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UK film and TV execs say the industry is struggling to recover from the Hollywood strikes and the spending contractions among UK broadcasters and US streamers (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://t.co/N9gVv29hRa

Sources: if Skydance and National Amusements merge, David Ellison would become CEO of the combined company; Ellison aims to spend billions to rebuild Paramount (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

David Ellison Closes In on Redstone’s National Amusements, Paramount Global
David Ellison, movie producer, tennis fanatic and heir to a technology fortune, is on the verge of adding another title: media mogul.

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Frankie Goes To Hollywood:
🎵 Relax
#NowPlaying #FrankieGoesToHollywood
https://open.spotify.com/track/2K22nUTdyr48JDwI5t906t
https://djkarper.bandcamp.com/track/frankie-goes-to-hollywood-relax-dj-karper-tello-117

Hollywood-Prozess - Tödlicher Schuss bei „Rust“-Dreh: Schuldspruch #News #Nachrichten

Opinion | The Oscars Give Hollywood a Chance to Celebrate. After That? It’s Grim. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/opinion/oscars-hollywood-extinction-event.html

Opinion | The Oscars Give Hollywood a Chance to Celebrate. After That? It’s Grim.
It’s time to find out what the film industry’s new normal looks like.

This Robot Picks Locks, If You’re Very Patient
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-e49b1e2a-743e98e6f8ee96e7
This Robot Picks Locks, If You’re Very Patient We all know the Hollywood trope of picking a lock with a paperclip, and while it certainly…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #PickOfThePops
Frankie Goes to Hollywood:
🎵 Relax
#FrankieGoestoHollywood
https://open.spotify.com/track/2K22nUTdyr48JDwI5t906t
https://tinez.bandcamp.com/track/frankie-goes-to-hollywood-relax-tinez-acid-remix

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Beck:
🎵 Hollywood Freaks
#Beck
https://open.spotify.com/track/08CPsM6I1iEuOgWXosCoZX
https://djaskew.bandcamp.com/track/hollywood-freaks-beck

Here’s one of the dumber anonymously sourced quotes you’ll read today.
“‘The pay is egregious, but it is something we have learned to accept,’ says one longtime entertainment analyst.”
https://deadline.com/2024/05/ceo-salaries-2023-hollywood-media-…

Media CEO Pay Mostly Up For 2023 Amid Strikes, Industry Contraction
Media CEO pay was high in 2023 amid Hollywood strikes, industry contraction and lots of questions about the future of the industry.

Sources: if Skydance and National Amusements merge, David Ellison would become CEO of the combined company; Ellison aims to spend billions to rebuild Paramount (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

David Ellison Closes In on Redstone’s National Amusements, Paramount Global
David Ellison, movie producer, tennis fanatic and heir to a technology fortune, is on the verge of adding another title: media mogul.

I imagine #JerrySeinfeld has been pitching terrible projects for years and #Hollywood execs have been using the excuse that they can't be made because of #CancelCulture and

Watching The Doors live at The Hollywood Bowl (1968)¹ and hacking on Kitten² and Domain³.
All in all, not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon in my book.
(I’ve almost got database backup/restore working in Kitten and I’ve just finished porting Domain to the latest Kitten with JSDB 5⁴.)
¹ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Q…

KI-Update kompakt: UN-Resolution, Karibik-Hype, Sora in Hollywood, mehr Copilot
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
http…

#NowPlaying - awaiting the imminent arrival of @otdispace@twitter.com. the dead's earliest studio demos as the emergency crew on side A (canonical!), late '66 sessions on side B. late '70s pressing on "the eleven" records, erroneously dated may 3rd, 1965 (happy anniversary!), though impressed that they got the warlocks' start date & a period correct band photo. with…

Bootleg Grateful Dead LPs, East and West (Hollywood Palladium August 6, 1971)
The Grateful De ad At The Hollywood Palladium lp, recorded on August 6, 1971. Like many Dead bootlegs available on the West Coast, it was...

