Reuters - A U.S. federal judge temporarily halted sales of RealNetworks Inc's RealDVD software, which allows users to copy DVDs, after Hollywood studios sued the company over copyright issues, court documents showed. -- read full article
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:30:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - For a dozen years during the Cold War, accused members and former members of the American Communist Party were barred from working in the movie industry.
Playbill - Award-winning playwright and performer Anna Deavere
Smith will debut a new one-woman play, The Arizona Project, exploring "women's relationships to justice and the law," in Phoenix, AZ, in November. -- read full article
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:17:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - Representatives of the new DreamWorks film studio will delay pitching Wall Street on a bank loan package for about one month to give the banking market time to stabilize. -- read full article
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:45:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - For the first time since the Oscars moved to TV in the early 1950s, studios will be able to advertise movies during the telecast of the Academy Awards next year.
Reuters - EMI is preparing to launch a music service by the end of the year, representing the latest direct-to-consumer business being planned by a major label. -- read full article
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:03:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment News
Reuters - The assassination of Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez's grape boycott, gay men in China and historian David McCullough are among the subjects of the films vying for Oscar nominations for best documentary short subject.