Oscar season is about to begin (Harvey's 2014 screeners are in the mail) (1); pitchers and catchers are in full bloom. As a guy who produces movies for a living, the former feels about as interesting as Bey and Hova's latest exploits while the latter makes me literally giddy with...

I suppose it was inevitable.

For years, I'd read about scandals in various religious communities with a sense of growing dread. The words jumped out as sensationalized headlines: Cover-ups, Christians, schools, Muslims, churches, Evangelists, lawsuits Mormons, statute of limitations, victims, settlements. The details of individual cases provided unimaginable horrors...

Now that I'm segueing into my new career as a software titan/media mogul shameless self-promoter, I thought it would be nice to use my years of experience in the Hollywood trenches to give something back -- you know, to the kids just starting out. And to my father, who always...

"You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." ~ Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

I've been a movie producer for over ten years. It's not the kind of job you're really supposed to give up --...

With the Olympic games upon us, excitement surrounding the U.S. basketball team is palpable, as are the many questions. Will they return American basketball to past glory? Will they dominate international competition? Who designed those god-awful uniforms?

Lost amidst all the excitement, statistics, comparisons and arguments is the unusual fact...

It's hard enough to be an actor under any circumstances -- the unending rejection, insane competiveness, constant scrutiny. Then, of course, there's the work itself -- which often gets overlooked amid all the public fascination with those who choose this particular career path.

The ones with the "dream" careers --...

That might be next week's least likely headline. Along with "Romney Needs To Reign In His Passion" or "Yanks Enjoy Pitching Surplus, Give Red Sox 2 Top Prospects."

Everyone knows by now that The Hunger Games will be a massive hit when it opens on Friday. Online hysteria, ubiquitous magazine...

This is completely unscientific. And I apologize in advance for those of you tired of Lin's name.

I recently had a great only-in-New-York kind of week, in which I saw Linsanity at Madison Square Garden one night and a terrific play called The Road to Mecca at The Roundabout Theatre...

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Finally, you reach the main event -- the Vanity Fair party. Everyone from all the other parties has now converged on this most glamorous soiree, and they've all brought their spoils of victory. The...

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Here's what you don't see on television: immediately after the last award is given, the TV cameras go off and the bright lights in the aptly named Kodak Theatre go on. This is now your...

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Lost amidst all the Oscar parties, the pomp and stupidity, the magazine covers and newspaper ads, is the fundamental question -- what happens to the non-winners? Now this is true of every industry -- the...

This is the first of a four-part series.

The Academy Award nominations are out, a glorious period for those of us in the movie business. Fancy parties, the ubiquitous swag, gobs of platitudes and self-congratulations. In a business of power-hungry egomaniacs, what more could a guy want? With all the...

Now that the Golden Globes are over, it's time to focus on the big prize -- the Academy Awards. People think it's difficult to win an Oscar, but that's just a myth perpetuated by Hollywood insiders -- it's a private club and they want to keep out the unwashed. Here...

I've spent the last twelve years working my ass off developing, financing and producing movies. You've seen every episode of Entourage.

I'd say we're about even in our knowledge of Hollywood.

I don't know about you, but I get asked the same questions over and over. My brother is a...

There's something horrendously wrong in the film business today, yet nobody dares speak its name -- until today. Putting my own flailing career in jeopardy, I've courageously decided to expose an industry-wide crisis. To put the problem in perspective, we need to rewind to film's golden era.

Let's start with...

I produce movies for a living, which used to be the best job in the history of jobs. Not the actual "making them" part, but more importantly the "talking about them" part. Everywhere I went, I was the belle of the ball. I'd go to a benefit for cancer research...