The cost to former "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer to end his marriage to Camille–currently starring as one of Bravo’s "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"–will be a whopping $50 million, reports TMZ.com. Their 13-year marriage did not include a pre-nup, exposing…
Oscar-winning director Ron Howard plans to adapt Stephen King’s seven-part novel "The Dark Tower" as a series of feature films and a television show, reports The Washington Post. Howard has been working on the big project with producer Brian Grazer…
According to a forecast from media research forecaster Futurescape, in five years almost 40% of televisions sets produced for the U.S. market will have Internet connections and services, reports MediaPost’s MediaDailyNews. The forecast indicates that about 43 million U.S. television…
Apple is accused in a lawsuit filed Dec. 23 of allowing applications for iPhones and iPads to send users’ personal information to advertising networks without the users’ consent, reports Bloomberg News. The complaint was filed in federal court in San…
FilmOn founder Alki David says he plans to sue CBS and its CNET tech Web site, alleging the site allows "illegal distribution of DRM [digital rights management] removal software as well as the illegal distribution of file sharing software with…
Bud Greenspan, the prolific filmmaker who was best known for his coverage of the Olympics, died Saturday at the age of 84, the AP reported. Greenspan had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease. For sixty years, he chronicled the greatest athletes…
Concert promoters smarting from feeble ticket sales in 2010 are poised to reduce prices in the new year, Rolling Stone reports. The 2010 summer touring season–a traditional boom time for the live music business–was marked by poor sales, empty seats…
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has confirmed that he and his girlfriend, Playmate Crystal Harris, have gotten engaged, MTV reports. Hefner, 84, posted on his Twitter page on Dec. 24: "After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave…
Research firm SNL Kagan says 2010 was a good year for the business news cable channels, the New York Post reports. The market-leading business news network remains CNBC, which had an 11% rise from last year with expectations of $273…
Julian Assange, the embattled founder of WikiLeaks, has signed a $1.3 million deal involving publishers in the U.S. and the U.K. to write his autobiography, Digital Trends reports. The deal is for $800,000 from Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S….