Results for "TV / Film"

Video: Pandora's Tim Westergren on Nightline

April 15, 2010

Rickey Minor Replacing Eubanks on 'Tonight Show'

April 14, 2010

“American Idol" music director Rickey Minor is headed for “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." Minor replaces longtime music director Kevin Eubanks, who on Monday's show made his May 28 exit date official. In an announcement Tuesday, NBC said Minor is expected to debut at “Tonight" on June 7. The current season of “American Idol" ends ...

Eubanks Makes It Official: He's Leaving 'Tonight'

April 13, 2010

"Tonight Show" bandleader Kevin Eubanks has made it official: He's leaving as Jay Leno's sideman in May after 18 years with the late-night host. He told Leno during Monday's taping of “Tonight" in Burbank, Calif., that he was ready for a career change of pace, but he didn't announce specific plans. Eubanks called the NBC late-night ...

Treme Recap: Just One Episode and Already More Jazz Than That Whole Ken Burns Documentary!

April 12, 2010

You hear Treme, David Simon's new television series, before you see it. Over black, with title cards that read “New Orleans, Three Months Later," a trumpet sounds the staccato clarion call that traditionally convenes the brass bands and second-liners and announces the beginning of the street parade--Puh-PAH puh-PAH.  With those four notes, Simon makes two things ...

WGA Supports Composers, Lyricists

April 12, 2010

Last week's Writers Guild of America endorsement of film and TV composers' attempts to union ize through the Teamsters was a big boost for the musicians. It not only adds the backing of some heavyweight Hollywood names, but it also comes with a good deal of historical precedent. Nearly 20 years ago, the WGA supported the ...

America Needs It Some "Treme"

April 12, 2010

"America needs it some Kermit," the New Orleans DJ and sometime musician played by Steve Zahn says, about halfway through the first episode of  HBO's “Treme," which debuts tonight on the heels of much critical praise. Davis McAlary (Zahn), inspired by real-life scenester Davis Rogan, is talking ...

Wall Street Touts Plans to Bet on Box Office

April 12, 2010

Think you're better than Hollywood at gauging whether an upcoming flick will be a box office bomb or a sleeper hit? You'd get a chance to put your money behind that under two proposals that movie studios are denouncing as legalized gambling. The proposals the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission are expected to rule on this ...

Richard Zanuck a Living Film History Time Capsule

April 11, 2010

Growing up with the last name Zanuck in Old Hollywood was just like real life -- only different. As a youngster, Richard D. Zanuck had to sell copies of the Saturday Evening Post to learn the value of hard work. “Of course," Zanuck said with a wink, “my dad did have a chauffeur take me to ...

Film Productions Leaving the Coasts

April 11, 2010

Fewer yellow signs are popping up in Los Angeles this spring. Those placards, which direct cast and crew members to a location shoot, normally sprout like wildflowers in March and April, as pilot production reaches full bloom. But despite an uptick in broadcast pilot orders this year, Los Angeles -- and New York, too -- is ...

Lagging Libraries Shift Hollywood Mindset

April 11, 2010

How fitting that when “Alice in Wonderland" is the top draw so far at the box office this year, Hollywood itself is starting to feel as if it's fallen down a rabbit hole. The industry is waking up to a topsy-turvy world where everything it's gotten used to for decades has again changed -- perhaps forever. ...