Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Time magazine is cutting 22 roles across departments, including editorial, technology, sales & marketing and TIME Studios. In a memo to staff announcing the layoffs Tuesday, Time CEO…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:39PM[SHARE]Netflix saw a more than 150 percent increase in ad sales commitment after this year's upfront, compared to last year, the streaming giant said Tuesday. The commitments included buys from…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2024
Almin Karamehmedovic has been named president of ABC News. Karamehmedovic has overseen the production and daily operations of World News Tonight with David Muir since August 2014. He takes o…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:44AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2024
In the Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, tensions are high as more than 40 of the top musicians of the '80s, including Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Diana R…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:00PM[SHARE]Talking about his role in Showtime's Fellow Travelers, Jonathan Bailey can't help but be earnest. It's a trait he calls out about himself but is learning to embrace, as he notes the importan…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2024
In the crowded true-crime media space, MrBallen has kept his approach pretty simple. He appears on his YouTube channel wearing a flannel shirt and backwards baseball cap in every video, spea…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:37AM[SHARE]Members of the Crooked Media union unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement, gaining provisions including minimum starting salaries of $80,000, AI protections and a m…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Phylicia Rashad will make her Broadway directing debut with a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The play, Purpose, marks Jacobs-Jenkins return to Broadway after his play, Appropriate, …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2024
In its second to last week on Broadway, The Wiz brought in close to $1.7 million, its highest tally of its run so far, putting it within the top five in the industry for the week. The re…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:21PM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2024
Buzzfeed reported total revenue of $47 million for the second quarter, down from $62 million a year ago. Advertising revenue declined 19 percent year-over-year to reach $23.8 million, wi…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:33PM[SHARE]Audible and Broadway Video Enterprises are launching two new, original comedy podcasts this fall, with a lineup of castmembers including Glen Powell, Nicholas Braun, Taraji P. Henson and Tra…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2024
Disney is bringing The Greatest Show on Earth to the stage. The company says that it is developing a stage musical based on the 2017 film The Greatest Showman to, produced by its Disney Thea…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2024
Paramount continued to push forward on its $500 million cost-savings plan and goal of reaching sustained profitability in streaming by 2025, in the company's first earnings report since the …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:02PM[SHARE]Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will star in a Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross in spring 2025. The production will be directed by Patrick Marber, who won a 2023 Tony Aw…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM[SHARE]Podcast revenue at iHeartMedia rose 8 percent in the company's second quarter, compared to same quarter last year, to reach $104.5 million. Overall revenue in the digital audio group, wh…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:51AM[SHARE]Tiktok is rolling out a marketing tool for studios and the entertainment industry. Called TikTok Spotlight, the tool allows companies to add a link to TikTok videos that feature content …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Disney announced a streaming profit for the first time Wednesday, and with price increases on their way and increased content offerings, CEO Bob Iger said he expects additional growth to com…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:54AM[SHARE]The Walt Disney Co. turned a profit in its streaming business a quarter earlier than anticipated, and beat Wall Street expectations as its entertainment business soared in the company's fisc…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2024
The Outsiders musical continued its post-Tony run, breaking the box office record at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre for the seventh week in a row. The show, which won the Tony Award for be…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:24PM[SHARE]Stranger Things: The First Shadow is coming to Broadway in the spring. The play, which is set up as a prequel to the events of the Netflix series, will start previews at the Marquis Thea…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2024
Cathy Repola will retire as the national executive director of the Motion Picture Editors Guild at the end of January 2025. Repola has worked at the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, for 3…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:27PM[SHARE]Members of the Crooked Media Workers Union are conducting a one-day walkout Monday after more than a year of contract negotiations with the progressive podcasting and media network. The …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2024
Snap hit 432 million daily active users in the second quarter of 2024, an increase of 36 million, or 9 percent year-over-year. Revenue hit $1.24 billion, up from $1.07 billion a year ago, bu…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:32PM[SHARE]Keanu Reeves will make his Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot this winter. The play, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will come to Broadway in fall 2025. Reeves will play Estragon and Alex Wint…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:36PM[SHARE]Adam Driver will star as a fictional country music icon in Kenneth Lonergan's play Hold On to Me Darling this fall. The play, directed by Neil Pepe, is slated to begin performances at Off-Br…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:15AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda and co-writer Eisa Davis are set to release a concept album with Atlantic Records on Oct. 18, inspired by the 1979 film The Warriors.  The 26-track concept album wa…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM[SHARE]SiriusXM is launching a subscription service for some of its biggest podcasts through Apple Podcasts. Launching Aug. 5, SiriusXM Podcasts+ will give subscribers an ad-free listeners …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2024
What's next for Shari Redstone after the deal to sell her stake in Paramount? Producing a Broadway play. Redstone is a co-producer on the Broadway play Job, written by Max Wolf Fri…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2024
The Outsiders continued to break box office records for the sixth week in the row. The musical brought in $1.46 million for the week ended July 28, with capacity over 100 percent. The sh…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:40PM[SHARE]Live Nation reported second quarter earnings Tuesday, reporting continued demand globally for concerts amid the overhang of the Justice Department lawsuit. The company, which owns Ticketmast…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:31PM[SHARE]Politician and author Stacey Abrams is launching a weekly podcast with Crooked Media. The podcast, entitled Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams, will see the former Georgia gubernatoria…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM[SHARE] 
