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Ratings Rat Race: Billboard Awards, ‘Jesse Stone’, All Season Finales Down From 2011
The final Sunday of the broadcast season featured a mix of season finales and specials. The specials won over as ABC’s coverage of the 2012 Billboard ...
XLrator Media Imports Action On Turbo Label
LOS ANGELES (May 17, 2012) – XLrator Media, LLC announced the launch of the “TURBO by XLrator” multi-platform releasing label to bring the world’s ...
Genesis Rodriguez Joins ‘Identity Theft’
Genesis Rodriguez has joined Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy in the Universal comedy Identity Theft. She will play an associate to a local crime ...
Lucas Black Joins ‘Promised Land’ And ’42′
Lucas Black has joined the cast of the Gus Van Sant-directed Promised Land for Focus Features. He’ll also play a role in the Brian Helgeland-directed ...
‘Today’ Anchor Amy Robach Moves To ABC
Today weekend anchor and NBC News national correspondent Amy Robach has left to join ABC News, where she will contribute to all broadcasts and ...
Indie Feature ‘Dear Sidewalk’ Casts Up
Joe Mazzello, Michelle Forbes, and Josh Fadem have joined the cast of Dear Sidewalk. Directed by Jake Oelman, written by Jake Limbert, and produced ...
A&E’s Guy Slattery Upped To EVP Marketing
A&E Network has elevated Guy Slattery to EVP of Marketing. Slattery, who joined A&E as SVP of Marketing in 2006, oversees all marketing initiatives ...
Weather Wreaks Havoc In Cannes; Wind Damage Forces Screening Cancellation
The screening of Gonzalo Tobal’s Villegas was last night due to the outrageously stormy weather we’re having. Winds damaged part of the roof at the ...
Hot Teaser Trailer: ‘Anchorman 2′
released a primer for its sequel Anchorman: The Legend Continues this weekend in theaters. The fab four from the original are back, himself, and the ...
KTTV’s ‘Good Day LA’ Co-Anchor Dorothy Lucey To Exit, Jillian Reynolds To Freelance
EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Good Day LA co-anchor Dorothy Lucey will be leaving the morning program of Los Angeles’ Fox-owned station KTTV. I hear Lucey’s ...
Cable Execs Warn That Dish Network’s Ad-Zapping DVR Could Lead To Higher Costs
Broadcasters received moral support this morning from cable in the looming battle against the new Auto Hop feature on Dish Network’s Hopper DVRs: It ...
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 ...