Saturday, July 20, 2024
IATSE has been organizing workers Off-Broadway in a push for greater benefits and a say in the changing theater landscape. Thus far, workers at commercial productions of Titanique and Little…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:05AM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2024
A tentative new trial date has been set for Harvey Weinstein in New York, following the overturning of his 2020 rape conviction. In a hearing Friday, Judge Curtis Farber estimated that j…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2024
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola is retiring from the philanthropic nonprofit organization after 36 years. Viola will retire at the end of 2024 and will be …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:09PM[SHARE]Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said he is not yet sure how artificial intelligence and generative AI will impact TV and film content on the platform, but he believes it could provide powerful t…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:50PM[SHARE]Peter Naylor, Netflix's vice president of ad sales, is leaving the company. Naylor has been at Netflix since August 2022. The company will be hiring a head of U.S. and Canada ad sales to…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2024
The pension plan for the American Federation of Musicians and Employers is set to receive a $1.5 billion cash influx to save the plan from becoming insolvent. The money comes as part of …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:32PM[SHARE]Willow Bay and her husband, Disney CEO Bob Iger, have entered into a definitive agreement to own Angel City Football Club, the soccer club announced Tuesday. As had been previously repor…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The Outsiders box office continued to climb in the aftermath of Tony Awards, with the musical bringing in $1.4 million for the week ended July 14. This is the fourth week in a row that t…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:12PM[SHARE]Another round of layoffs has hit Warner Bros. Discovery. Employees in several different groups across the entertainment company have been impacted, including in the finance division, pro…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:41PM[SHARE]Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey's podcast Office Ladies is moving to Audacy. Starting Aug. 14, Audacy will handle sales, distribution and production for the podcast, which offers a behin…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2024
Paramount Global's "go-shop" window, or the period in which the company can evaluate any other takeover offers, ends Aug. 21, according to securities filing disclosed Thursday. The go-sh…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is declining to publicly take sides ahead of the upcoming presidential election. Rather than backing political parties or individual candidates, w…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:03PM[SHARE]Rachel Bloom's one-woman stage show Death, Let Me Do My Show is slated to come to Netflix in the early fall. Bloom is currently performing the show at the Williamstown Theater Festival a…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:00PM[SHARE]Paramount+ is buying up more real estate in Roku City to promote SpongeBob SquarePants ahead of the popular series' 25th anniversary. Paramount and Roku have partnered on an immersive ca…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Merrily We Roll Along closed out its Broadway run with a new high of $2.77 million, which the production says is the highest grossing week ever for any Stephen Sondheim musical on Broadway. …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:56PM[SHARE]Prosecutors in the Harvey Weinstein case are investigating sexual assault claims from additional women who have come forward as they look to a possible new indictment against the former Holl…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:09AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2024
ABC News' political director Rick Klein has been named vice president and Washington D.C. bureau chief for the network. Klein has been a member of the ABC's team in Washington D.C. since…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:01PM[SHARE]As Skydance and Paramount chart out their strategy as a merged company, its new leaders say they would still be open to selling assets. On a call with investors Monday morning, after the…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Disney CEO Bob Iger and his wife Willow Bay are in talks to buy a majority stake in Angel City FC, the professional women's soccer club based in Los Angeles, a source confirms to The Hollywo…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Broadway grosses came down from their Tony Awards highs last week, though Merrily We Roll Along and Appropriate kept powering through the ends of their runs. Appropriate, starring newly …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:50PM[SHARE]Former Disney CFO Christine McCarthy has joined the board of directors of online gambling company Flutter Entertainment. McCarthy has been the Disney CFO from 2015 through June 2023 and …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:19PM[SHARE]TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of UFC and the WWE, which is controlled by Endeavor, has made a strategic investment in EverPass Media as the media platform gains the ability to strea…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2024
Evan Cabnet will take over as artistic director of Second Stage Theater, one of Broadway's major nonprofit theater companies. Cabnet, currently artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater's …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:44AM[SHARE]A musical about Betty Boop is the latest to join Broadway's 2024-2025 season. Helmed by director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical will open on Broadway in April…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Christian Borle will star in the Tammy Faye musical on Broadway, replacing the previously announced Andrew Rannells. Borle, a two-time Tony Award winner for playing Shakespeare in Someth…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:00PM[SHARE]The Streaming Innovation Alliance, which counts most major direct-to-consumer services as members, has added six new platforms to its ranks. The alliance was initially formed in September 20…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:20AM[SHARE]Comedian and actor Andy Richter is launching a new call-in show on SiriusXM. The Andy Richter Call-In Show will see Richter, well-known for his role as Conan O'Brien's sidekick on his la…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The big winners of the Tony Awards saw their grosses soar in the week following the June 16 ceremony, with Merrily We Roll Along, The Outsiders, Stereophonic and An Enemy of the People hitti…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:12PM[SHARE]Leslye Headland, the creator of Star Wars: The Acolyte, will make her Broadway debut this fall. Her play, Cult of Love, follows four adult children returning to their childhood home with the…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:10AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2024
The Motion Picture Association has hired former FBI official Larissa Knapp to lead its content protection services. Knapp, who was the fourth highest ranking FBI official, will serve as …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:40PM[SHARE]The Paramount+ essential plan and the Paramount+ with Showtime plan will both increase their prices in the coming months. The Paramount+ essential plan will increase by $2 per month to $…
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