It was just a matter of time before another rainbow classic from Hollywood’s golden era gets on the radar of the movie studios to be remade - or rather updated for modern audiences.
Fresh off Disney’s massive success with Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” Warner Bros. wants to remake another childhood classic. Like, really classic.
The studio [...]

Marketing, publicity, distribution, production - Sid Ganis has seemingly done it all. He got his start at 20th Century-Fox in New York City in the early 1960s, and after stints at Fox, Columbia and Seven Arts he became senior VP at Lucasfilm in 1979, and worked with George Lucas in marketing such blockbusters as “The [...]

Cable operators, you have been warned.
If anything underscores the long-term threat to cable companies’ video service from the Internet, it is Wal-Mart Stores’ purchase of Vudu — a video-on-demand (VOD) Web service. Investors in Time Warner Cable and Comcast must hope they pay attention.
The danger isn’t immediate. Vudu is one of several digital services, including Apple’s iTunes [...]

Sitting in the Off Broadway theater where he has begun to put his career back together, in the new play “Venus in Fur,” the actor Wes Bentley takes a deep breath, leans forward in his seat, and starts answering the obvious question: What happened to him after the film “American Beauty”?
Eleven years ago Mr. Bentley [...]

Long known as a confectioner of imagined worlds both tender and fantastical, director Tim Burton now sets his sights on the most classic of fairy tales - Frank Baum’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’. It’s a story plucked for Burton to be transformed into a visual journey. The movie sees 19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where [...]

One thing magazines love to do is call dibs on who will be the new “It” celebrities in the year to come. Sometimes they pick stars whose careers are destined to take off, occasionally they make incredible calls with near-nobodies who later become A-listers, and usually the majority of their picks fade into oblivion.
While we’d [...]

Sony has quantified its latest round of pink slips at 450 layoffs, or 6% of the Culver City studio’s worldwide work force.
Another 100 open positions will be eliminated. More than half of the layoffs will hit its home-entertainment division and areas of IT staffing, reflecting the continuing decline in DVD revenue. Most of the pink [...]

There’s a new crop of female rising stars in Hollywood and they’re poised to take over!
Vanity Fair is set to release its annual Hollywood issue and this year the mag features a bevy of Hollywood’s young leading ladies.
Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, Abbie Cornish, Rebecca Hall, Amanda Seyfried, Mia Wasikowska, Anna Kendrick, Emma Stone and Evan Rachel [...]

The iPod forever changed the way we listen to music: how we just dance to Lady Gaga, our state of mind about Jay-Z, the manner in which Taylor Swift belongs to us. On Wednesday (January 27), Apple introduced another sleek portable device it’s hoping will further transform how the world consumes its multimedia: the iPad.
As [...]

Reasonable people can debate the artistic merits of James Cameron’s work. Anyone for whom Arnold Schwarzenegger is a muse isn’t likely to specialize in observing the human condition, unless it’s in the aftermath of an exploding building or a run-in with a mercenary robot from the future.
What’s indisputable is that the “Avatar” director’s influence extends beyond his movie [...]