After a successful 2007 and 2008, Marc Shmuger and David Linde, the co-chairmen of Universal Pictures, oversaw a series of flops this year.

There will be more meat per square foot than on the Argentine pampas when the new Sylvester Stallone vehicle, The Expendables, begins shooting soon.

Nikki Finke, former debutante turned reporter and editor, has become the blogger movie industry insiders have to read even when it hurts.

The newspaper industry is laying off thousands, even as reporters like Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times are cast as heroes in new movies like The Soloist.

While the Oscars announced Sunday brought new names to the Academy Awards roster, all but one of the major winners had been nominated or won in previous years.

Filmmaker Michael Moore is looking for “a few brave people who work on Wall Street.”

Greeted by mixed reviews, Mamma Mia! The Movie is getting its revenge - at the box office.

And now comes Obama the movie.

Apple Corps Ltd. announced the Beatles’ first foray into video games in a deal which will allow fans to play along to the Fab Four’s entire canon from Meet The Beatles to Abbey Road.

Davis Guggenheim is following in his father’s footsteps.

Oliver Stone’s much-anticipated W. does not look like the moneymaker that distributor Lions Gate Entertainment and other backers had hoped for. Still, the studio insists it will continue to back political films, in addition to its usual fare of horror and action adventures.

How hot is Tina Fey? So hot that even without a written proposal, her book agent Richard Abate fielded offers of a $5 million-plus advance for a nonfiction humor book.

Actor Paul Newman died yesterday of cancer. He was 83.

Woody Allen is on a roll. On the heels of rave reviews for his latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the 72-year-old director has broken into a new genre – Italian opera.

American Idol may be losing an executive producer, but Nigel Lythgoe, the producer behind Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, has a new show in the works.

The Creative Coalition, a nonprofit organization of well-known entertainment figures, is sending contingents to both the Democratic and Republican national conventions again this year.

British actor Michael Caine has observed that Superman is how America sees itself, and Batman is how the rest of the world sees America.

It turns out the real life of the actor who plays The Dark Knight is, well, dark.

Pixar’s latest animation, the futuristic WALL-E, gets to have it both ways: On one level, it is a jeremiad against consumerism - and especially about how we anaesthetize ourselves at our own peril by plugging into computers 24/7.

The Weinstein Company, a powerhouse film production and distribution company, has set its sights on television and theater.