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In the late 1980s, Hollywood marketers tossed aside a legacy of secrecy and turned box office grosses into public sport. Entertainment Tonight began doing spots on the weekend's top-grossing films. [...]

Martin Scorsese's 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' the last major Oscar hopeful to be screened for the media, is an appropriate capper, because the tragicomic film is about excess--and everything [...]

What's the new fear in town? That terror--from AHS: Coven on TV to bloody cheap films--is changing the game, while bringing in big business and delivering plenty of shock and [...]

CHINA MIGHT BE OUTGROWING HOLLYWOOD. In the past few years, Westerners have exulted in the country's box office boom, which included hefty grosses for major-studio films such as 'Iron Man [...]

FROM CAMERON DIAZ TO SANDRA BULLOCK, THE A-LIST OF ACTRESSES IS AGING ALONG WITH THE MOVIEGOER THEIR CLOUT (AND SALARIES SKYROCKET, AND HOLLYWOOD TO GROOM ANOTHER GENERATION AMID FRANCHISE IS [...]

WHEN IT COMES TO hotels, hollywood's a-list splits its allegiance widely--sleeping around all over town, from the Sunset Tower and Chateau Marmont to the Four Seasons, Peninsula, Montage, Beverly Hills [...]

Movie box office. TV ratings. Say what you will about the reliability of entertainment consumption metrics, but for decades, what people watched was hardly hush-hush. Then subscription video streamers came [...]

ROUNDTABLE How vibrant is the independent film scene? How much does it depend on the major film festivals? How useful are the markets that accompany them? On the eve of [...]

AUSTRALIAN CONTENT SEEMS MUCH ON THE MIND OF LOCAL distributors. Many of the majors are talking the talk like never before, and are adamant they will put their money where [...]

Financing issues relating to both domestic and international runaway production are clouding what would otherwise be a time for the New Zealand screen sector to sit back and enjoy the [...]

AS THE MAJOR STUDIOS SUFFER THROUGH THE SUMMER BOXOFFICE DOLDRUMS, IT'S A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY--and great promise--for the independents. 'Audiences are exhausted with studio movies,' Roadside Attractions co-president Howard Cohen [...]

Inside a darkened theater, a sonorous voice-over begins, 'From the executive teams who brought you last summer's astronomical box-office numbers comes the sequel: 'Record Breakers 2: Back to the Multiplex.'' [...]

Miley twerked, execs lost work and Netflix became Hollywood frenemy No. 1 as THR ranks the business moves that moved dollars--and made drama--in the industry's increasingly rapid blink-and-you-miss-it evolution No. [...]

True stories have always attracted the attention of Hollywood, but perhaps no year in recent memory has seen so many prominent actors playing real people. From Matthew McConaughey's turn as [...]

MADRID Spain's film biz may be in a state of crisis, but one event is bucking that trend: the San Sebastian Festival. Its 60th edition, the second under Jose Luis [...]

AFTER YEARS OF uncertainty, independent film is back, and for anyone looking to jump on the bandwagon, the first stop should be the American Film Market. Indeed, three years after [...]

WHEN THE 36 MEN AND SEVEN women who are governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gathered in the organization's seventh-floor boardroom in Beverly Hills in August [...]

HOLLYWOOD'S AWARDS SEASON were conducted like a starrier version of American Idol, we're near the moment when Ryan Seacrest would step to the front of the stage--the surviving contestants arrayed [...]

Who says Sundance caters only to the undiscovered and obscure? This year's festival will feature a bevy of names and companies not typically associated with indie cinema, from Disney+ to [...]

The Report Behind the Headlines Box Office Domestic International Gross Cume % Chg Gross Cume Total 1. John Wick: Chapter 3-Parabellum LIONSGATE 57 57 (1) -- 35.2 *(66) 35.2 92.2 [...]

After 22 movies and more than a decade, the gargantuan Avengers: Endgame was the last roll of the dice--or infinity stones, as it were--for several key characters. But figuring out [...]

For years, if an actor went out for a part that didn't state a specific ethnicity, chances were that studios and networks were looking for a Caucasian actor. Now, those [...]

When a star's career goes up in flames, collateral damage tends to be considerable--that's as true in China as it is in Hollywood. Fan Bingbing. the Beijing film industry's formerly [...]

[up arrow] $288.38 C+3%) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN(MSG) The live-events firm reports double-digit revenue growth at its flagship and at Radio City Music Hall, the Chicago Theatre and Beacon Theatre. [down [...]

