In an unusual move by a studio executive, Universal Pictures chairman Adam Fogelson recently introduced his risky $211 million film, “Battleship” to film exhibitors by emblazoning in bold letters on screen some of the negative zingers the press has already slung at the board-game-inspired action movie. Read full article > >

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Press-scorned ‘Battleship’ hopes to avoid death in choppy U.S. waters

Excluding the impact from the sale of NBC Universal, General Electric’s quarterly revenue also rose 4 percent, as the company increasingly returned to its industrial roots.

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G.E. Profit Beats Expectations

Punk rock band The Sex Pistols sign a record deal with Universal, it is announced.

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Sex Pistols sign new record deal

UK music firm EMI has said it will sell its recorded music unit for £1.2bn ($1.9bn) to Universal Music.

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UK music group EMI – home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Coldplay – is to sell its recorded music unit for £1.2bn to Universal Music.

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EMI sells music unit for £1.2bn

UK music group EMI – home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Coldplay – is to sell its recorded music unit for £1.2bn to Universal Music.

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Chris Meloni will reportedly not return to the show this fall, sources said Tuesday. Talks between Meloni and NBC Universal broke down Tuesday, sources said, and franchise director Dick Wolf said he is already…

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Four months after the Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, one of the commissioners who approved the deal said she would join Comcast to oversee its government affairs office.

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The United States’ toughest words yet: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Friday, “We support the universal human rights of the Egyptian people including the right of expression of association and assembly we urge the Egyptian authorities to…

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Clinton to Egypt: Open the Internet

During Thursday’s celebration of Comcast and NBC Universal’s long-awaited union, some NBC employees were vexed by what they saw-or didn’t see: NBC’s iconic peacock was missing from the joint company’s new, internal logo. Comcast apparently wanted to…

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NBC Mourns Loss of Peacock

NBC Universal’s chief executive will try to revive the NBC lineup and end the public discord that was often more interesting than the network’s shows.

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A Little Less Drama at NBC

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a conditions-based merger between Comcast and NBC on Tuesday. After months of heated debate over the potential consequences to net neutrality, a 4-to-1 vote by the FCC sealed Comcast’s acquisition of NBC. The Department of Justice (DOJ) also announced its approval of the deal. Now, with 51 percent of the stake in NBC Universal (NBCU), Comcast will own the majority of the network’s channels, including CNBC and Bravo, as well as the Universal Pictures movie studio. read more

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FCC Approves Comcast-NBC Merger, Mostly

Federal regulators blessed Comcast’s $30 billion acquisition of NBC Universal on Tuesday, imposing a slew of conditions on everything from competition with rivals to the price of Internet service for poor families out of concern that the firm’s vast sweep could harm consumers.

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Comcast deal with NBC group approved

A Harry Potter park has given new bounce to J. K. Rowling’s literary creation and ignited a rivalry between Universal and Walt Disney World.

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A Wizard Rivals Mickey

Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann Teaming for ‘Knocked Up’ Spinoff If you liked Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s married couple characters from Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, then get ready for lots more as Universal has announced that Apatow’s next film that he will write and direct will focus squarely on those characters, which Rudd and Mann will reprise in an untitled film due out on June 1, 2012. This isn’t a sequel or a prequel, but more along the lines of what Universal did with Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek. It’ll be an entirely new story featuring the same characters from the original film. Seeing as the duo were hilarious in Knocked Up, this is definitely something to look forward to. Thoughts?