Daniel Frankel
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Viacom & Endemol to Launch New Female-Targeted Euro Channel, Blink!
Positioned primarily in Europe, Blink! will target women ages 16-49 and launch with a pilot program in Poland
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Robert Greenblatt, Kevin Smith, Darren Star Highlight PGA Conference Lineup
Third annual Produced By Conference is scheduled for June 3-5 in Los Angeles; Morgan Freeman and Larry Gordon also on the speaker list
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LucasFilm Releases … Druuumroll … New ‘Star Wars’ Blu-ray Boxes!
Yep, when you’re talking “Star Wars,” even the box art can stir up buzz — a point LucasFilm seems to be well aware of. Three hi-def-disc compilation releases arrive in September
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Average Movie-Ticket Price Down Slightly in the First Quarter
NATO data also shows average admissions price declined about 1 percent from the first quarter of 2010
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Relativity Sets Release Dates for Cusack’s ‘Raven,’ Farrelly/Wessler Comedy
Films are slated for the first quarter of 2012
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Comcast Movie Blog Makes Big Political Stand: Bin Laden Was ‘Murdered’
Movies.com blogger Erik Davis poses the rather provocative-for-a-simple-corporately-owned-film-fan-site question, “Should the Murder of Osama Bin Laden Become a Movie?
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NBA Playoffs: Viewers Up 32% to 4.2M for TNT’s 1st Round Coverage
Pro hoops league’s ratings way up for a fourth consecutive spring
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‘Fast Five’s’ Final Box Office Number: $86.2M
Final box office numbers reveal that Universal’s breakout hit grossed $2.6 million more than Sunday estimates
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Universal Shake-Up: Liebling Out, Cramer & Kirschenbaum In
On the Monday following a huge box-office triumph, production president Debbie Liebling is fired; Jeffrey Kirschenbaum and Peter Cramer to take over as co-presidents of production
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Why the Foreign Box Office Leads: ‘Fast Five,’ ‘Thor’ Open Overseas First
This year blockbuster films, including “Rio,” “Thor” and “Fast Five” are debuting abroad first, turning the traditional marketing machine on its head
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Trump Reacts to Beat-Down: ‘I Didn’t Know I’d Be Virtually the Sole Focus’
Appearing on “Fox and Friends” the morning after Barack Obama and Seth Meyers comically tore him a new one, the bombastic reality star said, “This is what happens to you when you’re leading in the polls” | VIDEO
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‘Fast Five’s’ Huge $83.6M Opening Kick-Starts the Box Office; Market Up 54%
Universal has its best opening ever, as its fifth car-porn-franchise installment shatters all sorts of records; Disney’s “Prom” opens to a disappointing $5 million
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SAG Creates Merger Task Force
Group set to work with AFTRA counterparts and have merger plan set for national board-approval by January
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Summit Sets Sam Worthington Thriller ‘Man on a Ledge’ for Jan. 13, 2012
Film, which co-stars Elizabeth Banks, Ed Harris and Edward Burns, will be released early next year
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DirecTV Rolls out ‘Hall Pass’ on Premium VOD
Warner comedy becomes the third title to roll out under the controversial Home Premiere scheme