Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Broadway gained momentum heading into Labor Day weekend, with cumulative grosses for the industry up 11 percent and all shows posting gains compared to the prior week. The Outsiders returned…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:30PMBrooke Shields was elected president of Actors’ Equity in late May, and now heads the union of more than 51,000 actors and stage managers on Broadway and nationwide. It’s the first unio…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:43PMDirecTV CFO Ray Carpenter said the company will continue to fight “as long as it needs to” amid a carriage dispute with Disney, which has caused a number of Disney channels including ABC…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:29PMAs marketers look for new ways to attract moviegoers, TikTok has released stats showing it can have an impact on getting users to the theaters. According to a recent survey from TikTok, user…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30AMFriday, August 30, 2024
The musical adaptation of The Notebook will play its final Broadway performance on Dec. 15. The musical, which features a score by Ingrid Michaelson and a book by Bekah Brunstetter (This I…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:15AMWednesday, August 28, 2024
ESPN and the United State Tennis Association have signed a new 12-year agreement, which will see the sports network as the exclusive rightsholder of the US Open in the U.S. through 2037. The…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:22PMESPN is launching a Where to Watch feature on its app and online starting Wednesday. The feature allows fans to search for specific events to find out where the games are playing, whether …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:19PMTuesday, August 27, 2024
Wondery has snapped up the rights to the podcast New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce. The podcast studio, owned by Amazon, has signed a distribution and an exclusive, ad-sales representa…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:00AMThursday, August 22, 2024
Monica Austin has been appointed the new chief marketing officer at gaming publisher Blizzard Entertainment. In the role, Austin oversees the marketing teams for all titles at Blizzard, in…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:15AMShari Redstone and a roster of Hollywood talent will take the stage at Advertising Week in New York this fall. Other headliners include Kevin Bacon, Drew Barrymore, Kenneth Cole, Common, T…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30AMWednesday, August 21, 2024
James P. Gorman, the executive chairman of Morgan Stanley, will chair Disney’s succession planning committee to select the company’s next CEO. Gorman previously oversaw the succession …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:45PMTuesday, August 20, 2024
Cole Escola’s Oh Mary! broke the house record at the Lyceum Theatre last week, bringing in $1.057 million and besting its own record from July 21. The production, written and starring Es…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:13PM Condé Nast is the latest media organization to strike a multiyear partnership with OpenAI. As part of the partnership, content from Vogue, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Archit…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:13PMMike Greenberg has been named host of ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown. Greenberg currently hosts ESPN’s morning show, Get Up, and the Greeny radio show. He previously hosted NBA Countdown,…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:09PMTime magazine is cutting 22 roles across departments, including editorial, technology, sales & marketing and TIME Studios. In a memo to staff announcing the layoffs Tuesday, Time CEO J…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:39PMNetflix saw a more than 150 percent increase in ad sales commitment after this year’s upfront, compared to last year, the streaming giant said Tuesday. The commitments included buys from…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AMMonday, August 19, 2024
Almin Karamehmedovic has been named president of ABC News. Karamehmedovic has overseen the production and daily operations of World News Tonight with David Muir since August 2014. He takes o…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:44AMFriday, August 16, 2024
In the Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, tensions are high as more than 40 of the top musicians of the ’80s, including Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Diana Ros…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:00PMTalking about his role in Showtime’s Fellow Travelers, Jonathan Bailey can’t help but be earnest. It’s a trait he calls out about himself but is learning to embrace, as he notes the im…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:30PMThursday, August 15, 2024
In the crowded true-crime media space, MrBallen has kept his approach pretty simple. He appears on his YouTube channel wearing a flannel shirt and backwards baseball cap in every video, spea…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:37AMMembers of the Crooked Media union unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement, gaining provisions including minimum starting salaries of $80,000, AI protections and a m…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Phylicia Rashad will make her Broadway directing debut with a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The play, Purpose, marks Jacobs-Jenkins return to Broadway after his play, Appropriate, a …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AMTuesday, August 13, 2024
In its second to last week on Broadway, The Wiz brought in close to $1.7 million, its highest tally of its run so far, putting it within the top five in the industry for the week. The revi…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:21PMMonday, August 12, 2024
Buzzfeed reported total revenue of $47 million for the second quarter, down from $62 million a year ago. Advertising revenue declined 19 percent year-over-year to reach $23.8 million, with…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:33PMAudible and Broadway Video Enterprises are launching two new, original comedy podcasts this fall, with a lineup of castmembers including Glen Powell, Nicholas Braun, Taraji P. Henson and Tra…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AMFriday, August 9, 2024
Disney is bringing The Greatest Show on Earth to the stage. The company says that it is developing a stage musical based on the 2017 film The Greatest Showman to, produced by its Disney Thea…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:24PMThursday, August 8, 2024
Paramount continued to push forward on its $500 million cost-savings plan and goal of reaching sustained profitability in streaming by 2025, in the company’s first earnings report since th…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:02PMKieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will star in a Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross in spring 2025. The production will be directed by Patrick Marber, who won a 2023 Tony Awar…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AMPodcast revenue at iHeartMedia rose 8 percent in the company’s second quarter, compared to same quarter last year, to reach $104.5 million. Overall revenue in the digital audio group, wh…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:51AMTiktok is rolling out a marketing tool for studios and the entertainment industry. Called TikTok Spotlight, the tool allows companies to add a link to TikTok videos that feature content re…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Disney announced a streaming profit for the first time Wednesday, and with price increases on their way and increased content offerings, CEO Bob Iger said he expects additional growth to com…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:54AM 
