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US band Paramore arrive at Radio One to appear on the 'Switch' show London, England - 06.09.09 Copyright 2009 WENN

Pixar creators of 'Nemo,' 'Wall-E' and 'Up' win lifetime achievement award at Venice The Venice Film Festival's red carpet was festooned with balloons on Sunday to mark the lifetime achievement award for director and producer John Lasseter and his crew of Pixar ...

Animation guru John Lasseter and his "brothers in creative film making" at Disney/Pixar received a career Golden Lion at the Venice film festival Sunday. "This is a tremendous honour," Lasseter said at the ceremony in the Sala Grande of the Lido's Palazzo ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Reigning champ "The Final Destination" fended off a challenge from Sandra Bullock's latest romantic comedy to lead the U.S. Labor Day holiday box office in North America for a second weekend, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday. ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The creator of "Toy Story" and other animation blockbusters hopes more animation movies will be considered for the Oscar best picture now that the number of nominees in that category is being doubled to 10. John Lasseter, who is ...

Snoopy ousts SpongeBob as Cedar Fair replaces Nickelodeon with Peanuts in its theme parks Move over, SpongeBob and Dora. Make way for Snoopy. North America's third-largest amusement parks chain says it's putting Charlie Brown, Snoopy and other Peanuts characters into five more ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Madonna smashed her own record for top-grossing tour by a solo artist, but the "Material Girl" had to play more shows in bigger venues, according to data released by concert promoter Live Nation Inc on Wednesday. The pop ...

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online video site YouTube is in talks with several major movie studios about renting movies to users by streaming the movies over the Internet according to a person familiar with the talks on Wednesday. It would mark ...

AP Sources: YouTube may offer online movie rentals, following in footsteps of iTunes, Amazon YouTube, Google Inc.'s online video streaming service, is in talks with Hollywood studios to rent new release movies online, according to people familiar with the talks. The move ...

YouTube is considering streaming movies for rental, a move that would see the free video-sharing site charging for content for the first time, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the company's plans," said Google-owned YouTube is ...