Hollywood move. (Retail).

Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events, a division of the Wolfgang Puck empire, is negotiating to take over an 18,000-square-foot area on the top of the Hollywood & Highland retail and entertainment complex that was slated for the Hollywood costumes museum being planned by Debbie Reynolds.

"We don't have a signed deal, but I think it is a matter of time," said Carl Schuster, president and managing partner of Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events.

The division, which has an exclusive agreement to cater all events in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, needs more space for catering entertainment events and post-party events following presentations at the Kodak Theatre.

"We would also continue to cater more movie premieres held at Mann's Chinese Theatre," Schuster said.

The catering company is planning to move its offices from across the street at the El Capitan Building to the "nose" of Hollywood & Highland, an area that juts out from the complex and overlooks the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel.

On July 23, Hollywood & Highland developer TrizecHahn Hollywood LLC sued the organizers of the Debbie Reynolds museum seeking to shake the stalled enterprise from its lease of the 18,000-square-foot space.