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AP - Directors Guild of America Awards regular Martin Scorsese and first-timer Michel Hazanavicius are the favorites as Hollywood's top filmmaker group prepares to hand out prizes.
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Scorsese, Hazanavicius lead Directors Guild rolls (AP)
Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana celebrate at Sundance (AP)
AP - Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana came to the Sundance Film Festival to promote their closing-night film, "The Words."
911 call reveals frantic efforts to help Moore (AP)
AP - A 911 recording revealed frantic efforts by friends of Demi Moore to get help for the actress who was convulsing as they gathered around her and tried to comfort her.
Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer dead at 83 (AP)
AP - Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for television and movies and worked with legendary musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, has died. He was 83.
Screen Actors Guild votes to approve merger plan (AP)
AP - The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors has voted to approve a plan to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Academy makes credits exception for 'Tree of Life' (Reuters)
Reuters - The Academy has made an unusual exception for "The Tree of Life," determining that the film has four true producers and should not be limited by an AMPAS rule that limits the number of producers on a Best Picture nominee to three.
Trio of actors confirmed to present at Spirit Awards (Reuters)
Reuters - Penelope Ann Miller, Michael Shannon and Zoe Saldana are the first confirmed presenters for this year's Film Independent Spirit Awards, Film Independent announced exclusively to TheWrap on Friday.
SAG, AFTRA boards vote on proposed merger (Reuters)
Reuters - The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists boards of directors are scheduled to vote on a proposed SAG-AFTRA merger agreement over the next few days. Depending on their progress, they could make an announcement during the SAG Awards on Sunday.
"War" reduced to PG-13 after Fox trims sexual content (Reuters)
Reuters - When "This Means War" hits theaters on Valentine's Day, the Reese Witherspoon action comedy will arrive with a PG-13 rating, TheWrap has confirmed.
Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies (AP)
AP - Liam Neeson continues to impress critics with his reinvention as an action hero as he approaches 60 in this weekend's "The Grey."
British film "Shadow Dancer" lifts crowd at Sundance (Reuters)
Reuters - A tense British thriller about a mother deeply entrenched in the IRA and forced to choose between the organization and the family she loves has earned high praise among the foreign films at this week's Sundance Film festival.
Katherine Heigl goes for "Money" in new caper film (Reuters)
Reuters - Katherine Heigl has headlined several romantic comedies such as "27 Dresses" and "The Ugly Truth," but for her newest film, the former "Grey's Anatomy" TV star toplines an action comedy "One for the Money," in theaters of Friday.
IFC Films acquires "Killer" (Reuters)
Reuters - IFC Films has purchased the North American rights to the thriller "Simon Killer," TheWrap has confirmed.
SAG statuette has an interesting backstory (AP)
AP - The television academy's Emmy has her wings. The motion picture academy's Oscar has his sword. But the Screen Actors Guild's statuette, known as "The Actor," may have the hottest bod of the Hollywood award season.
Sundance question: How to spend a billion dollars (AP)
AP - The million-dollar question at the Sundance Film Festival, home of low-budget stories shot on begged and borrowed cash, is this: What would you do if you had $1 billion to make your movie?
Factbox: Main competition films at Berlin festival (Reuters)
Reuters - The 62nd Berlin film festival opens on Thursday February 9. and ends on February 19., with the awards ceremony taking place on February 18.
Arab Spring, Fukushima star at hard-hitting Berlinale (Reuters)
Reuters - Social upheaval and political awakening will form the focal themes of the 62nd Berlin film festival, director Dieter Kosslick said, as films depicting the Arab Spring and Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear facility take centre stage.
Winslet to receive honorary French 'Cesar' (AP)
AP - British actress Kate Winslet is to receive an honorary award next month from organizers of the French equivalent of the Academy Awards.
Finding Paul Simon, seeking "Sugar Man" at Sundance (Reuters)
Reuters - Two documentaries that cast eyes back to South African apartheid and speak to music's healing power have shared the spotlight at the Sundance Film Festival this week among a wide selection of movies about songs, singers and musicians.
App developer gets Oscar nomination for film that doubles as iPad app (Appolicious)
Appolicious - The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards are upon us, and there’s one unexpected nominee among the usual list of Hollywood studios, crew and actors – an iPad developer.
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