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Nick Counter, a longtime negotiator for Hollywood producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last year and in 1988, has died. He was 69.
A former phone company employee has been convicted of lying to FBI agents and a federal grand jury investigating wiretapping allegations against Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano.
With local, organic food, minimal electricity use and on-site composting, the Environmental Media Association's 20th anniversary party might be the green standard for future Hollywood awards shows.
Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and an associate pleaded no contest Friday to threatening a newspaper reporter who was working on a story about actor Steven Seagal's possible ties to organized crime.
The Screen Actors Guild has made permanent the status of interim national executive director David White.
Luster Bayless' life reads like a Hollywood script: The son of a dirt-poor Mississippi sharecropper who hitchhiked his way West a half-century ago and carved a niche in Tinseltown.
Actor Ken Howard, a proponent of merging two actors unions for better negotiating clout, has been elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, the union said Thursday.
YouTube, Google Inc.'s online video streaming service, is in talks with Hollywood studios to rent new release movies online, according to people familiar with the talks.
DVD copying software sold by RealNetworks Inc. appears to be an illegal pirating tool, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a legal battle that's been closely watched in Hollywood and elsewhere.
Hollywood studios are split over Redbox, the $1-per-night DVD rental kiosk company: They could supply it with cheap wholesale discs and ride its massive growth, or starve it in the hopes of preserving higher-priced purchases.
Imprisoned former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and another man have been ordered to stand trial on felony charges in Los Angeles.
A Georgetown University student was arrested for DUI in Hollywood, Fla., after a police car rear-ended her. Charges were dropped after dash-cam footage indicated that cops tried to frame her for the incident: “I knew that’s not what happened that night,” she said.
Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild voted to declare its opposition to the planned closure of an historic motion picture home where many well-known actors have spent their last days.
NEW YORK - Next week, Tori Spelling will trade in her diaper duties for an hour of dishing and discussion with Kathie Lee Gifford. The Oxygen star and "Mommywood" author will guest co-host the fourth hour of TODAY alongside Gifford, Monday, July 20 through Wednesday, July 22. Spelling will be filling in for co-host Hoda Kotb, who has the week off.
Jurors recommended a life sentence Wednesday for Jesse James Hollywood for orchestrating the kidnap-murder of a 15-year-old boy that inspired the movie "Alpha Dog."
Jurors have recommended life in prison for Jesse James Hollywood in the kidnap-murder of a 15-year-old boy that inspired the movie "Alpha Dog."
A jury on Thursday was set to consider the case of Jesse James Hollywood, who is accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old boy over a drug debt then ordering his death and going on the run for years, a string of events that inspired the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog."
If Hollywood were a poker game, this summer's question would be: Can a pair beat one of a kind?
In a June 15 story about DF Indie Studios, The Associated Press reported erroneous claims by the company and founders Mary Dickinson and Charlene Fisher. In a news release and in interviews, DF Indie Studios and the founders said their movies will be produced by such Hollywood figures as Ridley and Tony Scott. Dickinson and Fisher also said they had $300 million in loans and distribution deals and were halfway to raising $100 million in equity. However, DF Indie Studios now acknowledges that it has not finalized its line of credit, its equity investments or all of its distribution deals. And a representative for the Scotts' production company says it has no business or contractual relationship with DF Indie Studios.
An admitted marijuana supplier testified Tuesday that he and two friends grabbed a 15-year-old boy off a street nine years ago but said a cohort acting without his knowledge later killed the boy whose slaying inspired the movie "Alpha Dog."
A self-styled independent movie studio is announcing its launch Monday by putting together the two things that independent films lack most: distribution and financing.
After a year of nasty infighting, members of the Screen Actors Guild decided by a large margin that the show must go on.
A 25-year veteran of the film industry, William Gilpin lived in Los Angeles his entire life until he moved to New Mexico at the end of 2007. The construction coordinator works on cable network AMC's hit series "Breaking Bad," about a chemistry teacher who turns to a life of drug-dealing after being diagnosed with cancer.
Jesse James Hollywood ordered the murder of a 15-year-old boy after kidnapping him to force the teen's half-brother to pay a $1,200 drug debt, a prosecutor said Friday during opening statements in the case that was made into the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog."
