Wednesday, 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 09:54AMThe Walt Disney Co. turned a profit in its streaming business a quarter earlier than anticipated, and beat Wall Street expectations as its entertainment business soared in the company’s fi…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:53AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
The Outsiders musical continued its post-Tony run, breaking the box office record at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre for the seventh week in a row. The show, which won the Tony Award for best…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:24PMStranger Things: The First Shadow is coming to Broadway in the spring. The play, which is set up as a prequel to the events of the Netflix series, will start previews at the Marquis Theatr…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:00PMMonday, August 5, 2024
Cathy Repola will retire as the national executive director of the Motion Picture Editors Guild at the end of January 2025. Repola has worked at the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, for 32 …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:27PMMembers of the Crooked Media Workers Union are conducting a one-day walkout Monday after more than a year of contract negotiations with the progressive podcasting and media network. The pr…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AMThursday, August 1, 2024
Snap hit 432 million daily active users in the second quarter of 2024, an increase of 36 million, or 9 percent year-over-year. Revenue hit $1.24 billion, up from $1.07 billion a year ago, bu…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:32PMKeanu Reeves will make his Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot this winter. The play, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will come to Broadway in fall 2025. Reeves will play Estragon and Alex Winter…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:36PMAdam Driver will star as a fictional country music icon in Kenneth Lonergan’s play Hold On to Me Darling this fall. The play, directed by Neil Pepe, is slated to begin performances at Off-…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:15AMLin-Manuel Miranda and co-writer Eisa Davis are set to release a concept album with Atlantic Records on Oct. 18, inspired by the 1979 film The Warriors. The 26-track concept album was ex…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AMSiriusXM is launching a subscription service for some of its biggest podcasts through Apple Podcasts. Launching Aug. 5, SiriusXM Podcasts+ will give subscribers an ad-free listeners expe…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:28AMWednesday, July 31, 2024
What’s next for Shari Redstone after the deal to sell her stake in Paramount? Producing a Broadway play. Redstone is a co-producer on the Broadway play Job, written by Max Wolf Friedli…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:25AMTuesday, July 30, 2024
The Outsiders continued to break box office records for the sixth week in the row. The musical brought in $1.46 million for the week ended July 28, with capacity over 100 percent. The show…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:40PMLive Nation reported second quarter earnings Tuesday, reporting continued demand globally for concerts amid the overhang of the Justice Department lawsuit. The company, which owns Ticketmast…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:31PMPolitician and author Stacey Abrams is launching a weekly podcast with Crooked Media. The podcast, entitled Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams, will see the former Georgia gubernatorial …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AMDisneyland workers voted to approve their new three-year contract about a week after voting to authorize a strike if an agreement could not be reached. The workers, representing 14,000 cas…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:36AMMonday, July 29, 2024
Meta is bringing its AI Studio to the U.S., allowing creators and Instagram users to build their own AI characters. With the tool, users with the creator account on Instagram can create a …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:00PMAndrea Martin, Melora Hardin and Ruthie Ann Miles have joined the Broadway cast of McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr. On Monday, the production also announced that “a highly realistic …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:36AMThe Queen of Versailles, a new musical based on TV personality Jacqueline “Jackie” Siegel, is scheduled to come to Broadway in the 2025-2026 season. The musical, which features a score…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:04AMThursday, July 25, 2024
Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh and Jesse Tyler Ferguson will be part of the cast of Twelfth Night, which is set to reopen the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The production…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:35PMVince Vaughn is set to become a majority stakeholder of the pickleball team the Coachella Valley Scorpions. The team, which was co-owned by Kim Jagd, launched in May, and is one of 12 teams …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:08PMPodcasting company Lemonada Media is launching a publishing imprint with Simon & Schuster. Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, is partnering with the podcasting network to…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AMHasbro swung to a profit in the second quarter as revenue fell 18 percent due to the divestiture of eOne. The gaming company reported a profit of $138.5 million, after posting a loss of $2…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:51AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho will take over the lead roles in Cabaret this fall from Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. The two will begin performances, as the Emcee and Sally Bowles, …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:29PMWorkers at Disneyland reached a tentative contract agreement Tuesday, averting the immediate possibility of a strike for 14,000 workers. The workers, which are part of the Master Services …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:45AMTuesday, July 23, 2024
Ike Perlmutter has sold his entire stake in Disney after he and activist Nelson Peltz lost a proxy fight. Perlmutter, the former Marvel chairman, had banded with Peltz to try to win two se…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:49PMThe American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. The union’s backing comes after a unanimous vote of the U.S. m…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:31PMCole Escola’s comedy Oh, Mary! broke the box office record at the Lyceum Theatre last week, grossing $1.05 million and besting the record held by 2022 best musical winner A Strange Loop. L…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:06PMSpotify hit 246 million paying subscribers in the second quarter of 2024, up 12 percent year-over-year. The total number of paid subscriber additions, up 7 million, was 1 million above gui…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:54AMMonday, July 22, 2024
IATSE is endorsing Kamala Harris for president of the United States. The union, which represents more than 170,000 technicians, artisans and craftspersons in Hollywood and across the enterta…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:18PMWriters Guild of America East members at Pineapple Street Studios ratified their first collective bargaining agreement, gaining a three-year contract with protections against AI and increase…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00PM 
