The chief executive of Parler said he was fired by the board of directors of the “free speech” social-media company — whose app was kicked off the internet for hosting violent con… | Continue reading
Stampede Ventures and wiip have partnered to adapt the first book in Gareth L. Powell’s epic sci-fi novel series “Embers of War” as a television show, Variety has learned exclusiv… | Continue reading
Bryan Fogel’s “The Dissident” was too hot to handle. The documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist and political activist who was allegedly killed in 2018 on… | Continue reading
Mira Furlan, best known for her roles as Delenn on “Babylon 5” and Danielle Rousseau on “Lost,” died on Wednesday. She was 65. Her Twitter account announced the news on Thur… | Continue reading
UPDATED: The cast and crew of “Tandav” have offered an unconditional apology after a political scandal erupted among India’s lawmakers around the new Amazon series. “We have been … | Continue reading
Bryan Fogel’s “The Dissident” was too hot to handle. The documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist and political activist who was allegedly killed in 2018 on… | Continue reading
Twitter said the official White House accounts, including @POTUS, will change hands in “real time” on Inauguration Day next week when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn into office. … | Continue reading
The Super Bowl has long served as a prominent front for the long-running soda war between Coca-Cola and Pepsi. This year, the beverage giants will fight that battle somewhere else. Coca-Cola said F… | Continue reading
CNN Airport, a long-running out-of-home media operation that became an integral part of the traveling experience for people flying through Chicago’s O’Hare, Dallas’ Love Field or … | Continue reading
A Delaware computer repair shop owner sued Twitter, alleging the social network defamed him by effectively labeling him a “hacker” after his business was cited as the source for info ob… | Continue reading
Lin Qi, the billionaire CEO of Chinese video-game publisher Yoozoo set to executive produce the upcoming Netflix sci-fi series “The Three-Body Problem,” died at 39 on Christmas Day Frid… | Continue reading
Sen. Thom Tillis on Tuesday unveiled an overhaul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which is intended to make it easier to stamp out pirated content online. The bill seeks to revamp the curre… | Continue reading
Eric Clapton and Van Morrison have released their anti-lockdown collaboration, “Stand and Deliver.” Written by Morrison and performed by Clapton, the four-and-a-half minute bluesy track… | Continue reading
Jeremy Bulloch, the British actor who starred as bounty hunter Boba Fett in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died on Thursday in London of complications from Parkinson’s disease, according to his … | Continue reading
Tom Cruise expressed his frustration with crew members on the set of “Mission: Impossible 7” after he saw them breaking COVID-19 guidelines, two sources close to the production confirm … | Continue reading
I learned in the news that Warner Bros. has decided to release “Dune” on HBO Max at the same time as our theatrical release, using prominent images from our movie to promote their strea… | Continue reading
I learned in the news that Warner Bros. has decided to release “Dune” on HBO Max at the same time as our theatrical release, using prominent images from our movie to promote their strea… | Continue reading
The song-catalog bonanza of 2020 just hit a peak that is not likely to be topped: Universal Music Publishing Group has acquired Bob Dylan’s entire catalog of songs in a blockbuster agreement encomp… | Continue reading
Chinese regulators are in the midst of censoring the Hollywood title “Monster Hunter” after controversy broke out online on opening day over a ten second-long exchange in the film that patriotic lo… | Continue reading
Netflix is the target of yet another employee-poaching lawsuit. In a suit on Friday, Activision Blizzard accused the streamer of showing “contempt” for state employment law when it poac… | Continue reading
When Warner Bros. announced that “Wonder Woman 1984” would land on the streaming service HBO Max on Christmas, the same time it debuts in theaters, many expected it to be an isolated ca… | Continue reading
As previously announced, the Quibi app as of Tuesday (Dec. 1) is no longer operable — marking the quick and quiet end of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s ill-fated $1.75 billion quest to carve out a new … | Continue reading
Weeks after the passing of legendary “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, Sony Pictures Television has announced that popular contestant and “Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time” tourna… | Continue reading
Netflix’s announcement last week that it’s trialing a traditional linear offering for subscribers in France took many by surprise, but there’s some sound reasoning behind the move… | Continue reading
