With industry news lately so dominated by tear-soaked tales of high-level executives being put out of their misery by pinkslip-wielding, immortal corporate overlords, we welcome today's announcement that Sony's Amy Pascal (whose box office hot streak healed the wounds left by last summer's string of bombs) was given…

Sony's Amy Pascal might be publicly banking on the involvement of starting Da Vinici Code Blasphemy Dream Team backcourt Ron Howard and Tom Hanks in her studio's planned sequel, Angels & Demons, but NPR's Kim Masters reports that should Hanks' schedule interfere, the franchise could still survive:

· Sony's worldwide day-and-date release strategy for The Da Vinci Code proves incredibly effective, especially in Catholic-heavy countries like Spain and Italy, which set box office records this weekend. As a reward for their patronage, Sony's Amy Pascal has promised those markets special premieres of any future…

Even studio executives whose blockbusters seem(ed) like sure things have had their confidence shaken by the M:i:III disappointment™ and Poseidon bed-shitting®, terrified by the prospect that any given Monday could feature a dreaded trip to The Grill for their public humiliation lunch special. A key to minimizing the…

Breaking news from the Sony lot, where an operative reports that employees are being terrorized by a cloud of tiny, yellow killers:

Sony's Amy Pascal, even while mired in last year's Stealth-fueled disaster, never abandoned her instincts. She knew that with some judicious cuts (read: $5 mil in reshoots and edits) designed to render the troublingly priapic Inspector Clouseau a PG-rated eunuch, The Pink Panther could probably capitalize on Steve…

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Anxious to avoid another Mask of Zorro-type costumed misadventure, Memoirs of a Geisha producer Steven Spielberg took no chances, beginning his campaign months ago to dissuade sartorially exuberant Sony chief Amy Pascal from painting her face white and showing up to the film's premiere in a kimono. The persuasive…

Today's LAT uses Zathura's weak opening and the difficulties in finally getting Fun With Dick and Jane into theaters to kick off another installment of Journalists Making Studio Executives Admit That Their Movies Are Shitty. This time, Sony's Amy Pascal is once again forced to answer for Stealth, XXX: State of the…

Saturday's LAT provided us with another opportunity to play our favorite parlor game, Journalists Making Studio Executives Admit That Their Summer Movies Were Shitty. This latest round of insincere sackcloth-and-ashes fun stars Sony's Amy Pascal and Brian Grazer of Imagine, who do their part to promise the…

"Yeah, yeah, Rob, whatever. It's nice that you got a picture of a renegade fighter jet tattooed on your penis, but we can't exactly put that in a Happy Meal, can we? Ooh! I think I see Jamie Foxx!" At the Stealth premiere in San Diego, Sony chief Amy Pascal rudely dismisses director Rob Cohen's misguided attempt at…