Shrek, Spidey Lead Hollywood to Cash
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LOS ANGELES - Summer at movie theaters was a true underdog story for Michael Moore and a gang of dodgeball dimwits, who helped propel Hollywood to another season of record revenue, though the number of moviegoers fell slightly.    Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" became the first documentary to top the $100 million mark, while Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn's goofy comedy "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" was another surprise $100 million hit...
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Dreamworks Animation shares surged more than 30% on their first day of trading on the New York stock exchange. The creator of box office money makers, such as Shrek and Shark Tale, sold 29 million shares and
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Hollywood's major studios are parading their big Oscar contenders, but low-budget art films and even animated movies are stealing their thunder as the contest warms up for the U.S. film industry's top honors.
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Investors losing their shirts in Hollywood is an old story. Stars get in their eyes and, before you know it, the money is gone.
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DreamWorks Animation creator of &quot;Shrek&quot; and &quot;Shark Tale,&quot; raised $812 million in an initial public offering to fund more moviemaking.
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DreamWorks, which created box office smash Shrek, raises $812m from its floatation on the New York Stock Exchange.
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LOS ANGELES  - By the standard box  office reckoning, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2" won the summer box  office derby with domestic ticket sales of $440 million. And  Lions Gate's "Fahrenheit 9/11," though a resounding success,  was the summer's ninth most successful movie with a domestic  gross to date of $119 million.
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No. 1 video rental chain says price would be $11.50 cash for each share of Hollywood, possibly more. NEW YORK  - Blockbuster Inc.
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DreamWorks Animation Inc., riding on a wave of recent hit films including "Shrek 2" and "Shark Tales" was looking for friendly waters on Wall Street Thursday with its highly anticipated initial public offering.
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Entertainment-themed toys  once again generated most of the buzz at the annual Toy Fair  gathering amid expectations that "Spider-Man 3," "Pirates of  the Caribbean: At World's End" and "Shrek the Third" will yield  blockbuster toy sales this year.
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Hollywood's having a fire sale at the box office this weekend.
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DreamWorks Animation has an IPO with more green than its signature ogre, Shrek.
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LOS ANGELES - Hollywood is locked in a war of the &#39;toons, as two revolutionary animated films, &quot;The Polar Express&quot; and &quot;The Incredibles&quot;, battle to rival the success of the giant green ogre &quot;Shrek&quot;.
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Animation unit&#39;s IPO up 39% in early trading as investors rush to grab a stake in Shrek. The sale of 29 million DreamWorks shares at $28 each raised $812 million from investors eager to get a piece of the
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&quot;Shrek the Third&quot;  reclaimed the No. 1 spot at the foreign box office with an  estimated weekend haul of $17.2 million, lifting its overseas  total to $436 million.
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DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the film studio that won a major early investment from Mercer Island billionaire Paul Allen and created the &quot;Shrek&quot; films, said the company and its investors will sell as much as $725 million in shares in an initial public
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Blockbuster&#39;s saber rattling is the latest salvo in a bidding war for Hollywood. Blockbuster values its bid at around US$1 billion: $700 million in cash, plus the assumption of $300 million in debt.