"#OpenAI is now actively pitching studios on #Sora. But nothing I’ve seen so far has convinced me that Sora has any real utility beyond, once again, low-grade crap.
Which is certainly true in the case of "Late Night with the Devil". The AI interstitials aren’t so awful that they break the wh…

Hollywood's cheap AI fix won't work
Read to the end for some good kebab shop content

Pro Shop, founded by a Full Swing producer and an ex-Puck CEO, raised $19.25M from the PGA Tour and others, to expand golf's presence in entertainment (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.c…

New Golf Media Venture ‘Pro Shop’ from ‘Full Swing’ EP Raises $20M, With PGA Tour Backing
The company, founded by 'Full Swing' EP Chad Mumm and former Puck CEO Joe Purzycki, has raised nearly $20M from the PGA Tour and Powerhouse Capital, and will seek to grow golf's Hollywood business.

🎬 The Life and Death of Hollywood:
Film and television writers face an existential threat
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner/

The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner
Film and television writers face an existential threat

Oh wow.
Will they die suddenly too?
Just eat healthy and you won’t need that shit.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/19/lifestyle/plastic-surgeons-warn-ozempi…

Plastic surgeons warn 'Ozempic face' has taken over Hollywood
Surgeons believe that Hollywood is experiencing a spike in the side effect known as “Ozempic Face,” which they claim has affected everyone from John Goodman to Sharon Osborne.

Fox squirrel on alert in North Hollywood Park
#naturalist #wildlife

Es wurde in den Geldspeicher von Dagobert Duck eingebrochen und 30 Millionen US-Dollar geklaut #Panzerknacker #DagobertDuck #Entenhausen

Los Angeles: Diebe erbeuten 30 Millionen Dollar aus Geldspeicher
Es klingt nach dem Hollywood-Film "Ocean´s Eleven": In Los Angeles haben Diebe am Ostersonntag aus einem Geldspeicher etwa 30 Millionen Dollar gestohlen. Der Coup wurde erst am Montag entdeckt.

Today is the second anniversary of Eric Boehlert's tragic and untimely death.
Soledad O’Brien celebrated Eric as "“an awesome human being" with a "Crazy devotion to facts, context and good reporting. Enemy of BS, fake news.”
https://

Einstein and Elena - complete series 👩🏽‍🔬🎥🤩
Dramatized romantic comedy | Total listening time: 1h 30m
A Hollywood actor shadows a Harvard professor for a role. When the two are presumed “dating” by the press, they go along with it. He to bolster his image, she to bolster her fledgling book sales. But what happens when a fake romance turns...

Einstein and Elena - complete series 👩🏽‍🔬🎥🤩
Dramatized romantic comedy | Total listening time: 1h 30m A Hollywood actor shadows a Harvard professor for a role. When the two are presumed “dating” by the press, they go along with it. He to bolster his image, she to bolster her fledgling book sales. But what happens when a fake romance turns into the real thing? POC leads. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Mar 29, 2024.

Sources: OpenAI is meeting with Hollywood studios, media executives, and others to form partnerships to encourage filmmakers to integrate Sora into their work (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Courts Hollywood in Meetings With Movie Studios, Directors
OpenAI wants to break into the movie business.

That’s a zero, not an O, holy shit
#typography #myEyes #itBurns
“Detroit's Hollywood-style sign coming to I-94: Rendering revealed”

Detroit's Hollywood-style sign coming to I-94: Rendering revealed
Detroit officials hosted media at Fairmont Signage Company on Wednesday, giving a sneak peek into the construction process of the city’s Hollywood-style sign.

Alvin Bragg can't show jury 'Access Hollywood' tape — but he can use the transcript: judge - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-hush-money-access-hollywood/

Alvin Bragg can't show jury 'Access Hollywood' tape — but he can use the transcript: judge
Judge Juan Merchan ruled Monday that Trump's prosecutors cannot show the jury in his hush money trial the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape — but he has allowed the transcript to be used during the trial.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wanted to use the tape, in which Trump brags about how hi...

Hope Hicks says Trump was ‘very involved’ in campaign and media responses
‘We were all just following his lead’
Hope Hicks is being questioned about the Access Hollywood tape and the jury is being shown the transcript from the tape.
Asked what her first reaction was to receiving an email from a Washington Post reporter about the tape, she says she was
“very concerned” about the contents of the email, and the lack of time to respond.
She says she forwarded the em…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Cluster:
🎵 Hollywood
#Cluster
https://open.spotify.com/track/741KQX9BobWT2bV5s5nO2D
https://clusterofficial.bandcamp.com/track/hollywood

#NowPlaying - awaiting the imminent arrival of @otdispace@twitter.com. the dead's earliest studio demos as the emergency crew on side A (canonical!), late '66 sessions on side B. late '70s pressing on "the eleven" records, erroneously dated may 3rd, 1965 (happy anniversary!), though impressed that they got the warlocks' start date & a period correct band photo. with…

Bootleg Grateful Dead LPs, East and West (Hollywood Palladium August 6, 1971)
The Grateful De ad At The Hollywood Palladium lp, recorded on August 6, 1971. Like many Dead bootlegs available on the West Coast, it was...

