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The two sides had still not reached a deal early on Thursday morning according to an email from Time Warner Cable spokeswoman Maureen Huff. She said both sides were still working on a deal.
The programing fee dispute between the two sides is over how much the cable operator would pay Disney for ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There was an age in television where spine-tingling and spell-binding anthology shows ruled the air. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "The Twilight Zone" scared the little boys who would grow up to become the Stephen Kings and Steven Spielbergs ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Dwayne Johnson is strapping on a backpack to replace Brendan Fraser in a 3D sequel to the 2008 remake "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
Brad Peyton is on board to direct "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," in which Josh Hutcherson will ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Sandman," the Neil Gaiman-written comic book series considered a seminal work in the medium, is in the early stages of being developed into a TV series.
Warner Bros. TV is in the midst of acquiring television rights from sister company DC ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The soon to be ex-wife of "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer and a pair of Paris Hilton's aunts are among the women who make up the cast of the "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."
The reality show, slated to premiere on U.S. cable network Bravo on October ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nobody ever said Hollywood relationships were easy, and the on-again off-again affair of Justin Long and Drew Barrymore certainly proves that out.
Are they still on? Are they off? This Friday, as the pair's romantic comedy "Going the Distance" debuts in theaters, ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - First there was the Phantom of the Opera. Now, in Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," you get the Terror of the Ballet.
The movie combines horror-movie tropes with "The Red Shoes," "All About Eve" and every movie about show business ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The title of "The Winning Season" is, of course, the first spoiler in this movie about a down-and-out, alcoholic ex-basketball player who gets hired to coach a girls' high school team.
In reality, you could have called the movie "Clippers ...
VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival opened on Wednesday with "Black Swan," a dark psychological drama starring Natalie Portman as a ballerina who finally lands the lead role but loses her grip on reality as the pressure builds.
The arrival of a rival dancer, played by Mila Kunis, ...
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Katy Perry achieved her first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart Wednesday, ending Eminem's reign of seven nonconsecutive weeks.
Perry's third album "Teenage Dream" sold a career-best 192,000 copies during the week ended August 29, according to Nielsen SoundScan. ...
The embattled U.S. comedian, who was replaced by Jay Leno after a short-lived stint as host of the popular late-night "Tonight Show" program on NBC, said his new talk show on cable TV network TBS would premiere November 8.
In a video announcement posted on showbiz website variety.com, ...
VENICE (Reuters) - A tale of illegal Mexican immigrants, corrupt U.S. politicians, nasty drug lords and vigilantes turns pulp movie in Robert Rodriguez's "Machete," which had the audience laughing out loud at the Venice festival.
The unlikely action hero of the blood-filled film is a ...
In a written statement to the festival, where his short film "The Accordion" is screening, Panahi said that he had been officially banned from making films in the past five years.
"Despite having been released, I am still not free to travel outside my country to attend film ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hit television show "Glee" and credit card company American Express have joined forces on a new social action campaign to inspire viewers to make a difference in their communities.
The call to charitable action -- a partnership between U.S. TV network Fox, which ...
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which acquires and preserves cultural materials, launched a public appeal earlier this month to raise $30,000 to restore five dresses worn by Vivien Leigh in the Oscar-winning film.
The costumes, from the collection of filmmaker David ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones admits having a hard time watching husband Michael Douglas battle throat cancer and has told People magazine she is furious with doctors for not detecting his disease sooner.
Douglas, the Oscar winner of "Wall Street" and a veteran of ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The major broadcast networks are serious about splitting the Primetime Emmys into two shows, and they have support among cable networks who share a frustration about HBO so thoroughly dominating the longform categories.
One ceremony would honor all series and air ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Poor Lindsay. She can't catch a break.
Released early from rehab and free again to pursue personal and professional rehabilitation, Lindsay Lohan has an opportunity to re-enter the public consciousness with the seriousness of a newly clean starlet intent on ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - We've seen who will cut a rug on the next "Dancing With the Stars." But do you know who turned ABC down?
According to a source involved with casting, the network approached Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg to join the dance card for the show's 11th ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Actor Paul Hogan, star of the "Crocodile Dundee" movies, has vowed to continue fighting the Australian tax office which has barred him from leaving Australia until he pays a massive bill, saying he's victim of a witch hunt.
Hogan, 70, was served with a departure ...
The 65-year-old "Wall Street" actor told TV talk-show host David Letterman that a biopsy indicated that his cancer was at stage IV, which he described as "intense, and so they've got to go at it ..."
Letterman asked whether stage IV was a good diagnosis.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fans of MTV's "Jersey Shore" love the outsized personalities and the occasional fisticuffs. But it's hard to throw a punch without making some enemies, and chief among them might be New Jersey-based attorney Eugene Lavergne.
He isn't the only lawyer ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC is renewing summer reality hit "America's Got Talent" for a sixth season.
The network is bring back the competition series for another round next summer after a strong performance this year that has "Got Talent" ranking as the ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Politically minded actor John Cusack has picked a fight with Fox News, and both of them have dealt the "death" card from the bottom of the deck.
