Dave McNary

In a move to pave the way for sweetening California's production tax credit program, a pair of legislative panels have scheduled an Oct. 9 oversight hearing on crafting a new...

Veteran box office tracker Paul Dergarabedian is leaving his post as president of the box office division of Hollywood.com after five years. Dergarabedian said in an email that his departure...

Fox Searchlight is trying on " The Necklace ," reteaming with "Baggage Claim" director David Talbert to adapt the 2008 Cheryl Jarvis tome of the same name. Talbert is not...

Bailey Chase , Selma Blair and Adrien Grenier will star in indie drama "Sex, Death and Bowling," with shooting starting mid-October in Los Angeles. Producers are Larry Rattner, Sig De...

Comcast Corp. has purchased 10 Universal City Plaza, the 35-story office building that looms over Universal Studios , for a reported $420 million Comcast's NBCUniversal operations already occupy a significant...

As Focus Features absorbs both the indie distrib FilmDistrict and its founder Peter Schlessel by January, Focus will be able to move into making the kind of movies that FilmDistrict...

A stagehand strike has forced Carnegie Hall to cancel tonight's opening night concert, featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra and violinist Joshua Bell . Stagehands represented by Local One of the Int....

Caucasian males remain the dominant group among TV directors, helming 72% of all primetime episodes in the 2012-13 season, according to a new report from the Directors Guild of America...

SAG-AFTRA is planning to launch its master contract talks with the studios in the spring. The union has set its first official step with the "wages and working conditions" meetings...

Taylor Hackford is on board "The Widow Clicquot," a movie project about the origins of the Veuve Clicquot champagne empire. Hackford is attached to direct and will produce with Christine...