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Jul
12 2001

By the Numbers: Box Office Preview

By: Robert Sims
2:54pm EDT
Call it the calm before the spinosauraus attack. With Jurassic Park III opening Wednesday, this weekend's box office victor should not make itself too comfortable in the top spot. Next week, it's T-Rex chow. Given its strong but hardly...
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Jul
12 2001

Dr. Dre, Metallica settle with Napster

By: Guylaine Cadorette
12:29pm EDT
Metallica and Dr. Dre have settled their legal disputes with the controversial online song-swapping service Napster, ending all legal actions between the parties, it was announced Thursday. "It's time to end the court fight and shake hands,"...
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Jul
12 2001

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Review

By: Stacie Hougland
11:10am EDT
It's 2065. The earth has been taken over by phantom-like aliens against whom the dwindling human population is powerless save for a super-weapon that could destroy the entire planet. But Dr. Aki Ross (voiced by Ming-Na) and her mentor Dr. Sid...
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Jul
12 2001

Investors fantasizing about "Fantasy"

By: Lew Irwin
11:00am EDT
Investors expecting a surge in sales for Final Fantasy video games following the U.S. release of the film Wednesday sent shares in Square Co., which develops the games for Sony's PlayStation 2, soaring 7.2 percent on the Japanese stock exchange...
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Jul
12 2001

AT&T will consider Comcast bid

By: Lew Irwin
11:00am EDT
After appearing to reject out of hand Comcast's $40.8-billion offer for AT&T's cable operations, AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong on Wednesday appeared to be altering his stance. "While we have no current plans to sell our broadband...
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Jul
12 2001

All-star Game picks up viewers

By: Lew Irwin
11:00am EDT
Baseball's All-Star Game on Fox rallied Tuesday night, scoring a 12.9 rating and a 20 share following last year's 10.1/18 (when it aired on NBC), the lowest numbers in 32 years. Still, Tuesday night's ratings were the second lowest in 33 years...
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Jul
12 2001

Something to boost "Big Brother's" ratings

By: Lew Irwin
11:00am EDT
Although a promo for Thursday's episode of Big Brother urging viewers to "find out what everyone's talking about" began airing Wednesday night, CBS said earlier in the day that it will not show the scene that resulted in contestant Justin...
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Jul
12 2001

AMC may try to buy General Cinema

By: Lew Irwin
11:00am EDT
AMC Entertainment, one of the only major film exhibitors that has not considered bankruptcy, has made a surprise bid for General Cinema, which has. The bid of $62.5 million tops one by Onex Corp. and Oaktree Capital Management of $42.5 million made...
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Jul
12 2001

"Pearl Harbor" to bypass Ehime Maru city

By: Lew Irwin
11:00am EDT
Disney's Japanese film distributor, Buena Vista International Japan, has decided not to show Pearl Harbor in the city that was the home of the high school students who died in the Ehime Maru collision, CNN reported Wednesday. Citing an article...
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Jul
12 2001
The million-member Evangelical Alliance of Britain has condemned the decision of the BBC to appoint Alan Bookbinder, a professed "open-hearted agnostic," to be head of its religious programming. As reported by Thursday's London Independent, Joel...
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Jul
12 2001

McLean struggles with past

By: Erika Gimenes
7:45am EDT
Sometimes even famous people need to take a break. That is the case of Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean, who is currently spending time at a rehab clinic to fight depression and alcohol problems. But the root to the 23-year-old's emotional despair...
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Jul
12 2001

Crowe, Kidman vacation in Fiji

By: Guylaine Cadorette
7:34am EDT
Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman are vacationing at the Wakaya Club in the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, The Associated Press reports. The luxury club can accommodate up to 16 guests in its nine beachfront, palm-thatched cottages...
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Jul
12 2001

Napster ordered to shut down

By: Noah Davis
7:34am EDT
Napster may have swapped its last song. Until Napster can prove that it is not violating music copyrights, Federal Judge Marilyn Patel Hall has ordered the peer-to-peer, song-swapping service not to resume services, Reuters reports. Technical...
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