With action heroes and sci-fi themes populating the fall TV schedule, studios are planning to increase the presence of their television properties at Comic-Con International.
The July 24-27 fandom mecca in San Diego will feature more than two dozen sessions promoting upcoming TV series. The events including panels for such shows as Fox’s “Fringe” and “Dollhouse,” […]

A major Hollywood studio and online search engine Google Inc on unveiled separate moves on Monday to put movie and TV-like content on the Web, highlighting the way in which both see the Internet as critical to reaching customers.
 
Sony Pictures Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corp, said it plans to make the Will Smith action […]

Disney/Pixar Writer/Director Andrew Stanton, whose last film, Finding Nemo, won the first-ever Best Animated Film Academy Award for a computer-generated movie, is back with Wall-E. Although Finding Nemo currently holds the record as Disney/Pixar’s highest-grossing movie, Wall-E, which is riding a rocket of critical acclaim, could give that film a run for the money. That’s […]

 
Hollywood loves a good sequel, but here’s one it could do without: Another union strike just months after the town got up and running again from a devastating walkout by writers.
The contract between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expires Monday, and negotiations have dragged on for weeks […]

India’s Reliance Entertainment and other investors are in talks with Hollywood’s DreamWorks SKG to raise up to $2 billion to create a movie venture, two people familiar with negotiations said Tuesday.
Dreamworks, the movie studio founded in 1994 by Hollywood moguls Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, is looking to raise a total of $2 […]

Heroes like Indiana Jones and Iron Man are conquering more than just movie villains this summer.
They’re also conquering theater owners’ fears that the flagging economy would keep movie fans away.
More theaters are instituting measures to help attract viewers despite rising gas and food prices. But it’s not always enough, with some already raising admission and […]

India’s Reliance ADA Group is in advanced talks to invest more than $500 million in a new venture with DreamWorks Pictures’ principals Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. Move would help facilitate DreamWorks’ exit from Paramount Pictures at the end of the year.
Contacted by Variety on Tuesday, Spielberg offered no comment, but did not deny […]

No Emmy for this deal: TV-miniseries kingpin RHI Entertainment Inc. priced its initial public stock offering late Tuesday at $14 a share, below the $16-to-$18 range the company had hoped to get.
RHI, based in New York, is the production house of the Halmi family — legendary producer Robert Halmi Sr. and son Robert Jr.
RHI was […]

Minnesota is in a high-stakes war between the states to lure filmmakers.
Minnesota will pay Joel and Ethan Coen $500,000 to shoot their next movie, “A Serious Man,” in the Twin Cities. Minnesota lawmakers came up with the money to induce the St. Louis Park natives to film in Minnesota instead of Wisconsin.
Minnesota was disappointed to […]

Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos may run a movie studio, but these days they feel like traffic cops, making sure 20th Century Fox’s releases don’t crash into rival films at the multiplex.
To help them through the congestion, the movie chiefs pore over whiteboards in their offices cluttered with color-coded magnetic strips showing the films set […]