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News Corps. Threatens Film Blockade

The world's largest media company, News Corporation, is threatening to deny coverage of movies starring artists who routinely refuse to give interviews to its outlets, one of its senior journalists has revealed.

The different arms of News Corp are working together to ''push back'' against the publicists to movie stars who are blocking media access to their charges, said News Ltd's entertainment editor-at-large, Rebekah Devlin. "They are very quickly becoming the most powerful people in the world," said Devlin. "How are you going to get access to the likes of Katherine Heigl if she's doing a film but refusing to do interviews."

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