Chuck Todd, the former moderator of Meet the Press and a staple of NBC News political reportage for nearly two decades, is leaving the network. Todd told his NBC colleagues about his decision Friday morning. It will also be his last day. He added that he will be taking his ChuckToddcast with him, and that it will have a new...

Super Bowl commercial breaks are typically filled with some of the biggest companies in the world. Automotive titans, CPG giants, and iconic beverage brands are plentiful. Which makes it all the more interesting that a direct-to-consumer brand, HexClad, will become what it says is the first cookware brand to buy a spot during the Big Game, and one of only...

Bud Lights big plan to break out during this years Super Bowl? Turn comedian Shane Gillis, Post Malone and Peyton Manning into the coolest suburban dads on planet earth: The BMOCs (Big Men on Cul-De-Sac). The Anheuser-Busch brand has been a Super Bowl staple going back decades, usually leaning on humor to stand out during the busiest advertising day of...

The candy giant Reeses has a plan to stand out in a Super Bowl awash with celebrity cameos: No famous faces, just 30 seconds of frenetic absurdism. The company has purchased 30 seconds of airtime on Fox during the Big Game to promote its recently-launched Reeses Chocolate Lava Big Cup, which adds a layer of molten chocolate below the peanut...

Cable giant Charter Communications added to the headwinds facing the traditional cable TV sector by continuing to lose broadband and video customers during the fourth quarter. The company lost 177,000 broadband customers to finish 2024 with 30.1 million subscribers. That reduction followed rival Comcast a day earlier reporting its total domestic broadband customer net losses came to 139,000 for the...

AMC Entertainment has promoted Nikkole Denson-Randolph a key player in bringing Taylor Swifts blockbuster Eras Tour to cinemas to senior vice president and chief content officer in the U.S. Shell report directly to AMC chairman-CEO Adam Aron as she works with Hollywood studios and indie distributors to book movies, and continues to seek out alternative content. Overseas, Juan Antonio Gomez...

Near the height of animosity in the writers strike in 2023, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers outlined an offer that captured its members anxieties in the adoption of AI tools in the production pipeline. In what it hoped would be perceived as a concession, it proposed that scribes compensation and rights wouldnt be undercut if any part...

Apple reported its best quarter ever for the three months at the end of 2024, with quarterly revenue of $124.3 billion, up 4 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $2.40, up 10 percent year over year. Apple Services revenue, which includes the App Store, Apple Pay and Apple Card; subscription services such as Apple TV+,...

Scott Strobl, Universal Studios Hollywoods executive vice president and general manager, tried not to sound overzealous as he described to a group of press what to expect from the Los Angeles parks newest special event, Fan Fest Nights. Heres the way to think about it, he told the crowd. If you know and love the immersion we create with the...

President Donald Trump is considering a pardon for Pras Michel, the hip-hop legend facing 22 years in prison in a federal conspiracy and corruption case, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The U.S. Justice Department prosecuted Michel the Grammy-winning rapper-producer best known as a member of The Fugees for his part in a multi-billion-dollar, globe-spanning scandal that the FBI deemed the...

As it ramps up ahead of the launch of its flagship ESPN streaming service in the fall, Disney has hired an executive from Meta to lead a newly created product engineering group that brings together multiple teams. Andre Rohe, who most recently served as vp of engineering at the Facebook and Instagram owner, joined the Burbank-based entertainment giant in January,...

Wheelhouse Entertainment is making changes in its C-suite. The unscripted-focused studio founded by Brent Montgomery has named Courtney White president. White will add oversight of allWheelhouseU.S production labels includingSpoke Studios, new True Crime production ventureTwistandWheelhouseDNA, the companys digital and audio division. She will also help manageWheelhousesphysical production partnerships, including Chef David Changs Majordomo Media, and NBA star Anthony Edwards Three...

It was a key win of Hollywoods 2023 double strikes: a bonus that promised to allow workers to share in some of the spoils of successful streaming series and movies. After a grueling cumulative six-month work stoppage and talking points about entertainment workers falling behind, the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA as well as, retroactively, the Directors Guild wrote additional residuals...