer Iron Man preloaded into newly purchased computers. For $20, the Iron Man add-on ...
News Bites: 'Transformers 2' Goes IMAX, Mary Jane Returns and More
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Filed under: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Deals, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Trailers and Clips Happy New Year to all my brothers and sisters. May 5769 kick a whole lot more ass than 5768. While over 98% of Hollywood takes the day off, here's what's happening: Variety reports that Michael Bay has taken a page from Christopher Nolan and will shoot "at least three action set pieces" using IMAX cameras during Transformers: Revenge of the ...
What’s Better Than Giant Fighting Robots?
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One of the times we saw the first Transformers with an audience was opening day at a movie theater in the downtown area of Brooklyn. The theater was on the sixth floor of the complex and was filled with kids and high teenagers who were thrilled to the get the companion Bumblebee comic book to look at before we saw if Michael Bay could pull off a movie based on a line of toys from the 80s (though it couldn’t be that hard, since in scene in the Tom Hanks movie BIG, toy executives essentially come up with the idea for Beast Wars on screen)
When Optimus Prime takes on Bonecrusher, the skating robot that takes on a bus, the guy sitting in ...
Everyone is Lovin' IMAX
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... on Iron Man 2 and Y: The Last Man, respectively. Everything will be huge!
If only this Imax revolution thing would have happened just a little sooner. Could you imagine seeing the white hot romance of Nights in Rodanthe bursting off that massive screen and scorching our seats (and hearts)? It would be like staring into a beautiful Hell as you watched the flames of passion burning in the depths of every one of Richard Gere's valleys of squint. Oh, to dream.
Tentpole directors see Imax in future [Variety]
