There's never a shortage of hypocrisy in Tinsel Town. The world's entertainment capital practically invented the double standard and lives by a simple edict: do as we say, not as we do. After all, it's the Hollywood crowd that lectures us on free speech, then black balls anyone who doesn't tow the l...

Tonight is the Academy Awards night. Which is odd, because it’s usually around my birthday - March 24th. Do you know how annoying it is to invite people over for a birthday party and they keep wanting to turn the music off and turn the telly on? I’m emotionally scarred for life. Anyway, this is ...

There are a few things that seem to be recession-proof, and CG-animated family movies are in that category, says DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeff Katzenberg. He recently talked up his company’s resilience to the global recession and outlined its film slate through 2012, including new installments...

Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Super Bowl, Chuck, Reality-Free This morning, among all its other self-promotional Super Bowl nonsense, NBC's Today show was promoting the 3D experience that fans will see during the game on Sunday. Sobe and the animated movie Monsters vs. Aliens will b...

[Posted by David S. Cohen] In today's NYT, Brooks Barnes offers an especially gloomy take on 3-D and the problems getting theaters converted. The NYT gang seems bearish on Hollywood in general these days and this article is no exception. Barnes spoke to media analyst and author Harold Vogel and offe...

In the interest of drumming up maximal funds—or "transparency"—Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration Committee has released a chart (to be updated in real time) listing the names, employers, cities, and contributions of everyone who donates money to help make January 20 the best ina...

One of my Internet spies sent me this post from a writers' forum: an uncredited screenwriter on Kung Fu Panda describes the fabled Jeffrey Katzenberg DreamWorks Animation script process. Needless to say, painful as it may be, the process works like a charm. (Something tells me the folks at Pixar, wh...

Don't believe anything you read about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull based on people who have actually seen it because as far as I know, Steven Spielberg has only shown it to the Cannes Film Festival (read Todd McCarthy's story here). Yes, the movie will show in Cannes, as we ini...

Jim Hill shares the latest news from ShoWest 2008. Where Jeffrey Katzenberg revealed that, as of March 2010, DA will only be produced digital 3-D films...(read more) This is a summary only, for more in depth info about the Walt Disney Company and the Entertainment Industry in general, visit JimHillM...

Nominations for the Golden Globe Awards will be announced this morning, kicking off the annual orgy of little-statue dispensing known as the Hollywood Trophy Season. However, this year the biggest nail-biter won't be which flicks will be nominated for best picture but whether NBC will be able to bro...