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Hollywood turns Broadway into a theatrical multiplex

by Annie Rees
May 4, 2018
There can be big money in musicals based on popular movies and TV shows.
The cast poses onstage during opening night of Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical" at Palace Theatre on December 4, 2017 in New York City. 
Jenny Anderson/Getty Images for Nickelodeon
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U.S. actor has a leading role in English house restoration

by Stephen Beard
May 2, 2018
Californian Hopwood DePree is raising money to restore his ancestral home.
U.S. film actor Hopwood DePree stands outside Hopwood Hall, his family's ancestral home near the town of Rochdale in northern England, in September 2017. He hopes to restore it.
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Forget comic book movies — in Hollywood, horror pays

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 23, 2018
Recent scary movie hits like "Get Out" show that a movie doesn't need a big budget to be a hit.
Writer Jordan Peele, winner of the Best Original Screenplay award for 'Get Out,' poses in the press room during the 90th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. 
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Netflix eyes a billboard company

by Kimberly Adams
Apr 6, 2018
Netflix is said to be making an offer on an outdoor advertising company with signs in all the right places, if you are a Hollywood insider. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 
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TV writer Nell Scovell says men need to "make room"

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Mar 22, 2018
It's not a pipeline problem, she says, but a "broken doorbell problem."
Nell Scovell says that when comedian Garry Shandling said she wrote like a guy, she took it as a compliment.
Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Vanity Fair
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Explaining the craze in TV reboots

by Kai Ryssdal and Paulina Velasco
Feb 22, 2018
Why they shine brightly - and briefly - in a crowded TV market.
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What TV can teach the movie business about diversity

by Christabel Nsiah-Buadi
Feb 16, 2018
How cable networks are cashing in on diverse audiences.
Actor Melissa Barrera, left, and executive producer/creator Tanya Saracho of "Vida" speak onstage during the Starz portion of the 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington in January in Pasadena, California.
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Clue, Battleship, Ouija and now...Catan? Hollywood tries its luck on board games

by Caitlan Reeg
Jan 16, 2018
Popular German board game Catan may be headed to the big screen.
Players trade resource cards to build roads, cities and settlements in the German board game Catan.
Andreas Reeg/Marketplace
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Disney announces deal with Fox

by Erika Beras
Dec 14, 2017
A look at the ways Disney will now have an advantage in the streaming landscape.
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How Condé Nast went from magazine publisher to entertainment company

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Dec 13, 2017
President Dawn Ostroff explains how video franchises like "73 Questions" are made.
“It seems like everybody is a little bit of everything these days,” says Dawn Ostroff, president of Condé Nast Entertainment.
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