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In a sizable victory for Sony, 3D cartoon “Hotel Transylvania” debuted to an estimated $43 million — the biggest opening since “The Dark Knight” Rises and the top September bow ever. It’s also the best performance to date for the studio’s animation unit. Time travel/action film “Looper” also performed well, bringing in $21.2 …

STARZ will present a first look at David S. Goyer’s highly anticipated adventure drama, “Da Vinci’s Demons,” at a panel on Saturday, October 13th from 1:45pm to 2:45pm in RM 1A21 as part of New York Comic-Con. Goyer will be joined by series star Tom Riley (“Monroe,” I Want Candy), who plays …

Saban Brands, owner of the Power Rangers franchise,  has acquired the Digimon franchise, adding the long-running Japanese anime property to its growing portfolio of entertainment assets. The acquisition, which encompasses rights to the property outside of Asia, continues Saban Brands’ dramatic growth since reacquiring the Power Rangers property and purchasing lifestyle brand …

Kabam and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have partnered to co-publish games for mobile devices and the Web inspired by Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM). Under the deal, Kabam will develop and operate two multiplayer strategy games, The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth for mobile devices …

Get ready to brush up your web-shooting skills as The Amazing Spider-Man video game from Activision and Marvel Entertainment, is available digitally today in North America, and will be available in Europe on September 26 th.  As the official epilogue story to this summer’s feature film and marking Spidey’s return to a free-roaming Manhattan, The Amazing Spider-Man video game is …

Initial estimates show Jake Gyllenhaal-Michael Pena cop drama End of Watch — the only film to overperform — andJennifer Lawrence horror pic House at the End of the Street topping the domestic box office with $13 million. To make things more confusing, Clint Eastwood’s The Trouble With The Curve finished at $12,720,000. The three films ending in such …

This October, the world’s first 24-hour, all-animation cable network will celebrate its first 20years by hosting CARTOON NETWORK’S BIRTHDAY PARTY, an on-air and online birthday tribute created especially for kids and kids-at-heart who’ve grown up with the wildly fun and outrageous network since its launch in 1992. Launching on Oct. …

Zombies ruled at the box office as Sony’s Resident Evil: Retribution fought its way to the top of the pack. Retribution, the fifth installment in the Resident Evil franchise starring Milla Jovovich, took in an estimated $21.1 million at 3,012 locations. The R-rated movie checked in ahead of the weekend’s other new wide Hollywood release, Disney’s 3D …

Production is set to begin on Saturday, September 15 inToronto on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ and Columbia Pictures’ RoboCop, directed by Jose Padilha.  The film stars Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams, Jay Baruchel, Jennifer Ehle, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.  The screenplay is by Josh Zetumer and Nick Schenk, based on the 1987 …

“South Park” returns with seven all-new episodes beginning on Wednesday, September 26 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on COMEDY CENTRAL. The all-new “South Park” episodes from this season are available in HD exclusively on Xbox LIVE, iTunes, Sony PlayStation Network, Amazon Instant Video and Vudu, and in SD on Samsung Media …