Jay Roach

If you want to win a bet in a bar full of industry insiders, you can stump 'em with this question: What's the hottest studio in town? The answer speaks volumes about the strange ways of Hollywood. It's New Line Cinema, the studio Time Warner essentially...

There's no way to put a pretty frame around this picture. After Catherine Hardwicke delivered an immensely lucrative franchise starter with "Twilight," a film that will put Summit Entertainment on the map, wiping away all the company's other losses and...

Freshmen television cable series showed up their more established broadcast brethren at the 60th annual Emmy Awards on Sunday, underscoring cable's expanding role as the home of critically acclaimed programming. Amid a ceremony intent on casting back...

Complete list of winners at Sunday's 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: -- Drama Series: "Mad Men," AMC. -- Comedy Series: "30 Rock," NBC. -- Actor, Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad,"...

Partial list of winners at Sunday's 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: — Reality-Competition Program: "The Amazing Race." — Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Zeljko Ivanek, "Damages," FX....

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood once again pulled out its political punching bag on a national stage Sunday, weeks before a new president is elected. Granted, the platform was served by two HBO shows that ended up winning Emmys -- "John Adams," which chronicled...

KEVIN SPACEY and Denis Leary have a history of reunions. On this midsummer day, the two have gathered at HBO's Manhattan offices to talk about their work on the Emmy-nominated television film "Recount." It's an easy discussion, one that seems to be simply...

IN HER mind, Shauna Robertson is a 23-year-old guy, always ready with a fart joke, an ever-ready plea for more nudity, and a belly laugh for any raunchy gag. In reality, she's a pretty, 33-year-old, pixie-sized, blond Canadian high school dropout with...

Nominees in major categories for the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards announced Thursday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: DRAMA SERIES: "Boston Legal," ABC "Damages," FX "Dexter," Showtime "House," Fox "Lost," ABC "Mad Men," AMC...

Outstanding Animated Program for less than an hour Creature Comforts America "Don't Choke To Death, Please" on CBS King Of The Hill's "Death Picks Cotton" on FOX Robot Chicken "Robot Chicken: Star Wars" on Cartoon Network The Simpsons "Eternal...

Anton Yelchin is officially on notice. As of "Charlie Bartlett," he joins "Superbad's" Michael Cera on the shortlist of sweet, talented young actors who have become one-trick ponies and need to get a new shtick fast. Yelchin's quirky, vulnerable, smart-...

Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including "The Way We Were" and "Tootsie," died Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor,...