Though "American Idol" and a few scripted debuts are on the horizon, the strike threatens midseason programming.
Acouple of months back, this column predicted that if a writers strike did come to pass, the networks would soon turn to two Rs: reality and repeats.
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The film is No. 1 at the box office with a lower-than-expected $26.1 million, but its worldwide welcome is warmer.
"The Golden Compass" topped the weekend box office with an estimated $26.1 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, New Line Cinema said Sunday, although the costly fantasy film struck less gold than the studio had expected.
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The five-week-old strike continues after negotiations stall with the two sides still far apart.
Talks between Hollywood writers and studios collapsed Friday, dashing hopes of an imminent resolution to a 5-week-old strike that has upended the entertainment industry.
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See who was naughty or nice at this week's holiday parties.
It's been a frantic, festive and fashionable week.
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Hollywood's bursting with masculinity again, but it's not all tough hunks and retro smoothies.
HOW many ways can a man be manly in the movies these days? The film historian Robert Sklar once wrote that "each generation exaggerates its own crises of masculinity." If this is true, we must be in a doozy of a crisis right now.
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*Will Smith is still waiting for his new film "I Am Legend" to be cleared for takeoff in China, the lone Asian country that will not screen the movie when it opens across the region later this month.
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*Oprah Winfrey's addition to the Barack Obama campaign trail in Iowa and South Carolina lived up to every bit of its hype, and then some.
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*Just call her the Teflon Don. Within the span of a week, Vivica A. Fox managed to avoid a bench warrant as well as jail time in her DUI case stemming from a March arrest in Los Angeles.
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*Usher is reportedly in negotiations to star in a Broadway revival of the 1964 musical "Golden Boy," which centers on a pianist who gives up his musical career to become a boxer.
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*Halle Berry will have to clear room on the mantle for another trophy. The Palm Spring Film Festival has announced it will honor the actress with its Desert Palm Achievement Award during a ceremony scheduled for Jan. 5, reports Variety.
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NPR's Scott Simon visits Academy Award winning producer Irwin Winkler to talk shop -- what does a producer do anyway? Winkler learned his lessons at the old William Morris agency.
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Joe Wright's film, Atonement, is a loyal and lush translation of English writer Ian McEwan's novel. It's only Wright's second feature film. He explains his approach to literary adaptation -- and how being dyslexic helps him.
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Though the new movie Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story features John Reilly in diaper-like underwear, the film is much more than fluff. Tying together over-the-top lines is a large body of carefully crafted songs written by Marshall Crenshaw, among others.
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The Golden Compass is now pointed at the big screen -- an epic based on the first book of novelist Philip Pullman's trilogy. But a campaign is being waged against the movie because of its provocative take on religion.
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The film Atonement, based on the novel by Ian McEwan, is a rich, old-fashioned love story and a potent meditation on the power of fiction to destroy and create.
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DUBAI -- Despite several chances to take the bait and swallow whole, Tony Shaloub painstakingly resisted. The star of "AmericanEast" was on hand Monday in Dubai to tub thump the indie movie, which focuses on Arab-American immigrants in post 9/11 Los Angeles, specifically their relations with their Jewish neighbors.
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Steamboat Ventures, an investment firm of Disney, is set to announce Monday that it has acquired an interest in EdgeCast, an Internet delivery network that competes with industry leader Akamai Technologies.
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Steamboat Ventures, an investment firm of Disney, is set to announce Monday that it has acquired an interest in EdgeCast, an Internet delivery network that competes with industry leader Akamai Technologies.
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Three finalists from this year's edition of NBC's reality competition "The Last Comic Standing" -- winner Jon Reep and finalists Lavell Crawford and Amy Schumer -- have inked talent holding deals with NBC Universal.
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Lifetime has beefed up its original movies department, hiring former NBC executive Stephen Bulka as vp.
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It had been a long time since they'd rock and rolled, but the band played one more time to a rapt crowd. The players aged, but the song remains the same.
With a thunder of power chords and rock-and-roll swagger, Led Zeppelin broke a silence of two decades Monday in a laser-and-smoke reunion for which more than a million fans from around the world sought to book passage.
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The death last month of Kevin Dubrow has been ruled an accidental cocaine overdose.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The death last month of Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, has been ruled an accidental cocaine overdose.
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While attention is focused on the writers strike, a bigger confrontation with the actors guild looms down the road.
DESPITE what they say about global warming, it's going to be a long, cold winter for the writers of Hollywood. The studios pretty much made it official Friday, when they walked away from the negotiating table after giving the Writers Guild an abrupt "put up or shut up" ultimatum. Considering that the studios were asking the writers to give up much of their core Internet residuals proposal, there was little left to negotiate.
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*Bow Wow's camp is updating its earlier explanation of his sudden hospitalization on Thursday following a concert in Cincinnati.
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*When R. Kelly's Double Up train rolls into The Forum in Los Angeles on Friday, protesters plan to be out with lighted candles and burning questions about the church-owned venue's support of an artist who faces trial on child pornography charges.
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*Kanye West opted at the last minute not to perform Friday at the KDWB Jingle Ball in Minneapolis, prompting organizers to fill the slot with rapper Fabolous and "American Idol" runner up Blake Lewis.
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*Musical talent apparently runs in Usher's family. The entertainer's brother JLack, best known for producing Lloyd's No. 2 single "Get It Shorty," has just signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with EMI Music Publishing.
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*Brother and sister team Azaria and Hendekea Azene's wild ride on "The Amazing Race" came to a screeching halt Sunday night because of an unfortunate misunderstanding at an airport ticket office.
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A Los Angeles production company is beating Hollywood to video shelves with "mockbusters" like Snakes on a Train. The movie is one of many low-budget, direct-to-video releases from The Asylum, which generally makes its movies for less than $1 million.
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Digital download service Vudu will begin selling "24," "Prison Break," "NYPD Blue" and other 20th Century Fox Television titles in beta mode using its set-top box technology, the company is set to announce Tuesday.
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Digital download service Vudu will begin selling "24," "Prison Break," "NYPD Blue" and other 20th Century Fox Television titles in beta mode using its set-top box technology, the company is set to announce Tuesday.
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Michael Vartan has signed with ICM for representation in all areas. (Getty Images photo)
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Scott Sternberg Prods. has tapped Tracy Whittaker as head of creative development, overseeing original unscripted and reality TV formats.
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Discovery Communications' eco-friendly network Planet Green, set to launch in the second quarter, has gone into production on "Wasted."
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Orson Welles' Oscar for the 1941 film was withdrawn after bidding failed to rise above the seller's minimum price.
Orson Welles' personal working script of "Citizen Kane" sold for almost $100,000 today, but his Oscar for the 1941 film was withdrawn after bidding failed to rise above the seller's minimum price.
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