THE LONGTIME HOLLYWOOD MAXIM is that he who loses his temper first loses. Well, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers pitched a... More >>

HAGGLING IS AS INTEGRAL TO HOLLYWOOD as verbal agreements are to greenlighting $200-million-budgeted blockbusters. The governing dynamics are... More >>

Talks Friendly but Unproductive “Game of Chicken”Tuesday was the day that the writers and the producers were supposed to start... More >>

BY NOW YOU PROBABLY KNOW about the survey by Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business Management in which two out of three... More >>

AMID ALL THE ON-LOCATION STUDIO and network picketing antics (kids, celebrities, even dogs, walked the line), the tragedy of the writers strike... More >>

DAYS INTO THIS STRIKE, only sources within the Hollywood moguls’ camp have discussed what really went on during 11th-hour contract... More >>

Q. What’s the timetable if the Writers Guild of America calls a strike?As of press time, the writers’ walkout may not begin when... More >>

AS THE STRIKE DEADLINE draws near, the nauseous stench of flop sweat has saturated movie and TV writers’ rooms, sound stages, and executive... More >>

I frequently write that all moguls are morons. Because I can’t believe the dreadful mistakes they commit on an almost daily basis. The... More >>

HOLLYWOOD HAS NO INSTITUTIONAL memory. One of the reasons that the vast majority of its execs aren’t in therapy, and should be, is because... More >>