Billionaire Carl Icahn has agreed to sell all of his holdings in Lionsgate Entertainment, ending his three-year attempt to take over the film and television studio, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. In what the article calls a…
A high-powered Hollywood duo is joining forces to develop a drama series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are working on an adaptation of King’s “Under the Dome” for Showtime. DreamWorks will produce the project, which…
A former producer for ABC’s “World News Tonight” and ABC newsmagazine “20/20” has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Bernie Cohen was 84. Cohen, a Bronx native, died Saturday in New Hyde Park, N.Y., the story reports. According to the…
History’s upcoming miniseries “The Hatfields and McCoys” has added a few Hollywood mainstays to a lineup that already boasted Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton as the rival family patriarchs, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Joining the project are Tom Berenger,…
Actress Daryl Hannah was arrested today in front of the White House during an environmental protest, the Associated Press reports. Hannah and other protesters were arrested during a protest against plans to build a pipeline from Canada to the Gulf…
Oscar-winning actor George Clooney has backed out of a big-screen remake of a classic TV series, reports Deadline.com. The project, Steven Soderbergh’s remake of the 1960s TV spy series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," is still on track for Warner Bros….
TNT has picked up a new drama to be executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, with a script from Greg Plageman, the writer of CBS’s new drama series "Person of Interest," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show, "Bishop to Pawn,"…
20th Century Fox has hired a new executive VP, domestic publicity, replacing former Executive VP of Publicity and Field Marketing Carol Sewell, who left Fox in May, TheWrap reports. The studio hired Bumble Ward, the woman behind the Bumble Ward…
CNN has acquired a tech company that developed a news app for the iPad, Multichannel News reports. Terms of the deal to acquire Zite were not disclosed. It had been reported recently that CNN was looking to purchase the firm…
NBC has decided who will succeed Dick Ebersol, the former NBC Sports chairman who produced every Olympics since 1992, as the executive producer of NBCUniversal’s 2012 coverage of the London Olympics, reports Deadline.com. The network named “Today” executive producer Jim…