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Cuts come to Time Warner's celebrity fashion title. And a Time Inc. veteran weighs in on the ongoing re-org.

Reuters - Ahead of next Friday's release of the eagerly anticipated vampire romance "Twilight," indie studio Summit Entertainment is moving potential future installments in the franchise into the development pipeline.

The Darrell Gwynn Foundation and Outdoor Channel, America's Leader in Outdoor TV, have teamed up to deliver a one-hour special for TV.

Celebrity Cruises today announced the Godmother of the most widely-heralded cruise ship to enter the market this year, Celebrity Solstice.

All four rounds of the British Open will air live on ESPN starting in 2010. ESPN and the tournament's organizer, Royal & Ancient Golf, agreed to an eight-year contract, they announced Thursday.

Television ratings for this week's World Series of Poker final table were up about 50 percent from its broadcast last year, in part, because the show aired the same day play finished instead of months later, ESPN and tournament officials said Thursday.

Another day, another few dozen firings at Time Inc. The Time Warner publishing unit let more than 30 people go from its Essence and Entertainment Weekly titles yesterday. That brings the total body count to about 250, which means that CEO Ann Moore still has a long way to go before she gets to her rough target of 600 job cuts this year.

Reuters - Amid the current financial crisis, at least one thing is going up in value: the U.S. dollar.

LOS ANGELES----Stratus Media Group, Inc. today announced preliminary plans for the launch of its National Tour dâ??Elegance series to be held in select cities throughout the United States, with a July 2009 commencement date targeted for Beverly Hills.

Reuters - Canadian journalist Arthur Kent, known as the "Scud Stud" for his live NBC reports during the 1991 Gulf War, has filed a libel lawsuit against Canada's biggest media group, CanWest Global Communications Corp.