OpenAI will Hollywood den KI-Generator Sora schmackhaft machen
Sam Altman geht zu den Oscar-Parties und vereinbart Termine mit großen Studios – US-Berichten zufolge, um Sora für Filmproduktion zu etablieren.

Eine der letzten großen Hollywood-Schauspielerinnen wurde 90 Jahre alt: #ShirleyMacLaine
#Schauspielerin #Tänzerin

Hollywood-Ikone Shirley MacLaine: 90 und kein bisschen leise
Shirley MacLaine war seit den 60er-Jahren eine Filmgrösse und musste doch fast 30 Jahre auf ihren ersten Oscar warten.

Freund enthüllt: - Diesen Mann liebte Hollywood-Frauenheld Cary Grant #News #Nachrichten

A look at Runway's second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Runway, Sora, and Hollywood: AI Films Actually Get Good
Artificial intelligence has changed filmmaking a lot over the past year, even though the technology is just getting started. But first…

Oh wow.
Will they die suddenly too?
Just eat healthy and you won’t need that shit.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/19/lifestyle/plastic-surgeons-warn-ozempi…

Plastic surgeons warn 'Ozempic face' has taken over Hollywood
Surgeons believe that Hollywood is experiencing a spike in the side effect known as “Ozempic Face,” which they claim has affected everyone from John Goodman to Sharon Osborne.

Amazon announces three new interactive ad formats for Prime Video: shoppable carousel ads, interactive pause ads, and interactive brand trivia ads (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/di…

Amazon Set to Debut Remote-Enabled Shoppable Ads As It Readies Inaugural Upfront
Three new formats will let users easily include products featured in ads to their Amazon carts, with no need for QR codes.

"As a letter signed by more than 900 people, described as Hollywood 'creatives and professionals,' and published Monday made clear: The very word 'occupation' was off limits... The letter is extraordinary in the sheer extent of its denialism. 'Israel is not targeting civilians. It is targeting Hamas,' the authors wrote. Unmentioned, however, is that Israeli forces have killed over 31,000 people, including 13,000 children, decimated every form of civilian infrastr…

My mom is more doable than your mom.
- Hollywood kid

TFG's criminal acts "to keep 2016 voters from finding out the truth of the extent of then MAGA candidate Trump's depravity so he could seize executive power."
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/03/23/trum…

Trump's Sex Scandal Cover-Up Playbook
Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen permitted to testify on Donald Trump hush money

📢 Gericht hebt Urteil gegen Weinstein auf
Der Oberste Gerichtshof von New York hat das Urteil gegen Ex-Hollywood-Produzent Harvey Weinstein aufgehoben und wegen Verfahrensfehlern einen neuen Prozess angeordnet. Weinstein war 2020 wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs und Vergewaltigung zu 23 Jahren Haft verurteilt worden.
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Gericht hebt Urteil gegen Weinstein auf
Der Oberste Gerichtshof von New York hat das Urteil gegen Ex-Hollywood-Produzent Harvey Weinstein aufgehoben und wegen Verfahrensfehlern einen neuen Prozess angeordnet. Weinstein war 2020 wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs und Vergewaltigung zu 23 Jahren Haft verurteilt worden.

Judge rules evidence related to 'Access Hollywood' tape admissible in Trump hush money trial (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-rules-access-hollywood-tape-admissible-trump-hush/story?id=108256995
http://www.memeorandum.com/240319/p21#a240319p21

CNBC expands its Make It personal finance brand with new ventures like a weekly TV series and online classes, and says Make It is its largest vertical (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CNBC Plans TV Expansion of Personal Finance Brand “Make It” (Exclusive)
A 'Make It'-branded TV series and an online course are among the projects in the works.