Cusack started the war of words when he tweeted to his 209,000 followers -- in all capital letters no less: ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Back in the 1970s, a film like "The American" would be labeled existential. Today it feels merely pointless.
An assassin wants to give up the life; a priest likes to reclaim lost souls for God; a prostitute looks for a man to free her; two mysterious ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was returned to the hospital after slipping into unconsciousness on Tuesday following a series of health-related setbacks since breaking her hip in July.
Gabor, 93, was in "a great deal of pain" Tuesday morning and her husband, Frederick ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the second straight year, "Transformers" star Shia LaBeouf topped a Forbes.com list of Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck with women claiming five of the top 10 spots compared to zero last year.
Based on the financial news site's own calculations, for every ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Texas country music singing sensation Miranda Lambert captured five Country Music Association nominations on Tuesday in three categories and will compete against her fiance Blake Shelton when the CMA hands out its annual awards on November 10.
Lambert will join ...
Lohan, 24, recently released early from jail and a rehabilitation program and now ordered to attend behavioral therapy classes twice a week, told Vanity Fair magazine in an interview conducted one week before her jail term began that she would cut back on hedonistic ways to revive her ...
The lineup for the 11th season of the TV dancing contest, set to premiere on September 20, will also include crooner Michael Bolton, reality TV star Mike Sorrentino, and actress Jennifer Grey, who twirled to fame in the film "Dirty Dancing."
Palin, 19, a single mom, is following in the ...
In a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday, more than three quarters of Americans said they would not be affected by audiotapes of phone calls, widely reported to be Gibson ranting at his estranged ex-girlfriend, when deciding whether to see one of the Oscar winner's films.
Asked if they ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jonathan Liebesman ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning") has signed a deal to direct a sequel to "Clash of the Titans."
Liebesman had been in contention to nab the gig since early June, with negotiations stretching through the summer. ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper are signing up for take-your-dads-to-work day.
The busy actors are attached to star in an untitled original action-comedy from "Up in the Air" co-writer Sheldon Turner, who snagged north of seven figures for the gig.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Will the Primetime Emmys be divided into two shows?
That was just one of the ideas circulating Monday, a day after the 62nd Primetime Emmys Awards show drew an on-par 13 million viewers for NBC.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The owner of an RV dealership recently sued by Taylor Lautner for allegedly failing to deliver a customized rig on time has issued a unique challenge to the "Twilight" star: push up or shut up.
Brent McMahon, owner of the Irvine, Calif.-based McMahon's ...
Hilton, 29, faces up to four years in a Nevada prison if convicted of the felony charge of possessing 0.8 grams of "powder cocaine" in a purse.
But the Los Angeles Times, quoting a legal expert, said Hilton was more likely to be sentenced to a diversion program if prosecutors are able to ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It was out with the old and in with the new at the Primetime Emmy awards on Sunday, with a slew of first-timers and new shows shaking up the U.S. television industry's highest honors.
Period advertising drama "Mad Men" and actor Bryan Cranston who plays a teacher ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Picture's heist film "Takers" grabbed the No. 1 spot at North American box offices over the weekend, overtaking psychological thriller "The Last Exorcism" in a turnabout from early studio estimates.
Final box office figures released on Monday showed ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The primetime Emmy awards telecast on Sunday night was watched by 13.5 million U.S. viewers, up slightly from a total audience of 13.3 million that tuned-in one year ago for U.S. television's top honors.
The show, which aired on the NBC network, was hosted by Jimmy Fallon ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gay marriage and interracial adoptions can be divisive topics across America, but a new crop of TV shows and films showing "modern" families are winning audiences and awards.
Television show "Modern Family" won the best comedy series Emmy on Sunday. ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sunday's Emmy Awards provided an easily overlooked reminder that the best method for energizing an awards show is the one thing producers can't engineer: upset victories.
The tsunami of new winners that swept key categories notorious for stale sameness helped ...
"Temple Grandin," the decidedly uncommercial true story of an autistic woman who revolutionizes slaughterhouses, ended up with seven awards, including three acting honors. With 15 nominations, it enjoyed one of the best success rates.
"The Pacific" captured eight awards, ...
The NBC sitcom failed to win a single prize this time, despite receiving 15 nominations, tied for fourth among all contenders.
Not only was its three-year reign as best comedy cut short by rookie ABC entrant "Modern Family," two-time winner Alec Baldwin lost the best comedy actor race to ...
Clooney was presented with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Primetime Emmy Awards for his work to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur, and fund-raising efforts for causes ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the Haiti earthquake and the victims of the September 11 2001 attacks on New York ...
LONDON (Reuters) - What the Venice film festival lacks in star power this year it hopes to make up for with an unusually young list of directors and the appearance of some of Hollywood's more enigmatic figures.
With the irrepressible Quentin Tarantino heading the jury that hands out the coveted ...
Lennon, who was murdered in New York in 1980, had the porcelain lavatory removed from Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, southern England, where he lived from 1969 to 1971, and replaced with a new one.
The builders who took away the white and blue lavatory were told to "put some flowers in it or ...
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Sara Bareilles is a very nice woman who broke through to music's mainstream by writing songs that sweetly and eloquently tell people precisely where they can go.
