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EXCLUSIVE: Cross Creek Pictures has acquired Drudge, the Black List spec script by Cody Brotter about internet reporter Matt Drudge’s rise to power. ' Cross Creek’s Tyler Thompson will produce and Ryan Smith of Streamline will be exec producer. Drudge’s tip sheet and aggregator The Drudge Report came to power in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Emmy nominee and American Horror Story alum Billy Eichner is joining FX’s Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal limited series Impeachment: American Crime Story in the role of famed journalist and Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge. It was the Drudge Report that first broke news of the White…

There’s usually a lot of similarity in the perspectives of The Drudge Report proprietor and the Rupert Murdoch owned Fox News Channel, but they seem to have hit a crossroads of difference today after the worst concentrated case of anti-semitism in American history. Matt Drudge took the cable newser to the online…

UPDATED, 7:55 PM: Fox News is preparing to cut ties with Bill O'Reilly, News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal reports this evening. But the report goes on to say “a final decision” on O’Reilly’s future, or not, at 21st Century Fox-owned Fox News Channel has not yet been made but could come as early as this…

Matt Drudge is wondering whether the U.S. government was involved in a distributed denial-of-service attack that shut down his conservative Drudge Report website for about 90 minutes Thursday night. The attack occurred just hours after President Barack Obama announced sanctions against Russia for hacking the U.S…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. BART: It's Oscar time in LA, which translates into hell week for publicists but a moment of delicious opportunity for bartenders…