Hollywood really never learns, does it? Following 20th Century Fox's decision to try to stop Redbox from getting movies to rent via its kiosks (to which Redbox has responded by suing Fox), Warner Bros. has joined in as well, but isn't just trying to stop Redbox, but Netflix, too.

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Can Ridley Scott's directing return revive the 'Alien' franchise? Can the prequel bring Scott more gory glory?

Lst May Fox announced that Ridley and Tony Scott would produce an Alien prequel with commercial/music video/short-film director Carl Rinsch directing.

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"She's famous for being the voice of perennially naughty cartoon character Bart Simpson. But it seems actress Nancy Cartwright could be in a spot of trouble for a 'prank call' of her own.

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Who's watching the "Watchmen"? Come March 6, it may not be moviegoers.

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The Australian film and television industry has launched a major legal action against one of Australia's largest internet service providers for allegedly allowing its users to download pirated movies and TV shows.

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John Singleton is directing the June 12, 2009 release. According to Variety, 20th Century Fox has settled on a June 12, 2009 premiere date for the updated action-adventure.

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Is Apple poised to end the High Definition format war?

December 27, 2007 - The Financial Times is reporting that Apple, Inc. has struck a deal with 20th Century Fox studio to deliver feature film rentals via its iTunes Store. Details are expected at Macworld in January, during Steve Jobs' keynote speech.

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The Financial Times reports that Apple and News Corp. s 20th Century Fox film studio have signed a deal for digital movie rentals. Consumers will be able to rent the latest Fox DVD releases from iTunes for a limited time.

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More interestingly perhaps, the studios are hoping to create "premium" versions of DVDs that include a copy of the movie that can easily be put on an iPod (and presumably a laptop with iTunes or an Apple TV).

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Just when you think studios couldn't act worse… they just keep on surprising you! I've just been notified by YouTube that 20th Century Fox has just filed a copyright infringement notice with them to have our review of the ass awful film "Reno 911: Miami" taken off their …

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Fox is producing fresh episodes of its animated comedy Family Guy without the participation of its striking creator Seth MacFarlane, who does many of the main voices, sources said.

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As Bart Simpson would exclaim, "Ay Carumba!" The proud underachiever and his family took the North American box office by storm on Sunday as "The Simpsons Movie" sold $71.85 million worth of tickets during its first weekend, according to estimates issued by distributor 20th Centu …

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A projectionist at a Memphis theater chain has lost his job after writing an unauthorized early review of "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" for the Web site Ain't It Cool News.

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The lawsuit, claims "Family Guy" violated Burnett's exclusive rights to her name and likeness by depicting her signature cleaning-woman character in a segment last April. Peter Griffin had non comment.

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USA Network just made Twentieth Century Fox $11 million dollars richer as they landed "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."

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San Francisco company BitTorrent, creator of the file sharing application and protocol of the same name, have announced content distribution partnerships with some of Hollywood's major media houses, including 20th Century Fox, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Palm Pictures and v …

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Within the first week of the partnership, which was announced during Apple's "It's Showtime" event on September 12, Disney announced that it had sold 125,000 movies and cleared $1 million in revenue.

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Those new DVD editions of the Star Wars films? The original theatrical versions of the films are going to be non-anamorphic (our original post on this indicated otherwise, but we have confirmed that the widescreen versions will be letterboxed only).

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