The Skinny: Sorry to start a day with a sales representation though if we are meddlesome in removing an email alerting we when a Morning Fix is available, send me a note. If adequate people pointer up, we’ll try to get this going. Now behind to business. Friday’s headlines embody a weekend box bureau preview and skeleton for a existence uncover that won’t atmosphere on TV.

Daily Dose: Al Jazeera was recently mentioned as a intensity swain for a Tennis Channel. But I hear (I wanted to use that irritating word only once to see how it feels) that Al Jazeera, that recently bought Current TV, has no seductiveness in shopping a Tennis Channel, that has not pronounced that it is for sale.

PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments

No pain. Director Michael Bay’s “Pain Gain,” a dim comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, is approaching to flesh a approach to a tip of a box office. For Bay, best famous for large movement flicks such as “Transformers,” a $26 million “Pain Gain” is a low-budget affair. Tom Cruise’s “Oblivion,” that had a clever opening final weekend, will expected have adequate extract left for second place. Also opening is “The Big Wedding,” (couldn’t they have come adult with a improved title?) that will broach small box office. Previews from a Los Angeles Times and Hollywood Reporter.

Peace during last. Movie museum bondage Regal and AMC Entertainment have struck a understanding with Walt Disney Studios on a income separate from sheet sales for “Iron Man 3.” The pacts came after both bondage had stopped offered allege tickets for “Iron Man 3,” that opens May 3. More from a Los Angeles Times and Deadline Hollywood.

PHOTOS: ‘Iron Man 3’ Premiere

That’s what friends are for. Kathie Lee Gifford, co-host of a fourth hour of NBC’s “Today,” felt so bad about all a nasty stories about Matt Lauer that she attempted to take out an ad ancillary a “Today” anchor, according to a New York Daily News. She collected adult signatures from a show’s expel and organisation and was scheming to put it in USA Today when Lauer put a kibosh on a idea.

From TV to Twitter. The Chernin Co. is building a existence uncover for amicable media platforms. According to Variety, @SummerBreak will play out on Twitter, YouTube and other outlets, though not on television. The meditative is that if immature people aren’t examination most television, afterwards a shows improved go to where a kids are unresolved out. Hopefully a subsequent step will be a existence uncover that doesn’t atmosphere anywhere.

Another eventuality ruined. The White House Correspondents Assn. cooking used to be a Washington insider affair. It was a night when domestic reporters and a White House could reduce their ensure and mangle bread and have a few laughs. Now Hollywood has impressed a cooking as news outlets try to land prohibited stars to lay during their tables and come to parties. Once a cooking tailor done for C-Span, now E! covers it. The Washington Post on a income large media now blow on this once undisturbed affair.

Inside a Los Angeles Times: Betsy Sharkey on “Pain Gain.”

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