Cinema Cities has a new video about Hollowood History:
"Hollywood and the 1941 Anti-Nazi Film Controversy"
#Hollywood

Filing: Kevin Spacey and House of Cards producer MRC settle a $31M judgment against him; he will pay $1M and testify for MRC in a lawsuit against its insurer (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Kevin Spacey’s ‘House of Cards’ Legal Battle Takes New Turn
Under the deal, the actor will help producer MRC in pursuing a nine-figure claim against its insurer.

kann mir den Artikel wer befreien?
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/nicolas-cage-wie-der-hollywood-star-zum-internetgag-wurde-a-903b2d89-0648-45c0-9f55-a0d86a9fada9

It’s possible that Francis Ford Coppola is having some LLM handle his media correspondence … but this one scene looks as nice as you would imagine.
“What it’s about is far harder to quantify: writing to Vanity Fair, the director cited H.G. Wells, the September 11 attacks, and a 63 BC battle between Roman politician Cicero and an insurrectionist named Catiline.”
From: @…

“…the problem, for viewers, isn’t wokeness run amok; it’s the incoherence of the world we are watching. We see an African man solving crimes in a rural English village of the 1950s, as the sun sets on the empire — yet his race is barely mentioned or considered and never makes any material difference in his experience.”

Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past
Films and TV shows keep reimagining history as a multiracial dream world. Is that really a step forward?

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Jenny Lewis:
🎵 Hollywood Lawn
#JennyLewis
https://open.spotify.com/track/6znZU3XCrTHGlIfKPL4anW

Amazon’s Road House reboot is accused of copyright infringement — and AI voice cloning
#aiethics #ai

It'll soon be summer which means that Hollywood location scouts are out in force. Do I work at a university or on set?
#academia #AcademicChatter

One of my favorite venues and I love to see this. They provide a free shuttle with 15 minute headways that picks you up at the subway/transit stops. They're using the converted parking to provide more space for buses and shuttles and (unfortunately) rideshare but still happy to see it.

Close Up: Mia Farrow - Shadows & light
'Mia Farrow is een unieke Hollywood-actrice, moeder van veertien kinderen en mensenrechtenactiviste. Al vroeg in haar carrière speelde Farrow in cultfilms met gerenommeerde regisseurs als Roman Polanski en Robert Altman.'
https://www.avrot…

Oscar-winning Ukrainian director called on Hollywood figures to use their voices to support Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/14/oscarwinning-ukrainian-director.html

An analysis of Hollywood's grim status in 2024, recovering from a year of downsizing and strikes; supply lines will take at least a year to flow at capacity (Mark Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

Opinion | The Oscars Give Hollywood a Chance to Celebrate. After That? It’s Grim.
It’s time to find out what the film industry’s new normal looks like.

Realization: young actor Charles
Bronson has a striking resemblance to current actor Channing Tatum. #Movies #Actors #Hollywood

Louis Gossett Jr. hat mal das Klischee Hollywood-Star für mich erfüllt, als er in L.A. in einem goldfarbenem Rolls-Cabrio an mir vorbeifuhr.
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112179366211234646

The New York Times :press: (@nytimes@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Louis Gossett Jr., 87, Dies; ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots’ Actor His portrayal of a drill instructor earned him the Oscar for best supporting actor. He was the first Black performer to win in that category. #press https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/movies/louis-gossett-jr-dead.html?utm_source=press.coop

Ampere: seven movie adaptations of video games were released broadly in 2023; Comscore: movies based on video games grossed $712.2M at the US box office in 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

🏈 @… #NFL
Via Mitch Cumstein @MitchCumstein56
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31m
Chiefs WR room is crazy
Hollywood Brown 4.27 40 yard dash
Xavier Worthy 4.21 40 yard dash
Rashee Rice 119 mph

Inside Johnny Depp’s Epic Bromance With Saudi Crown Prince MBS - https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/johnny-depp-mbs-saudi-arabia

An analysis of Hollywood's grim status in 2024, recovering from a year of downsizing and strikes; supply lines will take at least a year to flow at capacity (Mark Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

Opinion | The Oscars Give Hollywood a Chance to Celebrate. After That? It’s Grim.
It’s time to find out what the film industry’s new normal looks like.

How Writers Are Reacting To Hollywood Cost-Cutting
https://deadline.com/2024/04/hollywood-contraction-how-writers-are-reacting-industrywide-cost-cutting-1235886052/

Hollywood Contraction: How Writers Are Reacting To Ongoing Industrywide Cost-Cutting
The ongoing contraction in Hollywood continues to impact how many writers remain out of work since walking off the picket line in September.

