Jake Kasdan

Fox unveiled two of its fall comedies on Monday at the 2012 Upfronts: "The Mindy Project" starring Mindy Kaling and "Ben and Kate"...

Playwright-screenwriter Liz Meriwether, the creator and semi-inspiration for Fox’s freshman comedy “New Girl,” talks about the allure of TV, edgy language on network comedy and her writing role models....

Actor Dermot Mulroney is back to romancing on Fox's "New Girl." Show Tracker caught up with the actor and found that he too is a fan of a future Nick/Jess hookup, has never sported a skinny pony tail and, like some folks, hasn't yet seen "Smash."...

In corporate America, it's no longer a surprise to see a woman running a giant company like EBay or Hewlett-Packard. But in Hollywood, where actresses have far shorter careers than actors do, and it's accepted practice to pay male stars......

Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel hit the "Bad Teacher" premiere with Justin Timberlake and more on Monday night in New York City. Cameron Diaz opens in the raunchy comedy "Bad Teacher" on Friday....

“Dangerous Minds,” “Stand and Deliver,” “Lean on Me” — movies about heroic teachers changing students' lives, and all movies shown in Miss Elizabeth Halsey's seventh grade English class at John Adams Middle...

It's not a great addition to the Pixar canon. But “Cars 2″ is funny, fast and very kid-friendly. And in the opinion of SOME of us, that makes it an improvement over the funereal, unfunny and more adult original “Cars” from 2006....

Here's the new Fox schedule with lots of big names both in front and behind the camera. I will reprint the entire release and all the new program synopses. But I have to just take a shot at Fox chairman Peter Rice saying in the release that "nothing...

In the mid '90s, there weren't many safer bets on the West Coast for a raucous, funk-leaning good time than San Diego's Greyboy Allstars. Coalescing around the soul and rare groove sounds mined by the city's DJ Greyboy, the Allstars were part of a...

LOS ANGELES -- Stop us if you've heard this one before: HBO dominated the Emmy nominations announced Thursday morning, picking up 81 nods for viewer favorites such as "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones" as well as comedy newcomers "Girls" and "Veep."...

May 6 The Beaver A once-successful toy executive and family man suffering from depression begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet. With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Written by Kyle Killen. Directed by Foster. Summit...

From the Mike Sragow Gets Reel blog: Jason Winer directed every other episode of the first season of the award-winning ABC comedy "Modern Family." He has just made the jump to movie comedy with the forthcoming remake of "Arthur," starring Russell Brand...