Friday Box Office: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ … 
Cannes: Worldview Options Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn … 
UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
‘Mike & Molly’ Creator Mark Roberts To … 
Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts Set For … 
Hammond On Cannes: Weinstein Brings Out Stars For 2013 … 
Cannes: Fake Gunshots Interrupt Canal Plus Live Broadcast … 
‘The Great Gatsby’ Starts With $5.4M … 
Cannes: Music Box Acquires Competition’s … 
UPDATE: Amazon Studios Begins Pilot Pickups; … 
Bruce Rosenblum Bids Classy Goodbye 
RATINGS RAT RACE UPDATE: ‘American Idol’ Hits … 
UPDATE: ‘Iron Man 3′ Box Office Crosses $1B … 
Upfront Market: Will Auto Makers Subsidize TV … 
Cannes: Thief Makes Off With $1M+ In Chopard Jewelry Meant … 
‘Scandal’ Finale On Small Screen And Onstage At … 
‘Modern Family’ Gets Cable Makeover For Launch … 
Adam Sandler To Leno: “Maybe Go To Fox” 
Anyone Care Who Won ‘American Idol’? 
Syfy’s ‘Warehouse 13′ To End Run With … 
Specialty B.O. Preview: ‘The English Teacher’, … The buzz has been “it’s not working” on this pic in recent weeks. Now Paramount, DreamWorks, and Spyglass have delayed Dinner For Schmucks originally scheduled for release on July 23 to July 30. UPDATE: An insider just told me the reasoning: “It looks like a much less competitive weekend. July 30 is Cats & Dogs 2 which is very young. Right now, July 16 and 23 are Inception, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and Salt. July 30 used to be Meet The Fockers and Morning Glory which moved back to year end. This moved into that opening.”
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James Franco Adds Summit Comedy ‘Ricky Stanicky’ To Varied Dance Card
EXCLUSIVE: James Franco, thriving as an actor in mainstream dramas, comedies, micro-budget indies, and soaps, is back on the laugh track.
He is attached to play the title role in the Jeff Bushell-scripted comedy Ricky Stanicky. Summit Entertainment is negotiating to finance … Read More »
CW Scheduling Rumor: ‘Nikita’ On Thursday
Will Nikita and Elena get together on the fall CW schedule? I hear strong ramblings that CW’s breakout hit of this season, Vampire Diaries, may be used to launch the network’s most buzzed about new series, Nikita on Thursdays.
Best Quotes Of The Day From The Upfronts
UPDATED: People attending the NBC presentation were buzzing about one line in particular from the trailer for new comedy Friends With Benefits. in it, one of the guys complains to a girl about her tongue in his mouth: ”You kiss like a hobo cleaning out a margarine container.”
Over at Fox’s presentation, Jane Lynch … Read More »
Last-Minute Fox Scheduling Buzz
We’ll have Fox’s complete schedule tomorrow morning (make sure to check us out at 8:30AM ET/5:30AM PT when I will be posting it) but for the curious minds out there, here are some tidbits I heard today. It looks like the new Mitch Hurwitz/Will Arnett comedy Running Wilde will launch … Read More »
PRIMETIME PILOT PANIC: 5TH UPDATE – What’s Still Hot For Fall
With the networks wrapping up their internal screenings, pilots are entering the final stretch when executives factor in testing and testing results as well as scheduling needs to make their picks for next fall. Here is the latest buzz on which pilots are still in contention:… Read More »
Kristen Chenoweth Jumps To Defense Of ‘Promises, Promises’ Co-Star Sean Hayes After Newsweek’s Moronic Sexuality Slam
Last Friday was such a busy day that I didn’t get to a story that has Broadway buzzing, and not in a good way. Newsweek.com carried an “exclusive” article which discussed the drawbacks of gay actors playing straight characters. The writer, … Read More »
Andrea Wong Back On The Disney Lot
A change-of-address email sent out Monday by Andrea Wong, the departing CEO and president of Lifetime Networks, got industry people buzzing about her future plans. Wong’s new office is in the Animation Building on the Disney lot, marking the former ABC top reality/late-night executive’s return to her old stomping grounds. … Read More »
Sony Moves Up Kevin James’ ‘Zookeeper’
The new date set by Sony’s Columbia Pictures for the comedy is now July 8th, 2011, not October 8, 2010 which MGM had originally slotted for it. The decision was made after a rousing test screening with “some of the highest … Read More »
Broadway ‘Fences’ With Denzel Washington And Viola Davis Deserves Film Treatment; UPDATE: Denzel May Direct It
UPDATE: Now I hear Denzel Washington is considering directing a film version of Fences. (Bravo!) The last time he helmed a pic was The Great Debaters in 2007 and, of course, Antwone Fisher in 2002. The toughest thing when great movie stars head … Read More »
Paramount Moving ‘Up In The Air’ Wide Break From Xmas Day To December 23
EXCLUSIVE: After Up In The Air scored the most Golden Globes nominations (6) including best picture, actor, director, screenplay and two supporting actress mentions, Paramount wants to take advantage of the extraordinary buzz. So it’s moving up the Jason Reitman/George Clooney pic’s … Read More »
UPDATE: First ‘Avatar’ Reviews Crashing Websites; Great Buzz On Blockbuster
BREAKING NEWS! So much for the accuracy of tracking. There’s obviously huge online curioisty about James Cameron’s 3-D latest. The Hollywood Reporter‘s glowing early review of Avatar released just now has crashed the trade paper’s website because of a Drudge Report … Read More »
First Casualty Of Comcast/GE/NBCU Deal
It’s the well-liked Rick Olshansky, head of all business affairs for the NBCU TV studio and network and who reported to Marc Graboff. Not anymore. They let Olshansky go yesterday even though a long time was left on his contract. “He’s a really good guy who basically just got a bullet to the head,” one TV … Read More »
SHOCKER! Carolina Lightcap Named President Of Disney Channels Worldwide; Heir Apparent Gary Marsh Passed Over
UPDATE: Hollywood is buzzing this morning as Disney made another unexpected in-house management move. It had been assumed that Disney Channels Worldwide entertainment president Gary Marsh would take over from his boss Rich Ross to head the … Read More »
‘Wolverine’ Easter Egg Hatches Spinoff
I have to laugh that Variety is trumpeting 20th Century Fox “developing” a Deadpool spinoff starring Ryan Reynolds. Like duh. Everyone who saw one of the two Wolverine Easter eggs knows this. SPOILER ALERT (as I do my best geek impression): Even the critics screening back on April 29th featured a final post-credits … Read More »
SHIP OF FOOLS: MPAA Uses Oscars To Boast About Runaway Production
The sad truth is that the new tax breaks agreed to by the California Legislature this week will just be used by the Hollywood studios to play one state off another since now lawmakers in 40 states have enacted some kind of filming incentives. This is driven home by today’s incredibly … Read More »
‘Watchmen’ Getting Big Advance Buzz
It was easy to forget during all that legal warring between Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox over Watchman whether the movie would actually perform well at the box office. Now a new MovieTickets.com poll finds that Watchmen topped the … Read More »
Sarah Palin Appearing On Saturday ‘SNL’
It’s definite. More details if I get them. Remember to check here for the video.
Paramount Delaying 2 Oscar-Buzzed Pics
UPDATED WRITETHRU: There’s fallout today from Paramount’s newly announced decision to release 20 movies a year. Already bigwigs are shuffling the 2008-2009 release schedule — and that has Oscar ramifications for one pic. I can tell you that DreamWorks is … Read More »
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