The R&B veteran's No. 1 hit has come under fire from feminists and bloggers for its sexist premise.

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With DreamWorks’ “Robopocalypse” stalling out, Sony is looking to move in with there own robot uprising movie as Greg Berlanti is set to direct the sci-fi pic “Epsilon.” Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick penning the script and will produce with Michael De Luca. Story is set after a failed robot rebellion sends Earth back to... Read more »

Michael DeLuca is producing the Sony project, which has a script by "Zombieland" writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

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Liv Tyler will be serving up ‘Leftovers,’ as the thesp has been tapped to co-star in the Damon Lindelof HBO pilot opposite Justin Theroux. “The Leftovers” will be Tyler’s first foray in TV. Project, based on a book by Tom Perrotta, centers on a group of people who don’t make the cut after the Rapture... Read more »

The "Stay" singer boasts 8.73 million subscribers on the video site.

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He'll focus on upcoming projects and leave the series to Buddy Miller.

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Jay Bienstock and Eugene Young have joined A. Smith & Co. Prods. as co-managing directors, and are bringing some of the Bienstock Young Media’s production slate with them. Over the last three years, pair have run Bienstock Young and launched programs including Nat Geo Wild’s “Animal Intervention,” CMT’s “Big Foot,” and MTV’s upcoming show “Times... Read more »

Gotham-based distributor Sundance Selects has picked up North American rights to “Dancing in Jaffa,” the doc that bowed earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. An exact release strategy has not yet been locked for Hilla Medalia’s film about a ballroom dancer who teaches classroom dancing to a diverse mix of kids across five... Read more »

Rather than relegating itself to a marketing vehicle for vid programmers, Twitter could be in position to move up the media food chain.

It’s hard to find an Emmy winner who hasn’t guested with the franchise.

There’s a drinks trolley downstage right. Good grief — where are we, the 1930s? Yes. But the cunning new play “Bracken Moor,” a cross between a thunderingly old-fashioned family drama and an unnerving ghost story, is not the dated fare it appears to be. Just when you think you’re enjoying an unusually entertaining genre piece, playwright... Read more »

Disney’s premiere for Pixar’s “Monsters University” at the El Capitan theater turned Hollywood Boulevard into a blue-and-white tailgate party, complete with a marching band and cheer squad, themed around the scare school in the prequel that brings back Billy Crystal and John Goodman as younger versions of their characters from “Monsters, Inc.” Gwen Stefani and... Read more »

The pickup of multicamera sitcom "I Didn't Do It," co-starring newcomer Austin North, comes one day after "Girl Meets World" series order.

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A compelling, strongly performed political thriller set in contempo Poland.

Univision News and Penske Media Corp., parent company of Variety, have pacted to create a co-branded multiplatform entertainment segment for the Spanish-language network’s “Primer Impacto” newsmagazine that airs in the U.S. and Latin America. The “Variety en Primer Impacto” segment is now available across all Univision’s broadcast and digital platforms, highlighting the day’s most important... Read more »

She'll co-star opposite Justin Theroux in the adaptation of Tom Perrotta's book of the same name.

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The indie rock veterans will be joined by Jackson Browne and others in Oklahoma City on July 23.

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The new morning program hosted by Chris Cuomo and Kate Bolduan lands fourth in the time period on Monday among cable news competition with 247,000 total viewers.

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As chief Thomas Tull says the entertainment company will make a move in the next 60 days, sources tell THR two studios are not in the mix.

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Mike Reiss will adapt his best-selling children's book "How Murray Saved Christmas" for a December 2014 special.

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