Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Former Spotify and Disney executive Courtney Holt will join children's media company Moonbug Entertainment as its first global head of music and strategic audio initiatives. The British …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Former Warner Bros. executive Jay Levine will lead Kevin Hart's entertainment company as its new chief executive officer. Levine takes over the position at Hartbeat from Hart, who had be…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:42PM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2024
Despite a fourth-quarter earnings beat, growing engagement on the streaming platform to 80 million active accounts, Roku's stock tumbled more than 20 percent a day after the Feb. 15 earnings…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:49PM[SHARE]Friday, February 16, 2024
The Very Worst Thing that Could Possibly Happen, a fictional podcast from Wolf at the Door about a man who can write letters to his favorite deceased author, topped the Ambies 2024 nominatio…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00PM[SHARE]Cinemark reported a narrowed fourth-quarter loss of $18 million, compared to a year-earlier loss of $99.3 million, as revenue rose 6.5 percent to $638.9 million, the exhibition giant reporte…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2024
Roku added 4.2 million accounts to reach 80 million active accounts at the end of the fourth quarter, up 14 percent year-over-year, and reached 29.1 billion streaming hours, up 21 percent ye…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:29PM[SHARE]Disney is the latest streaming giant to jump into a password-sharing crackdown, with its efforts to make money from the effort set to begin in earnest this summer. The media giant has al…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Brené Brown has found a new podcasting home at Vox Media. Brown, a bestselling author and research professor, will bring her podcasts, Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead to the Vox Media Pod…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
The Animation Guild is organizing production workers at DreamWorks Animation and at Flying Bark Productions. The guild (IATSE Local 839) sent a letter to DreamWorks Animation on Feb. 7 and f…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:48PM[SHARE]A group of 1,700 performers who play characters and cheer and dance in parades at Disneyland in California announced their intent Tuesday to unionize with Actors' Equity. The group, whic…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:10PM[SHARE]Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has formed a creative partnership with Lemonada Media to develop a new podcast series. As part of the partnership, Lemonada Media, which is behind shows…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:48PM[SHARE]Appropriate, starring Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll, is transferring to another Broadway theater to extend its run. The Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play will move to the Belasco Theatre start…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 12, 2024
Actors' Equity Association has voted to authorize a strike against the Broadway League amid negotiations over developmental work. The strike authorization vote, which was agreed to unani…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:42PM[SHARE]SiriusXM is laying off less than 3 percent of its workforce, or about 160 positions, as the company reorganizes to promote future subscriber growth. In a memo to employees Monday, CEO Jennif…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2024
"Authenticity is dangerous and expensive."Â Tina Fey espoused those words of wisdom to Bowen Yang on the podcast Las Culturistas, which he co-hosts with Matt Rogers, as part of the show's…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2024
Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl said his company remains happy with their deal with TikTok and he believes the social media platform and Universal Music Group will also come to an agreem…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Warner Music Group plans to lay off about 600 staffers in an effort to free up more money for music investment across the next decade. The majority of impacted staffers, which represent …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:10PM[SHARE]After Disney delivered strong quarterly earnings results, including cutting streaming losses and reaffirming a profitable streaming business this summer, CEO Bob Iger said the "last thing" t…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Amy Ryan will take over Tyne Daly's role in Doubt: A Parable on Broadway after the star was unexpectedly hospitalized. "Ms. Daly was unexpectedly hospitalized on Friday and unfortunately nee…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:27PM[SHARE]Jonathan Majors' sentencing date has been delayed until April 8 after his defense team filed a motion to set aside the verdict. The Creed III actor was convicted in December of reckless a…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:43PM[SHARE]Tom Holland will star as Romeo in a new version of Romeo & Juliet in the West End this spring. The play will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, the director of the retooled Sunset Boulevard…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:08AM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2024
Disney is calling on Professor Ludwig Von Drake as its reinforcement in its board battle against Nelson Peltz and his Trian Partners. The media and entertainment giant released an animat…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:07PM[SHARE]SmartLess, Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, On Purpose with Jay Shetty and Normal Gossip are among the titles in contention for the 2024 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards. The category, whic…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30AM[SHARE]Friday, February 2, 2024
Joe Rogan has struck a new multiyear deal with Spotify, but will no longer see his podcast distributed exclusively by the platform. As part of the deal for The Joe Rogan Experience, whic…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:54PM[SHARE]Sara Bareilles is writing the score for a stage adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's novel The Interestings. The show will feature a book by Sarah Ruhl, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for In the Next…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2024
Apple hit an all-time revenue record in its services sector, which includes Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade and more, during its first quarter ended Dec. 30. Net sales in the ser…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Radio broadcast company Audacy is laying off about 25 percent of its staff from its Pineapple Street podcast division. The cuts, which amount to 12 people, come as the company contended …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:28PM[SHARE]Alex Cooper's popular Call Her Daddy podcast is no longer exclusive to Spotify. As of Jan. 30, the back catalog of the podcast is available on all audio platforms, with the first new episode…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Microsoft reported second-quarter earnings that were boosted in part by its acquisition of game maker Activision Blizzard. Total Xbox content and services revenue increased 61 percent ye…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:35PM[SHARE]British media company Sky Group is planning to cut 1,000 jobs over the next year as the company transitions to internet-based TV from satellite. The majority of jobs cut will be concentr…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:47PM[SHARE]Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang is leaving the publication to join the New Yorker. Chang, who had been with the Times since 2016, departs the Times as the publication contends wit…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:59AM[SHARE] 
