Author Cussler 'damaged by film'
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The career of best-selling novelist Clive Cussler was almost destroyed by the film adaptation of his book Sahara, a court hears.
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A new book written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author is said to have sections highly critical of DisneyÂs departing chief, Michael D. Eisner.
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The director of the movie "Titanic"  presented on Monday what he said was evidence the tomb of Jesus  had been uncovered but scholars greeted the assertion with  skepticism, some dismissing it as a publicity stunt.
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The director of the film version of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is to remove references to God.
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Former Wild Wild West star Robert Conrad will pay a price   for his wild, wild ride.
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If you want to be up the proverbial creek Without a Paddle, be my guest. Just be forewarned: These waters are putrid. In an inept movie that makes even Catwoman seem sane, Steven Brill turns Without a Paddle into twaddle about the strength of boyhood ...
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Much like his bloody epic about  the death of Christ, a new Mel Gibson production about the  collapse of the Mayan civilization is angering members of the  culture it depicts even before it hits the screen.
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Screenwriter-turned-comic-book publisher Andrew Cosby and  Johanna Stokes have been hired to do a rewrite on Walt Disney  Pictures&#39; &quot;First Ascent.&quot;
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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One of BritainÂs most lauded authors has been accused in newspaper articles of copying phrases for his best-selling novel ÂAtonementÂ in 2001 from a memoir published in 1977.
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Executive chairman Michael Grade admits 'cultural failings' as viewers are cheated out of millions.
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Bestselling books don't always make great blockbuster films, agents and producers warned authors selling rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
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Michael Eisner lashed out at the &quot;clichÃ©d&quot; portrayal of the &quot;real&quot; Hollywood in his fifth and final day testifying in a shareholder suit over former company president Michael Ovitz&#39;s lucrative payout.
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An extra who worked on the sets of the new "Indiana Jones" movie has ruined his career by revealing pivotal plot lines of the latest instalment of the action-thriller series.
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Gabe: ***STAR WARS NERD CRAP!***I've been meaning to mention Karen's new book in the Republic Commando series for a while but I wanted to wait until I finished it. I'm a ridiculously slow reader so I didn't actually wrap it up until a few weeks ago. If you're reading the series "True Colors" is out in stores and it's great. If you're not reading the series you should start at the beginning. Karen is essentially covering the Clone Wars like a real war correspondent would. Seeing as that was her previous job it makes sense. She's looking at the war and asking the questions a real journalist would ask. "Why do we all of a sudden have a clone army? Don't they take ten years to grow?" "How are we paying for this?" "Why doesn't anyone ever see veterans or wounded clone troopers returning home?" She is cutting through the Galactic/imperial propaganda and showing the war from the point of view of the soldiers. Star Wars fiction tends to be about Jedi. All the movies are about Jedi and almost all of the books tend to revolve around Jedi and their lives. Republic Commando is refreshing because it's not about Jedi. It's about soldiers fighting a war that the government will never let them win. The newest book also happens to introduce my new favorite Star Wars characters. Gaib and the Tk-0 droid are data bounty hunters. Essentially hackers for hire. So fucking awesome.  *** END OF STAR WARS NERD CRAP***  I also have some Child's Play updates for you. If you couldn't make it to the dinner last week or you just want to remember how rad it was, you can hit Kiko's Flickr for his pictures. As of last Friday we're up to $850,000 for the year. It looks like we'll have no problem breaking a million before we wrap things up in January.This is the last day for a very cool Heroes auction over on eBay. The auction was assembled by our friend Ollie who works on the show. He managed to get a pilot scrip signed by a bunch of the cast members as well as a bunch of other great Heroes collectibles.-Gabe out
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Much like his bloody epic about the death of Christ, a new Mel Gibson production about the collapse of the Mayan civilization is angering members of the culture it depicts even before it hits the screen.
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James Bond is normally adept at dodging villains but he fell victim to pirates less than 48 hours after his new film, &quot;Casino Royale,&quot; was released, an Internet intelligence firm said.