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This is a "transformative year," Mike Griffith, chief executive officer of Activision Publishing, said during a news conference this week. And while he was referring to his own newly expanded company (Activison recently merged with Vivendi Universal),...

While many cubicle-dwellers are spending time tracking March Madness basketball brackets through the NCAA Tournament, there's a lesser-known sport at play this time of year that I call Proxy Pandemonium. This is when many companies file their annual...

There was no power struggle between Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe on the set of their new crime drama, "American Gangster." Instead, they worked as a team when filming their scenes together. "It's not about a heavyweight fight," Crowe...

"Spider-Man 3" took in $58.2 million in its second weekend to easily lead the weekend box office again, raising its 10-day total to $240.2 million. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio,...

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" enchanted moviegoers with a $77.1 million opening weekend, raising its total since debuting last Wednesday to $139.7 million. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by...

Like the Hollywood movie studios, the video game industry typically waits for fall to trot out some of the year's best releases, just in time for the holiday selling season. This year is no different, save for the absence of one key title: The Legend...

The folks at Warner Music Group Corp. are doing more than cutting records these days. They're also cutting jobs. In the year since Warner Music Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. and his fellow investors bought the once-venerated company, they have...

Irv "Gotti" Lorenzo once saw murder as a metaphor. Back in 1997, when the charismatic music producer got his own record label from Island Def Jam, he named it Murder Inc. because of what he called the moniker's "ill double meaning." "When you have a hot...

Music magnate Irv "Gotti" Lorenzo and his brother, Chris Lorenzo, probably will be indicted this week -- possibly as early as today -- on racketeering and money laundering charges, people close to the case said. The U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, N....

Is there any event as brazenly inattentive to the coolness of Los Angeles as the Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3) week? Like mayflies, armies of suited video game industry executives and programmers and all other manner of power-geek descend on L.A....

The recent sequel to the movie XXX seemed like a Saturday Night Live skit: Let's remove the bulked-up, simmering hero played by Vin Diesel and replace him with a cantankerous Everyman in the form of Ice Cube. As preposterous as the switching of leading...

Every year, the video game industry picks 70,000 people to visit an electronic wonderland filled with porn stars, alcohol and free gifts. These people will get glimpses of games still a year away from release, play systems Americans haven't even heard...