Sector: Movies and Entertainment

Amazon.com is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix.

Some unknown kids with superpowers have nudged out the world's most famous teen wizard at the weekend box office.

On-the-field athletic success does not always equate to off-the-field marketing fame.

Fancy stadiums, sky-high salaries. What's the average fan to do?

It's not easy, but  teams in places like St. Louis, Milwaukee, Tampa and Minneapolis-St. Paul have found ways to win on the field, as well as economically, against their big-market competitors.

Across the NFL and MLB, team owners know wealthy individuals and big corporations are willing to pay big bucks for a private box. It's an unbeatable formula.

Joslyn James, a porn star, gained fame as as one of Tiger Woods’ mistresses during his 2009 cheating scandal. Today, she's carving a small business niche as a community-focused entrepreneur.

Sometimes the spectators at sporting events can draw as much attention as the players. It’s now common to find celebrity sports fans in the spotlight during telecasts of their favorite teams.  Who are these die-hard celebrity sports fans? Click ahead to find out who made our list of celebrity sports fans and how much one of their tickets might cost.

There's a point in everyone's life when they stand at a career crossroads. Go one way and you end up in your current profession. Go the other and you wind up doing something entirely different. That's true not just of people in the traditional business world, but also those in the porn world. Before they began having sex on screen, the people in the adult entertainment industry were often working in other fields or studying to be a part of them.

Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo" leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director slot for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Everybody has a first job – and it rarely has anything to do with how you end up making a living. That's especially true of the adult entertainment industry's biggest names. But their first gigs aren't what you might expect. Sure, some kicked off their resumes with stints in fast food joints, like many teenagers around the country. Several, though, worked in law firms. And one learned the hard way that domestic services were not for her.

Each January, Adult Video News, the trade publication of the adult entertainment industry, holds the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.  The event (Jan 18-21 this year) features appearances by well-known actors in the industry, as well as new products and companies vying for a piece of the $14-billion adult industry.

When the movie industry slapped adult films with an XXX rating, porn companies came to embrace the scarlet letters. But when the nonprofit corporation that oversees Internet addresses rolled out the .xxx domain, the reception was unequivocally unenthusiastic.

The game is not only a chance for more revenue, but also a way to entice a new generation of fans to telecasts and league-related internet content.

While there are a few adult entertainment companies that are publicly traded, most are firmly closed to civilians, the industry’s term for outsiders. But one company, Pleasure Dynasty, is opening the filmmaking process.