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Hollywood studios, responding to calls for less violence in films following mass shootings last year, unveiled a campaign to help parents screen what children see in movie theaters.
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U.S. cinema chains are adding 3 a.m. screenings of “The Hunger Games” tomorrow to meet demand for tickets to the Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. film.
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The Prince Charles , a London movie theater that’s more likely to screen “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” than a James Cameron blockbuster, is struggling to pay for Hollywood demands to go digital.
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Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp., a company that provides smaller theaters with digital projection, said it helped arrange funding to save 3,000 screens from extinction when studios phase out film prints of movies.
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Sony Pictures and major cinema operators are locked in a standoff over who will pay for 3-D glasses for “Men in Black 3,” a major summer release a week away from its debut.
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At the Everyman Cinema in London’s Hampstead, an area where celebrities such as Ricky Gervais and Ridley Scott are often seen, quiche and cocktails are replacing bucket-sized popcorn and all-you-can drink soda as some theaters aim for bigger-spending customers.
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Universal Pictures abandoned a plan to offer the Eddie Murphy comedy “Tower Heist” on pay television three weeks after its theatrical release, yielding to a threatened boycott by exhibitors.
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Movie box-office revenue in the U.S. and Canada fell 3.8 percent last year to $10.2 billion, the first drop since 2005, as Hollywood failed to match the 2010 success of James Cameron’s “Avatar.”
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Universal Pictures plans to offer the Eddie Murphy comedy “Tower Heist” to cable TV customers of parent Comcast Corp. three weeks after the film opens in theaters, months before a typical video-on-demand release.
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