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The World Cup soccer matches on ESPN over the past few weeks have been so stirring that it makes you wonder if soccer will really gain a foothold as a major sport in the U.S. once a champion has been crowned. The athleticism, the conditioning, the patience and strategy to attack at just the right time make futbol…

Spoiler alert if you haven't seen match… UPDATE 4:28 PM PT: The England-Italy game that was played on Saturday averaged a 2.6 rating for ESPN with 4.615M viewers. That makes it ESPN/ESPN2's most-watched non-U.S. Group Stage World Cup game ever. The network says that only three U.S. men's Group Stage matches have…

Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen match… UPDATE, 1:22 PM PT: Friday’s Spain-Netherlands game, which rematched the 2010 World Cup final adversaries, scored a 2.0 rating for ESPN with 3.1M viewers on Friday. That was down from the record 4.4M total viewers the network had for Thursday’s opener between Brazil and…

With one week to go before Brazil faces Croatia in the opening game of the 2014 soccer World Cup in Sao Paulo, ESPN SVP and executive producer Jed Drake says his team’s preparation has been going “exceptionally well” and that what ends up on air “is going to be tremendous and worthy of the event itself.” That said…

Deadline’s International Editor Nancy Tartaglione and host David Bloom wrap up the major box office trends across Europe, China and South America this past year and moving into 2014, including what impacts the 2014 World Cup will have on the film business in host country Brazil and other soccer-mad countries; ponder…

Thomas Bezucha Directing English-Language Remake Of ‘Priceless’ The Family Stone and Monte Carlo director Thomas Bezucha will helm the English-language remake of French romantic comedy Priceless for European film group uMedia. The original movie starred Audrey Tautou and Gad Emaleh and sold 2.15M tickets in France in…