Why do you think the MPAA gave the good-hearted romantic comedy It's Complicated an R-rating?
Daren Tsui | Posted 12.21.2009 | Technology
Music labels fought change so hard that by the time they accepted it, fans had gotten used to pirating music. Hollywood needs to learn the same lesson. If it's going to stay viable, Hollywood needs Silicon Valley and vice versa.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 11.12.2009 | Technology
The MPAA is back -- this time, before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) -- asking permission to disable lawfully purchased HDTV-capable TVs.
Dan Glickman | Posted 03.19.2009 | Entertainment
It is that rare film that compels me to encourage everyone I know -- particularly policymakers -- to stop, look and listen.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 12.21.2008 | Entertainment
Box Office Mojo posted their weekly MPAA rating updates yesterday. Not much to report. Two noteworthy items do pop out, though. The big news involve...
Art Brodsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media
From top to bottom, the Obama/Biden plan has just about everything the tech/Internet industry could ask for. But Hollywood is at a crossroads as it decides how to leverage its usual influence within a Democratic administration.
Wired | David Kravets | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business
For starters, handbags would only work in one country. All of a handbag's contents would fall from the bottom at a border crossing, or while on an int...
Variety | William Triplett | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media
The MPAA, the parent companies of the Big Four nets and other biz heavyweights have told the Federal Communications Commission that there's no need fo...
Dan Glickman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics
A look at our nation's democracy in action, as seen through the lens of Hollywood, might help put us all in the electoral spirit.
Max Keiser | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business
For years, Madonna pretended to be a vamp to make it big. Dupre is an actual hooker scoring big using the indie music site, aimestreet.com, which charges based on user demand.
Los Angeles Times | Josh Friedman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
In Hollywood, the math is never simple. Worldwide box-office revenue rose to record levels last year, the studios' main trade group said Wednesday --...
New York Magazine | Logan Hill | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
When the MPAA slapped Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (which opens next week) with an NC-17 rating for "explicit sexuality," the director and his writer-produ...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.24.2009 | Entertainment