variety.com - 10/21/2008
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Studio negotiating deal with Relativity Media The current economic crisis is putting the squeeze on even thriving studios such as Universal Pictures. The studio is in talks to sell its Rogue Pictures label to Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media for $150 million. The sale would include the banner's ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 10/22/2008
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Anne Thompson has a really good story in
today's Variety breaking the news that Universal is nearing
a deal to sell its Rogue Pictures label to Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media. The sale, Thompson reports, would give Kavanaugh Rogue's 30-title library...
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Is Universal pulling Focus?
variety.com - 10/21/2008
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variety.com —
New attraction to hit theme parks in 2011
The Transformers are taking shape at Universal's theme parks.
Universal Parks & Resorts has paired up with Hasbro and DreamWorks Pictures to produce a Transformers attraction at its parks in Hollywood and ...
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Universal boards 'Transformers' ride - Entertainment ...
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NBC/Universal Kidnaps News Cycle. Trade Roughage 10/21/08
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Universal Studios is building a ride in its theme parks in Singapore and Los Angeles, based on Michael Bay’s Transformers. The attraction is expected to “use 3-D HD footage with special effects, robotics and track to place humans in the middle of a war between the friendly Autobots and evil Decepticons, who can turn into cars, trucks, planes and other vehicles.” Yay, war!
Meanwhile, Universal the studio is planning to sell genre division Rogue Pictures to Relativity Media for $150 million. Rogue has been moderately successful producing low-budget hits like The Strangers, to which ...
Movie Hopping: October 23, 2008
TheMovingPicture.net - Movie News - Movie Trailers - Movie Reviews - TV - DVD - Rumors - Casting News —
Guy Pearce will star alongside fellow Aussies Ben Mendelson and Joel Edgerton in director David Michod’s first feature, the crime drama Animal Kingdom . The film will also star veteran actress Jackie Weaver. >> More ...
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getthebigpicture.net 10/21/2008 — Rogue Pictures, the indie genre off-shoot of Focus Features, is being sold by parent company Universal to the tune of $150 million. The move comes months after the studio's biggest ever hit, 'The Strangers.'
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Studios in Flux: Redstone Struggles, Industry Speculates
weblogs.variety.com 10/22/2008 —
With financial pressure from their owners and stock prices in the toilet, there's movement afoot among the major studios. And much speculation. Here's Fortune's frightening story on NBC Universal owner General Electric , always one of the best-run and most solid of American corporations.
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Universal Sells Rogue for $150 Million
nytimes.com 1/5/2009 — The sale of Rogue Pictures, a maker and distributor of lower-cost films, to Relativity Media signifies further reordering in Hollywood’s specialty movie business. >
Anna Paquin on playing Rogue in next ‘X-Men’ movie: “More action please”
atomicpopcorn.net 6/3/2009 — Rogue is looking for some action
Popular geek site, IGN , caught up with Anna Paquin and asked if she will return to portray the mutant Southern belle, Rogue, in the upcoming X-Men: First Class .
“ Absolutely. Yeah, ” she revealed. “ I would hope I could do a little bit ...
Anna Paquin Would Love Rogue in 'X-Men: First Class'
getthebigpicture.net 6/4/2009 — Anna Paquin is speaking hypothetically and emphatically about returning as Rogue in future X-Men movies, in particular in the proposed X-Men: First Class .
The movie would be loosely based on the idea behind a series of comics that was originally launched in 2006 and has run in a few ...
Paquin Talks X-Men Future
uk.movies.ign.com 6/3/2009 — June 2, 2009 - IGN chatted with True Blood star Anna Paquin this morning, during which time we had the chance to ask her about the possibility of returning to the X-Men franchise. The Oscar-winning actress played Rogue in the first three X-Men films. ...
Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School
roguefilmschool.com 9/22/2009 — The Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Werner Herzog in person at varying locations and at infrequent intervals. The number of participants will be limited. Locations and dates will be announced on this website and ...
Not Quite Rogue
stalepopcornau.blogspot.com 9/15/2008 — Briefly during my screening of David Nerlich and Andrew Traucki's exciting horror thriller Black Water the colour disappeared from the screen and was replaced by faded blues and greens, scratches and film spots. It was at that moment that I realised ...
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