Shonda Rhimes is looking forward to having some competition. The showrunner and executive producer who heads the impressive array of Shondaland shows on ABC debuted an online class for television…
The Cannes Film Festival turns 70 this year, and for its anniversary edition, the glamorous cinema showcase will launch star-driven new work from American directors Sofia Coppola ("The Beguiled")…
Audible Studios announced on Monday that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will be starring in a new audio production titled “The X-Files: Cold Cases,” reprising their original roles as special…
Streaming has been the music industry's savior over the past couple of years, helping it return to growth after a period of stagnation. However, whereas streaming once provided incremental revenue…
Television loves teenage girls. Especially when they're dead. Innumerable series — from garden-variety procedurals to prestige fare like "The Killing" and "True Detective" — kick off their initial…
There's no shortage of movie franchises in circulation these days, but within their ranks is a more exclusive grouping you might call "mega-franchises": those that have generated seven or more…
For most of the 20th century, the paradigm looked like this: The television set was a piece of furniture — a box that sat in your living room, big and a little ugly, and cozy, too. It was the…
Chuck Barris, the prolific producer who died March 21 at age 87, was a natural-born showman and entrepreneur. He had an irrepressibly raunchy and goofy sense of humor that was on display in his many…
Cable network revenues were up again in the fourth quarter, a development that may reassure investors that cord-cutting doesn't yet seem to be hurting these businesses. But dig a little deeper, and…
On Feb. 8, after eight years and 171 episodes, we called series wrap on "The Vampire Diaries." As the team and I were going through prep and shoot of the last episode, we realized just how rare our…
Disney dominated the box office last year thanks to several big franchises among its 13 releases. In fact, Disney has been the most profitable studio for the last three years, with the other majors…
