ESPN, the sports-media giant with an influence that extends across several types of media, is getting out of one particular venue: print. The Disney-controlled company said Tuesday that it would sh… | Continue reading
ESPN, the sports-media giant with an influence that extends across several types of media, is getting out of one particular venue: print. The Disney-controlled company said Tuesday that it would sh… | Continue reading
“Minecraft” creator Marcus “Notch” Persson, who sold the title to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2014, won’t be part of 10-year anniversary plans for the game because of his “comments and opinions,”… | Continue reading
“Minecraft” creator Marcus “Notch” Persson, who sold the title to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2014, won’t be part of 10-year anniversary plans for the game because of his “comments and opinions,”… | Continue reading
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., is making a big push for Los Angeles campaign cash next month, as celebrities and other Hollywood figures line up to support his unexpected rise in th… | Continue reading
Netflix is going back to the debt markets to fuel more content spending, announcing plans to issue $2 billion in unsecured bonds. The proposed offering would be the seventh time in four years that … | Continue reading
Growing up in suburban New Jersey, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was obsessive about watching movies. “I used to keep a journal, and I’d write down every movie that I saw and where I saw it … | Continue reading
Netflix plans to open a new production and office facility in Manhattan — which will provide up to $100 million in investments to New York City and result in hundreds of new jobs, according t… | Continue reading
Creating single purchase video games for mobile phones simply doesn’t make sense anymore, according to Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail — whose early games includes major hits for the iPhone. … | Continue reading
Updated. Facing a backlash over overzealous copyright enforcement, Starz issued an apology on Monday for inadvertently taking down tweets to articles about TV show piracy. The TV network said in a … | Continue reading
Facing a backlash over overzealous copyright enforcement, Starz issued an apology for inadvertently taking down tweets to articles about TV show piracy Monday. The TV network said in a statement th… | Continue reading
Leaders of the Writers Guild of America have told their 15,000 members to fire their agents. Members began sending the dismissal letters to agencies soon after the announcement that negotiations fo… | Continue reading
Disney+ will launch in the U.S. on Nov. 12, 2019, and will cost $6.99 per month, the company announced — nearly half Netflix’s standard $12.99 plan. The subscription VOD service represe… | Continue reading
Streaming giant Spotify, after years of attempting to woo the songwriting community, is now at the front of an effort to pay it less. It’s a move that has seen the company, the market leader with 8… | Continue reading
Massively multiplayer online game “Roblox” now has over 90 million monthly active users, it announced on Sunday. “Roblox” allows users to create and share mini games using L… | Continue reading
A flurry of phone calls and emails and one crucial text message led to Saturday’s stealth meeting between WGA representatives and talent agency leaders. The four-hour session at WGA West headquarte… | Continue reading
Snapchat maker Snap officially launched its gaming platform at its first partner summit in Los Angeles Thursday, unveiling a six titles from companies like Zynga and ZeptoLabs, and also laying the … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that its potential rule changes limiting the eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services… | Continue reading
Nearly a year after his passing on April 20, 2018, the family of dance music artist Tim “Avicii” Bergling are launching a foundation in his memory. The multiplatinum-selling artist and DJ died in O… | Continue reading
The “Mueller Report” has prompted a bevy of new reports from the nation’s big TV-news outlets. CBS News plotted a Monday primetime special to cover the disclosure of a summary of … | Continue reading
Fox employees knew this day was coming. For over a year, the men and women who work at the Century City lot have talked of little else but severance packages and job searches. They knew that when D… | Continue reading
UPDATED: 21st Century Fox said Tuesday it has completed the distribution of shares to birth the Fox Corporation. “21CF and FOX are now each a standalone, publicly traded company,” 21st … | Continue reading
Spotify, Google, Pandora and Amazon have teamed up to appeal a controversial ruling by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board that, if it goes through, would increase payouts to songwriters by 44%, Varie… | Continue reading
David Rhodes will step down as president of CBS News after an eight-year tenure and will be replaced by veteran producer Susan Zirinsky, CBS announced Sunday night, a maneuver executives and anchor… | Continue reading
CBS, which distributes some of TV’s most-watched programs, may have to use a new way to count its viewers. CBS and the media-measurement service Nielsen are without a contract after their cur… | Continue reading
In late 2016 Boston-based startup Neurable, the brainchild of neuroscientist Ramses Alcaide and a collective of fellow alumni from the University of Michigan, received a $2 million investment to de… | Continue reading
Viacom Inc. said net income in its fiscal fourth quarter fell as revenue slumped overseas and stayed flat with year-earlier results at its U.S. operations, even as the company showed improvement at… | Continue reading
Megyn Kelly and NBC News have engaged in conversations about what role might make her happiest at the news division, according to a person who has spoken with the anchor, suggesting both sides have… | Continue reading
Joanna Coles, the veteran magazine editor and former chief content officer of Hearst Magazines, is coming aboard “CBS This Morning” as a creative adviser. CBS News President David Rhodes announced … | Continue reading
Gawker will rise from the ashes in a new iteration of the website to be launched next year, Variety has learned. The reborn Gawker comes under the ownership of Bryan Goldberg, founder and CEO of Bu… | Continue reading
Gawker will rise from the ashes in a new iteration of the website to be launched next year, Variety has learned. The reborn Gawker comes under the ownership of Bryan Goldberg, founder and CEO of Bu… | Continue reading
Talk about your blank spaces: Taylor Swift is about to have one in the spot where her label affiliation goes. In less than three months’ time, she’ll be a free agent, as the first anniversary of th… | Continue reading
“Pokémon Go” developer Niantic and non-profit the Knight Foundation are launching a six-month initiative to bring the studio’s augmented reality technology to local communities, N… | Continue reading
The Netflix effect across the entertainment business has taken root in deep and meaningful ways this year. The turmoil caused by Netflix’s meteoric rise is all that media moguls could talk about la… | Continue reading
When a flood of fake celebrity pornography generated by artificial intelligence (AI) technology surfaced on the internet earlier this year, most tech platforms were quick to ban these so-called dee… | Continue reading
It’s the end of the road for Musical.ly, the short-form video app that grew to more than 100 million active monthly users since its 2014 launch — and spawned its own digital stars and p… | Continue reading
Sacha Baron Cohen feels like the ultimate George W. Bush-era comedy star. The early-to-mid-2000s, after all, were when Baron Cohen enjoyed his high point of fame, when TV’s “Da Ali G Show” and the … | Continue reading
Netflix has established a substantial foothold in the American living room — especially among millennials. The subscription-video service is now the most popular platform for watching enterta… | Continue reading
MTV has launched a new production unit, MTV Studios — and with it put in the works a batch of new shows and revivals of properties from the Viacom-owned cable channel’s extensive content libr… | Continue reading
Jennifer Lee and Pete Docter will split John Lasseter’s duties at Disney, as the studio’s animation division tries to move forward after the tumultuous departure of its leading creative… | Continue reading
John Lasseter, once the most powerful man in animation, will leave the Walt Disney Co. at the end of the year following a sexual harassment scandal, the company announced on Friday. Lasseter, who w… | Continue reading
TheSkimm, a digital-media company built on a daily newsletter aimed at millennial women, has closed out a $12 million Series C funding round with a group of mostly female investors, including Shond… | Continue reading
The music and entertainment industry showed up in force Thursday morning at the Fabulous L.A. Forum, where The Madison Square Garden Company’s Executive Chairman/CEO Jim Dolan and partner Irving Az… | Continue reading