A look at 2023 media CEO pay amid industry contraction: Charter CEO Chris Winfrey, $89M; Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, $84M; WBD CEO David Zaslav, $49.7M; and more (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/05/ceo-salaries-2023-hollywood-media-12359…

Media CEO Pay Mostly Up For 2023 Amid Strikes, Industry Contraction
Media CEO pay was high in 2023 amid Hollywood strikes, industry contraction and lots of questions about the future of the industry.

How Writers Are Reacting To Hollywood Cost-Cutting
https://deadline.com/2024/04/hollywood-contraction-how-writers-are-reacting-industrywide-cost-cutting-1235886052/

Hollywood Contraction: How Writers Are Reacting To Ongoing Industrywide Cost-Cutting
The ongoing contraction in Hollywood continues to impact how many writers remain out of work since walking off the picket line in September.

Close Up: Mia Farrow - Shadows & light
'Mia Farrow is een unieke Hollywood-actrice, moeder van veertien kinderen en mensenrechtenactiviste. Al vroeg in haar carrière speelde Farrow in cultfilms met gerenommeerde regisseurs als Roman Polanski en Robert Altman.'
https://www.avrot…

The Angel of Vine - Season 1 finale 🫣😮🤯
Dramatized mystery series | Total listening time: 5h 10m
A present day journalist uncovers the audio tapes of a 1950s private eye who cracked the greatest unsolved murder mystery Hollywood has ever known… and didn’t tell a soul.
Produced independently by creators, shared with distributor after ...

The Angel of Vine - Season 1 finale 🫣😮🤯
Dramatized mystery series | Total listening time: 5h 10m A present day journalist uncovers the audio tapes of a 1950s private eye who cracked the greatest unsolved murder mystery Hollywood has ever known… and didn’t tell a soul. Produced independently by creators, shared with distributor after original release. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Jan 16, 2019.

Hollywood actors like Megan Fox, Idris Elba, and Keanu Reeves are leaping into video games, a once stigmatized medium now seen as a unique platform for stories (Just Lunning/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Hollywood Actors Are Leaping Into Video Games
Onscreen stars have increasingly been going virtual. Jodie Comer and David Harbour are making their video game debuts in a remake of the 1992 horror game Alone in the Dark.

Western bluebird at his most dapper in North Hollywood Park
#naturalist #wildlife

The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, potentially complicating hiring in Hollywood as firms try to protect trade secrets and other info (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.co…

A Ban on Noncompetes Could Raise Pay — And Complicate Contracts — In Hollywood
The FTC on Tuesday voted to prohibit noncompete provisions in contracts, which could usher in a sea change to worker mobility and how companies structure contracts to protect proprietary information.

Disney launches Hulu on Disney , after testing the integration in beta in 2023; Disney users that do not subscribe to Hulu can still search for Hulu shows (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Hulu on Disney+ Launches Out of Beta With Marketing Push to Grow Subscribers
"Content recommendations are going to be more relevant based on your usage," says Joe Earley, president of direct-to-consumer for Disney Entertainment.

Michael Cieply: Participant Sank As All Hollywood Jumped In
https://deadline.com/2024/04/participant-sank-everyone-jumped-in-commentary-michael-cieply-1235890917/

Michael Cieply: Participant Sank When Everyone Jumped In
Participant Media, the activist entertainment company, started sinking when the rest of Hollywood got active.

Hollywood analysts and marketers say any potential upside from a TikTok ban would be lessened by the loss of the app's marketing power for new movies and shows (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/tiktok-ban-help-or-…

Would TikTok Ban Help or Hurt Hollywood?
If TikTok is effectively banned in the U.S., would that be a net positive or negative for Hollywood?

Sources: OpenAI is meeting with Hollywood studios, media executives, and others to form partnerships to encourage filmmakers to integrate Sora into their work (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Courts Hollywood in Meetings With Movie Studios, Directors
OpenAI wants to break into the movie business.

S-1: Sam Altman has an 8.7% stake in Reddit, making him the third-largest shareholder, behind Advance Magazine Publishers, with 30.1%, and Tencent, with 11% (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business<…

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Revealed As One of Reddit’s Biggest Shareholders
As the tech platform prepares for a public offering, it says that most of its revenue is from advertising, but touts artificial intelligence as a growth area.

