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Although it looks as if they won't regain Miramax, Bob and Harvey Weinstein are moving ahead on a slate of movies, starting with next month's "Piranha 3-D."
Amid girlfriend scandal, Christine Peters, pictured with Sumner Redstone, defends Viacom chief.
Steve McPherson resigned from ABC as the company conducted an internal sexual harassment investigation of the executive, according to an informed source.
The British Columbia Securities Commission on Wednesday kicked to the courts an application by the Icahn Group to stop a debt-to-equity swap by Lionsgate.
"Cop Out," a buddy cop comedy with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, may have underperformed at the boxoffice, grossing just $44.9 million, but on home video, it easily topped the national sales as well as rental charts its first week out.
Filmmaker Oliver Stone and the Anti-Defamation League have laid their differences to rest.
CBS is adding a trio of gay characters to the network's shows next season following
a recent GLAAD report that gave the network a failing diversity grade for the second year in a row.
Ronald Tutor and Colony Capital, leading a group seeking to acquire Miramax Films for $675 million, were expected to deliver a $40 million, non-refundable deposit to Disney on Wednesday, keeping the deal on track to close this week, sources said.
"Mommy & Me," the comedy package featuring Meryl Streep and Tina Fey as a mother and daughter duo, will be directed by Stanley Tucci.
The Anti-Defamation League said Wednesday that Oliver Stone's apology for his remarks about Jewish control over the media stops short and he needs to "fully repudiate all of his conspiratorial anti-Semitic statements about Jews."
Just days after THR revealed Sumner Redstone gifted stock to a young woman, new reports reveal a second woman was the recipient of Viacom stock and a low-level job at Showtime.
Cable giant Comcast Corp. is excited about recent NBC Universal creative successes, particularly boxoffice hit "Despicable Me." Comcast COO Steve Burke, who would oversee NBC Uni if Comcast's planned acquisition of a 51% stake goes through, on Wednesday lauded the film as a key move into film animation and as a potential hit franchise.
The Starz Entertainment CEO has been meeting with potential partners around the world to raise $1 billion of off-balance-sheet financing for original programming.
Isaiah Mustafa reveals to THR that he will be appearing in Warner Bros.' "Horrible Bosses," starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman.
The ABC Family president, left, is expected to replace network and studio chief Steve McPherson, who exited Tuesday after learning that his job was being shopped.
An eloquently affable industry veteran, Jim Morris offered a blunt reply Tuesday to any suggestion that digital production is lowering the quality of moviemaking in Hollywood.
"Bullshit, there always have been a lot of bad movies."
Despite growing revenue, DreamWorks Animation earned 6% less in its second quarter than it did in the same frame a year ago, the company said Tuesday.
The Walt Disney Co. has struck a deal to acquire social gaming firm Playdom Inc. for $563.2 million, plus potential added performance-dependent earn-outs of up to $200 million, and further strengthen its burgeoning gaming business.
Turning up the star wattage, the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled world premieres for films by Robert Redford, Guillaume Canet, Michael Winterbottom, John Cameron Mitchell, Tony Goldwyn, Emilio Estevez and David Schwimmer.
In case you needed evidence that top media and entertainment executives are well paid, some big names showed up on a ranking of the decade's 25 top-earning CEOs on Tuesday.
Mogul gave shares to Electric Barbarellas singer.
Barbara Broccoli doesn't want to work with "assholes."
As the investment group led by Ronald Tutor and Colony Capital nears the deadline to complete due diligence on their $675 million acquisition of Miramax Films, Disney has given them another obstacle to overcome.
Reality producer Nigel Lythgoe is returning to executive produce Fox's "American Idol" as Justin Timberlake and Elton John join the list of celebrities being wooed to serve as judges.
The controversial director is in hot water again for quotes he gave to London's Sunday Times suggesting "Jewish domination of the media." Stone issued an apology Monday afternoon.
Carl Icahn is taking Lionsgate to court to overturn its debt-for-equity swap with major shareholder Mark Rachesky.
President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to appear on a daytime talk show.
The U.K. government's decision July 26 to put out the lights at the U.K. Film Council, the government-backed agency set up 10 years ago to support the movie industry here, played out like a horror story for some and a revenge thriller for others.
EXCLUSIVE: MTV confirms to THR that the Electric Barbarellas show is still in development. It gets stranger: "He thinks he's Paul Newman ... fatally attractive."
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