Will smart adult fare rule box office?

Headline Newsletter Top Stories: Three R-rated films open wide for Labor Day weekend — A trio of R-rated films enter the Labor Day weekend frame as the biz hopes there’s still a chance that summer box office totals could surpass last year’s record-setting number.

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Mexico accelerates digital TV switchover

International News: Goal is to generate more competition in market — Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon issued a decree Thursday that will accelerate the nation’s terrestrial analog-to-digital switchover by six years to 2015.

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Discovery hostage crisis aftermath

Headline Newsletter TV News: Company holds townhall meeting, gives time off — Discovery Communications execs held a townhall meeting with staffers on Thursday, one day after a lone gunman took three employees hostage at the company’s headquarters.

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Tutor, Colony say they’re on track for Miramax buy

Film News: Investors say financing firm for purchase — Even though financing in the Miramax Films sale remained a question mark in recent weeks, Ron Tutor and his partner, private equity firm Colony Capital, said Thursday they are on track to close the deal to buy the indie film unit from the Walt Disney Co. before the end of the year.

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Jamie Bell near Summit’s ‘Ledge’

Film News: Thesp in final talks to star in cop thriller — British thesp Jamie Bell is in final negotiations for cop thriller “Man on a Ledge” for Summit Entertainment and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

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Tyro helmer cuts his teeth on ‘Machete’

Film News: Editing assistant takes reins under Robert Rodriguez — Many people in Hollywood would give anything to be a movie star. But Ethan Maniquis, who’s served in an array of editing roles on Robert Rodriguez’s films dating back to 1995′s “Desperado,” says he’d prefer to stay behind the camera instead of in front of it.

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‘Jamie Oliver’ renewed for new season

Gotham: ABC orders six episodes of Emmy-winning series — Brit chef Jamie Oliver taught students in West Virginia about healthy eating; now he’s about to do the same in Los Angeles.

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‘Born’ to stream on NBC

TV News: Fallon’s Emmy opener finally gets OK to post online — Baby, Jimmy Fallon’s Emmy open was “Born to Run” on his “Late Night” website.

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‘Machete,’ ‘Going the Distance’ face off

VIDEO: R-rated films “Machete” and “Going the Distance” join Wednesday opener “The American” as Labor Day weekend’s new releases.
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Guest

Film Reviews: In “Guest,” Jose Luis Guerin seizes the opportunity afforded by a year of festival travel to explore the often dirty reality of life on a city’s edges, away from all cameras but his own.

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