Cable Backlash: NPD Yanks Negative Report Amid HBO, Showtime, Starz Furor
In the face of fierce backlash from HBO, Showtime and Starz, NPD Group has temporarily pulled a report from its website claiming that premium cable channels have declined in popularity. A spokesman for...
View ArticleAvi Lerner: I Was Wrong About ‘Wolf of Wall Street’
Avi Lerner, the founder of Millennium Films and Nu Image Entertainment, admits that he made a mistake when it came to “The Wolf of Wall Street,” director Martin Scorsese’s edgy look at the...
View ArticleKevin Hart, 2 Chainz Among MTV’s Star-Studded Lead-Up to ‘Retromania: Hip...
MTV is taking the week to look back at the best in hip hop culminating in its one-hour special, “Retromania: Hip Hop” airing Saturday, Feb. 1 at 2:30 p.m./1:30c. Starting Monday, a cavalcade of stars...
View ArticleABC’s ‘Wipeout’ Renewed for Season 7
ABC has renewed its extreme competition “Wipeout” for a seventh season. The newly ordered season will now include what’s called the “Tournament of Champions,” which will round up all the season’s...
View ArticleJonah Hill Took $60,000 ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Payday Just to Work With Martin...
Jonah Hill accepted a paltry $60,000 paycheck for his Oscar-nominated work on “The Wolf of Wall Street” because it was the opportunity of a lifetime to work with Martin Scorsese, the actor told shock...
View ArticleAcademy Vows No Best Picture Tie at the Oscars
We may not know what film is going to be named Best Picture at the Academy Awards on March 2, but here’s one thing we do know: Unlike the Producers Guild Awards on Sunday, the Oscars will not end in a...
View ArticleHBO’s Gay-Themed Drama ‘Looking’ Has Limp Debut
HBO’s “Looking” debuted to not many people “looking” at it on their TV screen. The new HBO comedy-drama had a paltry 338,000 viewers at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. The new series, about three close friends...
View ArticleHow George Takei, Jimmie Walker, Ray Romano, Bob Newhart and Leslie Uggams...
PBS assembled Jimmie Walker, George Takei, Bob Newhart, Ray Romano, and Leslie Uggams for a panel on the network’s “Pioneers of Television” — a medium that might have been very different without them....
View ArticleNetflix Earnings Beat Wall Street Estimates, Stock Up
Netflix topped Wall Street estimates, releasing a robust earnings report that showed gains in profits and revenue. Revenue at the company hit $1.17 billion for the three month period ending in...
View ArticleArnold Schwarzenegger Pooped His Pants Filming ‘Predator’: 7 Other Things We...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is no stranger to Reddit AMA sessions, but he returned with a vengeance on Tuesday, and answered some of the craziest questions yet in an effort to raise money for the...
View Article’20 Feet From Stardom’
NEVILLE/FRIESEN Academy Gives ’20 Feet From Stardom’ Nominations to Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen Documentary branch committee rules that producer who died just before film’s premiere should receive a...
View ArticleDiscovery Orders Risky International Car Hunting Series ‘Chrome Underground’...
Discovery Channel is going to some of the most dangerous international locations for its newly picked-up series, “Underground Chrome,” TheWrap has learned. Premiering Tuesday, Feb. 25, the Twofour...
View ArticleArnold Schwarzenegger Goes ‘Undercover’ at Gold’s Gym for Charity: It’s His...
Arnold Schwarzenegger has promoted his charity in the best way possible: Going “undercover” at Gold’s Gym as a regional manager named Howard Kleiner. The 66-year-old former Mr. Universe put on a black...
View Article‘Call of the Wildman’ Accused of Animal Cruelty in Online Petition
A new online petition accuses the Animal Planet series “Call of the Wildman” of engaging in cruelty to animals, and is asking the network not to endanger animals in the name of ratings. Citing an...
View ArticleHow PBS’s Hillary Clinton Film Hopes to Avoid Backlash to CNN and NBC Films
Hillary Clinton TV projects have had a bad track record lately: Conservative backlash helped kill planned films about the former Secretary of State at both CNN and NBC. PBS is accustomed to being...
View ArticleCIA Spy Valerie Plame on ‘Homeland’: ‘I Think They Have Jumped the Shark This...
Outed CIA spy Valerie Plame thinks “Homeland” has seen better days. Plame’s cover was famously blown in a 2005 Robert Novak column. Until then, her mission to protect the U.S. from enemies in the...
View Article‘My Strange Addiction’ Preview: Plastic Bags Don’t Count as Square Meals...
TLC’s “My Strange Addiction” constantly amazes me with its episodes about people whose obsession extends to consuming things that just don’t fall into any of the food groups. Wednesday’s episode is one...
View ArticleNetflix CEO Reed Hastings Jokes Richard Plepler’s HBO Go Password Is ‘Netflix...
Earnings calls tend to be dry, data driven affairs, but Netflix’s recent stock surge appears to have given Reed Hastings an excuse to cut loose a little. The company’s CEO broke up analysts on...
View ArticleDisney To Release Sing-Along Version of ‘Frozen’ in Theaters (Video)
You know how your kids keeping breaking into those songs from “Frozen”? Disney does too, and Wednesday the studio said it would be releasing a special sing-along version of its animated blockbuster in...
View ArticleInside TheWrap’s Sundance Industry Panel (Photos)
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