Fubo reports 1.51M FuboTV subscribers at the end of Q1, down from 1.61M in Q4, revenue up 24% YoY to $394M, and a $56.1M loss, down from $83.6M a year ago (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Fubo Drops to 1.51M North American Subscribers in First Quarter
The streaming platform shrunk its losses on higher subscription and advertising revenue.

A survey finds US states have distributed over $25B to film incentive programs since 2002, but independent experts find the programs are break-even at best (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/arts/states-hollywood-film-tax-incentiv…

States Have Spent $25 Billion to Woo Hollywood. Is It Worth It?
Dozens of states have lured film and TV production with financial incentives. Years after gutting its program during a budget crisis, Michigan wants to rejoin the arms race.

How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

How TikTok Changed America
Nineteen ways the app rewired our culture.

CBS and the Golden Globes plan to air the 82nd annual ceremony on January 5, 2025, live on CBS and streaming on Paramount in the US (Kimberly Nordyke/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

CBS, Golden Globes Set Nominations, Ceremony Dates for 2025 (Exclusive)
Organizers also finalized the timetable for submissions across the awards' film and TV categories.

Amazon strikes a deal to offer Lionsgate and Starz content to MGM customers in the UK, following similar deals for other European countries and Latin America (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Amazon Strikes Deal for Lionsgate, Starz Content, Including ‘Outlander,’ for MGM+ in U.K.
The service will offer series and movies from Lionsgate and Starz in the U.K., including 'Outlander,' giving customers access to more hit series and movies.

While Netflix is profitable in South Korea, local rivals Tving and Wavve lost a combined ~$165M in 2023 and are reportedly in talks to merge (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-02-25/…

Hollywood’s Streaming Malaise Infects South Korea, Asia’s TV Capital
After years of pumping out hit shows, South Korea’s biggest media companies are cutting back and consolidating to survive a global pullback in entertainment.

Q&A with Marc Jury, the CEO of African streamer Showmax, on doubling down on originals, working with Comcast, the appeal of the English Premier League, and more (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.co…

African Streamer Showmax’s CEO on Doubling Down on Originals, How Africa Surprises Hollywood Folks
Marc Jury discusses the appeal of the English Premier League, the challenges of serving 44 markets across sub-Saharan Africa, working with Comcast and why his team is expanding original content at a time when U.S. streamers have become more cautious.

Liberty Media agrees to acquire an 86% stake in Madrid-based Dorna Sports, the commercial rights holder for MotoGP, in a deal valuing Dorna at €4.2B (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Liberty Media to Buy Motorcycle Racing Circuit MotoGP in Deal Valuing Its Owner at $4.5B
The Formula 1 owner, led by chairman John Malone and CEO Greg Maffei, agreed to acquire an 86 percent stake in the Madrid-based commercial rights holder Dorna Sports.

FuboTV reports a $71M Q4 net loss, down 26% YoY, global revenue up 28% YoY to $410.2M, $370M from subscriptions, 1.61M subscribers in North America, up 12% YoY (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

FuboTV CEO Calls Planned Sports Super-Streamer “Pernicious”
David Gandler called out the upcoming Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery venture as his sports streamer hit 1.61 million subscribers and shrank its fourth-quarter loss.

Ampere: seven movie adaptations of video games were released broadly in 2023; Comscore: movies based on video games grossed $712.2M at the US box office in 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Unions representing animation and VFX workers plan to demand rules for how studios deploy AI, as most entertainment executives see AI displacing workers (Avi Asher-Schapiro/Context)
https://www.context.news/ai/hollywood-animation-vfx-unions-fight…

Hollywood animation, VFX unions fight AI job cut threat | Context
Entertainment bosses see AI as a way to cut costs, but animators and visual effects workers are fighting back

New sound stages and other venues are being built at a record pace and coming online just as Disney, Netflix, and other services reduce production to cut losses (John Gittelsohn/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Blackstone, Apollo, Bain Bets on Hollywood Tested by TV’s Fade
Blackstone Inc., Apollo Global Management Inc. and Bain Capital bet billions of dollars that services like Netflix would feed bottomless demand for Hollywood sound stages. They’re about to find out if they’re wrong.

Everyone TV, a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5, launches free streaming service Freely on smart TVs, targeting internet-only homes (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Freely, the Free U.K. Streaming Platform, Launches
The service is backed by U.K. broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Paramount Global's Channel 5.

