If you happen to be one of Elon Musks 206 million followers, you probably know the worlds richest man has been mulling the possibility of purchasing MSNBC. Or at least that he was joshing about it with Donald Trump Jr. in a series of pre-Thanksgiving posts on X that seemed custom-built to ruin Rachel Maddows holiday. Hey Elon, I have...

Its not TV, its Max. Warner Bros. Discovery is putting the HBO back into its streaming service (formerly known as HBO Max), adding live streaming of HBOs cable channels to the Max platform. The rollout began Wednesday for a small subset of subscribers to the streamers ad-free tiers. The integration of HBO feeds (the new feature is called Channels, appropriately...

Producers of the Broadway play Stereophonic have settled a lawsuit brought by former Fleetwood Mac sound engineer and producer Ken Caillat. In the initial suit, filed in the Southern District Court of New York in October, Caillat and his co-author Steven Stiefel alleged that the script of Stereophonic took copyrighted material from their 2012 book Making Rumours to create the...

OpenAI chief Sam Altman says that the rise of artificial intelligence will require a radical rethinking of the creative economy, with traditional compensation models for news, films, TV and other content likely to erode in the face of new technology. Altman was interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times Dealbook Summit, where he was grilled on a...

Larry David is reprising his best known acting role on Seinfeld, once again portraying the late former owner of the New York Yankees, George Steinbrenner. David is playing Steinbrenner in a new commercial for Michael Rubins Fanatics, which is releasing a new baseball card set, Topps Bowman Draft 2024. The set includes a card that never was: A 1981 Bowman...

Disney+ is getting a lot more grown up, with a major update Wednesday set to bring a dedicated ESPN tile to the platform for Disney Bundle subscribers, and a selection of Hulu and ESPN content becoming available to all subscribers of the platform, even if they dont currently use a bundled offering. This launch is really going to reshape what...

McDonalds will face a trial over accusations it discriminates against Black-owned media companies. U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin found that McDonalds may have violated civil rights laws by relegating Byron Allens networks to meager advertising tiers specifically reserved for companies that produce content targeted to Black audiences. Though it was a close call, he ruled that theres enough evidence indicating...

The history of the sports docuseries is on the walls and roaming the halls of an office complex in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. During a recent visit to NFL Films headquarters in South Jersey, the walls were adorned with classic football magazine covers and newspaper front pages, as well as original art created by former NFL...

Regal, the second-largest movie theater chain stateside, is taking its next step in its restructuring process. The Knoxville-based division of exhibitor Cineworld said Tuesday it has secured a $1.9 billion Term B loan in its latest refinancing effort with a maturity date of December 2031. The chains move also includes a $350million revolving credit facility. The deal, overseen by Barclays,Deutsche...

Broadway had its highest grossing and best attended Thanksgiving week in history. Overall industry gross was up 23 percent from the prior week, to reach $46 million, with attendance up 1.53 percent to reach 312,143. Last year, Thanksgiving week on Broadway brought in $34.5 million, with attendance at 228,711. Wicked was the top-grossing show in the industry last week, bringing...

Jonathan Anderson has a new home in Hollywood. The Loewe fashion designer, who has steadily been making a mark on the big-screen as a costume designer with back-to-back collaborations with filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, has signed with UTA for representation. News of Anderson linking up with the agency comes hours after he took home the biggest award of the night with...

MyConnext, the online platform developed by the Hollywood Commission for industry workers to report harassment, discrimination and abuse, is scaling up. Starting Tuesday, the crew union IATSE is offering the tool to some 85,000 U.S. members who work across television, film and commercials. MyConnext, created to address calls in industry surveys for a tool to record bad behavior in the...

Timothy Hutton and Leverage: Redemption producer Electric Entertainment have settled a legal battle over his dismissal from the reboot after he was accused of sexual assault. Lawyers for Hutton on Monday informed the court of the deal, which resolves claims from the actor and counterclaims from Electric. The agreement is conditioned on the completion of certain undisclosed terms within 45...