Back in 2005, Brad, when you were named Paramount's uberboss, I wrote a memo to you that waved some warning flags. You were politely dismissive of my warnings -- that is, until just about all of the…
The 150 guests, including Tom Cruise, Mark Wahlberg and Danny DeVito, were not shown a movie once inside the media mogul's Beverly Park mansion, but instead were treated to a lavish four-course…
Hollywood's creative community is trying to figure out the following anomaly: While distributors of entertainment are carving out an ever bigger slice of the revenue pie, the creators of…
Behind-the-scenes campaigning is under way to select your successor as Academy president, Hawk, so this is the moment to do some last-minute pushing and prodding.
The box office action this summer will be triggered more by superstars than superheroes, contrary to recent history. And the studios have created and endured some messy budgetary headaches and…
The charity banquet season hits its peak at this time of year, and the crowded ballrooms remind us that there are people in town who worry less about making money than giving it away.
The most important fact about talent agents today is that no one is scared of them anymore.
Academy prexy Hawk Koch played to a full house — or, more accurately, three full houses — Saturday in the first town hall meet for members that covered such topics as Oscar voting procedures…
Joss Whedon has Hollywood street smarts, so doesn't he know that grown-up movies (especially Shakespeare) aren't released in summer?
Baz Luhrmann took me by surprise four years ago when he confided over lunch that he intended to shoot "The Great Gatsby" as his next movie -- he explained that he had become obsessed with the…
