
AngelWorld Dives Into ‘Devil And The Deep Blue Sea’; Biel, Moretz, Morgan To Star
Two days ago, AngelWorld Entertainment announced the creation of a $150M equity fund with merchant bank First Wall Street. The next day, it said it ...

Toby Keith And Kristen Bell Will Host CMT Music Awards
NASHVILLE – May 21, 2012 – The 2012 CMT MUSIC AWARDS just got a little rowdier and funnier as country music superstar Toby Keith and actress Kristen ...

FilmNation Acquires Most Of World On David Michod’s ‘The Rover’
Cannes, May 21, 2012 – FilmNation Entertainment has acquired the majority of worldwide rights to The Rover from Animal Kingdom writer-director David ...

‘The Avengers’ Makes Marvel A “Good Deal” For Disney, Not A Great One: Analyst
Wall Street dislikes the movie business and hated CEO Bob Iger’s 2009 agreement to pay $4.2B for Marvel, especially after he paid $7.5B for Pixar.

Hulu Unveils Summer Slate Of Original And Exclusive Shows
LOS ANGELES (May 20, 2012) – Proving that summer doesn’t have to mean the start of rerun season, Hulu today announced a full slate of new original and ...

Cable Operators Open Public WiFi HotSpots To Each Other’s Customers
MAY 21, 2012 – Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable today announce that they will enable each other’s ...
Hot Teaser Trailer: ‘Skyfall’
Sony has released the first theatrical teaser trailer for the new James Bond movie Skyfall. Directed by Sam Mendes, it has Daniel Craig in his third ...
Yahoo To Sell Back $7.1B Stake To Alibaba
Alibaba has reached agreement with Yahoo to buy back about half the U.S. portal’s stake in China’s largest e-commerce provider, Bloomberg this evening ...

China’s Wanda Group Agrees To Pay $2.6B For AMC Entertainment
BEIJING, China and KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 20, 2012 — Dalian Wanda Group Co., Ltd. (“Wanda”), a leading Chinese private conglomerate and China’s largest ...

Weinstein Clarifies ‘Sapphires’ Remarks; Best Actor Race Heats Up On A Stormy Sunday In Cannes
Despite reports to the contrary Harvey Weinstein told me he doesn’t believe the Australian musical is going to become another The Artist.

SAG-AFTRA Board Affirms David White As Exec Director In 1st Meeting Of Merged Guild
Los Angeles (May 20, 2012) – The National Board of Directors of the newly formed SAG-AFTRA met for the first time over May 19 and 20, at the Beverly ...

Cannes Roundup: ‘The Physician’s Quest, Celebrating 007, Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional
The Physician‘s Quest For Truth Tom Payne, Ben Kingsley and Stellan Skarsgård are joining the cast of The Physician, directed by Philipp Stoelzl ...

The Scene In Cannes: Wet But Undaunted
“I just cancelled all of my meetings,” a distributor firmly ensconced in a plush lobby chair at the Majestic Hotel told me today while it was pouring ...

How Agencies Did At This Year’s Upfronts: New Scripted Series Package Scorecard
The upfronts serve as a scorecard for the major agencies’ television departments. Here is our count for agency packages on the 39 new scripted ...

‘Men In Black 3′ Arrives As Sony, Cinemas Still At Odds Over Who Pays For 3D Glasses
Men In Black 3 opens Friday and it’ll be on plenty of 3D screens despite disagreement between exhibitors and Sony Pictures Entertainment over who ...

Specialty Box Office: ‘Marigold’, ‘Bernie’ Shine As Newcomers Disappoint
Weekend openers in the specialty arena did not impress , taking an unfortunate cue from their apart from The Avengers juggernaut. Even so, some ...
‘SNL’ Bids Farewell To Kristen Wiig, Closes Season With No Ratings Bump
Last night’s season finale of NBC’s Saturday Night Live featured an emotional send-off to key cast member Kristen Wiig, making her departure after ...

Samuel Goldwyn Films Takes U.S. On Un Certain Regard Picture ‘Renoir’
Samuel Goldwyn Films has slated a spring 2013 US release for Renoir, which premieres in Cannes later this week. Set on the Côte d’Azur in 1915, Gilles ...

New Fund AngelWorld To Back ‘The Big Shoe’ With Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess
(Cannes) May 20, 2012 – AngelWorld Entertainment (AWE), who on Saturday announced the launch of their $150m equity fund, will finance and produce The ...

Saoirse Ronan Attached To ‘Testament Of Youth’; Simon Curtis Preps ‘Golden Lady’
Saoirse Ronan is returning to her period roots with the David Heyman-produced Testament Of Youth. The Atonement actress, who’s lately made a detour ...

BOMBS AWAY! ‘Battleship’ Sinks To $25.3M Torpedoed By Still Strong ‘Avengers’; Lame ‘What To Expect’ Behind Limp ‘The Dictator’
SUNDAY AM, 7TH UPDATE: These official Friday, Saturday, and weekend numbers for North America are way worse than anyone expected. Every film tanked ...
How Pixar Almost Lost ‘Toy Story 2′ Before Its Release: Video
A tipster alerted us to this entertaining video about a crisis at awhile back. It’s a simply drawn but eloquent (it is Pixar, after all) cautionary ...

‘Lawless’ Premieres As The Weinstein Company Hijacks The Cannes Red Carpet
It took just four days into the 65th Cannes Film Festival but The Weinstein Company officially took over Saturday scoring both of the key night’s ...

Cannes Roundup: ‘Romeo And Juliet’, $150M Indie Equity Fund, ‘Crooked Arrows’
Romeo And Juliet Swarovski Entertainment, the film production arm of the 117-year-old jewelry company that gave sparkle to Dorothy’s ruby red ...

Duncan Jones Plans Ian Fleming Biopic
British helmer Duncan Jones is tapped to direct a biopic based on Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books that launched one of the longest-running ...