Scarlett Johansson Buys $2.2 Million Hampton Bay Mansion

Scarlett Johansson has bought a custom-built, 3,500-square foot shingled house in Amangansett, according to Zillow real estate blog.

The estate sits on 1.4 acres of land and shares a boundary with the Peconic Land Trust and Napeague State Park allowing for plenty of private acreage.

The four-bedroom, open floor plan space includes decks that expand the living space outside, along with a master suite featuring its own private balcony and fireplace. There are also three additional guest rooms each with their own balcony.

Last year the Her star sold her Hollywood Versailles Tower condo for $470,000.

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Bob and Dolores Hope's Palm Springs Estate Gets a $16 Million Price Chop

The asking price of Bob and Dolores Hope's iconic Palm Springs estate has been dropped from $50 million to $34 million. The sprawling, 23,366-square-foot John Lautner-designed home originally came to market as a private listing in March of 2013 and was heralded as the desert's most expensive single-family home.   

Now the distinctive house, with its curved concrete lines, open courtyard and living room built to accommodate a boulder that juts into the room, will be listed on the Multiple Listing Service to attract a wider audience, according to The Desert Sun.    

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Perched atop the Southridge neighborhood, the six-bedroom, 10-bathroom concrete, steel and glass house features indoor and outdoor pools, a tennis court, putting greens and murals by painter Garth Benton, who also created murals at the Getty Villa.

The home, which was used as a second residence by the Hopes, where they entertained frequently, was the largest residence ever designed and built by Lautner.

 Patrick Jordan and Stewart Smith of Windermere Real Estate in Palm Springs have the listing. 

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Survey Confirms Earthquake Fault Line Runs Through Planned Millennium Hollywood Project

Millennium Hollywood project rendering (right)

The California Geographical Survey on Wednesday released an earthquake map charting the course of the Hollywood Fault at City Hall. The map shows that major planned developments -- including an apartment complex on Yucca Street and, most notably, the controversial two-tower Millennium Hollywood skyscraper project -- are much closer to an active fault than previously claimed.

The $664 million Millennium Hollywood project -- a pair of proposed 35- and 39-story towers that would include one million square feet of hotel, office and retail space -- got an OK from the Los Angeles City Council on July 24, despite a huge opposition campaign claiming city reports far underplay traffic increases and a serious seismic situation.

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In November 2012, city officials acknowledged that they had used outdated fault maps when the Millennium project was approved. The newly released state geographical maps show a fault line much closer to many proposed projects, including the Millennium Hollywood towers. State law requires that any new development within a zone of approximately 500 feet around a fault line be subject to extensive seismic testing. The law also prohibits building directly on top of faults.

“The California Geological Survey map today confirms what my clients have been saying -- that the Hollywood Earthquake Fault runs right through the Millennium property,” said attorney Robert P. Silverstein in a statement. Representing a citywide coalition of community groups that is suing to overturn the City Council’s approval of the Millennium Hollywood project, Silverstein added that “this map will now become ‘Exhibit 1’ in our lawsuit.”

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New Line Cinema to Move to Warner Bros. Lot

New Line Cinema will move onto the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank in June 2014, taking over offices formerly occupied by Legendary Entertainment.

The Warners-owned studio, which produced Oscar Award-winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as Wedding Crashers, Horrible Bosses and We're the Millers, has operated out of a Los Angeles headquarters at Robertson Plaza in West Hollywood.

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The separate offices date back to New Line's origins as an independent studio run by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, who left the company in 2008 as its operations were folded into Warner Bros. 

Now New Line, run by Toby Emmerich, is preparing to move into the plush offices of building 76, which was used by Warner Bros. Records from the late 1950s until 1978 and later, during the 1980s, housed offices for producer Paula Weinstein, James Garner and John Travolta. Most recently, Thomas Tull's Legendary Entertainment occupied the building until its high-profile breakup with Warner Bros. last year. 

Tull signed a deal with Universal and moved the studio to The Pointe, a LEED Gold-certified office tower located less than a mile from the Warner Bros. lot.

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