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The rising clout of international audiences is a sea change for Hollywood. Foreign ticket sales represent 68% of the global market, and studios are using foreign actors and tweaking plots to lure viewers abroad.
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Walt Disney will sell its Miramax Films label for more than $660 million to a group of investors that includes construction magnate Ron Tutor.
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The rising clout of international audiences is a sea change for Hollywood. Foreign ticket sales represent 68% of the global market, and studios are using foreign actors and tweaking plots to lure viewers abroad.
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Disney named Paul Lee, the head of its ABC Family cable-television channel, to run entertainment programming for the ABC network.
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More videogame companies, angling for larger audiences for big-budget online games, are making their products free to play in the hopes they can make more money by charging players for virtual goods.
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Indian conglomerate Reliance is in talks with Universal Studios about building a $1.5 billion integrated theme park and resort in India.
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Colgate and Glaxo, which makes Aquafresh, launched dueling lawsuits in a trademark spat over nurdles, those curvy squirts of toothpaste shown on packages.
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Fox Broadcasting said Ellen DeGeneres will leave her role as a judge on "American Idol," the first of several likely changes aimed at rejuvenating the reality-TV series.
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The world of "Mad Men" was actually brought to you by a Chicago-based agency and its mercurial founder, Albert Lasker. His story is told by Jeffrey Cruikshank and Arthur Schultz in "The Man Who Sold the World."
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Washington Post is balking at selling Newsweek's to Avenue Capital, concerned about the hedge fund's plans to partner with the National Enquirer.
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