AP - Victor and Borislav Chouchkov were satisfied. Co-owners of a family recording company in Sofia, the brothers had completed — in just 48 hours — recording a score for a movie starring Ethan Hawke.

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AP - Maybe the best offense in a real football game is a good defense. Not so in a movie about the early years of the sport, when pro football was a poor cousin to the college game.

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AP - The blackjack tale “21″ proved a winning bet at the box office, taking in $24.1 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend movie.

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Reuters - Three cinemas in the Japanese capital have scrapped their plans to screen an award-winning documentary on Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine, where convicted war criminals are honored, cinema officials said on Monday.

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AP - The bitter weekend divorce between two actors unions in upcoming contract talks with Hollywood producers mirrors a scene from a daytime soap opera — and casts stars from the genre in pivotal roles.

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Reuters - The Dutch foreign minister met ambassadors from Muslim countries on Monday to try to cool tempers over a film by a Dutch lawmaker critical of the Koran and ask for protection for Dutch citizens and property.

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Reuters - Sony Pictures Television is looking to launch the first movie network on mobile phones in the United States.

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Reuters - The comedy “Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis,” the French film industry’s biggest-ever hit, narrowly claimed the No. 1 spot internationally during the weekend as Hollywood front-runners — “10,000 BC” and “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who!” — sagged in a generally somnolent post-Easter session overseas.

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Reuters - Rapper-actor Mos Def will play legendary rock ‘n’ roller Chuck Berry in “Cadillac Records,” which is filming in New Jersey.

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Reuters - Henry Lee Hopper, the 17-year-old son of Dennis Hopper, will play the lead role in a new teen horror from Wes Craven.

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