Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial to Be Partly Televised in South Africa; Chinese Social Media Giant Seeks Multi-Billion-Dollar Stock Market Listing; BBC, Amazon to Revive 'Ripper Street'
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Judge Rules That Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial Can Be Televised Live
However, he has put strict conditions on how footage is to be used and will allow just three remote controlled cameras in the court room. | Read More
Chinese Social Media Giant Sina Weibo Seeks U.S. Stock Market Listing
The Twitter-like company, popular with local celebrities and government critics, is looking to raise around $500 million from the listing, which would give it a valuation of $8 billion. | Read More
LATEST MOVIE NEWS
Belgium Expands Tax Shelter Scheme
The tax program, which helped finance features including "Grace of Monaco" and Martin Scorcese's upcoming "Silence" will be extended to non-European features. | Read More
German 'The Office,' Turkish Comedy Rule Teutonic Box Office
George Clooney's "The Monuments Men" books a respectable fourth in Germany as international titles rule the local box office. | Read More
LATEST TV NEWS
Amazon, BBC to Revive 'Ripper Street'
The e-tailer's U.K. online video service will get the third season of the crime drama, which the BBC had previously cancelled, before it airs on the public broadcaster. | Read More
BBC Boss Calls for Modernized License Fee, Says Cost Cuts Will Ensure Proper Drama Budget
UPDATED: Tony Hall tells a conference in Oxford that the U.K. public broadcaster is "great value for money" and is looking for $160 million in additional cost cuts to ensure an appropriate drama budget. | Read More
THE BUSINESS
U.K.'s ITV 2013 Financials Rise Amid Growth at TV Production Arm
UPDATED: Adam Crozier, the CEO of the networks giant that airs "Downton Abbey" and "The X Factor" and that has continued to acquire TV production firms, ruled out a bid for U.K. broadcaster Channel 5. | Read More
U.K.'s Channel 5 Looking for First-Round Bids Thursday
Discovery, Saban and others are believed to have been weighing initial offers for the British network, which airs such shows as "Big Brother." | Read More
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Piyapan Choopetch's paranormal thriller sees five Thai filmmakers struggle with the after-effects of a location shoot on Hashima, the abandoned Japanese island which inspired the villain's den in "Skyfall". | Read More
3 Brothers: The Return (Les 3 freres, le retour): Film Review
French actors and directors Bernard Campan, Didier Bourdon and Pascal Legitimus all return for this jejune follow-up to their 1995 box-office hit "Three Brothers." | Read More
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Written by José Vizcarra
on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 9:50 AM.

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