Hollywood Insider

Ratings: ‘Find My Family’ premieres to solid numbers

Tim Stack — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:25:40 +0000

With its season finale airing tonight, ABC’s Dancing with the Stars once again waltzed its way to victory on Monday, according to preliminary overnight ratings. Stars nabbed 20.5 million viewers and provided a solid lead-in for the network’s new reality series, Find My Family (12.9 million). Over at CBS, The Big Bang Theory (14.2 million)

‘New Moon’ director Chris Weitz’s next movie: The anti-’Twilight’

Nicole Sperling — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:33:43 +0000

Chris Weitz wants to get as far away from fantasy as possible. So for his next project, the New Moon director is turning his attention to The Gardener, a drama about a Mexican yardworker. “There’s no special effects. It’s just people talking to each other,” Weitz tells EW. The script comes from Eric Eason (Manito)

Ratings: AMAs draw biggest audience since 2002

Tanner Stransky — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:24:50 +0000

Early estimates from Nielsen have last night’s American Music Awards on ABC drawing 14.2 million viewers over three hours, an increase of 2.0 million viewers over last year and the award show’s highest viewership since 2002. But even with those kind of numbers (and controversial performances from the likes of American Idol alum Adam Lambert),

Box Office Report: ‘New Moon’ banks $140.7 million for third-biggest opening weekend ever

Adam B. Vary — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:48:12 +0000

The Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed an astounding $140.7 million at the box office this weekend, exploding most industry expectations en route to the biggest autumn opening weekend in history and the third biggest three-day debut ever, according to early estimates from Hollywood.com Box Office. (The Dark Knight still retains the record for the biggest

‘New Moon’ snaps ‘Dark Knight’ box-office record with $72.7 million opening day

Adam B. Vary — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:06:51 +0000

The Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed $72.7 million on Friday, according to estimates from Summit Entertainment, shattering The Dark Knight’s previous opening-day record of $67.2 million. (The figure includes the $26.3 million New Moon banked from midnight screenings, also a box office record.) The astronomic figure puts Bella, Edward, and Jacob on a clear path to possibly the

‘New Moon’ screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg blogs her premiere night experience

EW staff — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:05:59 +0000

Melissa Rosenberg, the writer who adapted The Twilight Saga: New Moon for the big screen, sent EW her first-person account of the movie’s the star-studded premiere earlier this week. MELISSA ROSENBERG: The family started coming to town a couple days before The Night. Excitement has been high, lots of discussions about wardrobe, and some last-minute shoe and

‘Young and the Restless’ star Peter Bergman on Eric Braeden: ‘We all thought he was going to be gone’

Lynette Rice — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:40:00 +0000

On Nov. 27, Peter Bergman will celebrate his 20th year playing Jack Abbott on CBS’s top-rated The Young and The Restless. The veteran soap star (he previously played Dr. Cliff Warner on ABC’s All My Children) talked exclusively to EW.com about what it was like to originally assume the role, how he felt about his character talking to a ghost,

Book publishers say Oprah was a stimulus ‘like nobody else’

Kate Ward — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:23:51 +0000

The publishing industry is among those saddened by the news that Oprah Winfrey’s talk show will end in 2011. As an unabashed book lover, Winfrey helped boost sales of countless reads—even those written by relatively unknown authors (see: Elizabeth Gilbert, David Wroblewski, Uwem Akpan, etc.) After all, it’s no secret that a single appearance on

Oprah Winfrey: is she irreplaceable in daytime?

Lynette Rice — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:01:43 +0000

Now that Oprah Winfrey has made it official that she’s ending her talk show in September 2011, the focus now turns to those 215 stations that aired the Queen of Daytime and how they’ll attempt to retain the 7 million-plus viewers who tune into Winfrey every day. Speculation is already rampant that Winfrey could groom a successor on her show (she’s already

‘New Moon’ midnight shows break box-office records

Nicole Sperling — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:56:08 +0000

Summit Entertainment is howling with delight. The Twilight Saga: New Moon has set a new record for opening midnight shows, earning an estimated $26.3 million. The figure passes Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’s midnight take of $22.2 million this past summer. Screening in 3,514 theaters, the film grossed a per-theater average of $7,476. And