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Warner Bros. Pictures’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince enjoyed a record-breaking opening, earning a worldwide box office gross of $394 million.

HBO received 99 Primetime Emmy® nominations, the most of any network for the ninth year in a row, for the upcoming 61st Primetime Emmy Awards®, which were announced today in Los Angeles.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on the novel by J.K. Rowling. David Heyman and David Barron produced the film, with Lionel Wigram serving as executive producer and John Trehy co-producing. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) has enlisted a prominent collection of global licensees to capture the magic of the eagerly anticipated upcoming feature film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Hitting theaters Wednesday, July 15, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth installment and latest chapter in the wildly popular film series from Warner Bros., which has licensees worldwide gearing up to support the most successful entertainment franchise of all time.

Isa TKM Is the First Telenovela to Make the MTV Tr3s Program Schedule and the #1 Show in Latin America among Teens in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

SWISS today premiered “LX Forty”, its new short film by Marc Forster. The Swiss star director (whose credits include the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace) not only takes the viewer on a personal “journey of the mind”; he also makes his first-ever appearance in front of the camera.

Like last year, Air France is spotlighting the Cannes Film Festival in its in-flight entertainment programme.

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced its behind the scenes support of NBC’s The Biggest Loser: Couples, a top-ranked primetime show. The reality television show challenges and encourages overweight contestants to shed pounds and become healthier.

Perhaps nowhere is the Mustang mystique felt more than in Hollywood, where Ford’s iconic pony car has been lighting up the silver screen – and the small screen – for the past 45 years

E1 Entertainment today announced that Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch have signed on to star in the The Bang Bang Club, a Canada/South Africa co-production from producer Daniel Iron of Foundry Films Inc. and Lance Samuels and Adam Friedlander of Out Of Africa Inc. Steven Silver will direct the drama.

Slumdog Millionaire was named Best Film at tonight's Orange British Academy Film Awards, held at London's Royal Opera House. The film also won six other awards: Director for Danny Boyle, Adapted Screenplay, Music, Cinematography, Editing and Sound.

Sony Pictures Animation has set a deal with Platinum Studios, an entertainment company that controls an international library of comic book characters which it adapts, produces and licenses for all forms of media, to develop an animated feature.

The winners are to be announced during the awards ceremony scheduled to take place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. Jerry Lewis will be honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards were announced today (Thursday, January 22) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.

Complete list of winners at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, California, telecasted from The Beverly Hilton, January 11.

HBO and Harpo Films have entered into a multi-year exclusive relationship to develop and produce scripted television programming for the network, it was announced today by Richard Plepler, co-president, HBO, Michael Lombardo, president, Programming Group and West Coast Operations, HBO, and Kate Forte, president, Harpo Films.

HBO received 22 Golden Globe nominations, the most of any television network this year, for the upcoming 66th annual Golden Globe Awards, which were announced today in Los Angeles.

Fourth Bourne Movie Anticipated for Release in Summer 2010

PTA and HP today announced one of the largest nationwide movie night events ever created for schools.

Movie Bundles include Spider-Man, The Matrix, and Children's pack starting at $25