• Favreau, Downey Jr. Open Up on ‘Iron Man 2’

    “I compare this with ‘Hamlet’ — and this is the second act, and a lot of the characters have to make a choice.”

    Favreau, Downey Jr. Open Up on ‘Iron Man 2’
  • Ari Emanuel: Hollywood’s Next Don

    Rahm’s younger brother is vying to become the next industry strongman — but does he have the muscle?

  • SXSW Completes Lineup With ‘MacGruber,’ White Stripes Doc

    Soderbergh pic, “Mr. Nice,” “The People vs. George Lucas” also set to screen at Austin festival

  • Favreau at ‘Iron Man’: Fans Have Been Punished by Studios

    Robert Downey Jr. has a warning for “Iron Man” fans. Strap yourselves in for “2.” “We’ve upped the stakes,” Downey told TheWrap. “We didn’t take ourselves seriously but we took the storytelling very seriously.”  Fans watching the footage previewed by director Jon Favreau and most of the cast at Comic-Con 2009 on Saturday afternoon confirmed…

  • New Rules on Salvaging Your PR Image

    Note to Michael Vick: Your PR image rehab campaign bites. As someone who’s genetically incapable of understanding football, the fact that I know so much about Vick says a lot about the reach of his despicable celebrity. Vick’s the newest poster child for that infamous club of talent who really, truly, badly screw up and want…

  • 8 Great Jobs for Jon Gosselin

    A talk show with Roman Polanski and Kanye, a special spot on “Runway” …

  • Producer Barry Mendel’s Hollywood Breakthrough

    “I decided to become the most well-versed person in the room,” he tells TheWrap.

    Producer Barry Mendel’s Hollywood Breakthrough
  • ‘Funny People’s’ Mendel Boned Up for the Biz

    Historically, few Hollywood agents have become successful film producers, and probably none in the past 50 years has done better than Barry Mendel, whose Judd Apatow film “Funny People” opens this week. Twice nominated for Oscars, (“The Sixth Sense,” “Munich”), Mendel began agenting as a way to learn the business while figuring out his true…

  • Remake These …

    "The '90s are totally fair game,” so says one exec of the next phase of the remake craze in Tuesday’s rather depressing article in the Hollywood Reporter. Running through the list of remakes scheduled is like a hit-list of Generation X’s favorite 1970s and ‘80s flicks — which is precisely why thirty- and fortysomething suits,…

  • Ferocious Cuts At HarperCollins; Book-Land Reels

    The cutbacks at HarperCollins felt like they were aimed at erasing the legacy of former CEO Jane Friedman. But maybe her innovations were a victim of the market.

  • ‘FDR: American Badass!’ Trailer Will Give Historians Nightmares

    Barry Bostwick portrays our nation's 32nd president as a werewolf-battling brawler in the upcoming "FDR: American Badass!"

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