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In a region where the media biz is often more noted for being polarized, the atrocious actions that have brought ISIS global attention have unified the vast majority of decent moral Arabs across sectarian and political divides against the exceptionally brutal terror group. President Obama and dozens of countries are…

An occasional feature on the thought process behind an exceptionally bold, risky move.  If they gave out Exec Of The Year, it would be hard to overlook IFC Films president Jonathan Sehring, who funded Richard Linklater's Boyhood for a dozen years. Even with the flurry of Oscar fare launched at the fall festivals, Boyh…

When location manager Kris Bunting requested permission to film on a water tower in Griffith Park, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said no. "They are concerned about our poisoning the water table," Bunting said in an email to his producer. The scene called for two actors to unlock a gate and climb up a…

Mention “Twist And Shout” to a Boomer and you’ll get a shake of the thinning hair or shaved scalp along with recollections of the Fab Four on The Ed Sullivan Show. The more knowing response may even be the Isley Brothers, who recorded it first, in 1962. Ask who wrote the iconic rock number, however, and you’re more…

Call it European Dis-Union: The battle for supremacy in the Euro TV market continues to heat up with Telefonica scoring a major victory over rival Telecom Italia in its attempts to acquire French media giant Vivendi's Brazilian broadband operator GVT. Got that? While the primary focus of that deal appears to be the…

Editor's Note: The weekday mission of Deadline Hollywood is to break as many stories as possible and provide real-time showbiz coverage. We’ve long wanted to colonize Sunday beyond weekend box office, creating a place where our readers could expect a presentation of more thoughtful stories that might drown in the…

It's 8:15 on a beautiful Friday morning at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the once-bustling Polo Lounge is all but deserted. One guy, eating alone, reads the paper and sips coffee, his bacon and eggs getting cold. Outside on the patio, there are more service staff than customers. By 9 o'clock, a few more people have…

Bruno Mars wasn't paid a dime when he performed to 115 million viewers at last February's Super Bowl halftime show … but his career took off like a rocket. And the $10 million tab for the 12-minute show, according to someone with knowledge of the matter, was picked up by someone else. Mars' brief show may have marked…

Quentin Tarantino’s passion for the New Beverly Cinema began when he was just another kid showing up for the nightly double feature. It grew when he found success as a filmmaker and began to subsidize owner Sherman Torgan to the tune of $5,000 per month to keep the place open. Ultimately Tarantino bought the building…

EXCLUSIVE: Literary biographies tend to be either too literary or too biographical: so artful as to be ruined by artifice or so bogged down in minutiae they're a challenge to pleasure. The singular achievement of John Lahr's magisterial book, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage Of The Flesh is that it’s one bewitching…