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• OFFICIAL: ‘Dark Knight’ $48M Saturday; $155.3M Weekend Will Beat ‘Spidey 3′; But Rival Studios Questioning Numbers
• ‘DARK KNIGHT’: RECORD $67+M FRIDAY; Smashes Biggest Single Day B.O. Gross; Could Crush Best 3-Day Weekend Record; Biggest Overall Moviegoing FSS In History
• SOURCES: Major Expansion At Lionsgate
• ‘Dark Knight’ Sets Midnight Imax Record
• SHOCKER! Kirk Kerkorian And Steve Bing May Testify in Christensen-Pellicano Trial
• FIRST NUMBERS! ‘Dark Knight’ $18.5M Midnight Shows Beat ‘Star Wars: Sith’
• ‘Dark Knight’ Fans Turning Out Dressed Up And In Droves At Los Angeles Theaters
• WB Hope? $160M-$170M ‘Dark Knight’
• DHD CONTEST: ‘Dark Knight’ Predictions!
• It’s Official: It’s ‘The Office’ Un-Spin-Off
• UPDATED ‘Dark Knight’ Ticket Sales Info
• SAG: Big Media’s 2008 New Media Deals
• SAG Fights Back: Attacks AMPTP’s New Media Offer By Showing Big Media’s Many 2008 Deals; AMPTP Continues To Whine About “Deteriorating Economy”
• More Info About ‘The Office’ Spin-Off…
• ‘Batman’ Nearly Sells Out Imax Screens
• ADVISORY: Emmy Analysis Coming
• UPDATE: Sony Offers ‘Sit Down, Shut Up!’ Writers $200K Extra; Two Scribes Hold Out For WGA Jurisdiction; WGA Wishes All “Had Stuck Together” To Win Coverage
• Small AMPTP And SAG Group Met Today
• Batman Will Play In Record 4,366 Venues
• ‘SIT DOWN, SHUT UP!’ SAVED! Sony & Some WGA Writers Reach Compromise On Employment Contract For IATSE Toon
• ADVISORY: ‘Dark Knight’ Crashed My Site
• EXCLUSIVE: MGM/UA Marketing Shake-Up
• JOKER LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO BANK: ‘Dark Knight’ Breaks Most Film Records: Batman Frenzy = $67M Fri + $48M Sat; Best Ever $155.3M Box Office Weekend; Biggest Non-Holiday FSS At The Movies
• Pellicano Trial Starts For Christensen; His Law Partner Patty Glaser Defending Him
• Amy Poehler To Star In ‘Office’ Spin-Off
• Yet Another Digital Tinseltown Confab
• WGAW & Teamsters Begin “Truth Tour” About Reality TV Working Conditions
• Paramount Names Stodel To Vantage EVP
• SAG and AMPTP Agree To Meet Tomorrow
• Quentin Tarantino Meeting With Brad Pitt Today In France For ‘Inglorious Bastards’
• Fox’s Film Financing: Troubled Or Not?
• Jay Leno Hints That ABC Is In His Future
• SAG Denies Variety’s Latest Fabrication
• UPDATE: Chuck Phillips Exiting LA Times
• Paramount Financing Loss: Crisis Or Not? (Updated With Paramount Response…)
• Big Media Does It Again To H’wood Guilds
• Why H’wood Flacks Hate Celeb Break-Ups
• Who’s Sorry To See LA Times Publisher David Hiller Go? (Anyone? Anyone?)
• Is Next Weekend A Record-Breaker? Mamma Mia!
• July 11th-13th: ‘Hellboy II’ $35.8M, ‘Journey’ $20.5M, ‘Meet Dave’ $5.3M
• Comic-Con Programming: July 27
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• Comic-Con Programming: July 25
• Comic-Con Programming: July 23 & 24
• R.I.P. Charles H. Joffe
• UPDATE: ‘Hellboy II’ Burns Up Box Office; Eddie’s ‘Meet Dave’ Goes To Its Grave
• SAG: “We Did Not Reject AMPTP’s Offer”; Big Media Threaten Big Actors Guild; AMPTP Tries News Blackout Against Me
• LASSIE COMES HOME! 9th Circuit Upholds Dog Story Rightsholder Against Big Media
• Look At What It Says On Ovitz’s T-Shirt…
• ‘Dark Knight’ Prediction: $130M Weekend

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• Hollywood Hose-Down Who’s All Wet This Week

• Will the [Crappy] WGA Deal Go Down? Don’t be surprised if writers revolt over this one

• Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus Golden Globes: Going, Going, Gone

• Disaster in the Making The longtime Hollywood maxim is that he who loses his temper first loses.

