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Big Screen
The Peter Chernin-Comcast Conspiracy Is Revealed
5:33AM Richard Rushfield | For the past few months Hollywood’s favourite two guessing games have been: Who’s going to take over NBC/Universal and what’s going to happen to ex-Fox chief Peter Chernin? Well, yesterday the two games collided in a paradigm-exploding pile-up. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Hollywood Stunned By Just Okay Beatles Sales
3:36AM Richard Rushfield | Is there such a thing as a sure thing anymore? Sony seems to think so but the list surely gets ever shorter. More »
Small Screen
The Guy Who Took Rupert Murdoch’s Crummy Second-in-Command Gig
5:20AM Ryan Tate | It’s not clear what Chase Carey is thinking: The DirecTV CEO is poised to become vice chairman at Rupert Murdoch’s smaller News Corp., where he has virtually no shot at the top job. More »
Small Screen
Is Rupert Murdoch Picking Shows for Fox?
4:12AM Defamer Hollywood | Want to know how much more work Rupert Murdoch has at News Corp. after his No. 2 Peter Chernin stepped down? Some Fox executives are expecting Murdoch to put together the primetime television schedule himself. More »
Big Screen
Rupert Murdoch’s Tale of Two Peters
7:39AM Gabriel Snyder | Rupert Murdoch shook up Fox’s movie and TV businesses today, his first moves since News Corp. deputy Peter Chernin stepped down. The biggest winner: Peter Rice, who’s going from overseeing Slumdog Millionaire to American Idol. More »
Chernin Reported Out at News Corp., But Which Murdoch Kid Is In?
8:22AM Defamer Hollywood | Peter Chernin is stepping down from his perch as Rupert Murdoch’s right-hand man at News Corp., according to multiple reports. Everyone now expects Murdoch to install one of his kids in Chernin’s place. More »
Fox UpheavalWatch: Are Peter Chernin and Tom Rothman on the Way Out?
8:54AM STV | It is just a matter of time before a few of the generals at Fox are called to account after the year-long bombing raid that’s left its studio clinging to life. More »
SAG Saves Best Acting For the Press as Negotiations Grind to Halt
5:45AM Defamer Hollywood | There’s only so much ledge-prancing, saber-rattling, gun-pointing madness a person can get away with spinning in the press, and at a glance, anyway, it appears SAG national executive director Doug Allen may be faking the labour funk a little too aggressively. Now that his union’s extended (and re-extended) negotiation period with the major studios is over, leaving AFTRA to step in and take everything it’s offered no-questions-asked, Allen kvetched to Variety today that goddammit — they were so close! Like, just a few hours away! No, really. He actually said that: More »
Hollywood Hills Real Estate Listing Brings Us One Step Closer To Mt. Mogulmore
10:03AM Seth | With news that 138 acres of land just west of the H in the Hollywood sign have been put up for sale yesterday by Chicago investors, the last impediment to Mt. Mogulmore–Les Moonves’s masterplan of constructing an enduring companion monument to the nine-letter icon–is but a mere $22 million check away. More »
