Tuesday, 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 09:54AMThe 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 08:25AM 
