The Next Blair Witch?
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Indie horror sensation Paranormal Activity was made for $15,000, but broke box office records this weekend. Kim Masters on Hollywood's haunting hit.
Disney's Power Struggle
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Can the studio rebound if actors demand the upfront payouts of yesterday's market and producers like Jerry Bruckheimer blow $170 million on a movie like G-Force? Kim Masters on Hollywood's new math.
Tony Awards Preview
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
The Tony Awards won't be handed out until June 7, but in the meantime you can watch highlights from some of the nominated shows, from Hair's dancing hippies to God of Carnage's pithy domestic squabbles. PLUS: Read The Daily Beast's interview with Tony host Neil Patrick Harris and view a gallery of Broadway's grande dames.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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