On March 2, one of the last pillars of linear TV will fall: the Academy Awards. Hollywoods biggest night is a celebration of cinema, but this year it may as well double as a requiem for traditional TV. For the first time in the history of the broadcast, the Oscars will be streamed live outside of the pay TV ecosystem,...

Copyright law bars a former competitor of Thomson Reuters from using the companys content to create an artificial intelligence-based legal platform, a court has ruled in a decision that could lay the foundation for similar rulings over the legality of using copyrighted works to train AI systems. U.S. District Judge Stephanos Bibas on Tuesday rejected arguments from Ross Intelligence that...

Employees at an Alamo Drafthouse theater in Colorado have authorized a strike over layoffs that their union claims violated federal labor law, joining staffers at two theaters in New York that have done the same. One hundred percent of participating staffers at the theater chains Sloans Lake location voted on Feb. 5 and 6 to greenlight the potential work stoppage....

Cruz Abelita, best known for playing Justin across three seasons on Lionsgate TVs Step Up: High Water, has signed with CESD talent agency for representation. The dance drama was a small screen reboot of the popular Lionsgate film franchise. Step Up: High Watch, which followed the students and faculty of High Water, Atlantas most cutthroat performing arts school, ran for...

In a move to try and ensure that it doesnt wind up in the cross hairs of the Trump administrations campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Disney appears to be rolling back some of its DEI efforts. The entertainment giant, in its latest filing to regulators, scrubbed references to the Reimagine Tomorrow initiative, which launched in 2021 with the...

Cineplex CEO Ellis Jacob says the current movie theater outlookis brightening after disruptions in the supply of Hollywood tentpoles being delayed by the pandemic and the 2023 Los Angeles strikes. From talking to the studios, theyre pretty committed to the timing [of movie releases], Jacob told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. His comments came as Cineplex swung to a fourth...

BuzzFeed Inc. head Jonah Peretti says he wants to make the Internet fun again; and, after years of relying on social media companies to deliver his media empires content to audiences, BuzzFeed will do so by launching a new social media platform. In a memo released today, Peretti called out TikTok and Meta, writing that respective CEOs Zhang Yiming and...

How do you stand out with an ad campaign that is launching right after the Super Bowl, the biggest advertising event of them all? Its hard, but you could always turn to a few GOATs. Beats, the Apple-owned audio brand, is launching its new flagship product on Tuesday: The Powerbeats Pro 2, and to help it do so it turned...

Amid the Trump administrations blitz on executive branch operations, a Hollywood outpost of the U.S. State Department has gone offline. The website of American Film Showcase, a global cultural diplomacy partnership between the agency and the University of Southern Californias vaunted School of Cinematic Arts, is now unavailable and its Instagram and Facebook accounts have been deactivated. Whats going on?...

If there was any doubt before, this seals it: YouTube is in the TV business. According to Neal Mohan, YouTubes CEO, TV screens have officially overtaken mobile as the primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S. In other words, more people are watching YouTube on TV sets than any other device, at least here in the U.S. It is,...

A planned walkout at New York magazine was averted Friday evening as its union reached a tentative deal with management on a second labor contract. The three-year provisional deal, which is still subject to a ratification vote by union members, creates guardrails around the publications use of AI tools and addresses inflation concerns with wage increases. While the general agreement...

PBS confirmed it has closed its diversity, equity and inclusion office in order to comply with the recent executive order from President Donald Trump. The move has impacted staffers in that unit, which had been led by DEI head Cecilia Loving. However, the public broadcaster said it will continue to reflect all of America in its ranks. In order to...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shot down Elon Musks reported offer to buy the company behind ChatGPT, escalating a battle with the X owner over the AI firms for-profit pivot that could shape Hollywoods adoption of the technology. No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want, Altman wrote in a post on X Monday afternoon....