Hollywood Reporter

Activist shareholder Carl Icahn has turned his $6 a-share tender offer into a hostile takeover bid for Lionsgate.

The cast of HBO's much buzzed about new fantasy series "Game of Thrones" is undergoing minor tweaking.

Movie theater operators love to hang out with celebs as much as anybody else.

Beau Bridges is set to co-star opposite Dermot Mulroney on NBC's "Rockford Files" reboot.

Jeff Stockwell has been hired to adapt author Madeleine L'Engle's classic time-travel head trip, "A Wrinkle in Time," for Cary Granat and his new Bedrock Studios.

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lopez is in talks to star in the remake of the romantic comedy "Overboard," which Overbrook is producing for Columbia.

Sony has picked up a comedy spec from Andrew Waller and Mike Gagerman to which Scot Armstrong, the writer of comedies such as "Old School" and "Semi-Pro," is attached to make his directorial debut.

While serving as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Tom Sherak also has been engaged as a movie consultant.

Beth Miyares has joined CBS TV Studios as vp drama development.

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Keir Pearson and Larry Meli have optioned life rights to make a biopic about civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.

"Ali" screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson have signed with Gersh. They previously were with CAA.

Recovering market means film buyers again are placing bets -- gingerly.

ShoWest 2010 closed Thursday with big-name stars and ever present 3D discussions.

The 14th season premiere of Comedy Central's "South Park" was the most watched debut for the show since 1999.

A group of 13 creditors who are owed millions of dollars by David Bergstein, including Capitol Films and ThinkFilm, have filed lawsuits to force an involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Sarah Palin is getting closer to having her own reality show.

VIDEO: Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" should make it three wins in a row despite a trio of wide openers -- "Repo Men," "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and "The Bounty Hunter" -- on Friday.

After days of speculation, ABC News announced on Thursday that CNN veteran Christiane Amanpour will be the new anchor of "This Week."

Fess Parker, who starred as the coonskin-capped Davy Crockett in the 1950s, becoming a lifelong favorite of the baby boomers, died Thursday of natural causes at his home in California's Santa Ynez Valley. He was 85.

Another CBS golden boy, Skeet Ulrich, is going for a threepeat at the network.