What better way to create the sound of a rocket launch--as seen in Damien Chazelle's First Man--than to start by recording an actual rocket launch? But how to go about [...]

The first uptrend in economic indicators were seen in late March and April signalling the emergence of an improved US economy. However, the West Coast and Northeast continue to struggle through hard times. It is only the Midwest and the South which has managed to take an early step out of the economic recession. The lessons agency producers and creatives learned during the recession have allowed them to sharpen truly creative concepts that come along. Getting on the road to recovery quite early are Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit.

Filmgoers can be forgiven for passing on a horror flick this Halloween--the spills and chills in the financial markets are far scarier. With credit frozen and banks teetering, The Hollywood [...]

With the world's eyes on the Middle East, people need something to watch. A new generation of filmmakers from the region, buoyed by the recent international breakout success of Middle [...]

AEON FLUX Charlize Theron EXP, Van Toffler; PROD, Gale Anne Hurd, David Gale; DIR, Karyn Kusama; SCR, Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi; DISTRIB, Par. Lakesbore Entertainment/Paramount Pictures/MTV Films. 7/17, Berlin. THE [...]

You know Hollywood and Madison Avenue are converging when BMW's Mini Cooper division is thrilled that Paramount's caper 'The Italian Job' did well at the B.O. During a summer of [...]

Digital cinema vendors are hawking their wares energetically at ShoWest, but exhibs and distribs are more interested in talking turkey. To wit: Will the studios help the struggling exhibition industry [...]

As the rest of the world whips into a futbol frenzy, distribs and exhibs must counterprogram HOLLYWOOD In six months, one of the most highly anticipated events around the globe [...]

A panel of speakers from the technology and entertainment industries speculated on the arrival and effect of interactive media technology on the entertainment industry. Most agreed that the new interactive technologies would have an impact on the different forms of entertainment, but that the magnitude of this impact would ultimately depend on the service and customer values according to which these technologies are deployed., Some say the day of true interactivity looms near, about 18 months away, but others believe that the widespread assimilation of interactive media technology will take between three to 10 [...]

AUTOBOT OPTIMUS PRIME, Flying Dutchman captain Davy Jones and an armored polar bear are among the key CG characters in the films that earned Oscar nominations for visual effects this [...]

By Susanne Ault The American Film Market has a reputation for horror, horror and more horror. But studio exhibitors believe international buyers are hungry for a wider range of genres, [...]

All New York area lighting, sound, and projection professionals are cordially invited to attend the special Manufacturers' Showcase sessions at this year's Broadway Lighting and Sound Master Classes, to be [...]

LONDON -- Revenue streams for India's film industry are set to take off briskly over the next five years, according to a new report from U.K.-based cinema research company Dodona [...]

[Catching up with past Next Gen'ers as they Continue to move and shake the industry] Class of 1994 * De Luca joined DreamWorks Pictures this June as head of production [...]

Mildly entertaining and marc than a little mawkish, the Farrelly brothers' 'Shallow Hal' feels like a laugh machine that never really powers up. It has a plausible gimmick for a [...]

Report predicting revenues will hit $5.6 billion by 2005 MILAN -- Boxoffice revenues across Europe are set to soar over the next few years, hitting 6.2 billion euros ($5.6 billion) [...]

Nearly 800 filmmakers began gathering in New York's Angelika Film Center on Sunday for the Independent Film Project market, which runs through Friday. But IFP market director Milton Tabbot was [...]

NEW YORK'S INDIE FILM SCENE HAS GROWN UP BUT NOT OUT OF THE BELIEF THAT THER IS MORE THAN ENOUGH ROOM FOR QUALITY PRODUUCT. The first full year of the [...]

With the dot-com demise during the past year, it's safe to assume that the entertainment and media industries are more than a little gun-shy when it comes to investing in [...]

A diverse group of film professionals discuss trends in rarefied cinema that have developed in regard to money, talent and audiences. More so than ever; independent film has become part [...]

Not even raptors can overpower Burton primates These monkeys mean business. Fox's 'Planet of the Apes,' which opens in wide release today, has the potential to become a monster hit. [...]

HOLLYWOOD With Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes looming, studio execs still are frantically finalizing pre-strike 'go' movies. That means they have less time and energy to [...]

Propaganda steps into the driver's seat If president Rick Hess and chief operating officer Trevor Macy have their way, Propaganda Films will finally achieve what it hasn't been able to [...]

The creative industries are the key to London's future and are growing twice as fast as the rest of the economy according to Creative Energy, a new report launched by [...]