The hit $15,000 thriller Paranormal Activity has grown from its midnight-only showings in a handful of college towns to become this year’s biggest movie phenomenon, and will cross $100 million at the box office after only five weekends of national release as of Friday. In so doing, the movie has become the top grossing R-Rated thriller of the past decade.

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Focus Features CEO James Schamus today announced the company’s domestic theatrical release slate for 2010, with six confirmed movies to date.

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Columbia Pictures has launched the official website for director Dennis Dugan’s Grown Ups with the new teaser trailer, which you can also watch using the player below.

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Telefilm and CBC announced a deal on Thursday that will see at least four Telefilm-funded movies a year destined for primetime on the public broadcaster. CBC plans to contribute to the development and production of the films, which will go into commercial release in cinemas before being aired on TV. Both CBC and Telefilm will [...]

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CBC plans to create a TV movie about Sam Steele, a member of the North-West Mounted Police and distinguished military veteran who rode out against the Red River Rebellion and fought in the Boer War. CBC is working with the Alberta Film Development Program and Knight Enterprises to recreate the life of one of the [...]

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Remember this ? Fast forward to today and Sylvester Stallone has told StalloneZone that they’ve changed their minds about Rambo V .

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Michael Jackson’s This Is It has reached a box office gross of $200 million worldwide, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced today. The film has taken in $61 million domestically and more than $140 million internationally.

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Universal Pictures has debuted the trailer for Leap Year at MSN , and has provided us with the new poster and production stills. You can watch the trailer using the player below and you can check out the poster and photos here .

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Actor Ben “Gandhi” Kingsley and his Brazilian, actress wife Daniela Lavender will star in the $30 million feature Taj, based on true events, recounting the relationship between 16th century Indian Mughal emperor ‘Shah Jahan’, builder of the ‘Taj Mahal’ and his Persian wife ‘Kandahari Begum’.

Kingsley will produce the film for his SBK Pictures, from a screenplay by Brit playwright, novelist, actor David Ashton.

The ‘Taj Mahal’ was intended as a mausoleum in memory of the emperor’s favourite wife, ‘Mumtaz Mahal’.

The structure is considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, combining Persian and Indian styles, in an integrated complex of structures, taking 20 years to complete, employing thousands of artisans and craftsmen.

Taj will start shooting in India, in 2010…

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According to reports, DC Comics’ WW II war character Sgt. Rock will be adapted as a feature by director Francis “I Am Legend” Lawrence, from a screenplay by Chad “The Days Before” St. John.

Producer Joel Silver will team with producer Akiva “The Da Vinci Code” Goldsman, to develop the film for Warner Bros.-based Silver Pictures. Other producers include Andrew Rona and Weed Road’s Kerry Foster.

‘Sgt. Frank Rock’ a non-commissioned officer during World War II, debuted in DC Comics’ “Our Army at War” #83 (June 1959), from writer Robert Kanigher and illustrator Joe Kubert.

During World War II, Rock fought for the infantry branch of the US Army in the European Theatre, rising to authority within his own unit, ‘Easy Company’, a disparate collection of soldiers who managed to participate in every major action in Europe…

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