Daniel Frankel
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Wall Street Analyst: 3D’s an Ebbing Fad
“Toy Story 3” is the latest to experience diminishing returns from the format, report notes; excessive ticket prices blamed
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Screen Gems Ups Loren Schwartz to Head Marketing
Veteran Sony creative advertising official will fill post vacated by Jim Fredrick
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Has Anyone Come Close to Pixar’s 11-Peat?
Combing movie history, it’s hard to find comparisons to Disney animation division’s consecutive string of No. 1 openings
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WGA West Announces Board Candidates
Matt Weiner, David Shore highlight list; elections set for Sept. 16
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Lionsgate Testifies to ‘Machine Gun Preacher’
Studio acquires Marc Forster-directed action-fueled biopic; Gerard Butler set to star
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Biggest Pixar Opening Ever: $109M for ‘Toy Story 3’
It didn’t meet crazy-high $125M-plus forecasts, but 3D sequel’s premiere makes Disney animation studio 11 for 11 in terms of successful debuts
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Friday Box Office: $41M in Real Money for ‘Toy Story 3’
On pace to exceed $120M this weekend, 3D film will be Pixar’s biggest opener ever
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DreamWorks 3.0 Has Arrived — But What Is It?
The latest attempt is more modest, and finally under way: “It’s Steven and Stacey taking chances on projects they believe in”
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B.O. Preview: Buzz & Woody Head to the Piggy Bank
Third installment in Disney/Pixar series will come up big … but how big is anyone’s guess
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CW’s McGuire Gets No. 2 Publicity Job at Warner Bros.
As senior VP of worldwide corp-comm, he’ll report to Susan Fleishman
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Neustar Hires Former Warner Digital Exec Dodd
Will serve as VP of media and entertainment for key vendor to Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem
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Gillian Jacobs Becomes Latest ‘Community’ Breakout
Set to star in indie film “Let Go” alongside David Denman, Ed Asner and Kevin Hart
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Paramount Pushes ‘Airbender’ Up a Day
With tracking deflated, distributor hopes to inflate Shyamalan film’s July 4 holiday-weekend box office
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Comcast Promotes Corp-Comm Publicist Stewart
John Rizzotti also upped at the company’s E! Entertainment channel
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Box-Office Blindsides: The Trouble with Tracking
There’s more data available than ever, so why are the numbers so far off?