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Trade Breaks: CBS, After, Wars

By Garth Franklin Friday August 4th 2006 02:52AM

"After months revising a film strategy, CBS network chief Leslie Moonves said the company plans to annually produce four to six movies budgeted between $10 million and $50 million -- a move he calls "risk-free" -- and thus compete with owning company Viacom's Paramount Pictures. He did not talk about any theatrical distribution plans..." (full details)

"Agnieszka Vosloo has signed with Constellation Entertainment to write and direct supernatural thriller "After.Life" starting this Winter. The story chronicles a young woman in a transitional state between life and death who fights to avoid being buried alive and the funeral director who holds her fate in his hands..." (full details)

"YouTube removed all parody/fanfilm/spoof Star Wars content three days ago due to copyright violation. Yesterday, in an surprising PR move, Lucasfilm contacted YouTube, and told them to put it all back online - every last one. Lucasfilm says "Apparently the action was taken by YouTube as a result of a misunderstanding of a request to remove an item containing material taken from starwars.com without our permission. We have asked YouTube to restore any works that they inadvertently removed"..." (full details)

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