Sean Gamble, CEO of major theater chainCinemark, earned $9.8 million in overall pay in 2024, the company said in a securities filing on Wednesday. His compensation package came as Cinemark, the third-largest theater circuit in the U.S. behind AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment Group, continues to recover at the box officecoming out of the pandemic. Gamble, who became president and...

President Trump on Wednesday afternoon declared what he called Liberation Day: Announcing wide-ranging tariffs that he argued will rebalance the global trade order, and in his words make America rich. Many entertainment executives were surely watching what happened closely, and they arent feeling rich. The media business might not be built on imported physical goods, but many of its largest...

Longtime Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville is exiting the syndicated CBS newsmagazine after 30 years. Norville announced the decision on the program Wednesday, telling viewers that she would leave at the end of the current season. They made me a lovely offer to stay, but there are things Id like to do and places I want to do them that...

Social media-first TV network Mad Realities has signed with CAA. The media platform has a business model where it quickly produces and distributes short-form series on Internet platforms like TikTok and Instagram that consumer brands can tap into. That calls for turning around content in under 24 hours to keep pace with social media trending topics. We arent just creating...

Shondaland is promoting three of its executives as the company continues to expand its footprint. Alyssa Schimel, Catherine Yan Lustro and Seth Plattner will all take on expanded roles in their new positions at the company founded by Shonda Rhimes. Schimel, currently vp marketing and communications, will move into the newly created role of vp global content marketing, communications and...

Disney is leaving the famed Fox Studio Lot amid plans to centralize production teams in Burbank. Fox retained the 53-acre lot on Pico Boulevard in Century City as part of its $71.3 billion deal with Disney in 2019 for the bulk of assets owned by 21st Century Fox.It reached a seven-year leaseback with the entertainment giant to avoid disruption of...

As far as careers goes, Dwayne Johnson has built out several. Actor, athlete, entrepreneur, wrestler. Now get ready for Dwayne Johnson, true crime author. Crown, the imprint under a division of Penguin Random House, has preemptively acquired a new true-life crime book to be co-authored by Johnson and award-winning investigative journalist Nick Bilton. The non-fiction book will chronicle the mostly...

Two major TV deals this past week ITV Studios acquisition of a majority stake in The Gentlemen producer Moonage Pictures and MediaForEuropes takeover bid for German broadcaster Pro7Sat.1 highlight a hard truth for Europes legacy networks: Its grow or die. Europes traditional TV powerhouses are scrambling to build scale to survive the onslaught from the global streaming giants who are...

Alan Cumming has been tapped to host the 2025 Clio Awards, which will be handed out at a ceremony taking place next month in New York. The Tony and Emmy winner will emcee the 66th annual awards, which honors creativity and in advertising and marketing from around the world. Also during the ceremony, organizers will present the Grand Clio Awards,...

News Corp has completed the sale of Australian media company Foxtel Group to DAZN Group, the companies said on Wednesday. News Corp and Aussie telecom giant Telstra had struck the deal with the sports streaming platform late last year. The transaction is worth about $2.1 billion. The completion of the deal follows DAZN receiving approval for the acquisition from the...

Imax and mega circuit AMC Theatres revealed on Tuesday an expansive agreement to grow a longstanding partnership and deploy Imax With Laser technology across more than 180 Imax auditoriums at AMC sites across the United States. Already one of the largest Imax operators globally and the largest in the United States, AMC will now boast the worlds largest number of...

Over the past few years, the future of studios ability to assert First Amendment protections in casting decisions appeared to be compromised thanks to a couple of high-profile decisions from courts overseeing discrimination lawsuits filed by actors. The most recent came last year when a court rebuffed Disneys bid to dismiss a case over Gina Caranos firing from The Mandalorian...

Hundreds of unionized workers at the Elder Scrolls and Fallout video game firm ZeniMax Media have voted to authorize a strike, marking an escalation in tensions with the company after nearly two years of contract negotiations. More than 94 percent of quality assurance (QA) testers represented by Communications Workers of America Locals supported a work stoppage in a vote that...