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Which TV Stars Pull in the Most Dollars Per Episode?
Even in the world of television actors we find the “haves” and the “have nots.” A few cast members on The Big Bang Theory might land in the “haves” section in a very big way, with series stars Jim...
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Kanye West: I’m “No. 1 Rock Star on the Planet”
Poor Kanye West. He isn’t taken seriously as a fashion mogul. People don’t see him as the biggest rock star to ever walk the face of the planet. Nike didn’t renew his shoe line. And the general public...
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A Salary Dispute is Holding up the Entourage Movie
We’ve heard the line from Entourage producer Mark Wahlberg about when the long-planned big-screen version of the HBO comedy can actually start shooting: “As soon as them guys stop being so greedy.”...
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Michael Jackson Reclaims Title of Top-Earning Dead Celebrity
Forbes knows money. They know, for example, how much money dead celebrities are still raking in — they’ve even ranked them. Which is how we know that Michael Jackson (or, rather, his estate) earned...
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How Bryan Singer Would Cast The Usual Suspects Today
And that, folks, is how you make a Twitter chat interesting. Director Bryan Singer spent time Monday promoting the Tuesday trailer release of X-Men: Days of Future Past via a Twitter chat with fans....
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That Mysterious J.J. Abrams Trailer? It Was for a New Book
The spooky stranger with his mouth sewn shut in the summer trailer from J.J. Abrams has started to at last spill some secrets. As we surmised in August, the out-of-the-blue trailer with an apparently...
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The Hunger Games Sequel Goes Way Over Budget — Studio Not Worried
It seems even the money is catching fire when it comes to The Hunger Games sequel. While the original The Hunger Games has grossed over $400 million domestically and $691 worldwide since March 2012 on...
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Time Warner Cable is the Loser in its Battle Against CBS
It turns out that CBS was right when it warned Time Warner Cable (TWC) that not carrying its programming—which include Showtime and the Smithsonian Channel—would hurt the cable giant more than the...
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White Females at Highest Risk In Horror Films
That white females, usually young, are the victims of choice among the killers and monsters that stalk the innocent in horror movies should come as absolutely no surprise to fans of the genre. But now...
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Trailer for The Lego Movie Is Funniest of 2013
The lyrics in the trailer’s background—“everything is awesome”—says all you need to know about The Lego Movie, set for a Feb. 7 release. Chris Pratt voices Emmet, the orange brick-man dubbed “The...
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Zombie-Film Legend George Romero is Not a Fan of The Walking Dead
When you’re a horror-film legend like George A. Romero, you’ve got certain clout. And Romero used that clout to not only decline a chance to work on AMC’s The Walking Dead, but to let the world know...
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The FCC May End Its Sports Blackout Rules
What started as a rule to protect professional sports teams has now turned into a tussle between network and cable television. While the FCC debates lifting its nearly 40-year-old rule that blacks out...
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Are Foreign Audiences Cooling on Hollywood?
It wasn’t that long ago that the lion’s share of a movie’s box-office haul came from tickets sold in North America. But markets overseas have become an increasingly significant part of a film’s...
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White House to Respond to Jimmy Kimmel-Protest Petition
President Barack Obama won’t be calling a press conference to discuss Jimmy Kimmel’s recent Kids Table debacle that included a youngster suggesting we “kill everyone in China.” But the White House will...
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Disney Adding Video Game Flavor to Theme Park Attractions
A Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster in the hands of a 7-year-old on a Disneyland attraction looks like it belongs in a video game. It should. It was designed to be that way. During this week’s GDC Next...
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Ridley Scott’s Next Movie May Deal With Concussions in Pro Football
Ridley Scott, whose last two efforts were a deep-space horror film (Prometheus) and an existential thriller (The Counselor) chose a topic more grounded in reality for his potential next project: A...
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Today’s Trailer: Dr. Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Day of the Doctor — a 75-minute special marking the 50th anniversary special of the venerable British sci-fi series — is so big that it will be simulcast into theaters around the globe. In fact,...
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The Highest-Paid Music Star of 2013 Is …
They don’t call her the Material Girl for nothing. Madonna, at age 55, raked in $125 million last year — enough to put her atop a list of the highest-earning musicians on the planet according to the...
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Today’s Movie Trailer: The Wind Rises
The new trailer for Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises fills us with not a small amount of excitement — TIME critic Richard Corliss call the tale of Jiro Horikoshi, a young...
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The 12 Best “This Is SportsCenter” Spots as Chosen by TIME and ESPN
This is a place in which professional athletes and sports-channel staffers (and more than a few team mascots) work side by side — a place where Tiger Woods roams the halls trailed by a hushed gallery,...
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