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Entertainment
Alcon makes move into management
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Alcon Entertainment has been here before.
Seven years ago, the financier of "The Blind Side," "The Book of Eli" and "Insomnia" took a shot at an urban comedy. "Love Don't Cost a Thing," a black-themed remake of 1987's high school romance "Can't Buy Me Love," was a middling success, grossing about $22 million in domestic release. But the movie business is not driven by middling successes, and Alcon hasn't made another such movie until "Lottery Ticket.
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Overloading possible: Witness reports seeing 200 bodies, and official says more than 570 people rescued, suggesting too many were aboard the 600-person capacity ferry. A12
Changing plans: Memphis nursery Trees by Touliatos quietly closes, but its legacy lives on. C1
...A12. Links to Memphis: Alcon Entertainment, 'Food Truck Race' highlight local m...
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Santa Fean enjoys "lovely" success
Love might not cost a thing, but it can be a profitable commodity. Or so Kira Davis is discovering. The Santa Fe native is a co-producer of one of this holiday season's screen hits - the romantic comedy Love Don't Cost a Thing.
... as vice president of production for Alcon Entertainment LLC. She has a second Warner Bros. t...
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Entertainment Editors
BURBANK, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 6, 2000
Warner Bros. Pictures has entered into an exclusive, long-term worldwid...
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Molly Smith, 26-year-old daughter of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith, is now a movie producer.
But she doesn't want people to think Daddy opened every door for her in Hollywood, even if he does own a movie company, Alcon Entertainment.
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... hit theaters this September, Alcon Entertainment will release "Dolphin Tale," the true story of Win...
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... services that redefine consumer entertainment and create a seamless experience across fixed and ...Company: Alcon Technologies Inc Booth/Stand: 72064 Media Contact:...
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A nonthreatening date movie for mothers and daughters, grandmothers and granddaughters and BFF's who enjoy a group smile and cry, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" reunites the four young women of the earlier magical-britches opus for what narrator Carmen (America Ferrara) describes as another round of "stories, secrets, laughter (and) broken hearts.
All that, plus enough culturally diverse and ethnically ambiguous potential-boyfriend hunks to provide dance backup for Madonna; a visit to the beautiful Greek island of Santorini (also a location in the season's other squealfest, "Mamma Mia!"); the apparently mandatory sound of Cyndi Lauper singing "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"; and plugs for FedEx that begin less than one minute into the film's running time. (The movie is the lat...
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As Ridley Scott shoots "Prometheus," the don't-call-it-an- "Alien"-prequel, another Scott classic could be making its way to the big screen. The producers behind "The Book of Eli" and "Insomnia" announced Wednesday they were putting the finishing touches on a deal to acquire the rights to Scott's dystopian classic "Blade Runner.
The company, Alcon Entertainment, is acquiring rights that will allow them to make a movie with elements from Scott's 1982 movie and the Phillip K. Dick novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" on which it's based.