Don't be fooled by the video to "King of Anything," the lead single off her sophomore album for ...
TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - As terrorist blooper videos go, this one's a keeper.
Khurram Sher, arrested Thursday by Canadian authorities for allegedly being part of an Ottawa terrorist cell, in 2008 crooned on nationwide TV while auditioning for "Canadian Idol."
DETROIT (Billboard) - Less than a week before the start of his Home and Home tour with Jay-Z, Eminem is tight-lipped about his plans for the stadium shows, which commence September 2 for two dates at Detroit's Comerica Park and move to New York's Yankee Stadium for shows September 13 and ...
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The last time El DeBarge released an album, it was 1994. The Internet was starting to come into its own. YouTube, iTunes, Facebook and Twitter weren't even blips on anyone's radar. Beyond that, in the intervening years, R&B and its fan base have changed ...
LONDON/PARIS (Billboard) - The Sex Pistols' latest attempt to get up people's noses comes in the form of their own branded perfume.
Fragrance launches from music stars like Britney Spears, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Avril Lavigne have become commonplace, but it's still an eyebrow-raising ...
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Jerry Lee Lewis wants to make one thing clear: The title of his new album, "Mean Old Man," isn't a reference to the Killer himself.
"No, it has nothing to do with me whatsoever," the 74-year-old rock 'n' roller says. "It's named for the Kris ...
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Missy Elliott says she was 14 when she did it the first time. Eve was 11. Diamond was 14, Yo-Yo 15 and Lady of Rage 12.
These and other female MCs -- including MC Lyte, Trina, the Poetess and Salt-N-Pepa -- reminisce about the first time they reeled off rhymes, one of ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Disney/Pixar's "Toy Story 3" is the gift that just keeps on giving at the box office.
The animated movie sequel, which ranks seventh among all-time worldwide grossing films, is expected to cross the $1 billion mark on Friday, according to the studio, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom's Philippe Dauman, a cultured media chief who scored perfect results on his college entrance exam and entered Yale at 16, happens to be an ardent fan of sensational TV shows.
Name a hit from Viacom's MTV network -- whether "Jersey Shore," which stars a crew of ...
The "Titanic" and "Inception" star said in documents filed with Los Angeles Superior Court this week that he was frightened of the "delusional" woman and felt his personal safety was in jeopardy.
His lawyer submitted a number of hand-written letters from the woman, ...
Prince Michael, 13, and Paris Jackson, 12, had their first day on Wednesday at an exclusive private school in Los Angeles whose former students include the likes of Paris Hilton, former "Friends" actor Matthew Perry and singer Natalie Cole, TMZ reported, citing unidentified ...
EDINBURGH (Hollywood Reporter) - Simon Cowell has ordered an overhaul of his British "X-Factor" TV talent show, ruling that Auto-Tune technology can no longer be used to correct singer's pitch and pledging to put viewer trust at the top of the priorities.
The new focus comes after the ...
MUMBAI (Reuters) - One of India's most popular superstars, Shah Rukh Khan, is known for guarding his personal life fiercely from the media glare.
But for a change he has allowed a bit of the spotlight into his home, appearing in an ad campaign for a furnishing brand with wife Gauri, their first ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Since coming on to the horror film scene eight years ago with "Cabin Fever," filmmaker Eli Roth made a name for himself in the genre with the "Hostel" franchise. An occasional actor, he got a chance to shine last year as the infamous "The Bear ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In Robert Rodriguez's new grindhouse feature "Machete," the vengeful title character uses vicious cutlery to butcher his enemies. Could something similar happen to the movie when it's released next week?
"Machete's" convoluted story explicitly ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's a cutthroat affair for the hundreds of media outlets battling to obtain one of 160 spots available on the Emmy red carpet. So who gets first choice?
Answer: "Access Hollywood," NBC's nationally syndicated entertainment show. That's because it has a ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When a car spun out of control, careening off Sunset Boulevard and narrowly missing several other vehicles, it almost crashed into Lea Michele -- just as the "Glee" star was on her way to the Chateau Marmont for a Hollywood Reporter roundtable this ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's 10 a.m. on a Wednesday in the middle of a cavernous soundstage at Paramount Studios, and while the world outside is bathed in sun, everything inside is dark -- everything, that is, except for the warren of classrooms and offices that make up the set of Fox's ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - On a muggy morning in September 1944, Pfc. Eugene Sledge and the 1st Marine Division landed on a beach at Peleliu, a Pacific island between New Guinea and the Philippines, where they were attacked by 11,000 Japanese soldiers.
That moment would later be called the ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Most of what I can resurrect about that evening in 1952 was the total shock I felt when I won and Zsa Zsa Gabor lost.
I was nominated for lead actress in a comedy for my show "Life With Elizabeth," a 30-minute comedy about a husband and wife. But back ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ethan Hunt has just picked up a new Mission: Impossible team member -- and he's got a specialty in bombs.
Jeremy Renner, who starred in "The Hurt Locker," has been cast opposite Tom Cruise in the next installment of "Mission: Impossible" ...