A former FBI agent was sentenced Thursday to one year of probation for using the bureau's computers to dig up information on Hollywood executives involved in a prominent wiretapping case.
Inhofe: 2009 is Year of the SkepticInhofe's speech to the Environment and Public Works Committtee. One thing I'll say about Inhofe: he does not quit.
The Mao The Merrier Anita Dunn may be leaving with her little red book, but her husband enters as the next White House counsel, bringing experience in suppressing dissent, assaulting the First Amendment and limiting speech. While serving as White House communications director, she was the commandi …
'2012' destroys worldwide box officeIn a stunning international debut, the apocalypse thriller hauled in over $220 million in one weekend.
A university student’s effort to “Drop the petition for Roman Polanksi's release” is gaining public attention, and has resulted in at least one celebrity withdrawing their name from French philosopher’s Bernard-Henri Lévy’s petition calling fo …
"This Is It" earned $101 million worldwide; No. 1 but disappointmentThe latest buzz of Sony's Michael Jackson documentary, "This Is It," did not thrill large crowd of audience in North America....
Inside the Beltway - Washington Timesjon Voight's back in the political shoving match with a Tea Party
Inside the Beltway - Washington TimesThe GOP is in shambles. But then again, so is the Democratic party. Plus, Condoleezza's American movie.
Stars . Then and now. (46 pictures) But it is interesting anyway. Even if you have seen these pictures hundtreds of times already. So one more time. Young celebreties and their older copies :)
Gore Vidal: Thirteen-year-old Roman Polanski rape victim was a "hooker"Author Gore Vidal says he refuses to feel any sympathy for Roman Polanski's rape victim, whom he dubs a "hooker."
Inside the Beltway - Washington TimesSean Penn and Michael Douglass go to Cuba.
EMBARGOED-U.N. needs more muscle in environment fight-studyGlobal Climate Change
Taylor Lautner's Shirtless Pics: A Hollywood Double Standard?Remember the huge uproar in April 2008, when 15-year-old Miley Cyrus appeared in "Vanity Fair" wrapped in a sheet, with her right shoulder and the top of her back visible, implying that, under the sheet, she wasn't wearing a shirt? That week, the cover of the New York Post read " …
Oscar winning director angrily quits the Church of ScientologyWhichever way you look at it, the past few weeks have been tricky for the Church of Scientology's normally-smooth PR machine.
Showrunners Outraged At Dumbass Emmy Change- WGA Charges "Clear Violation Of Longstanding Agreement"Los Angeles – Writers are overwhelmingly opposed to the short-sighted attempt by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to remove any of the live presentations of writing awards from the Primetime Emmys.
Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers Banned From Twitter?While we haven't seen this explicitly confirmed by the actors themselves, it seems that the folks at DreamWorks want to make sure Diaz and Myers will keep mum about the new Shrek sequel, in which they'll both be starring next year.
The Nobel-Hollywood Complex Implodes :: Noemie Emery Three times in the past several weeks, fortune has seemed to beam on conservatives, in unexpected and unprompted ways. Not that they've won much, but their tormentors keep losing.
Best & Worst Horror RemakesWith The Stepfather remake preparing to hit/stab/slice/chop theaters across the country, we here at IGN decided to bust out a few of the best and worst horror remakes of the last several years (in other words, from this century) to see which held up…and which didn't.
The Roman Polanski Case: Once Again, It's Hollywood vs. AmericaHollywood and its Jewish sensibility.
The top-three grossing movies so far this year were all released this summer: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The Polanski Culture: Sexualizing ChildrenThe vocal, sanctimonious Free-Polanski uproar is merely a symptom of an entertainment culture infected with a moral cancer – a culture that regularly practices up on the screen what we've heard them preach this last week on behalf of a confessed child rapist.
Recently I was watching some bad movie or other on television with my wife when she looked over at me and made the following statement: "You'd watch anything wouldn't you?"
Give Peace a Seat at Cabinet TablePolitical Liberty is to be found in Moderate Governments
Roman Polanski: Swiss 'regret' not making arrest earlier Switzerland would have arrested film director Roman Polanski on earlier visits to the country if justice authorities had been aware of his presence, a Swiss minister said.
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