Monica Austin Joins Blizzard Entertainment as CMO
Monica Austin has been appointed the new chief marketing officer at gaming publisher Blizzard Entertainment. In the role, Austin oversees the marketing teams for all titles at Blizzard, …
Monica Austin has been appointed the new chief marketing officer at gaming publisher Blizzard Entertainment. In the role, Austin oversees the marketing teams for all titles at Blizzard, …
An installation narrated by Tilda Swinton will lead London Film Festival Expanded, a new lineup of immersive art, extended reality, and gaming experiences at this year's event. The 68th BFI …
Shari Redstone and a roster of Hollywood talent will take the stage at Advertising Week in New York this fall. Other headliners include Kevin Bacon, Drew Barrymore, Kenneth Cole, Common,…
Cate Blanchett will return to the stage for the first time in six years. The Australian Oscar winner will perform as Arkadina in a new version of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull at the Barb…
James P. Gorman, the executive chairman of Morgan Stanley, will chair Disney's succession planning committee to select the company's next CEO. Gorman previously oversaw the succession pr…
We're Here star Sasha Velour is starring in a new play at the La Jolla Playhouse. Velour: A Drag Spectacular, described as a "sweeping, coming-of-age tale interwoven with the radical history…
Cole Escola's Oh Mary! broke the house record at the Lyceum Theatre last week, bringing in $1.057 million and besting its own record from July 21. The production, written and starring Es…
 Condé Nast is the latest media organization to strike a multiyear partnership with OpenAI. As part of the partnership, content from Vogue, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Arch…
Mike Greenberg has been named host of ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown. Greenberg currently hosts ESPN's morning show, Get Up, and the Greeny radio show. He previously hosted NBA Countdown, S…
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…
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…
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…
"I'm a survivor," says Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. "Since I was a kid, that's been the definition of my life. Whatever I have to do, I do it. I'm still surviving at 95." For decades, this fei…
Here's something to tide us over until Karlie Kloss and husband Josh Kushner launch their planned reboot of Life magazine. On Aug. 27, Taschen's Life. Hollywood will be available for purc…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Adam Epstein, who won a Tony Award for producing Hairspray before he was 30 and received other nominations for his work on revivals of Amadeus and The Crucible and adaptations of The Wedding…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …