Lionsgate has extended its multiyear film licensing deal with Starz to bring nearly 20 studio film titles to the streaming platforms premium channels and services annually. Upcoming releases headed to Starz include the third installment ofNow You See Me,Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, the Michael Jackson biopic andBallerina. The licensing deal extension comes as Lionsgate continues to move towards...

A post-Venu pay-TV landscape is beginning to take shape, with Comcast Xfinity launching a new skinny (or at least skinnier) streaming bundle of channels focused on sports and news programming. The offering, Sports News TV, is available to Xfinity internet customers for $70 per month, and includes all the major broadcast networks, as well as most (but not all) cable...

In a bit of positive news for those following film and TV production trendlines, Netflix executives said on Tuesday that theyre planning to up their annual cash content spend by about $1 billion this year from $17 billion to $18 billion as the streaming giant broke records with 19 million quarterly subscriber adds for a total of 302 million global...

Paramount must face some claims in a lawsuit from Warner Bros. Discovery accusing it of setting in motion a breach of a $500 million licensing deal for the exclusive rights to South Park. After a pricey bidding war for new episodes of the massively popular show, Justice Margaret A. Chan of State Supreme Court in Manhattan said that Paramount may...

Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg are pledging major resources to L.A.s wildfire relief efforts. The DreamWorks co-founder and his wife have donated $5 million to the Motion Picture Television Foundation, the charitable organization that operates a retirement home for entertainment workers and provides an array of social services for the industry. The MPTFs chairman of the board of directors, former Paramount...

Justin Baldonis high-profile litigator Bryan Freedman has been on the warpath to defend his client in the evolving drama over It Ends With Us. Weeks after filing a $250 million libel suit against The New York Times for allegedly conspiring with the films star Blake Lively and her PR team to advance an unverified and self-serving narrative using cherry-picked and...

Adobe and the Adobe Foundation are making an additional $5 million commitment to a fund to support underrepresented creators and filmmakers. The Adobe Film TV Fund was established in 2024 to help creators and filmmakers find career opportunities and create greater representation and inclusion in the film and television industry. The additional $5 million adds to the inaugural commitment of...

Nielsen has won accreditation for its Big Data + Panel TV measurement, becoming the first ratings provider to earn approval for that methodology. The accreditation from the Media Rating Council is a signal to the industry that Nielsens hybrid of traditional panel measurement (with a sample of about 100,000 people) with data from some 75 million digital devices smart TVs,...

Las Vegas newest residency isnt a musical act, its an opportunity to taste everything Netflix has to offer. Netflix says that it will open its latest experiential project on the casino floor at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Feb. 20: A new outpost of its Netflix Bites full service restaurant. Netflix first tested out the food concept in Los...

In its final quarterly subscriber disclosure late on Tuesday, Netflix excited Wall Street experts by posting a subscriber growth record and unveiling its latest set of price increases that will come into effect across most plans in the U.S., Canada, Portugal and Argentina. Upside user and financial surprises were driven by Netflixs push into live sports, including NFL Games and...

Prince Harry has settled his case against the publisher of the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Sun newspaper, who has offered the Duke a full and unequivocal apology. The trial against the News Group Newspapers (NGN) unit of the Murdoch-owned News Corps U.K. operation had kicked off at the High Court in London on Tuesday, without the Duke of Sussex in attendance,...

Warner Bros. Discoverys Chris Brown: A History of Violence has sparked a defamation lawsuit from the singer, who says the documentary features false sexual assault allegations against him. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Brown alleges the documentarys producers knowingly included discredited claims of sexual assault and evidence tampering from an unreliable accuser. He seeks...

On Donald Trumps first full day in office for his second presidential term, he gathered Oracle founder Larry Ellison, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Softbank chief Masayoshi Son at the Roosevelt Room in the White House to unveil a $500 billion artificial intelligence project named after a 1994 Roland Emmerich sci-fi film about intergalactic portals. The plan for the project,...