Tuesday, July 30, 2024
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]Disneyland workers voted to approve their new three-year contract about a week after voting to authorize a strike if an agreement could not be reached. The workers, representing 14,000 c…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:36AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2024
Meta is bringing its AI Studio to the U.S., allowing creators and Instagram users to build their own AI characters. With the tool, users with the creator account on Instagram can create …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:00PM[SHARE]Andrea Martin, Melora Hardin and Ruthie Ann Miles have joined the Broadway cast of McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr.  On Monday, the production also announced that "a highly realisti…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:36AM[SHARE]The Queen of Versailles, a new musical based on TV personality Jacqueline "Jackie" Siegel, is scheduled to come to Broadway in the 2025-2026 season. The musical, which features a score b…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2024
Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh and Jesse Tyler Ferguson will be part of the cast of Twelfth Night, which is set to reopen the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The production…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:35PM[SHARE]Vince Vaughn is set to become a majority stakeholder of the pickleball team the Coachella Valley Scorpions. The team, which was co-owned by Kim Jagd, launched in May, and is one of 12 teams …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:08PM[SHARE]Podcasting company Lemonada Media is launching a publishing imprint with Simon & Schuster. Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, is partnering with the podcasting network to…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM[SHARE]Hasbro swung to a profit in the second quarter as revenue fell 18 percent due to the divestiture of eOne. The gaming company reported a profit of $138.5 million, after posting a loss of …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho will take over the lead roles in Cabaret this fall from Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. The two will begin performances, as the Emcee and Sally Bowles, …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:29PM[SHARE]Workers at Disneyland reached a tentative contract agreement Tuesday, averting the immediate possibility of a strike for 14,000 workers. The workers, which are part of the Master Service…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Ike Perlmutter has sold his entire stake in Disney after he and activist Nelson Peltz lost a proxy fight. Perlmutter, the former Marvel chairman, had banded with Peltz to try to win two …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:49PM[SHARE]The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. The union's backing comes after a unanimous vote of the U.S. mem…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:31PM[SHARE]Cole Escola's comedy Oh, Mary! broke the box office record at the Lyceum Theatre last week, grossing $1.05 million and besting the record held by 2022 best musical winner A Strange Loop. Las…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:06PM[SHARE]Spotify hit 246 million paying subscribers in the second quarter of 2024, up 12 percent year-over-year. The total number of paid subscriber additions, up 7 million, was 1 million above g…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2024
IATSE is endorsing Kamala Harris for president of the United States. The union, which represents more than 170,000 technicians, artisans and craftspersons in Hollywood and across the enterta…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:18PM[SHARE]Writers Guild of America East members at Pineapple Street Studios ratified their first collective bargaining agreement, gaining a three-year contract with protections against AI and increase…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00PM[SHARE]Podcast and media executive Geoff Isenman has been named the new CEO of Campside Media, home to the popular podcast franchises, Suspect and Chameleon. With the appointment, Campside co-found…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AM[SHARE]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…
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