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After 11 years pushing A Star Is Born as producer though three studio administrations — not counting the earlier iterations with Whitney Houston, Aaliyah, Lauryn Hill and Will Smith he worked on while a Warner Bros exec — Bill Gerber is moving on to other projects. Not surprising, a lot of what he's working on remains…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix announced today that it has acquired global rights to Daryl Hannah’s feature directorial debut Paradox ahead of its worldwide premiere at SXSW next week on March 15. The whimsical musical tale starring Neil Young + Promise of the Real will stream around the world on Netflix on March 23 along with a…

Like Godot, Jimmy Fallon never showed up for “A Sit-Down With The Tonight Show Writers,” a New York Comedy Festival/Times Talks event Saturday afternoon moderated by New York Times pop culture scribe Dave Itzkoff. Not that Fallon was expected; this was pitched as a behind-the-scenes look at how the top late night show…

“Keep on rockin’ in the free world.” Rock fans certainly know that oft-repeated line from Neil Young’s 1989 hit, but the song was hijacked Tuesday. “Rockin In The Free World” was playing when Donald Trump took the stage to announce that he’s running for president, and its author was none too pleased. The Toronto…

People attending this year’s International CES consumer electronics confab in Las Vegas can barely move 10 feet without running into a 4K television set. Yet one new product that’s turning heads — without the marketing firepower of giants such as Samsung and Sony — offers clear, portable music: Legendary musician and…

Neil Young has given his blessing for his classic song Heart of Gold to be recorded by Tavi Gevinson and included in Cadaver, an animated short film that Gevinson is starring in alongside Christopher Lloyd and Kathy Bates. Jonah D. Ansell wrote the script and directed the film that debuts at the Santa Barbara Film…

NEW YORK (October 11, 2011) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired the Worldwide Rights, excluding Latin America, to Jonathan Demme's film, NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS from Shakey Pictures and Clinica Estetico. Demme and Elliot Rabinowitz produced the film, with Declan Quinn (RACHEL GETTING MARRIED…

The 2011 Toronto International Film Festival has filled out the rest of its slate, which consists of 268 features and 68 short films that will unspool next month. The fest announced that the likes of Brad Pitt (Moneyball), George Clooney (The Ides of March), and U2 (the Davis Guggenheim-directed docu From The Sky…