Dustin Hoffman, Anne Hathaway, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Meg Ryan, Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts all have something in common, and it involves internet giant Amazon. Audible.com, owned by Amazon, has hired all of these major actors — and others–see…
Streaming service Hulu is slated to receive second-round bids this week, but a sale is looking less likely as the service’s owners debate the demands around the bids, reports TheWrap.com’s Sharon Waxman. The leading candidate is likely to be Dish…
The Online Network — the recently named network where Prospect Park is mapping out plans to keep the canceled soap operas “One Life to Live” and “All My Children” going — announced that Ron Carlivati, head writer and consulting producer…
The former entertainment chief for the CW network, Dawn Ostroff, is in talks for a new position, the New York Post reports. The new job is with publishing house Conde Nast. According to sources, the new position would involve working…
One of the cast members of Bravo’s "Real Housewives of New Jersey" has reportedly quit the reality series, according to People magazine. Jacqueline Laurita, who has been rumored as one of the cast members who would not be invited back…
Even as it loses customers in the wake of recent pricing and branding moves, Netflix remains deeply entrenched in Americans’ lives, a new study reveals. The report finds that more than one-third of Americans age 13 to 54 — 35%…
In Monday’s episode of CBS’s "Two and a Half Men," the new star of the show, Ashton Kutcher, snuck a plug into the show for some of his off-screen business concerns — Foursquare, Flipboard and GroupMe — as previously reported….
Momentum is building for an investigation into Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission, Multichannel News reports. Among the latest groups calling for a probe are the ACLU, the Center for Digital Democracy, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American…
The HBO marketing executive behind the debut campaigns for "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones" plans to step down at the end of the year, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. Courteney Monroe, who is currently HBO’s executive vice president…
Here’s quite a prediction we read about this afternoon at Barron’s website: "[Analyst] Collins Stewart’s Mayuresh Masurekar, who rates Amazon shares Neutral, this afternoon writes that the Fire could be a prelude to Amazon buying Netflix’s streaming operations: ‘We believe the…