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Six First-Time Members Were Just Elected To The Oscars' Board Of Governors
Bill Condon, Lisa Cholodenko and Dante Spinotti are among the new members of the Academy's Board of Governors, AMPAS announced on Tuesday. Six first-time members were elected to the board, along with...
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Donating $20 Million To The Motion Picture &...
News Corporation is donating $20 million to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, the media company said Wednesday. The gift will go toward the Hollywood charity's $350 million capital campaign....
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Cable Customers Rejoice: Viacom And DirecTV Have Reached A Programming Agreement
Ten days after Viacom blacked out its channels for DirecTV customers, the two companies said Friday that they had reached a deal to return programming to satellite subscribers. All 26 Viacom networks,...
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Aaron Sorkin Is Reportedly Firing All His Writers On 'The Newsroom' Except...
"The Newsroom" is undergoing a big staff change. But don't worry – Will McAvoy will still be at the fictional cable news network ACN. The Aaron Sorkin-created HBO drama is undergoing an upheaval in...
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A Star Studded Cast Of Celebrities Back New Education Startup, Empowered Careers
Empowered Careers, the new adult education startup backed by former Paramount chief Sherry Lansing's foundation and the Creative Artists Agency, is getting some big-name celebrity endorsements....
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Heath Ledger's Father Calls For Tighter Gun Control Laws After 'Dark Knight...
Heath Ledger's father is calling for America to tighten its gun laws in the wake of the deadly theater shootings in Colorado. "It's terrible – the whole circumstances,'' Heath's father Kim told...
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Warner Bros. Is Donating Money To The Colorado Shooting Victims
Warner Bros. is donating an undisclosed sum to the victims of last Friday's mass shooting at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo., and is encouraging its employees to do the same. A...
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'Ruby Sparks' A Case Study For Other Small Films In Hollywood
"Ruby Sparks" is a case study in what a rocky landscape Hollywood has become for small, character-driven films over the last few years. Consider: The husband-and-wife directing team of Jonathan Dayton...
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A Year Later, Where's Justin Timberlake's Hip New MySpace Makeover?
It’s been a year since Specific Media bought MySpace and vowed to make it hip again, but after 12 months the once-hot brand is still ice cold. A major redesign, promised after Specific Media CEO Tim...
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Meet The Players Involved In The Latest Jackson Family Drama
Michael Jackson may be dead, but his legacy of bizarre behavior lives on. At least among his family members, who have been engaged in a five-star meltdown worthy of the seediest reality show in the...
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NBC Sports Admits They Screwed Up For Spoiling Missy Franklin's Olympics Win
NBC Sports has admitted it screwed up by inadvertently revealing Missy Franklin's gold-medal victory in the 100-meter backstroke before the race even aired on the network, and promises that it will...
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'You've Been Trumped' Is The Best British Movie Ever, Says IMDb
Here's more proof that everything Donald Trump does is the biggest and the best: A new documentary about Trump's construction of a golf course is Scotland has only been out in the U.K. for two weeks,...
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Aaron Sorkin Denies Reports Of 'Newsroom' Firings
Aaron Sorkin denied during a panel for "The Newsroom" that he has fired the show's writing staff, and denied that the women on his show are less intellectually formidable than the men. Also, he says,...
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Current TV Should Look To Keith Olbermann As A Model For Reinvention
Keith Olbermann hosted the sole political talk show airing on Current TV when David Bohrman took over as network president last August. Now close to a year later, Olbermann is long gone, but Bohrman...
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No Q2 Setback For AMC Despite Ongoing Battle With Dish
AMC Networks posted a higher second quarter profit on increased advertising revenue, the company announced Thursday. The owner of AMC, WE tv, IFC and Sundance Channel said net income from continuing...
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Lionsgate Posts Q1 Loss Despite 'Hunger Games' Revenue Spike
Lionsgate Entertainment reported Thursday a first-quarter net loss of $44.2 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with a gain of $10.3 million, or 8 cents a share, for the same period a year ago....
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Get Excited For 'H+' – The New Web Series About The Technological Apocalypse
Bryan Singer wants you to picture a world where technology endangers the planet, where being connected to the internet is not a luxury but a hazard. That is the premise of “H+,” a web series produced...
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Behind 'Moonrise Kingdom's' Unconventional But Steady March To The Oscars
It’s a Hollywood rule of thumb that if you want to be a player come awards season, you've got to be a critical and commercial success. Director Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” a quirky, summer-set...
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Is TV News Making More Mistakes Or Are They Just More Obvious?
Is TV news making more mistakes? Or are they just more obvious? Almost all of the major national news organizations have made high-profile mistakes in recent months: CNN and Fox News initially...
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TVNotas Broke Copyright Law By Publishing This Latin American Singer's...
TVNotas, a Spanish-language magazine focused on celebrity gossip, broke copyright law when it published the photos of a singer's secret wedding in Las Vegas, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A...
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