Two years ago, Hollywood talent agent Ari Emanuel made a remarkable statement about the future of media. He said he could see a time when certain movies premiered on Facebook instead of in theaters. “For the $150 million movie, you’ll still need to go to Warner Brothers, but for the $25 million movie, probably not,” he said at a San Francisco conference . Read full article > >

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How Facebook could remake the entertainment industry

John Latenser doesn’t want to lose his dome. The Bethesda-based location scout was standing last week on one of Hollywood’s favorite spots in D.C., a sliver of pavement at the edge of the reflecting pool with the U.S. Capitol looming just so over his shoulder — as it has loomed over Sean Penn, Aaron Eckhart and various Transformer robots . Read full article > >

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Filming movies in Washington, D.C., just got harder

To: Ricky Gervais From: Celebritology, on behalf of awards show junkies everywhere Re: Your Golden Globes hosting gig CC: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association; NBC Read full article > >

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A Golden Globes memo to Ricky Gervais re: this year’s hosting gig

The bad news for Washington Wizards Coach Flip Saunders? At the moment, his job is not in jeopardy . That means while Washington area basketball fans avert their eyes from the winless Wizards, Saunders is stuck with his front-row seat for the foreseeable future. Saunders might very well be the wrong coach for a young team, half of whose players have less than two years of NBA experience. The problem, though, is this team isn’t right for anyone right now. Not Hall of Famers Phil Jackson or Pat Riley. Not even fictional miracle workers like Norman Dale of Hollywood’s “Hoosiers.” Read full article > >

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Washington Wizards: An embarrassment by design

But state news calls it a Hollywood propaganda plot.

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Iran Responds to U.S. Rescue

Until it was over, the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was one of the best-kept secrets in the history of Washington. Whether the Obama administration later went too far in spilling secrets about the operation to Hollywood is now getting at least a cursory look. Newly released letters from the Pentagon and the CIA indicate that they will examine their cooperation with Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and movie director Kathryn Bigelow on a forthcoming bin Laden film. Read full article > >

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Backstory to bin Laden film gets another look

Police in Los Angeles have charged a man with arson after a spate of fires in and around the Hollywood area of the city.

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Hundreds of extra firefighters are on the streets in Los Angeles after a spate of arson attacks in the Hollywood area and elsewhere.

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Los Angeles on arson attack alert

So far, the top seven pictures at the domestic box-office have been sequels, as Hollywood continued a flight to financial safety.

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Sequels Ruled Hollywood in 2011

Matthew Hill finds the answer to a story which connects Buddhist monks, a Hollywood film star and a half-man, half-beast.

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True origins of a ‘yeti’s finger’

A four-day New York auction of the belongings of Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor fetches more than $150m, with one film script selling for more than 50 times its estimate.

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Taylor NY auction fetches $150m

One of the icons of the entertainment industry, the Hollywood sign, is annoying some local residents who say it is attracting too many tourists.

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It’s a glamorous pig, not a communist pig, that the Muppets are best known for. But Miss Piggy, Kermit and the gang have been accused of brainwashing kids with an “anti-corporate message” in their new movie, according to Fox Business Network host Eric Bolling. On Fox’s “ Follow the Money ,” Bolling alleged that the new Disney installment of the “The Muppets” franchise was evidence of a liberal Hollywood conspiracy to brainwash children. The film features an evil oil baron named Tex Richman (Chris Cooper), who wants to raze the Muppets’ old theater to drill for the black gold. The gang reunites to host a major fundraiser to win their theater back. Read full article > >

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The Communist Muppets? It ain’t easy being red

For decades, directors, writers, artists and animators made movies that were near Hollywood but not of it.

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Avant-Garde Cinema Ran Parallel to Hollywood

Jimmy Kimmel has been tapped to provide the comedy at the next White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner . Both People and Entertainment Weekly report that the late-night talk show host will provide the main entertainment — e.g. attempt to make Washington insiders and Hollywood celebrities laugh after the president has already done so — at the next dinner, to be held April 28, 2012. Read full article > >

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Jimmy Kimmel will host the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner