Hours after Sony Corporation disclosed its earnings results in Tokyo, the companys share price on the New York Stock Exchange rose after its audio and games divisions made gains. The companys music segment which had albums from Tyler the Creator and Bad Bunny release this quarter as well as Beyoncs Cowboy Carter pick up the Grammys top album honor saw...

On Jan. 21, Blake Livelys legal team petitioned a Texas court to depose Jed Wallace. The attorneys say hes a key player in the alleged smear campaign she believes Justin Baldoni enacted to counter her claims that he engaged in unprofessional and sexually harassing conduct while they worked together on their summer 2024 hit It Ends with Us. The filing...

What makes a good generative AI product? How does one generative AI product distinguish itself from another? As more AI products hit the market and competition increases, these are the key questions many are asking. The answers to these questions depend on the quality of the content used to train the AI models that power these generative AI products. For...

Anthony and Joe Russos production company AGBO, behind actioners like the Citadel franchise for Prime Video and The Gray Man and Extraction for Netflix, has formally hired a veteran game executive as its pushes further into immersive entertainment. Pete Wanat, formerly vp at Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group and most recently at mobile developer Nifty Games, has been named president...

As Paramount Global aims to negotiate a new carriage deal for brands like CBS, MTV and Comedy Central with YouTube TV, its co-CEOs are signaling that a blackout of its channels on the service could be in the cards. In a note to employees on Wednesday, Paramount co-chiefs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins said that the company would...

The large subset of Super Bowl viewers who watched the game on Tubi came as a surprise to many but not those within the streamer itself. It was in line with what we thought wed get, Nicole Parlapiano, Tubis chief marketing officer, told The Hollywood Reporter. We had existing comps from prior Super Bowls that we were building off of,...

As it looks to a new era spun off from Comcast and as the second Trump administration begins, MSNBC has formalized hiring its top leader. Rebecca Kutler, who held the title of interim president at the cable news channel, was officially promoted on Wednesday, SpinCo CEO Mark Lazarus told employees. The full memo is below: Team, Today, I am officially...

NBCUniversals Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy has sparked a defamation lawsuit from the rap mogul Sean Combs, who says the documentary features false allegations of serial murder, sexual assault and sex trafficking against him. Combs, in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in New York state court, points to accusations that he murdered Kim Porter, who shares four children...

John Malone, the architect behind some of the most consequential media deals of the past several decades, is ready to go public with his own take on the entertainment and tech landscape. The mogul, whose moniker Cable Cowboy nods to his roots running Tele-Communications Inc., has signed a deal with Simon Schuster for a new memoir titled Born to Be...

The fight goes back years and involves one powerful dude thinking the other has gotten credit he didnt deserve. It began when the pair collaborated and supported each other. But that faded as fast as a Spotify streaming record. Since then the battle has played out as a Cold War with veiled digs behind the scenes, and in thepast year...

Fox and Tubi brought in more than $800 million in advertising sales for the presentation of Super Bowl LIX. The clear winners Sunday night were the Eagles, the NFL, and FOX. Congratulations to our teams at FOX Sports and Tubi for a record-breaking and historic Super Bowl LIX, the most-watched, most-streamed, and most successful Super Bowl ever, said Lachlan Murdoch,...

The Trump administrations campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the media and entertainment sector has turned its attention on Comcast. The media conglomerate has confirmed that Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr has notified Comcast his agency is to investigate the companys DEI practices. We have received an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission and will be cooperating with...

Amazon Prime Video is betting that a stacked lineup of sports can help it turbocharge its fast-growing advertising business. The tech giants video streaming service already has NFL Thursday Night Football, which averaged 13.2 million viewers last season, and it has WNBA and NWSL games, giving it a lineup of womens sports. This year it will add NASCAR Cup Series...