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   Meghan McCain Spills on Her New Talk Show

   5:00 am 5/16/2013

   • by Alex Ben Block

   The host of upstart network Pivot's "Raising McCain" on shunning political labels and dealing with sexy text messages.Read more

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   How Participant's New Network, Pivot, Aims to Avoid Current TV's Fate

   5:00 am 5/16/2013

   • by Alex Ben Block

   Jeff Skoll is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure his socially conscious Pivot doesn't become "broccoli with bran muffins," president Evan Shapiro says.Read more

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   Participant Introduces 'Pivot' TV Cable Network, First Programming Slate

   10:09 am 3/27/2013

   • by Eriq Gardner

   The channel will start out with a reach of 40 million subscribers and also aim towards aggressive digital distribution of shows featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Meghan McCain and William Shakespeare.Read more

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4. Berlin 2013: Participant Launches Spanish-Language Production, Co-Financing Venture

   2:49 am 2/7/2013

   • by Pamela McClintock

   The company is teaming with a trio of prominent Latin America production firms - Canana, Fabula and Dynamo - to form Participant PanAmerica.Read more

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   Sundance 2013: Participant Picks Up Doc '99% -- The Occupy Wall St. Collaborative Film'

   10:10 am 1/28/2013

   • by Tatiana Siegel

   Following a theatrical run, the film will have its television premiere on Participant’s new TV network, launching in August.Read more

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   Participant Joins DreamWorks for WikiLeaks Movie 'The Fifth Estate'

   10:42 am 1/22/2013

   • by Tatiana Siegel

   The move comes on the heels of the two companies' collaboration on Steven Spielberg’s "Lincoln," which is nominated for 12 Academy Awards; "Fifth Estate" will hit theaters on Nov. 15, in the heart of next award season.Read more

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   Jon Voight in Negotiations to Play KGB Agent in Ronald Reagan Biopic (Exclusive)

   11:00 pm 12/18/2012

   • by Paul Bond

   The indie, "Reagan," is one of at least three upcoming films about the 40th U.S. president.Read more

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   Apple Censors Matt Damon Question from Anti-Fracking Movie Podcast (Video)

   2:13 pm 12/10/2012

   • by Paul Bond

   Conservative filmmaker Phelim McAleer says his undercover video shows he asked a question about 'Promised Land' that doesn't appear on the iTunes version of the Q&A.Read more

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   Participant Media Picks Up Diego Luna's Historical Drama 'Chavez' for North America

   11:46 am 6/5/2012

   • by Pamela McClintock

   Michael Pena stars as famed labor organizer Cesar E. Chavez; Luna will direct.Read more

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    No: Cannes Review

    10:30 am 5/18/2012

    • by David Rooney

    Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a brilliant Chilean ad man who helped topple the Pinochet regime in director Pablo Larrain's fact-based drama.Read more

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