Global movie ticket sales climbed 7.6 per cent in 2009 to $29.9 billion, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.

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Beginning next month, movie lovers will be able to bet on the box office of a film through a futures contract issued by New York broker Cantor Fitzgerald.

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Robert Pattinson’s instantaneous and often overwhelming star power is fantastic for the moment. But what happens when “The Twilight Saga” comes to a close and his herds of adoring fans find another up and comer to fawn over? If Pattinson has anything to do with it, he’ll have moved on from simply being a Hollywood heartthrob and have established himself as a reputable actor. Not only does Remember Me provide him with the opportunity to be remembered long after his claim to fame has come and gone, but it allows him to deliver a similarly important concept to moviegoers: the value of moving on but never forgetting.

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Summit Entertainment has provided ComingSoon.net with the full new trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse , opening in theaters and IMAX on June 30. Directed by David Slade from a script by Melissa Rosenberg, the sequel stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone and Dakota Fanning.

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Gary Oldman, Malin Akerman and Milo Ventimiglia will star in the independent gangster film Criminal Empire for Dummys . Michael Clarke Duncan and Harvey Keitel are also attached.

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Gary Fleder will direct the thriller Protection for 20th Century Fox. John Davis is producing via his Fox-based Davis Entertainment.

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Jason Segel (“How I Met Your Mother”) and Ed Helms ( The Hangover ) are starring in Jeff Who Lives at Home , a stoner comedy from Mark and Jay Duplass that will probably be distributed by Paramount. Shooting starts next month in Louisiana.

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Steve Martin is in negotiations to star alongside Jack Black and Owen Wilson in comedy The Big Year at Fox 2000.

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Clint Eastwood will next direct a biopic of controversial FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, says The Hollywood Reporter . Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment will produce.

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Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up action-adventure treatment Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever from producer Adrian Askarieh, who is teaming with Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Doug Davison.

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