“High School Musical 3: Senior Year” is the third installment of Walt Disney Co.’s franchise in the last three years, a surprise cash cow that ran on cable
TV and now springs to the big screen.
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Andrew Lahde, the Santa Monica hedge fund manager who shot to fame with an 870% gain last year by betting on the subprime mortgage collapse, has left the building – with a bang.
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Paramount Pictures is shuffling its fall and holiday season release schedule by delaying two star-driven dramas, pushing “The Soloist” from Thanksgiving week to March 13 and “Defiance” from mid-December to a limited, Oscar-qualifying Dec.
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“Max Payne” is an appropriate title for 20th Century Fox’s latest movie.
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Investors with their nest eggs stashed in many money market mutual funds will soon have a
U.S. government safety net akin to what bank depositors have long enjoyed.
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With a little help from a made-in-Hollywood controversy, the new Dane Cook-Kate Hudson romantic comedy “My Best Friend’s Girl” from Lionsgate figures to be one of this weekend’s main box-office draws.
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Money market mutual fund companies scrambled Wednesday to calm their clients’ fears after the pioneer of the asset class “broke the buck,” falling below the industry standard $1 per share in value.
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Walt Disney Pictures is making a lot of marketing noise with its upcoming “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” a live-action comedy about a pampered purebred that gets lost in Mexico.
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In the Harry Potter stories, wizards play chess with life-size, animated pieces.
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