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Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in December 2009
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A fairly unremarkable week for new movies means only minor changes in rankings for the sf/f/h movies near the top of the charts, but a lot of slippage lower down...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fifth Week in November 2009
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Vampires own the top of the charts, but otherwise, it was a fairly week weak for sf/f/h movies...

ASIFA's 2009 Annie Nominees
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The international animated film society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominees for its 37th annual Annie Awards. Coraline dominates the field, with ten nominations...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of November 2009
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It's sf/f/h week at the movies. Our genre films own the top of the charts, but the mid-range, not so much...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of November 2009
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A pretty good week for sf/f/h movies, but the theatres are even more eager for next week, when the new Stephenie Meyer vampire film New Moon should pummel the competition...

TV briefs: cancellations of Dollhouse and Eastwick
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Dollhouse and Eastwick have been canceled, but will air the episodes already produced. FX bought rights to 2012...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of November 2009
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Four new genre releases in the top ten, as we say goodbye to three falling off the bottom of the charts. SF/F/H films own the top of the charts (and they're expecting disaster-porn 2012 to join them next week), but they're weak in the mid-range...

2009 New York City Horror Film Festival line-up announced
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The New York City Horror Film Festivcal will feature 50 horror and science fiction films between 18 and 22 November...

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in November 2009
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With only one new film, the only real movement is at the top of the charts, but sf/f/h films, by and large, hold steady. One horror film falls, and another reappears on the charts...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in October
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Suddenly, sf/f/h films own the top of the charts, but there doesn't look like much staying power there...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of October 2009
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Even with a new release in the #1 spot, it was a very bad week for sf/f/h films at the box office...

Nickelodeon pays $60 million to become the new home of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Nickelodeon has paid $60 million for all rights to The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and is already planning a new television series, as well as a new feature film with its corporate partner Paramount. Co-creator Peter A. Laird said...

Bookseller Barry R. Levin starts film production company
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Rare sf bookseller Barry R. Levin is moving into the film production realm, as he announces the launch of Science Fiction Fantasy Films Inc...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of October 2009
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A new comedy takes over the top of the charts, but sf/f/h films own the next five spots. Also, one we'd waved goodbye to returns with a US box office topping $300 million...

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of October 2009
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An odd box-office week for sf/f/h movies, with our genres owning the top 4 spots on the charts, but not many more of the others...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of September 2009
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A seemingly weak week for sf/f/h films, yet we still have 40% of the top 25, including the number one film in the box offices...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of September 2009
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For the second week in a row, three genre films fell out of the top 25, and there was only one new entry on the list (admittedly, at #1), meaning it's currently more of a non-sf/f/h line-up in the box offices...

Defying Gravity is not dead, but in limbo
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Reports of the ABC space-based drama series' demise may have been exaggerated, but not canceled does not necessarily mean scheduled to air anytime soon...

Justin Cronin's vampire novel The Passage to be adapted for film by John Logan for big money
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Justin Cronin's third novel, futuristic vampire tale The Passage, is being adapted for the big screen by John Logan. Fox 2000 is paying Logan more than $1 million to turn the book into a script for Ridley Scott to direct...

61st Annual Emmy Award Winners—the sf/f/h nominees
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This year's Emmy Awards included a few for sf/f/h programming, but one stand-out was the short-lived series Pushing Daisies...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of September
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Not a great week for sf/f/h films, but then again, not a great week for the movies overall (back to school probably had something to do with shrinking box-office revenues)...

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of September
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No movement at the top of the charts, but the recently released 9 worked its way into a respectable slot after a scant two days in the theatres...

Warner Brothers makes DC Comics its own division, with eyes to expansion
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Corporate parent Warner Brothers has recreated DC Comics as its own division, to be called DC Entertainment, to be presided over by Warner insider Diane Nelson, while current President Paul Levitz returns to the creative side...

Tolkien estate and New Line Cinema settle Lord of the Rings lawsuit
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After more than a year and a half of legal wrangling, The Tolkien Trust and New Line Cinema have reached an agreement (with undisclosed details) that should allow the two new The Hobbit movies to move forward while at the same time providing payment to Tolkien's estate for The Lord of the Rings movies...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fifth Week of August
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A very strong week for sf/f/h movies, with none falling out of the top 25, but two new opening at the top of the charts, and one climbing back up into the rankings...
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