YouTube users in multiple regions around the world encountered issues in playing videos on the site Wednesday. The site’s TeamYouTube account acknowledged the problems in a Twitter post. R… | Continue reading
UPDATED: Instagram was evidently hit by widespread technical problems Thursday, with users reporting issues including the inability to log in or access their feed. The issues appeared to be mostly … | Continue reading
Rachel Maddow, the most-watched anchor in the MSNBC lineup, will come off the air for a period of time after a close contact tested positive for coronavirus. “I’ve tested negative thus … | Continue reading
Netflix has chosen France to test its first channel offering. Named Direct, the linear channel — which is only available to subscribers — will air French, international and U.S. feature films and T… | Continue reading
Sean Connery, the Scottish-born actor who rocketed to fame as James Bond and became one of the franchise’s most popular and enduring international stars, has died. He was 90. Connery, long re… | Continue reading
A mutated strand of coronavirus called COVID-23 wreaks havoc on the world in “Songbird,” produced by Michael Bay. On Thursday, the first trailer for the pandemic thriller showed a world… | Continue reading
Apple has launched Apple Music TV, a free 24-hour curated livestream of popular music videos that will also include “exclusive new music videos and premiers, special curated music video blocks, and… | Continue reading
NBC News will move forward with an 8 p.m. town-hall broadcast Thursday featuring President Donald Trump, setting up a primetime scramble for viewers with ABC News, which is broadcasting a similar … | Continue reading
Eddie Van Halen, whose innovative and explosive guitar playing kept the hard rock band that bore his family name cemented to the top of the album charts for two decades, died on Tuesday morning aft… | Continue reading
Cineworld is shuttering all 543 of its Regal Cinema venues in the U.S. and all cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland this coming week, just a day after James Bond film “No Time to Die” was pushed to … | Continue reading
Facebook has a bone to pick — actually, several bones — with “The Social Dilemma,” Netflix’s recently released documentary that sounds the alarm about the negative effects of the … | Continue reading
President Donald Trump shocked many in the nation on Tuesday with a comment that appeared to be a signal to the violent white nationalist organization Proud Boys. During President Trump’s fir… | Continue reading
Several episodes of Adult Swim series have been “permanently retired due to cultural sensitivities,” according to the network, including those from “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” … | Continue reading
Netflix has issued a firm response to the five Republican senators who questioned its decision to adapt “The Three-Body Problem” sci-fi novel trilogy by Liu Cixin. In a Sept. 24 letter, the s… | Continue reading
Film designer and cartoonist Ron Cobb died Thursday of Lewy body dementia at the age of 83. Cobb was a significant influence on the look and aesthetics of films including “Alien,” ̶… | Continue reading
At the San Sebastian Film Festival, American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin talked about the making of his upcoming Netflix original film, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” how he a… | Continue reading
At the San Sebastian Film Festival, American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin talked about the making of his upcoming Netflix original film, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” how he a… | Continue reading
CNN launches many stories each day, but one of them has come to an end. The AT&T-owned news operation is shuttering Great Big Story, a streaming-video hub that launched in 2015 to some attentio… | Continue reading
Quibi, the mobile subscription TV startup founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, is exploring “strategic options” including a potential sale, the Wall Street Journal reported. Launched in April… | Continue reading
Imagine Impact, an offshoot of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s production company Imagine Entertainment, has closed its Series A financing round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark. … | Continue reading
ViacomCBS is offloading CNET Media Group in a $500 million deal with digital-marketing company Red Ventures, which announced the deal Monday. Under the deal, CNET Media Group EVP and GM Mark Larkin… | Continue reading
In virtual deal talks over the past several months, Roku execs have delivered a basic message — in not so many words — to WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal negotiators: You need us more than we need you… | Continue reading
Before he co-founded Netflix, Reed Hastings ran a debugging-tool company, Pure Software. And he’s convinced the morass of red tape he put in place at Pure led to the company’s eventual irrelevance … | Continue reading
Chadwick Boseman, who hosted “Saturday Night Live” in April, shared the meaning behind one of his hilarious sketches. Boseman stepped into his “Black Panther” character T… | Continue reading