Less than two weeks after announcing that it would be the sole sponsor of Fox's November 8 "Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show," Microsoft has pulled out. According to Variety's Mike Schneider, who broke the story, everything...

Four movies with combined production budgets of more than $100 million opened this weekend, but none of them managed to beat a movie that cost $15,000. Paramount's "Paranormal Activity" expanded from 863 theaters to 1,945 this weekend and sold a...

Sony Pictures desperately wanted to release the DVD of the Michael Jackson concert movie "This Is It" for the holiday shopping season, but backed down after movie theater owners balked that it was too soon following the film's theatrical...

Famous movie lines, such as Robert De Niro's memorable if menacing bit of dialogue between himself and his mirror from the 1976 film "Taxi Driver," move beyond film geeks to the masses and are commonplace in conversation.  Now, a new online service...

Veteran NBC Universal Television executive Rick Olshansky is leaving the company as part of a small restructuring of its West Coast operations, according to people familiar with the situation. Olshansky has been with NBC Universal for five years and...

There may be a tug-of-war brewing in Washington, D.C., over whether the Federal Trade Commission or the Justice Department will join the Federal Communications Commission in reviewing Comcast's anticipated deal to take control of General Electric Co.'s...

Universal Pictures, which has endured a horrible year at the box office with such costly misfires as "Land of the Lost," starring Will Ferrell, "Funny People," with Adam Sandler, and Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno," is poised to bring in a new production...

After the coffee. Before finding a girl to see "The Blind Side" with so I can pretend I don't want to see it. Oprah's OWN role. In her first major interview since Oprah Winfrey announced a quit date for her daily talk show to focus on her cable...