The ABC series “GCB,” which drew the ire of religious groups for its often nasty portrait of Christians, won’t be coming back for a second season. The show, which stars Leslie Bibb, Annie Potts and Kristin Chenoweth, featured morally dubious
This is the first of a series of articles profiling films and filmmakers showing their work at the 2012 G.I. Film Festival being held May 14-20 in Washington, D.C. A dramatic film and a unique documentary at this year’s G.I,
It has become a familiar pattern in states that have sacrificed long-term financial stability for short-term political expediency. As predicted by many economists, states that have not already begun to deal with unfunded liabilities and out of control spending are showing
It’s been a couple of days, but I just have to respond to this Vulture piece about how Hollywood can lure more people into the movie theatre. There’s nothing political or partisan about the piece, it’s just wildly out of
HBO has had better humpdays. The pay cable giant is in the headlines today, but not for reasons network suits will gleefully share at the water cooler. We first learned the network took a $35 million impairment charge hit for
For the moment, “Saturday Night Live” regular Jason Sudeikis has the Mitt Romney role all to himself on the NBC sketch series. The real Romney won’t be appearing on “SNL” this season, according to Deadline.com. The show only has three
While overall home video spending increased 2.5% in the first quarter of 2012. There is no good news here for Hollywood — at least the Hollywood terrified of streaming and Redbox: The Digital Entertainment Group may suggest that the period of
DHD: [F]our new low-cost movies open[ed] in North American [in]wide release and [are performing] worse than expected at the box office. Universal’s R-rated comedy The Five-Year Engagement (2,936 theaters) from Judd Apatow’s banner is falling victim to both Sony/Screen Gems7
CABLE RATINGS TO BREAK HEARTS OF STEWART/COLBERT FANS ‘Pawn Stars’ — #1 with 5.6 million viewers ‘Basketball Wives 4’ — #8 with 1.874 milion viewers ‘La La’s Full Court Life’ — #12 with 1.648 million viewers ‘Daily Show’ — #23
Note: Welcome to the new Call Sheet. Over the coming days and weeks we will be working with new concepts and formats. As always, suggestions are welcome. TABLET TV VIEWING PASSES COMPUTERS AS SECOND SCREEN PICK MGM GREENLIGHTS 600
DHD: Big online ticket seller Fandango called this contest early when it reported that sleeper Think Like A Man based on the bestselling book by TV/radio comedian Steve Harvey was its top-selling movie — representing a healthy 42% of Thursday’s
Deadline.com: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Harvey Weinstein, and Eva Longoria have helped raise some very big bucks for Barack Obama in 2012. The President’s re-election campaign voluntarily released a list today of its big bundler donors for the first quarter of the
BOND’S LATEST GIRL, BERNICE MARLOHE Yowza. One thing the Bond reboot has done very well is its casting of Bond girls. They have all been perfect. The key is finding a womanly woman, not these girls we see everywhere else
Overall, this weekend is down 14% over last, a rare bump in an otherwise banner and probable record box office year. The big news is that “Battleship” opened a month earlier overseas than it will here and has already made
Wednesday, Breitbart News reported that DreamWorks, the film company co-founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, had received a $200 million bailout from India’s Reliance Entertainment, a company with a questionable history and ties to the Obama administration:
Western powers pressed Syria to adhere to a ceasefire with only hours to go before the UN-backed deadline, as North Korea’s plans for a rocket launch also raised mounting concern. Foreign ministers of the Group of Eight major industrial nations
According to screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, Mel Gibson is always raging against the Jews and never intended to make “The Maccabees,” an epic about Jewish heroism, and only said he was going to in order to deflect the criticism surrounding his
Syria pounded protest hubs on Wednesday as the regime announced it would cease military operations against rebel fighters from Thursday, the day set by peace envoy Kofi Annan as the deadline for a halt to 13 months of bloodshed. Third
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday at a G-8 foreign ministers summit that she is alarmed about the “ongoing violence” in Syria on the eve of a ceasefire deadline. Clinton also said the Group of Eight powers are
STEVEN SPIELBERG’S ‘JAWS’ DEBUTS ON BLU-RAY AFTER UNDERGOING FRAME-BY-FRAME RESTORATION In the summer of 1975 I was nine and therefore old enough to still remember the phenomenon today; what it was like to wait in that long line and see
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Formula-One Grand Prix officials threatened in Bahrain Pressure grows for a new round of United Nations diplomacy for Syria Greece extends deadline for holdouts from bond swap Spain moving rapidly to become ‘the next
Syria showed no let up in assaults on protest hubs Wednesday as peace envoy Kofi Annan said there was still a chance to salvage a peace plan for a complete halt to hostilities within 24 hours. Activist group the Local
Syria faced a deadline Tuesday to withdraw its forces from urban areas as Washington said Damascus had shown no sign of complying with a peace deal amid fierce clashes that killed more than 100. Fighting spilled over into neighboring countries
Other than the fact that there are 2.1 billion Christians in the world and Hollywood chose not to produce a single film aimed at that demographic during the holiest weekend of the year, there’s no real news here. Actually, that isn’t
In celebration of the 60th anniversary, ‘A Street Car Named Desire’ will debut on Blu-ray Book April 10. The classic is being released on Blu-ray along with 40-pages filled with dazzling photos, film history trivia and more. The set, with bonus features
