TNT Sports continues its opportunistic push for new sports rights. The Warner Bros. Discovery division has inked a deal with the global sports streaming service DAZN to televise many of the matches from this years FIFA Club World Cup. The event will kick off June 14 in Miami, and sees 32 of the worlds best soccer clubs facing off in...

The Walt Disney Co. is slashing just under 200 jobs at ABC News and at its Disney Entertainment Networks division as the traditional TV business continues to face economic headwinds, a source familiar with the decision tells The Hollywood Reporter. The cuts represented about 6 percent of the divisions workforce. ABC News will be hit particularly hard, with the data-driven...

Twenty years after it was founded, Digg is coming back, in a bid to bring the fun back to the internet. Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are backing the deal, which will see Rose serve as chairman and Justin Mezzell lead as CEO. When the three of us got together we were like hot damn theres...

Alec Baldwin will be deposed in May over his role in the October 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. Lawyers for Hutchins parents and sister, in a notice filed on Monday in New Mexico state court, told the judge overseeing the case that they intend to take Baldwins deposition on May 9 at their...

Cinemark CEO Sean Gamble is still optimistic about the film industrys ability to return to pre-COVID levels of releases in the near future. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley 2025 Technology, Media Telecom Conference, Gamble said while the number of wide releases in 2025 is still likely to be below 2019 levels, he believes the industry is picking up momentum and...

After settling a legal dispute with iHeartMedia over Kendrick Lamars Not Like Us, Drake is moving for discovery on multiple fronts from Universal Music Group, which he alleges made illegal payments to the radio company to boost airplay for the diss track. A federal judge on Tuesday denied UMGs bid to pause discovery in a defamation lawsuit accusing it of...

Skydance Sports has inked an overall deal with the the NFLs biggest stars. The entertainment production studio says that it has signed 2024 NFL MVP Josh Allen to an overall deal, in which the Buffalo Bills quarterback will develop a slate of scripted, unscripted and branded content with the company. Josh has quickly made a name for himself as one...

Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts says hes hopeful about continuing to do business in the U.S. market, despite gathering political and economic disruption. I continue to be an optimist and obviously look at the world around us. And theres instability. Weve pretty much focused most of the company in the U.S. Theres still some external things happening, Roberts told...

Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, brought in a massive $2.6 million across its first seven performances on Broadway. The play broke multiple box office records at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, surpassing those set by plays across nine performances and by musicals by more than $1 million. It was helped by an eye-popping average ticket price of $361.90. The...

Judy Page, a talent agent who spent 35 years working for agencies run by Susan Smith and Mitchell K. Stubbs, died Feb. 24 at Kindred Hospital Los Angeles after a brief illness, publicist Richard Hoffman announced. She was 76. Born in Columbus, Ohio, on June 22, 1948, Page was raised by her father and her aunt. She attended Ohio State...

Podcaster KennyBeechamand his Enjoy Basketball media and lifestyle brand have signed with WME for representation in all areas. The mega talent agency will support Beecham as he expands his footprint in the basketball media and culture spaces across digital, broadcast and premium platforms. Co-founded byBeecham and Cody and Cole Hock, Enjoy Basketball allows hoops fans to create digital content around...

The nominations for the 2025 BAFTA Games Awards were unveiled in London on Tuesday, with action-adventure Senuas Saga: Hellblade II leading the pack with 11 noms, ahead of platform game Astro Bot and psychological horror game Still Wakes the Deep with six each, and the likes of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Lego Horizon Adventures, and Final Fantasy VII...

Pouya Shahbazian, a producer on the Divergent franchise, has launched Staircase Studios AI, an artificial intelligence-driven film, TV and gaming studio. Staircase touts its own proprietary AI workflow, ForwardMotion, which claims to be able to produce near-studio-quality movie releases for under $500,000 each. The studio, which said it aims to produce around 30 low budget projects in the next three...