Cablevision, Tribune Trade Volleys Over Blackout
Four Tribune stations remained blacked out to Cablevision customers Friday as the two companies argued over fees. Tribune's WPIX in New York, WPHL in Philadelphia, WCCT in Hartford and KWGN in Denver...
View ArticleWeta Digital, Lucasfilm Shortlisted for Sci-Tech Oscars
Peter Jackson's Weta Digital and George Lucas' Lucasfilm are among the finalists for next year's Scientific and Technical Academy Awards, the Academy announced on Friday. Although the list of...
View ArticleTom Sawyer-Huckleberry Finn Drama in the Works at ABC
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn could be coming to ABC soon -- but they won't be the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn that Mark Twain envisioned. ABC is developing a drama based -- very loosely, it...
View ArticleDocuWeeks Poses a Question: Can You Re-Enact the Truth? (Updated)
Week two in DocuWeeks' three-week run in Los Angeles brings new films about a concert in a Nazi concentration camp, an unjust prison sentence given to a Lakota Sioux medicine man and a company that...
View ArticleMadonna Faces $10.5M Lawsuit for 'Moral Damage'
It's another day, another threatened lawsuit for pop legend Madonna. Members of multiple activists groups in Russia said Friday that they are filing a $10.5 million lawsuit against the former Material...
View Article'ParaNorman' Directors: Forget About Pixar, Let's Make a Horror Movie for Kids
Pixar, DreamWorks Animation and Fox Animation have come to rule the world of animated films with stories of talking toys ("Toy Story"), talking animals ("Madagascar") and more talking animals ("Ice...
View ArticleWarner Bros. Passes on Alan Turing Biopic
Warner Bros. has declined to move forward with "The Imitation Game," a World War II drama about legendary British cryptographer Alan Turing, a company spokeswoman told TheWrap on Friday. The studio...
View ArticleRoy Bahat Steps Down as IGN Entertainment President
Roy Bahat, the president of NewsCorp.'s gaming arm IGN Entertainment, has vacated his position. He made the announcement via an email to the company's employees on Friday, categorizing his decision as...
View ArticleBradley Cooper Hoping to Play 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway
Bradley Cooper just wrapped a stint as the deformed title character in "The Elephant Man" at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and now he has his sights set on the Great White Way. "We're going to try to...
View Article'Tonight Show' Lays Off 20 Staffers, Leno Takes Pay Cut to Spare Jobs (Update)
NBC's "The Tonight Show" is laying off 20 staffers, and host Jay Leno agreed to a pay cut to save as many jobs as possible, a person familiar with the situation told TheWrap. NBC declined to provide a...
View Article'Expendables 2' Punching Out Competition at Weekend Box Office
"Expendables 2" lit the fuse on a win at the weekend box office Friday. Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and their pals punched up $11.5 million in their debut and are on pace for a three-day haul...
View ArticleVeronique Peck, Wife of Gregory Peck, Dies at 80
Veronique Peck, the widow of legendary actor Gregory Peck and a long-time active figure in the cultural life of Los Angeles, died Friday, August 17 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 80. The cause...
View Article'Expendables 2' Toughs Out a Win at Box Office With $28.7M
"Expendables 2" claimed the weekend box office title with $28.7 million in ticket sales, but it wasn't as explosive an opening as expected for Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the over-the-hill...
View ArticleIndependent Box Office: Robert Pattinson's 'Cosmopolis' Clicks
Robert Pattinson has been getting plenty of press lately in the wake of his breakup with Kristen Stewart, but it didn't hurt the box office of his new film, Entertainment One's "Cosmopolis." The...
View ArticleTaiwanese TV Program Puts Spotlight on Israel
While news about the Middle East is regular fare in North America and Europe, most Asian countries shy away from reporting about Israel or Palestine, except for short news segments about war and...
View Article'Dark Knight Rises' Passes 'Dark Knight' at Foreign Box Office
"Dark Knight Rises" was the top moneymaker at the foreign box office for the fifth consecutive weekend. It took in $20.6 million and in the process passed the overall overseas gross of its...
View ArticleKristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson Opt Out of 'Twilight' Conventions
The blowup between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart is bringing more bad news for Twihards. The former on- and off-screen couple will not attend the final four "Twilight" conventions, according to...
View ArticleWilliam Windom, Emmy-Winning TV Actor, Dead at 88
William Windom, a 1970 Emmy Award winner for his show "My World and Welcome to It," died on Thursday at home in Woodacre, Calif. He was 88. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, his wife...
View ArticleJack Horner, News Corp. PR Executive, Heading to Warner Bros.
News Corp. communications executive Jack Horner is coming to Warner Bros. in a senior publicity job in its motion picture unit. The studio wasn't commenting Sunday, but a source with knowledge of the...
View ArticleRichard Fowkes, Veteran Business Executive, Dead at 66
Richard Fowkes, a veteran entertainment executive who most recently ran business affairs for Legendary Entertainment, died Thursday in Los Angeles after a battle with brain cancer. He was 66 years...
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