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How profitable and powerful were Adam Sandler and Will Smith in the 2000s? Their hit films 'bought our houses,' joked execs. But as audiences turned, the duo became the flashpoint [...]

CODY ALEXANDER & DEREK DOUGLAS Agents Tellingly, William Morris VP Alexander and agent Douglas see their roles as 'the anti-agent' in a business traditionally ruled by film and TV, 'because [...]

BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC DAN CARLIN Chair, Film Scoring Dept. Dan Carlin previously was known as one of Hollywood's top music editors. As chairman and CEO of Segue Music, he [...]

After a pathetic $4.5 million opening, 'Zoom' will come and go from theaters without making much of an impression. But Sony and Revolution's superhero comedy will live on in another [...]

From machinima to amateur video to blogs, the Internet is undergoing an explosion of user-created content. YouTube is streaming more than 100 million videos per day, while users upload 65,000 [...]

By Ben Fritz Microsoft is prepping a major assault on Apple's iPod/iTunes combo for the holidays. Providing only vague details, the tech giant said last week that it's working on [...]

Forrest Gump talking to JFK is cool, but Fred Astaire teaching dirty dancing isn't. That's the crux of a compromise forged Aug. 25 in the California Legislature over the so-called [...]

DONAL MCCANN Irish stage and screen actor Donal McCann, hailed as one of the greatest Irish thesps of the century, died July 18 in Harold's Cross, Ireland, after a 20-month […]

Chef Johnny Wooten and his wife Alice know good food. Both have worked in the culinary field for the majority of their lives, and they call upon that accumulated knowledge [...]

When it comes to music on portable devices, there hasn't been real competition for a long time. Apple's iPod and iTunes have the market nailed to the tune of more [...]

It's become a Sunday ritual for NBC to blanket blogs, websites and its own Hulu with clips of skits from the previous eve's 'Saturday Night Live.' Later in the day, [...]

It turns out many of 2008's top videogames were not submitted for the WGA's consideration. When the Writers Guild announced its nominees for videogame writing on Jan. 12, there was [...]

An Electronic Arts presentation of a game developed by Pandemic Studios and licensed by New Line Cinema and the Saul Zaentz Co. for the DS, PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox [...]

Young consumers overwhelmingly view all their digital devices as outlets for entertainment, but showbiz's ability to make money off these new platforms is trailing far behind the fast pace of [...]

Are videogamers getting tired of rocking out? just a few months after music games like 'Giutar Hero' and 'Rock Band' were being hailed as red-hot, many industry watchers are questioning [...]

Everything is going online at Sony. Conglom's CEO Howard Stringer pronounced at the Consumer Electronics Show Thursday that over 90% of his company's products will connect wirelessly to the Internet [...]

Apple is dropping its anti-piracy protection on iTunes, and the music biz is finally getting the variable pricing it has long desired. The two changes, which have been debated by [...]

Originality isn't paying off for Electronic Arts. The nation's biggest videogame publisher has been praised by many critics and fans for attempting to fire up its business this year by [...]

Jack Black's heavy-metal action videogame has a new tour sponsor. Electronic Arts has signed on to publish 'Brutal Legend,' a highly anticipated title starring Black that many industryites were surprised [...]

'Four Christmases' kept auds laughing while the Punisher fired blanks during the traditionally slow post-Thanksgiving frame. The real action was in the specialty market, where an ex-president joined a gay [...]

While the Punisher shoots it out with several holdovers for the No. 1 spot in the traditionally slow post-Thanksgiving frame, most of the action will be in the specialty market. [...]

A Ubisoft presentation of a game developed by Ubisoft Montreal for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Reviewed on PlayStation 3. Rated T. $50-$60 Normally, a shortage of player [...]

After losing an estimated $500 million-plus, Sumner Redstone has finally rid himself of Midway Games. The Viacom and CBS mogul sold his 87% stake in the troubled 'Mortal Kombat' publisher [...]

When it launched little more than a year ago, Brash Entertainment was the videogame industry's first Hollywood-style publisher, with a group of executives and investors drawn in large part from [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Midway presentation of a game developed by Midway and licensed by Warner Bros. for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Reviewed on Xbox 360. Rated T. $60 [...]

The videogame biz got a much-needed boost last week as Blizzard's 'World of Warcraft' expansion 'Wrath of the Lich King' set a new worldwide single-day sales record for a PC [...]

Four years ago, Sumner Redstone made a bold move into videogames by accumulating enough shares to take control of Midway Games. 'Midway is clearly a second-tier producer, but it has [...]

When NPD releases October sales figures for the videogame biz later today, the industry will be looking closely to see how much the economic crisis has affected growth in the [...]

Sumner Redstone's debt problems have claimed Midway Games' chairman. In a surprise move, the mogul's daughter, Shaft Redstone, resigned from the board of vidgame company Midway on Friday. In a [...]

When big movies don't launch globally, that usually means Japan is going to have to wait a while. When the same thing happens with videogames, it's typically America that has [...]

On the evening of Nov. 4, Americans were glued to the TV. The next afternoon, they were glued to the Internet. So it has been throughout 2008, as surging TV [...]

When Toshiba finally gave up on the HD DVD format earlier this year, many in Hollywood breathed a sigh of relief. With a distracting format war out of the way, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just how big a scare will Halloween give the movie biz? That's the question going into the weekend, as debuter 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' and holdovers [...]

Riddick and the Ghostbusters have both found a new home at one of America's oldest videogame companies. Atari has bought rights to publish the videogame sequel to 'The Chronicles of [...]

Shigeru Miyamoto has been a nearly godlike figure to avid video-gamers for more than two decades. As Nintendo's creative mastermind, he oversaw the icons that defined an industry, from Donkey [...]

David Geffen's departure from DreamWorks is complete. DreamWorks Animation announced on Tuesday that the company co-founder is ankling the toon studio's board. Move comes soon after he declined to join [...]

Plenty of other vidgames have flashier graphics and a more original story, but no interactive world has ever felt quite so alive as 'Fable II,' where many paths are open, [...]

Universal Pictures has acquired screen fights to the Electronic Arts videogame 'Army of Two.' The studio is looking to fast-track the project to begin production in 2009 and has set [...]

It's been a long time since Electronic Arts bet on a big unknown. Since the early part of the decade, the nation's largest videogame publisher has focused primarily on sports [...]

Thomas Tull is Brash no more. The Legendary Pictures topper has resigned from the board of Brash Entertainment, the videogame publisher he co-founded last year after helping to raise $400 [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'Halo' is coming back, this time without Master Chief. At the Tokyo Games Show on Thursday, Microsoft unveiled the newest game in its ultra successful shooter franchise: 'Halo [...]

Take-Two is staying solo. The 'Grand Theft Auto' publisher announced Thursday that it has ended its review process for potential acquirers or strategic deals. Take-Two previously said it was in [...]

Zaek Snyder is the latest helmer to play in the videogame world. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The '300' director has signed a deal to develop three original games for Electronic Arts, the [...]

While one DreamWorks departs Paramount, another is staying put, at last for a few more years. DreamWorks Studios may be re-launching with a new infusion of cash, but DreamWorks Animation [...]

Online videogame company Trion World Network has raised a monster $70 million third round of funding from sources including NBC Universal and Time Warner, while struggling Sumner Redstone-owned Midway Games [...]

An MTV and Electronic Arts presentation of a game developed by Harmonix Music Systems for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Reviewed on Xbox 360. Rated. T. $50-$60 [...]