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Film News: Int’l cooperation develops to restore films thought lost forever — A 1927 John Ford feature thought to have been lost is among a cache of 75 early U.S. pics recently uncovered in New Zealand.

Film News: Entrepreneur urges ‘Produced By’ attendees to focus on VOD — Billionaire Mark Cuban told the Produced By conference Saturday “If you look where everybody else is looking, that’s the wrong place. Everybody’s looking at the Internet. It’s done!”

Film News: ‘Shrek’ tops sluggish sesh in third frame — “Shrek Forever After” won what was an overall sluggish weekend, earning an estimated $25.3 million.

Film News: Toon title bests new releases in third frame — “Shrek Forever After” won what was an overall sluggish weekend, earning an estimated $25.3 million.

Film News: DreamWorks toon bests new releases in third frame — “Shrek Forever After” won what was an overall sluggish weekend, earning an estimated $25.3 million.

Film News: DreamWorks toon bests new releases in third frame — “Shrek Forever After” won what was an overall sluggish weekend, earning an estimated $25.3 million.

Film News: Media mogul offers advice– and a few laughs– to SRO crowd — In a conversation at conference with Variety editor-in-chief Timothy M. Gray, Turner looks to alternative energy as the future.

Film News: Animated sequel bests ‘Greek’ and ‘Killers’ — The 3D pic took in an estimated $6.7 million in 4,386 runs, topping several films that opened this week.

Film News: Market’s lean for heavyweight literature — As the adult-skewing drama becomes an endangered species at the studios, is there any hope for that venerable subcategory, the literary-book-to-screen adaptation?

Film News: Sequels, remakes dominate studio slates — It’s not surprising that the major studios are scaling back on literary adaptations.