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MOVIE & TV NEWS
Night
at the Museum IMAX
"Night
at the Museum" the Shawn
Levy directed Fox
fantasy film will open at IMAX
theaters the day as conventional theaters on Dec. 22. Greg Foster, chairman
and president of filmed entertainment at IMAX Corp., said the film will
be released in a 2-D IMAX version rather than the 3-D version, due to lack
of time to convert the live-action movie, as was done with last summer's
"Superman Returns." Foster
said the company hopes for a 3-D release of "Harry
Potter and The Order of the Phoenix" in July, but there is no deal
as yet in place. In "Night at the Museum"
Ben Stiller plays a good-hearted
dreamer Larry Daley, who takes a job as a graveyard-shift security guard
at a museum of natural history. During Larry's shift Mayans, Roman gladiators
and cowboys emerge from their diorama to wage epic battles; a Neanderthal
burns down his display; Attila the Hun begins to pillage his neighboring
exhibits; and a Tyrannosaurus Rex stalks the halls. Larry turns for advice
to a wax figure of President Teddy Roosevelt (Robin
Williams), together they harness the bedlam, stop a nefarious plot
and save the museum. Also in the cast are Ricky
Gervais, Mickey Rooney,
Paul Rudd, Dick
Van Dyke and Owen
Wilson.
Penguins
& Panda Come To Nick
Variety
is reporting that "Kung Fu
Panda" and the "Madagascar"
penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private will be coming to Nickelodeon
in their own shows. Nick
Studios will work with DreamWorks
Animation (but Nick will carry most of the load). Tom
Martin is writing the pilot for Panda, while Paul
Rugg is adapting the Madagascar spinoff.
SAG
To Raise Dues
The
board of the Screen Actors Guild will ask members to pay higher dues (the
first increase in dues since 1999). The membership initiation fee will
be raised to $2,211 from the current $1,474, while dues will rise to $116
per year versus the current $100.
Halloween
Conan in Skelevision
The
Oct. 31 edition of "Late
Night with Conan O'Brien" will be in "skelevision."
The show will be a reconstructed rerun of a show from last May and
all the featured performers will be appearing as skeleton puppets.
That episode features Larry
King, Omar Epps and
pole dancing workout instructor Sheila Kelley.
Sony
Offers Ultimate Intern Contest
Sony
says: "In Columbia
Pictures' The Pursuit
of Happyness, Will Smith
plays Chris Gardner, a bright and talented guy who is struggling to make
ends meet until he lands a prestigious internship that enables him to pursue
his dreams. Now it's your turn. Columbia Pictures has teamed up with the
companies above to offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Each company
is offering one internship. Sign up now for your chance to win."
The comanies involved are: Yahoo!, NBC,
The Gap, The NFL,
The Hollywood Reporter,
People, Morgan
Stanley and Playstation. To learn
more go here.
EMI
Auditioning Online
Pop
recording label EMI is opening an online portal for aspiring singers and
groups. The group's Parlophone label is now accepting music files online,
as well as in mailbags.Nigel Coxon, head of Parlophone's artist and repertoire
team, said: "One of our top priorities
is to keep our talent spotting process as efficient and up to date as possible.
This new system allows us to do just that, while at the same time helping
us stay committed to giving anyone the opportunity to be heard."
Parlophone tested new software this summer, that tracks which recordings
Parlophone workers have listened to, and allows them to rate tracks and
artists. It also alerts musicians when their tracks have been reviewed.
More from the company itself here.
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