Financing for DreamWorks Studios' partnership with one of India's richest men was finalized Monday, giving Steven Spielberg and partner Stacey Snider money to resume making movies.
DreamWorks Studios will back out of plans to produce a movie about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. unless King's three surviving children settle their differences over the deal, the studio said Wednesday.
Walt Disney Studios has reached a distribution deal with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios, the companies announced Monday.
It's a no-brainer why DreamWorks wants to ally with Walt Disney.
"The Screening Room" puts the creature in feature as we take a look at our top monster movies.
The director joins Brad Pitt in fighting the California proposition that would ban gay marriage
Big banks only recently got into the business of moviemaking. Now, some are bailing out
I am so proud of everyone who turned out to Monday's premiere of the film "Tropic Thunder" to protest its unfortunate and humiliating portrayal of people with intellectual disabilities.
He armors himself, keeps other people guessing and likes to wear a mask.
Is a reported deal teaming up the legendary director's Dreamworks studio with a cash-rich Indian entertainment company the wave of the future?
Financing for DreamWorks Studios' partnership with one of India's richest men was finalized Monday, giving Steven Spielberg and partner Stacey Snider money to resume making movies.
DreamWorks Studios will back out of plans to produce a movie about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. unless King's three surviving children settle their differences over the deal, the studio said Wednesday.
Walt Disney Studios has reached a distribution deal with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios, the companies announced Monday.
It's a no-brainer why DreamWorks wants to ally with Walt Disney.
"The Screening Room" puts the creature in feature as we take a look at our top monster movies.
The director joins Brad Pitt in fighting the California proposition that would ban gay marriage
Big banks only recently got into the business of moviemaking. Now, some are bailing out
I am so proud of everyone who turned out to Monday's premiere of the film "Tropic Thunder" to protest its unfortunate and humiliating portrayal of people with intellectual disabilities.
He armors himself, keeps other people guessing and likes to wear a mask.
Is a reported deal teaming up the legendary director's Dreamworks studio with a cash-rich Indian entertainment company the wave of the future?
Shrek, E.T. and Scarface make the list
Boosted by immense star power, the L.A. team beat Boston, 87-81
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes -- from the gun-packing maverick who shoots first and asks questions later to the unlikely hero, blinking with surprise at his newly found ass-kicking skills.
It's been a long, long time since the last "last" time: When Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr. rode off into the sunset in May 1989, courtesy of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," the Berlin Wall was still standing, George H.W. Bush was only four months into his presidency, and Harrison Ford was just a young whippersnapper of 46.
At its premiere, the new Indy gets more cheers at the start than the end. But TIME finds the old franchise winningly updated
Organizers of the Cannes Film Festival say Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting will lead this year's streamlined competition
When one of the world's greatest movie directors and most creative minds decides to make a video game, what is he looking for? Just something he can play with his kids.
Unless they happened to have adolescent daughters, it's unlikely that many Hollywood executives donned funny glasses the first weekend in February to catch the film debut - in glorious 3-D - of Disney's tween TV and pop star Miley Cyrus, better known to fans as Hannah Montana. But come Monday, there were high-level meetings all over town to deal with its impact. "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour" opened small, on only 683 screens. But thanks to packed theaters and premium ticket prices ($15 to $24 each), it booked $31 million. That's $45,000 per screen - a Hollywood record.
Michael Jordan and Neil Diamond each paid $150 million to divorce their wives
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Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's decision to quit the Beijing Olympics over the Darfur crisis is drawing condemnation by China's state-controlled media
Steven Spielberg's decision to withdraw from his position as an artistic director for this summer's Beijing Olympics over the country's policies in Darfur is drawing fire from China's state-controlled media and its public, reports the Associated Press.
The director's withdrawal from the 2008 Olympics was a public relations disaster for Beijing, but China could have bigger problems on its hands if others follow
Steven Spielberg led the FBI straight to a stolen $700,000 Norman Rockwell painting someone snatched from a Missouri gallery. It was in his collection in California.
Candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama draw an Oscar-worthy crowd
They've been around for years -- but are 3D movies set to make a comeback? Although basic 3D technology has been around since the 1890s, the availability of 3D screens and 3D movies has been relatively limited. But now, companies such as IMAX (Canada), Dolby and REAL D (United States) are promising a renaissance of 3D films by creating viewing systems which provide flawless performances at the cinema.
It's that time of year for seasonal trips to the movies, and to celebrate, the Screening Room is taking a look back at our favorite family hits over the years.
Movie deaths can be tragic, heroic, spine-chilling -- even funny. This month, we've brought together our favorite screen exits, from Psycho to Bambi.
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and now ... Madonna.
The Los Angeles County sherriff's department has arrested a man for selling stolen goods from Steven Spielberg's production office.
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. head Jeffrey Katzenberg said Wednesday that Viacom Inc. shouldn't be nonchalant about the possibility of losing Steven Spielberg.
Construction is on track for the 2008 Games, but is Beijing ready for the environmental and political challenges?
Electronic Arts Inc. Tuesday unveiled the first details of original video games in development in a collaborative project with Academy Award winning director and producer Steven Spielberg.
The most expensive toy commercial ever made, "Transformers," Michael Bay's live-action film about the surprisingly durable Hasbro product line, is long, loud and altogether less than meets the eye.
