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.
Will Stars Align for Comcast and NBC?
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.
Although Comcast is denying it has a deal to purchase NBC Universal, some in Hollywood are convinced it's in the works-and that the cable giant will be better for NBC than its current owner, GE.
Hollywood vs. Leno
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.
Many in Hollywood are hopeful Jay Leno fails. The reason? His show signals the end of the good old days for anyone who isn't a comic, says Kim Masters.
Quentin Tarantino's controversial Nazi flick hit theaters to surprise box-office success-and sharply divided reviews. From the critics to the worshipers, The Daily Beast dissects the explosive response Inglourious Basterds has generated.Photo: Weinstein Company / Everett Collection
The Yes List
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, "the next great American director" creates a bond between two unlikely men in Goodbye, Solo.
Best of the Memorial Service
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
The moonwalk, a Maya Angelou poem, and memories of softball games and KFC: The Daily Beast presents the most unforgettable moments from Michael Jackson's memorial.
Sony Drops Pitt for Clooney?
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.
The Daily Beast's Kim Masters wonders why the studio canned Brad Pitt's Moneyball when it's bankrolling a staggeringly expensive James L. Brooks comedy-and has just inked a production deal with the money-losing George Clooney.
Best and Worst of the New TV Lineups
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.
The networks have presented their upfronts for the fall, and between a Chevy Chase ensemble sitcom, a sexy new medical drama, and a Family Guy spinoff, the outlook is actually...promising.
Everything You Need to Know About the Upfronts
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.
Advertisers walk out on Jay Leno, Fox execs confess financial difficulties (but renew the hardly watched Dollhouse for fear of angering its tiny cult following), and ABC places its bet on comedy: new, unheard-of comedy-and lots of it. Kim Masters reports from this week's television upfronts.
Is Star Trek Now Cool?
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.
Studio insiders tell Kim Masters that the much-hyped Star Trek won't have a huge opening this weekend. But director J.J. Abrams may have done the impossible: sex up the ultimate nerd franchise.
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.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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