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Disney is fighting with museum owners over “Iron Man 3,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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By Joe Flint

April 18, 2013, 7:33 a.m.

After a coffee. Before anticipating out because I’m not on Time’s 100 Most Influential People in a World List.

The Skinny: Will this week ever end? we don’t know about you, though we could use some escape. Thursday’s headlines embody a push between Walt Disney Co. and film museum bondage over income splits. Also, a media get bashed by a FBI for messy reporting.

Daily Dose: The National Football League will betray a 2013 report Thursday. While most of a courtesy has been focused on who a fortifying Super Bowl champ Baltimore Ravens will open with (either Denver or Pittsburgh), as engaging to see will be what games a NFL gives a possess wire channel. The NFL might demeanour to sell a package of Thursday games it carries on a NFL Network to another network. If that’s a case, don’t be astounded if a lot of large matches finish adult there, as it looks to boost ratings and value for a package.

Battle of iron wills. Walt Disney Co.’s quarrel with film museum owners over how sheet income for a subsequent “Iron Man” will be split. The AMC and Regal bondage have both stopped offered allege tickets for “Iron Man 3,” that is set to premiere in a few weeks. Disney wants a larger cut of a box bureau and that has some bondage balking. “The abyss and a extent of a ask puts us in a very, really worried conditions … clearly they are underneath some kind of financial pressure,” AMC Chief Executive Gerry Lopez said. Details on a squabble from a Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal.  

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Shoot first, aim later. The FBI criticized a media for false reports of an detain in a Boston bombing investigation. CNN, a Associated Press and others pronounced Wednesday an detain had been made. Others afterwards reported a same until central word was that no such bust had been made. Then a backtracking began. Unfortunately, too mostly these sorts of beforehand reports are apropos a normal as news organizations rush to cover prohibited stories and infrequently take nonessential risks. More from a New York Times.

Dodging a bullet? It was roughly dual years ago that News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch shamed himself  before Britain’s Parliament in a arise of a phone hacking liaison during one of his publication papers and took a cake in a face from a prankster. Back afterwards there were fears that a liaison would strike a company’s American operations and his whole sovereignty would crumble. But there have been no such charges of bad function here and resources seem to be safe. Business Week looks during News Corp. post scandal.

Let me ask my advisor. Investment organisation Guggenheim Partners is advising Hulu on a probable sale during a same time that one of a sister companies — Guggenheim Digital — is weighing a possess bid for a online video service, according to Reuters. Guggenheim already owns a Los Angeles Dodgers and recently bought Dick Clark Productions.

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Can we negotiate? Writers for a Joan Rivers-hosted uncover “The Fashion Police” on a Comcast-owned E! wire channel have left on strike over behind wages. The writers have charged “Fashion Police” with violating California labor laws. And here we was meditative Rivers only done adult all those meant cracks on her own. The Los Angeles Times on a dispute.

Inside a Los Angeles Times: A demeanour during “Hemlock Grove,” a next strange series from Netflix.

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