Mike Medavoy

The Shanghai International Film Festival kicked off Saturday night by honoring a native-son turned Hollywood producer, Mike Medavoy....

Legendary Entertainment has hit a snag on its voyage into the Chinese movie market....

President Obama could face an anti-SOPA backlash from backers in Hollywood over his administration's stance on the controversial anti-piracy bills that have sparked a massive online protest....

The inspiring tale of endurance and survival that 33 Chilean miners lived through last year may soon be a major motion picture. One of the big BIG shots among Hollywood producers, Mike Medavoy, has scored the rights, and has hired the fellow who wrote &#...

Legendary Pictures' new Chinese film venture will trade publicly on the Hong Kong stock market in an agreement that initially values the company at $441 million and provides it with a $220.5-million cash infusion. Legendary East, which intends to produce....

A sentimental semi-autobiographical tale, Ray Bradbury's “Dandelion Wine” has been put on the stage and inspired more than a few “Twilight Zones,” the sentimental ones. A local theater company even mounted a musical version of it...

Jean-Luc Godard, who's getting an honorary Oscar on Nov. 13, is suddenly back in the news, although not with the sort of media attention likely to burnish his image. Last month, the Jewish Journal put Godard on its cover, asking......

A few fun surprises in this morning's Indie Spirit Award nominations. “Greenberg,” Ben Stiller's terrific March turn as an out of sorts fellow who has a sort-of–affair with a lost and lonely young woman, was remembered. Stiller and Greta...

In late January 1991, fax machines were humming all across Hollywood, spreading the news that Jeffrey Katzenberg, then head of production at Disney, had written a scalding, often self-critical 28-page memo blasting the movie industry's “tidal wave...

The usual suspects' named were trotted out when the nominations for the 83rd Academy Award were announced this morning. We're talking “The Social Network,” “Black Swan” “The King's Speech” (12 nominations, leading the...

May 22 (TheWrap.com) - Once he wraps the Boston-set gangster movie "Black Mass" director Barry Levinson will fly halfway around the world to film an untitled love story that will be set in Shanghai. Shanghai Film Group is financing the mid-budget movie,...

May 03 (TheWrap.com) - "Jekyll & Hyde" will call it curtains on May 12, seven weeks before it was originally slated to end its limited Broadway run. When the Victorian tale of duality closes it will have played for 15 previews and 30 regular...