Motion Picture Production and Distribution

Wendy Greuel's Private Sector Job Involved Lobbying At L.A. City Hall

As she campaigns for mayor, Wendy Greuel has repeatedly stressed one thing that distinguishes her from her top two rivals: She has private-sector experience.Indeed, Greuel's resume includes a four-year stint at DreamWorks -- something that neither Jan Perry nor Eric Garcetti can claim -- which says ... More >>

Rise of the Guardians Review: With Alec Baldwin as the Voice of Santa Claus, What's Not to Like?

Director Genndy Tartakovsky Chats About Hotel Transylvania, His Feature Debut

A Work of Shrek

Brave Review: Pixar's Latest is the Rare Family Film that Actually Has Something to Say

With her flame-colored ringlets, Merida, the barely adolescent heroine of Pixar's 13th feature, looks like a wee Rebekah Brooks, maybe a pint-size Florence Welch. Despite these resemblances, Merida remains an original: Brave, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 10th century, is the animation studio ... More >>

A Better Life: The Music and The Message

Where NOT to Go To Dinner Tonight: President Obama Has Booked Tavern

Tavern's websitethe dining room at Tavern​ As you probably know already -- hopefully, if you're going to be in a car anywhere on the Westside later today -- President Obama is in town. Why? Why do you think: the man is fundraising in a place that has historically been very kind to him. So, the ... More >>

Campaign Finance Reports Show Hollywood's New Chief Lobbyist, Former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, is No Stranger to the Movie Industry

Chris Dodd is Hollywood's new man in D.C.​It was big news  when former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd accepted a job as the chief lobbyist and top dog at the Motion Picture Association of America. Most news stories rightfully highlighted the fact that, due to  lobbying laws, Dodd can't w ... More >>

Oscar Shorts: Brief Encounters

A showcase for Academy-anointed bite-size cinema

Disney Sells Miramax Films For $660 Million

​According to the Associated Press, Disney is selling Miramax Films to Filmyard Holding, an investor group led by construction magnate Ron Tutor, for about $660 million. Disney president and CEO Robert A. Iger stated that Disney wants to focus "on the development of great motion picture under ... More >>

Outfest: 'A Marine Story,' 'BearCity' and 'Strange Powers' Win Grand Jury Awards

The Magnetic Fields​Outfest, the gay and lesbian film festival in Los Angeles, announced its audience and grand jury award winners yesterday, with the films A Marine Story, BearCity, and Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt & The Magnetic Fields earning major nods. A Marine Story, directed by Ned ... More >>

Sundance's Rebel Yell

The festival goes back to its roots — or does it?

Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

Flux Screening Series at the Hammer

Hanna-Barbera Exhibit

Paramount's Black Friday

Lesher out, Weston out, Goodman In

DreamWorks Desperately Seeking $250 Million

Snider/Spielberg secretly make Disney play, lose Universal deal in the process

AFI Fest Grows Up - Finally!

No, Er, Yes, Doubt

Hollywood's Double Whammy: SAG's Big Election and DreamWorks' New Deal

Two major shakeups

Credit Crunch Hits Hollywood Studios

Paramount Is First to Feel Financing Woes

Don't Mess With the Fanboys, Not Even for $500 Million Deals

The horror, the horror

What's Hot: Talks Between Actors and Producers Look DOA

Meanwhile, pilots are vibrantly alive

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

Oscar's picks for good things in small packages

Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus

Miss a week of Deadline Hollywood Daily? Here’s your fix!

Strike Happy

The writers want it, the moguls want it... what a bunch of idiots

Grey the Transformer

Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

Brad Grey's Performance Less Than Golden

Mogul earns scorn, not envy at Globes

Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood's Frenzied Fall

Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

The Defiant Tenant

Richard Meruelo runs into trouble over a Skid Row warehouse

Freedom of Information

Copyright and its discontents

Artifact

Hollywood Overheard

Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

Hell Hath No Fury

Exorcist: The Beginning, a story of Hollywood possession

And Stay Out

The nasty, final day of Miramax’s president

Someone Fishy

Reeling in Michael Eisner

Megaplex Monopoly

Coming to a theater near you

Can the Lion Roar?

She Shtups To Conquer

Why is Hollywood so full of whores?

Movies! Movies! Movies!

From Harlem to Hollywood

The renaissance that wasn’t

The End Is Near!

The last movies of the century

Guy, Interrupted

Writer-director James Mangold

The Auteur as Gearhead

Notes on the digital video revolution, Part One

A Dream in the Works

Alliance digs in even as a movie studio honors its job-training pledge

Hold It Right There!

City reconsiders subsidies for Playa Vista

Dream Deal

Activists strike last-minute deal with film studio

Battling for the Big Ones

Reformers get mixed results in targeting major projects

Gold Rush

Money No Enough

Asia's financial crisis has its filmmakers scrounging for dollars