In Hollywood, big bets lead to big payoffs

Oct 17, 2013
In an industry of risk, Hollywood has to take the safe bet.

Hollywood writes a new storyline for Obamacare

Oct 10, 2013
Hollywood Health and Society, part of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, has created a health care-information pipeline straight to the entertainment industry

Despite successes, Netflix still an outsider

Sep 17, 2013
Netflix has some big media competition.

Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk success and failure

Sep 10, 2013
The actors from "Breaking Bad" and "Arrested Development" discuss their new book on failure and success in the entertainment industry.

'Instructions Not Included': A blueprint for box office success?

Sep 3, 2013
Hollywood's relationship with the Latino market has always been hit or miss. This weekend, one movie bucked the trend.

New school Silicon Beach meets old school Hollywood

Aug 30, 2013
With Netflix reporting first quarter revenue of over $1 billion, others are seeing profit in original storytelling. And major tech companies are setting up production studios all over L.A.

Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs movie opens tonight

Aug 16, 2013
Ashton Kutcher plays Apple CEO Steve Jobs in the first Hollywood film about the visionary Silicon Valley legend. It's a an opportunity to move Kutcher's career from TV to the big screen. But it could also impact his side vocation as a tech company investor if he doesn't get it right.

For public good, not for profit.

Why Hollywood loves sequels, adaptations and reboots

Jul 19, 2013
Blame television, blame the international audience, blame money, and blame yourselves.

'World War Z': When movie tickets cost $50

Jul 5, 2013
What’s behind the movie ticket price creep?

Why movie crews are headed to Ohio

Jul 4, 2013
Ohio's film tax credits have drawn movie crews back to Cleveland, but there's debate as to whether the tax breaks truly deliver.