Quotes and Apostrophes in Feeds Coming Out as “&#”

hi guys maybe someone can help me. recently upgraded to 2.8 and i have feeds going in a lot of places. one of them is imdb.com, which carries my news feeds and send some nice traffic. but recently i found that since upgrading to 2.8, my feeds are now showing up full of “&#” (and adding numbers like 8220, 8221, etc after them) in place of quotes and apostrophes. it really makes the feed look ugly. does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? i’m assuming it’s coming from my end via how wordpress is feeding it to imdb.com.

thanks.