Hollywood

  • Keeping Young Hollywood Real

    With two working parents in American families almost a must in this terrible economy, travel and family outings are the first things cut out of the household entertainment budget. What do we have left to fill our leisure time with? Television and movies – we all still depend on Hollywood to keep us entertained and…

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  • Hard Knocks Hollywood: Howard Gordon of ’24’

    I keep on feeling that we’re pulling things out of our butts.

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    Howard Gordon (to Eric Estrin)

  • Super Bowl winner is . . . Hollywood

    Having watched every play of Super Bowl XLIII Sunday, I can honestly say that it was perhaps the best game in the history of this storied championship. Perhaps far more important, did you happen to catch the game within the game? While the Steelers and the Cardinals fought to the bitter end in a hard-hitting…

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    David T. Friendly

  • Senate Defeats Effort to Give Movie Makers a Tax Break

    The Senate voted 52 to 45 today to strip from the  massive stimulus package a $246 million provision that would have allowed the film industry to take accelerated depreciation on equipment costs in 2009. The movie industry, already hampered by a credit crunch that makes it harder for filmmakers to raise capital, wanted parity with…

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    Johanna Neuman

  • Hollywood 2.0 with Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO of IAC/InteractiveCorp

    TheWrap talks to Barry Diller about the challenges posed to Hollywood by the Internet.

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  • A Partial List: Recession Hits the Entertainment Industry

    (This table of business casualties is part of  "Hey Hollywood, Welcome to your future.")   Oct. 2008:   Time, Inc. lays off 600 workers, or 6 % of its workforce.   Dec. 2008:   NBC/Universal cuts spending by $500 million, lays off 70 executives and cuts 500 positions across the entire company.   Dec. 9,…

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