What's Behind Reality TV's Exec Purge?; Inside Wanda's $8.2B China Studio Plan; 'Wolf of Wall Street' Delayed; Fox Orders Batman Prequel; Geoffrey Rush Joining 'Gods of Egypt'
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What's Behind the Broadcast Reality Exec Purge? (Analysis)
ABC's John Saade is the third out of four unscripted chiefs out as the network franchises age and desperation sets in for a new hit. | Read More
The Inside Intel on Wanda Group's $8.2 Billion China Studio Plan
Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman and Harvey Weinstein joined a Hollywood contingent on hand for the unveiling, but one exec warns, "The Chinese are famous for wildly exaggerating what they are going to do." | Read More
LATEST MOVIE NEWS
Paramount Could Shift 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' 'Jack Ryan'
The studio and Martin Scorsese are hoping to finish "Wolf of Wall Street" in time for a Christmas release. If that's doable, "Jack Ryan" would be pushed to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend in mid-January. | Read More
Geoffrey Rush Joining Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler in 'Gods of Egypt' (Exclusive)
Alex Proyas is directing Summit's epic fantasy. | Read More
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Sell Sony on Raunchy Animated Film 'Sausage Party'
Coming off the success of "This Is the End," the adult-targeted toon from the comedy duo tells the story of "one sausage's quest to discover the truth about his existence." | Read More
LATEST TV NEWS
Batman Prequel Series Coming to Fox
UPDATED: The network has given a series commitment to a drama about Batman's police liaison from "Mentalist" showrunner Bruno Heller. | Read More
NBC Prepping 'Traffic'-Like Thriller Pilot (Exclusive)
Peter Horton, "The Following's" Adam Armus and Kay Foster will pen the pilot about three families pulled into a military conspiracy. | Read More
Lifetime Cancels 'Army Wives' After Seven Seasons
The cable network's longest-running series will end with a two-hour retrospective set for next year. | Read More
THE BUSINESS
AMC Chief on 'Breaking Bad's' Secret to Success; Says Network Offers 'Highest Value for Penny'
Josh Sapan told Wall Street analysts on Tuesday that the network aims to step up investments in owned content and has benefited from the recent shift to VOD viewing. | Read More
Bob Iger: Disney Might Create Content for Netflix, Amazon
"Now, we will continue to feed these great (Disney-owned) channels, but these new platforms are voracious in terms of their appetite for good content, and we can make it," the CEO said in a TV interview. | Read More
TiVo CEO Slams Dish, DirecTV and Major Cable as Providing Inferior DVRs
"Even though they have the scale and they have the resources, it may not be in their DNA to actually be leading innovators," Tom Rogers said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference. | Read More
STYLE & CULTURE
St. Jude: Theater Review
A son takes care of his ailing father at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. | Read More
Rodney King: Theater Review
L.A.'s late, tortured symbol of its continued struggle with racism is embodied in a one-man show at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. | Read More
Ron Perlman to Host SAG Foundation's NY Golf Fundraiser
The event is the Foundation's first major East coast fundraiser. | Read More
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Gerard Butler To Join Lionsgate's 'Gods Of Egypt'
Gerard Butler is in negotiations to star opposite Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Lionsgate's Gods Of Egypt. Alex Proyas is directing the film from a screenplay by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama.  Butler will play the ancient Egyptian god Set. Coster-Waldau, who already joined the project, will play Horus. Set killed Horus' father, and the two are locked in a tale of revenge. Butler is repped by CAA and manager Alan Siegel. | Read More
'Agents of SHIELD' EPs on Expectations, Lessons From Joss Whedon, Marvel's 'Code of Silence'
ABC is looking to Joss Whedon and Marvel to rebuild its Tuesday night with The Avengers follow-up Agents of SHIELD, a drama that lives in the comics world of the feature film but tells its own story about the group of secret officers. | Read More
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Written by José Vizcarra
on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 5:00 AM.

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