The Business

We talk to former studio chief and super fundraiser Tom Sherak about getting the big shots to share their kibble in a dog-eat-dog industry.  Plus, on the occasion of Lindsay Lohan's re-arrest, we re-visit celebrity spin-doctor Mike Sitrick.

While Jack Sparrow and his crew were raking in buckets of dubloons at the box office, pirates of a different kind were plundering Hollywood's treasure chest.

What does it mean for your TV show to be on the bubble? We speak with the producers of Scrubs and Jericho about coming back from the brink of extinction.

He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2004 indie comedy The Almost Guys, but given the rest of his experience in Hollywood, "the almost guy" is a label he's fighting to avoid.

Dove beauty products inked an inventive deal to help finance the long-languishing remake of the 1939 classic The Women. Plus, what's a first assistant director?

Hollywood's spin-doctor on the recent epidemic of celebrity scandal. Plus, Hollywood fundraising for a Republican presidential candidate.

We look at the wonderful world of the great white way through the lens of a new documentary called Show Business: The Road to Broadway.

After NBC fired its president, we ask another former programming chief about the upside of getting canned.  Plus, would-be presidents come to Hollywood in search of dead presidents.

This week on The Business, will changes to the way movies are rated change what you see on the big screen? We'll talk to the head of the MPAA's rating board about what's new and why. And, what can different ratings mean for a movie's box office potential? Plus, a report from the Cannes Film Festival.

Horror films are once again scaring up terrifying box office numbers! We check in with the director of the wildly successful Hostel movies, then cut to the producer of the Saw movies.