Hollywood

R&B BAD BOY Chris Brown got into a tussle with R&B wunderkind Frank Ocean over a West Hollywood, Calif., parking spot Sunday night, and now Ocean wants to press charges, officials said Monday. The Los Angeles Police Department was called to the scene at Westlake Recording Studios, where Brown and Ocean were separately holding court, but Brown bailed before he could be questioned by the cops. Accounts of who struck the first blow differ. TMZ.com sides against Ocean, reporting that he and his crew blocked Brown from departing the studio.

* REAL HUSBANDS OF HOLLYWOOD. 10 p.m. Tuesday, BET.   PASADENA, Calif. - In Hollywood, it's not just who you know, it's how far the people you know are willing to go for you. Philly's Kevin Hart has made some famous friends since his days at 15th and Erie and BET viewers will get to meet some of them Tuesday night in Hart's new "reality" show parody, "Real Husbands of Hollywood. " And unlike some of the "friends" on the shows he's poking fun at, the "husbands" he's hanging with - Nick Cannon, Boris Kodjoe, J.B. Smoove, Duane Martin and Robin Thicke, among others - weren't brought together by a casting director.

LOS ANGELES - The big deal for Hollywood is not the record $10.8 billion that studios took in domestically in 2012. It's the fact that the number of tickets sold went up for the first time in three years. Thanks to inflation, revenue generally rises in Hollywood as admission prices climb each year. The real story is told in tickets, whose sales have been on a general decline for a decade, bottoming out in 2011 at 1.29 billion, their lowest level since 1995. The industry rebounded this year, with ticket sales projected to rise 5.6 percent to 1.36 billion by Dec. 31, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

HOLLYWOOD had a bounce-back year in 2012, mostly deserved. Movie attendance was up more than 5 percent to about 1.36 billion, as the industry did a good job giving folks what they wanted and often more than they expected. And the year closes with a strong roster of movie-making talent on view - works by Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Peter Jackson, Ang Lee, Quentin Tarantino, David O. Russell and Judd Apatow, with Kathryn Bigelow on the way in a few weeks. The year also closes with the industry on the list of collateral suspects in the wake of recent tragedies like the one in Newtown, Conn., prompting questions about the role of popular culture.

HOLLYWOOD HAS responded to the rampage at a Connecticut elementary school by pulling back on its offerings, but stars speaking at a news event for the ultraviolent new film "Django Unchained" differed on whether the entertainment industry bears any responsibility for such acts. "We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence," Jamie Foxx said Saturday in New York. "It does. " Foxx stars in Quentin Tarantino 's blood-soaked spaghetti Western-style film about slavery, which opens Christmas Day. But Tarantino, whose credits include "Pulp Fiction" and the "Kill Bill" series, said he was tired of defending his films each time the nation is shocked by gun violence.

LONG WAY from Hollywood to the Hollywood Diner, but Anthony Michael Hall has been hanging out for weeks at the Woodbury Heights, N.J., restaurant. We're told that the Brat Pack actor, who appeared in "National Lampoon's Vacation," "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles," has been in the area visiting a girlfriend and has stopped several times at the bar. No word on whether Hall has gotten drunk and re-enacted his classic scene from "Weird Science" in which he shared a story of unrequited love for "this crazy little eighth-grade b----.

WHILE WE JOKINGLY wonder why people in haunted movie houses don't leave, we know we really don't want them to go. Not the viewers and certainly not Hollywood, which would be nowhere without haunted houses, as it makes most of its easy money in the horror arena. With that in mind, the industry has been looking for a bankable new franchise since the decline of the "Saw" series and the diminishing returns of the "Paranormal Activity. " It may have found a successor in "Sinister," a thoroughly familiar but slick and effective horror movie starring Ethan Hawke as Ellison Oswald, a true-crime writer who moves into the home where a horrible murder occurred.

THERE ARE TWO very good reasons that Christopher Walken is in the new movie "Seven Psychopaths. " The first is that Walken became friendly with writer-director Martin McDonagh ("In Bruges") when Walken starred on Broadway in McDonagh's play "A Behanding in Spokane. " "Martin was at the rehearsals all the time," Walken said last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, "so we got to know each other pretty well. And then I got this script. So many terrific actors. It seemed like something that was a good idea.

Irving Fein, 101, a producer and manager who steered the careers of comedy greats George Burns and Jack Benny and named actress Lana Turner the "Sweater Girl," has died, his daughter said Tuesday. Mr. Fein, who worked into his 90s, died Friday at his West Hollywood home of an age-related illness, Tisha Fein said. "He loved what he did," said his daughter, a TV and event producer. "He would be afraid to go on a holiday because he would miss a deal. " His early career included stints as a publicist at studios including MGM and Warner Bros.

The whole world is going Hollywood. But is this a good thing? Florida-based Digital Domain Media Group, the special-effects company that brought the "Transformers" movies and the Tupac Shakur hologram to life, is setting up a studio in oil-rich Abu Dhabi. The deal signed Monday between Digital Domain and Abu Dhabi's government-backed twofour54 deepens the Emirati capital's ties to Hollywood as it accelerates its efforts to become a media hub. Digital Domain plans to establish an animation, visual-effects and motion-capture studio and a media school in Abu Dhabi as part of the deal.