What do Hugh Hefner, Jennifer Aniston, Jerry Springer, and Mr. Spock have in common?
Last spring, green-design guru William McDonough got a mysterious call from Steven Spielberg. Though Spielberg didn't explain why, he invited McDonough to visit him in Los Angeles. McDonough went -...
Ever drive through a really wealthy neighborhood and wonder how those people got there? Sure, some inherited their way to the top, but once you put aside your initial envy you know that's not true of most of them. These people made it.
Film director Steven Spielberg and TV producer Mark Burnett are teaming up on a new series due in the summer of 2007, according to a news report Friday.
QUESTION: I wanted to see Steven Spielberg's movie Munich, but my wife didn't want me to go. She believes a director who tries to be as fair to terrorists as to the people who hunt them down is mo...
It has been the subject of controversy and the subject of jokes -- how many times have you heard variations on "I wish I knew how to quit you" or seen parodies of its poster? -- but mostly "Brokeback Mountain" has been the subject of honors.
More guys want Jessica Alba for their girlfriend than any other woman, according to AskMen.com's top 99 list for 2006.
"Munich" is a masterpiece.
Steven Spielberg has called his new film, "Munich," "a prayer for peace." But -- probably much to his dismay -- the film has provoked war, a war of words if not of deeds.
Some big names in show business are getting behind some big "robots in disguise."
At a traffic intersection in blue-collar New Jersey, the pavement buckles and shakes, a church front shimmies away from its walls, and a dark metallic body that looks like a giant robot squid bursts, as if born, from the earth, rising up over the block with its trio of deadly tentacles, its plated pterodactyl head, its glowing spotlight eyes.
There's a reason certain stars get eight figures to appear in a film, and it's not talent.
H.G. Wells' alien invasion story "The War of the Worlds," first published in 1898, is a looking glass for the fears of the times.
"Courage and stupidity." That's what Steven Spielberg says he was full of when he filmed "Jaws." At 27, he was brave enough to take on Peter Benchley's killer-shark megaseller, but he was too naive to realize that his mechanical man-eater would malfunction to the point where he'd dub it ''the Great White Turd.''
Summer in Hollywood usually hits in early May, when the big-budget action-adventure flicks, comedies and epics start hitting the multiplex. Between then and Labor Day weekend, the movie industry makes more than half its money.
The story is told in Peter Biskind's chronicle "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" of an early screening of "Star Wars."
No, says director Mike Nichols, he wasn't trying to create a cultural icon or even a film that would captivate some members of the under-30 generation in 2005 just as powerfully as it had in 1967.
Looking for Mr. Romance?
On the heels of Shrek 2's success ($425 million in ticket sales), DreamWorks Studios is gearing up for the $650 million IPO of its animation division. But is it the end of the celebrated partnershi...
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
One of the great things about having a passion for film is those rare moments when a movie reminds you of why you fell in love with the medium in the first place.
Ricky Gervais, co-creator and star of BBC situation comedy "The Office," has been named best comedy actor at the Golden Globe Awards for his painful portrayal of an ineffective middle manager.
Just because you're afraid of having your identity stolen doesn't mean you're paranoid. Last year 161,819 people notified the Federal Trade Commission that they'd been victims of identity theft--an...
Another crook in the ranks of corporate execs? Yes, but this is different: Connecticut-based Trilegiant, which sells credit-monitoring products, recently hired Frank Abagnale because of his crimina...
A.I., Steven Spielberg's new film about a robot who can love, seems to have about as much verisimilitude as his dinosaur movie. It features Jude Law as a robot gigolo, and David, a disturbingly lif...
When Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jill Krutick upgraded Disney, citing the "psychological impact" of Pearl Harbor, it raised more than a few eyebrows. After all, can one movie, even a blockbuster, ...
Quite frankly, there's nothing a tech enthusiast like me enjoys more than speculating about which new computer gadgets would make great gifts for my wife, my kid, the rest of my family and, well, m...
Now that the masters of hype have decided they can't make online films fly, Internet entertainment executives are wondering who can. Earlier this month two of Hollywood's most cutting-edge studios-...
You probably heard that institutional investors just snapped up $55 million worth of 7.9% 10-year bonds backed by the estimated future royalties of rock icon David Bowie. Turns out the offering may...
So I find myself astride a hog-size mechanical cock-roach inside the Los Angeles Convention Center, surrounded by the din of a thousand videogames, reflecting on the growing pains of the $8 billion...
When Jerry Breslauer first visited a small educational-software company called Knowledge Adventure, he didn't mention that he was scouting the place as a possible investment for Steven Spielberg, w...
The vitality of America's mid-size companies is one of this country's better- kept secrets. Reason: Securities analysts generally concentrate either on multibillion-dollar behemoths or small, --ash...
SOFTIMAGE ''I dream for a living,'' director Steven Spielberg once said. Turning those dreams into movies is big business for Softimage. The Montreal company writes the 3-D graphics software that l...
Your servant recently let himself get honeyfogled into attending a performance of Hook, the $65 million (estimated production cost) filmic fantasy directed by Steven Spielberg. Steve was working in...
Practicing for a five-day cheerleading competition in Dallas, 14-year-old Karen Immerman and five of her friends ran through routines in Karen's front yard. To help the girls perfect their performa...
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