Sony Group revealed Wednesday that current president Hiroki Totoki will be elevated to the position of CEO, starting April 1, in the Japanese electronics and entertainment giants first major leadership change in seven years. Chairman and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida will continue in the sole role of chairman. Sony suggested that the promotion of Totoki will continue to accelerate its recent...

In the periphery of CAAs lawsuit against management firm Range Media Partners is a nod to a bitter standoff five years ago between the Writers Guild of America and talent agents that changed the way agencies do business. It concerned the decades-old collection of packaging fees, whereby agencies receive ongoing payments from studios in exchange for having bundled one or...

As it gears up for a busy year of tentpole releases, Warner Bros. film division has hired an Amazon MGM Studios executive as its chief business officer. Ted Lim, who most recently served as head of global strategy and business development at MGM, will join Warner Bros. in a newly created role this week, Motion Picture Group co-chiefs MichaelDe Luca...

With the Grammy Awards looming, Spotify wants to remind the industry that it has been at the forefront of its renaissance. The streaming audio giant said Tuesday that it paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024, a new record high. And it has paid out a collective $60 billion since its founding a decade ago. For a...

The new musical Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, had a strong start last week, bringing in close to $400,000 across its first two preview performances. The musical, which marks Menzels first return to Broadway since starring in the 2014-2015 musical If/Then, played to 100 percent capacity with an average ticket price of $172.21. The show, in which Menzel plays a grieving...

At the start of what is likely to be a busy news year amid Trumps return to the Oval Office, ABC News unionized writers have secured new protections governing the use of generative AI in their workplace. Staffers who belong to the Writers Guild of America East have voted to ratify a contract that offers some employment safeguards if the...

CNN is losing one of its more high-profile anchors amid a larger programming pivot. Jim Acosta, the former White House correspondent who now anchors the 10 a.m. hour on the venerable cable news channel, is set to exit the company, a source familiar with the move confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. CNN unveiled sweeping changes to its lineup last week,...

Can an actor known for playing some of cinemas best villains bring his magic to the Big Game? Michelob Ultra is betting on it. The fast-growing Anheuser-Busch beer brand will use this years Super Bowl to launch The Ultra Hustle, a campaign starring Willem Dafoe (Nosferatu, Spider-Man) and Catherine OHara (Schitts Creek, Home Alone) as a pair of pickleball hustlers...

Tubi is gearing up for its next big Super Bowl ad campaign, as the free, ad-supported streaming service also plans for a bigger audience on the platform. The platform, which is owned by Fox, will be streaming the 2025 Super Bowl for free for the first time, as well as airing its own pre-show which will feature a coverage of...

As last year wound down, the Disney TV empire counting broadcasters like ABC, streaming platforms Disney+ and Hulu along with cable channels like FX managed to stave off YouTube in the race for viewing marketshare in the attention economy. Disneys brands saw about 11.2 percent of overall TV viewing in the United States, just ahead of YouTubes 11.1 percent share,...

Blake Lively has moved to depose a key player whose crisis management firm Street Relations allegedly played a part in the smear campaign initiated by Justin Baldoni. Lively filed a petition in Texas state court on Jan. 21 seeking a court order for a deposition of Jed Wallace, who was named in the complaint the actress filed with the California...

M. Night Shyamalan and Apple didnt rip off a 2013 independent movie in the making of psychological thriller series Servant, a jury has found in a verdict that highlights the difficulty creators face in substantiating claims of copyright infringement. The California jurys unanimous decision, delivered on Friday after a day of deliberation in the seven-day trial, ends a long-running legal...

Sony Pictures Television is hiring a dedicated executive to guide its franchise strategy. Jennifer Rogers Doyle, a long-time Disney executive, has joined Sony Pictures TV in the newly created post of executive vp franchise management. Shell oversee the franchise strategy, with an eye toward maximizing revenue, on studio properties including The Boys, Outlander, Cobra Kai, For All Mankind, Bewitched and...