With more and more movies being filmed outside of Hollywood, Los Angeles businesses that once solely depended on the movie industry have to find new ways to make money.

"Promised Land," opening nationally in theaters, provides a nuanced account of fracking in rural Pennsylvania — up to a point.

Two big movies open today — "Les Miserables" and "Django Unchained." Overall, movie attendance is up this year. And that's after two years of ticket declines. So what's got movie industry singing?

Movie studios aren't all screening new films, though. Some find the convention is a place to make deals without having a high profile.

This past weekend, "Battleship" failed to meet expectations while" The Avengers" managed to keep raking in the cash.

The Dalian Wanda group, a major Chinese real estate developer, has purchased America's second-largest movie theater chain for $2.6 billion.

This past weekend, Hollywood hosted a fundraiser for the California state parks. It’s not just left-leaning Hollywood altruism. Many directors and studios film for cheap in the parks.

There's a report that federal authorities in the U.S. have asked some American movie studios about whether they've had to grease the wheels with cash as they try to break into the Chinese market.