A new Hollywood entertainment studio wants to put generative artificial intelligence at the heart of all its projects, and it has backing from a pair of major power players in the business: The North Road Company and Andreessen Horowitz. The new studio, Promise, is being led by George Strompolos, who was the CEO and founder of creator-centric software and media...

The Nickel Boys star and King Richard Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has signed with CAA. Ellis-Taylor stars in Amazon MGM Studios Nickel Boys, the feature adaptation of Colson Whiteheads Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from producer Plan B. Nickel Boysfollows the friendship between two young men sent to a segregated reform school in Florida in the 1960s, with Ellis-Taylor playing a grandmother,...

Broadcast viewing typically rises in the fall, with the start of a new TV season and a host of live sports offerings. The fall of 2024 is proving no different. Broadcasters claimed their highest share of TV use in the United States in nine months in October, accounting for 24 percent of all viewing for the month. Thats the highest...

SAG-AFTRA is taking legal action against a production company for violating the collective bargaining agreement by filming a movie outside the United States in Romania. The guild, in a lawsuit filed in California federal court on Monday, sued UFO Pictures to enforce payment of a $163,000 arbitration award intended to pay talent additional compensation on Beyond the Law. UFO Pictures...

Members of the Writers Guild of America East who work at PBS member stations are threatening a strike if an agreement isnt reached soon on their latest union contract. In a strike authorization vote whose results were released Monday, participating unionized staffers unanimously supported staging a work stoppage if management and their representatives cant come to an agreement by the...

The Directors Guild of Canadas British Columbia branch has ratified a new three-year deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, representing Hollywood producers, and its local counterpart, the Canadian Media Producers Association. Around 50.3 percent of eligible Directors Guild of Canada BC District Council members voted 90.9 percent in favor of the deal, which will run from...

The NBA and Warner Bros. Discovery have unveiled their post-lawsuit settlement and the gains for both sides from renewing their agreement with an 11-year deal. Warners negotiated a new pact for live NBA games, including regular season and playoff match-ups. And the major studio gets some international NBA games to accelerate TNT Sports growth globally, and expanded clips rights to...

Canal+, the pay-TV business of French media and telecom conglomerate Vivendi, on Monday shared its core beliefs and business strategies ahead of its planned split from Vivendi into a separate stock listed in London. Among them are a belief in the power of the Paddington franchise, its super-aggregation strategy, which CEO Maxime Saada compared to judo, and cost and spending...

The SpringHill Company founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter and Fulwell 73 founded by Ben Winston, James Corden, Leo Pearlman, Ben Turner, and Gabe Turner have officially inked a deal to merge their companies together, creating a powerhouse player in unscripted, live, and branded entertainment content. But the production mega-deal was a year in the making, after being first...

Inside the NBA will appear on ESPN and ABC beginning next season as part of a settlement between Warner Bros. Discovery and the NBA. Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of TNT Sports,sued the NBAin New York state court after the league did not accept the companys matching offer for one of the packages in itsnew 11-year media rights deal,...

A lawsuit against Adam McKay, his production company and Netflix accusing them of ripping off a self-published novel in Dont Look Up has been barred from moving forward. U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett dismissed the lawsuit, finding that several of the alleged similarities are too generic to constitute a copyright infringement claim. She allowed the books author an opportunity...

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong detailed his plan to move his publication towards sharing the views of all in an appearance on Fox News on Thursday night. The owner and billionaire biotech entrepreneur expressed the view on Fox News @ Night that the Times, which he purchased in 2018, had not recently demarcated which stories were news and which...

Showtime Networks and Lionsgates Entertainment One have been drawn into a legal battle accusing them of ripping off a Ron Howard movie in Yellowjackets. In a copyright infringement lawsuit filed on Nov. 14 in New York federal court, a company that holds the rights to survival thriller Eden alleges strikingly similar elements in the works. Both follow a soccer team...