• Strike By The Minute Hallelujah. The haggling has begun.

• Strike Fix Talks Unproductive “Game of Chicken”

• Secret Agent Men How the tenpercenters formed a road map to peace during the strike’s dark days

• On a Collision Course Why TV showrunners could be the collateral damage of this writers’ strike

• Deals, Lies and Back Channels Why the WGA strike is a bigger mess now than ever

• WGA Strike Q-and-A The 411 on the “Holloween” fear and loathing

• Strike Happy The writers want it, the moguls want it… what a bunch of idiots

• Hollywood’s He-Man Woman Haters Club Charter member Jeff Robinov to get rewarded

• I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

• Moonves Should Pull the Plug on Kid Nation A mogul with no conscience

• The Worst Talent Deal Ever Jim Carrey succumbs to voodoo economics

• Agency Clients, an Old Coot, and Counting Chads What’s making news while Hollywood vacations

• The Hollywood Reporter’s New Editor Is she a get or just an also-ran?

• Nasty, Nasty, Nasty ICM and Ed Limato viciously call it quits

• Grey the Transformer Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

• They Must Be High Hip NBC Hemp, MySpace Duo, Cruise Control

• Evan Almighty Is In Need Of A Miracle Is the big-budget sequel going to hell?

• Fade to Black If HBO doesn’t wise up, it could get whacked

• That Zucks! NBC’s CEO screws up network shakeup

• Aging Stormtroopers, Bland Blockbusters, Dream Deals and Ingénues Things to chew on this Memorial Day weekend

• No More Monday Nights at Morton’s Remembering a Hollywood legend

• The Blockbusters Cometh It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless…

• High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

• Across an Alternate Universe A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved

• Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid The Sopranos-like takeover of Tribune Co. could mean cement shoes for employees

• Dangerous Liaisons More hanky-panky than a whorehouse in LAT opinion section

• Bearing the Scars of Oscars For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

• Goodbye Baquet, Hello O’Shea The Chicagoan comes out fighting

• The Scars of Oscars Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

• Brad Grey’s Performance Less Than Golden Mogul earns scorn, not envy, at Globes

• Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances Hollywood starts new year with a bang

• Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007 Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

• It’s a Wonderful Life? Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths

• ’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

• Screenwriters in the Shit While Akiva Goldsman fiddles, more accomplished movie scribes burn

• Bond and Gagged A flock of singin’ and hoofin’ penguins flip off 007

• Stars Get Caught in Hirsch’s Hornets Nest Names drop and accusations fly as Barry goes to trial

• Blood from Stones The diamond cartel’s campaign against Leo’s upcoming movie gets dirty

• Deal Or No Deal Broad, Burkle, Geffen… when it comes to the Times, whose briefcase is bigger?

• Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood’s Frenzied Fall Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

• It’s Ugly Out There Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties

• Dean of Sycophants All the news the Times should be covering and isn’t

• Baquet’s Billionaire Boys’ Club Is Dean of Arc playing a dangerous game with the Times’ integrity?

• Cash and Carrey Jim firing his agent is juicier than any episode of Entourage

• The Mouse Who Whored Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?

• Savage TV From freak shows to freak accidents to freakin’ mayhem, Reality TV goes wild

• War of the Worlds Cruise And Redstone do battle – prepare for a true epic.

• The Iceberg Cometh Inside ICM’s “Project Beta”

• Too Fast and Too Furious Not just Mel, but sanctimonious Hollywood, too

• Brokespoke Alp Jake Gyllenhaal’s ride to nowhere?

• Go Johnny Go Depp gives Disney the pirate’s booty

• Moguls Will Be Moguls At Camp Allen Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

• Super-Manly Makeovers, Slackers and Perkbusters It’s gonna be a long, hot summer in Hollywood

• The Passion of the Cash Da Vinci Cannes the world

• TV’s Promiscuous Bitches The creator of Grey’s Anatomy on women, sex and her hit show

• Screwing the TV Viewer The CW Network is the bastard child of The WB and UPN

• Who Hates Their MTV? How the rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks

• Oh Shit! The Vultures Are Circling CAA picks off Steinberg’s prime NFL meat

• Pellicano’s Rat Pack Loose Lips and Sinking Ships

• Two Tonys Is One Too Many for Mogul Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

• Oscar Hangover Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

• How Gay Will Oscar Go? Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

• Blame Ovitz When Art Started Imitating Hollywood