Traders are eager to hear from the media titans this week. But will they say what the Street wants to hear?   Read More

Viacom kicks off a barrage of media giant earnings when it reports before the bell Tuesday morning.    Read More

Here's yet another piece of news in the ongoing decline of the movie studios' "specialty" film business: the head of Disney's Miramax Films is being pushed out of the company.   Read More

Viacom and its Paramount studio, Lionsgate and MGM broke off from CBS' Showtime last spring when they couldn't strike new distribution deals, so they decided to launch their own premium movie channel.    Read More

DreamWorks Animation showed some "Monster" strength in the third quarter, beating Wall Street projections with better than expected DVD sales and the ongoing performance of "Monsters vs. Aliens."   Read More

Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, tells me that "DJ Hero" won't just change his company's business, but will change the world.    Read More

In hard-hit Michigan, a creative way to fill the void as newspapers cut back: Running the obits on TV.    Read More

It's been a major media Monday -- Wall Street analysts have been upgrading media conglomerates left and right. The stocks have been benefiting, gaining more today than the major indices.    Read More

Sky-high marketing costs, usually half the budget of a movie, weigh heavily on studios balance sheets preventing them from taking more risks on releasing more movies. That's precisely why Hollywood is so carefully watching a little tiny movie called "Paranormal Activity" from Paramount, which may prove that a new model, hinging on the power of social media, really works.    Read More

You can tell it's getting close to Christmas by the frequency of the "hot toy" lists.    Read More