LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS Corp's Showtime Networks Inc said on Thursday it has signed a deal to air movies from DreamWorks Studios, in a long-term agreement that could help restore content Showtime lost when three top studios started their own channel.
Showtime Networks reached its deal with the Walt ...More
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - TBS has cast Constance Zimmer and Kat Foster as the leads in its drama pilot "In Security."
"Security" revolves around two sisters (Zimmer, Foster) who take over their father's private-security business protecting the super-elite while dealing with personal and family issues.
Zimmer ("Entourage") plays the ...More
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Get ready for "Avatar"-plus.
James Cameron and Fox are in discussions about rereleasing "Avatar," primarily in 3D theaters, in late summer -- and, tantalizingly, with additional scenes that had been left on the cutting-room floor in the rush to ready the epic for its December 18 ...More
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Australian actor Hugo Weaving, who played bad guy Agent Smith in the "Matrix" franchise, is in talks to join the "Captain America" movie as the villainous Red Skull.
The Marvel Studios project remains in search of the actor to play Steve Rogers, Captain America's alter ...More
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Summertime moviegoers tend to vote early and, if things go well, often.
During the past five years, about 42% of annual domestic box office sales have been rung up during the summer, which the industry marks beginning the first weekend in May. With the summer slate ...More
LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - Unlike lightning, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom" does strike twice.
More than 23 years after "Phantom of the Opera" became a worldwide sensation, the British composer has delivered a sequel in "Love Never Dies." As handsome as the original and filled with infectious melodies, startling images and ...More
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu has done it. So has genome pioneer Craig Venter.
And now American film actress Glenn Close has joined a handful of celebrities to have their genome sequenced in the name of science.
Close, who stars in the FX television series "Damages" and is known for ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Football star turned actor Merlin Olsen, who was a key member of the Los Angeles Rams' defensive line nicknamed the "Fearsome Foursome," died at the age of 69 on Thursday after a battle with cancer.
Olsen died at a Los Angeles hospital, his alma matter, Utah State ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After weeks of speculation, octogenarian actress and "Golden Girl" Betty White is taking her motherly brand of humor to sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live," the show's producers said on Thursday.
White, 88, is a six-time winner of the top U.S. television awards, the Emmys ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien on Thursday unveiled plans to poke fun at being barred from television in a live comedy show that will tour U.S. and Canadian theaters starting next month.
The 30-city tour, titled "Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television ...More
