SiriusXM is expanding its podcast subscription offering to Spotify, YouTube Music and more. The offering, which launched in August on Apple Podcasts, gives subscribers ad-free listening on new episodes, bonus content and early access to episodes of popular shows. When it first launched, the offering included SmartLess, Freakonomics Radio, Last Podcast on the Left and 99% Invisible. The offering now...

As Kamala Harris plans her next moves after a grueling general election campaign, the former vice presidential candidate has found Hollywood representation. The California politician has inked with Creative Artists Agency, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. The agency plans to focus on speaking gigs and publishing opportunities as Harris maps out options after the end of her term. The move...

Dick Clark Productions has hired Nick Terranova as senior vp brand partnerships at the company. Terranova, a former Fox and Warner Bros. executive, will lead a group tasked with finding and developing strategic brand alliances for DCPs properties, which include the Golden Globe Awards, New Years Rockin Eve With Ryan Secrest, the American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards and ACM...

Depending on who you ask, the $1 billion expansion of the historic 25-acre site known as Television City is a welcome addition to the Los Angeles Fairfax Avenue corridor and the larger Hollywood community, or its a blight on the neighborhood. Entertainment Union Coalition, which represents 160,000 workers across the industry, has supported the renovation, warning of a sharp downturn...

Just over a week ago, as the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs faced off in Super Bowl 59, Universal Destinations Experiences introduced its newest Orlando park, Epic Universe, to 127 million Americans. The 30-second commercial was released late last year. But the ad for the first major U.S. theme park to open in two decades, as well as four...

Hearst Corp. had record revenue and profits in 2024, but 2025 is likely to be a more challenging environment, according to Steve Swartz, the media companys CEO. Swartz sent his annual letter to Hearst employees Tuesday, detailing how the companys various divisions performed. According to the letter, Hearst hit $13 billion in revenues last year, a new record. That growth...

Dune VFX house DNEG Group and its Brahma division have made a big swing in acquiring Metaphysic, a developer of artificial intelligence content creation technologies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the agreement includes Abu Dhabi-based investor United Al Saqer Group and the DNEG Group investing another $25 million into Brahma, an AI and content technologies company launched...

Broadcast and cable networks gained some additional traction with U.S. viewers in January, thanks in large part to the postseasons in college football and the NFL. Nielsens TV use rankings for the first month of 2025 show cable (24.4 percent of all TV use) and broadcast (22.5 percent) each making some gains on their December 2024 numbers. Cable rose from...

Harvey Weinstein has sued his brother, Bob Weinstein, and another executive at the Weinstein Company alleging fraud and a conspiracy to push him out of the company. The suit, filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York Saturday, alleges that Bob Weinstein, Weinstein Company executive David Glasser and others got Harvey Weinstein to guarantee a $45 million...

Ari Emanuel is officially a billionaire. The Hollywood titan and CEO of entertainment and media agency giant Endeavor has seen his net worth soar over the last 12 months as bets on WWE and UFC have paid off handsomely. Bloombergs Billionaire Index anointed Emanuel as part of the rarefied club of the super rich, owing in large part to his...

The fires that ravaged Los Angeles County earlier this year have supercharged calls to bring more production back to Southern California after a period of notable decline. Much of this advocacy has played out on social media and in the press. On Instagram industry figures like cinematographer and director Rachel Morrison (Mudbound) and star Vin Diesel (Fast Furious) have argued...

Employees at a unionized Alamo Drafthouse theater in Colorado are making good on a threat to strike, walking out ahead of what is expected to be a healthy Valentines Day-slash-Presidents Day box office weekend. Staffers at the theater chains Sloans Lake location in Denver who are unionized with the Communications Workers of America Local 7777 have begun withholding their labor...

Michael Groszkruger, the respected market research executive who spent more than two decades at New Line Cinema and Warner Bros., died Jan. 30 of complications from cancer in Portland, Oregon, his family announced. He was 60. Groszkruger served as a vice president and head of research at New Line from 1997-2008, a period in which the studio released such notable...