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 11:00AMPhylicia 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 11:00AMIn 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 04:21PMBuzzfeed 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 10:00AMDisney 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 11:24PMParamount 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 09:00AMDisney 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 06:53AMThe 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 02:00PMCathy 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 09:00AMSnap 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 08:28AMWhat’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 08:25AMThe 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 09:36AMMeta 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 11:04AMPeter 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…
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