Producers United, a grassroots group of 86 top Hollywood "career producers", launches to advocate for reforms, including changing their fee structure (Mike Fleming Jr/Deadline)
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Producers United Is Launched By 86 Top Film & TV “Career Producers” To Change Fee Structure, Get Health Benefits & Stop Gradual Ecosystem Erosion
The 86 members of Producers United is a collection of the most prolific “Career Producers” who make about 90% of Hollywood’s biggest movies.

Filing: Disney will take non-cash pre-tax impairment charges of $1.8B to $2.4B related to Reliance JV; Disney will be a minority shareholder with a 36.8% stake (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Disney Inks $8.5B Deal to Merge India Business With Reliance Industries
Reliance will invest $1.4 billion into the joint venture, which is valued at $8.5 billion, while Disney will provide a content license.

Source: Disney held talks in 2015 and 2016 about buying Vice for $3.4B; Shane Smith is believed to be paid millions in a 2019 deal finishing at the end of 2024 (Lachlan Cartwright/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Shane Smith and the Final Collapse of Vice News
How did a Brooklyn media giant valued at $5.7 billion just a few years ago wind up going bankrupt and folding its newsroom? Look no further than its brash (and still highly paid) founder.

Hollywood actors like Megan Fox, Idris Elba, and Keanu Reeves are leaping into video games, a once stigmatized medium now seen as a unique platform for stories (Just Lunning/New York Times)
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Hollywood Actors Are Leaping Into Video Games
Onscreen stars have increasingly been going virtual. Jodie Comer and David Harbour are making their video game debuts in a remake of the 1992 horror game Alone in the Dark.

Imax reports Q4 revenue of $86M, vs. $89.59M est., down 12% from Q4 2022, when Imax experienced a rapid reopening of cinemas in China, and net income of $2.5M (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Box Office Slowdown Hits Imax As Quarterly Revenue Falls
Overall quarterly revenue came to $86 million, down 12 percent from a year-earlier $98 million, as 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,' 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' and 'Wonka' played on its screens.

Imax reports Q4 revenue of $86M, vs. $89.59M est., down 12% from Q4 2022, when Imax experienced a rapid reopening of cinemas in China, and net income of $2.5M (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Box Office Slowdown Hits Imax As Quarterly Revenue Falls
Overall quarterly revenue came to $86 million, down 12 percent from a year-earlier $98 million, as 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,' 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' and 'Wonka' played on its screens.

Ampere Analysis: streaming revenue will overtake pay TV subscription revenue in the US for the first time in Q3 2024, helped by streamers' addition of ad tiers (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)
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Streaming to Overtake Pay TV Subscription Revenue in the U.S. This Year
Total streaming revenue will hit $17.3 billion, topping $16.7 billion from pay TV, in the third-quarter of 2024, predicts research firm Ampere Analysis.

Disney launches Hulu on Disney , after testing the integration in beta in 2023; Disney users that do not subscribe to Hulu can still search for Hulu shows (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Hulu on Disney+ Launches Out of Beta With Marketing Push to Grow Subscribers
"Content recommendations are going to be more relevant based on your usage," says Joe Earley, president of direct-to-consumer for Disney Entertainment.

Bill Maher launches The Club Random Studios, a podcast network with a focus on "freedom of expression", and hires ex-ESPN anchor Sage Steele as its first host (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network, Hires Ex-ESPN Anchor Sage Steele as First Host
"I am looking for people who are not talking point people," the HBO host tells THR of his new podcast venture.

Comcast reports Q1 Peacock revenue rose 54% YoY to $1.1B, a $639M loss, down from $704M in Q1 2023, and paying subscribers up 55% YoY to 34M (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Peacock Quarterly Loss Narrows to $639M as Streamer Hits 34M Subscribers
NBCUniversal parent Comcast, led by chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, reported its first-quarter earnings.

Comcast reports Q1 Peacock revenue rose 54% YoY to $1.1B, a $639M loss, down from $704M in Q1 2023, and paying subscribers up 55% YoY to 34M (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Peacock Quarterly Loss Narrows to $639M as Streamer Hits 34M Subscribers
NBCUniversal parent Comcast, led by chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, reported its first-quarter earnings.

TelevisaUnivision reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $1.1B, adjusted OIBDA fell 9% YoY to $328.5M, and expects its DTC business to be profitable in H2 2024 (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
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TelevisaUnivision Nears Streaming Profit, CEO Calls Audience “Likely the Deciding Factor” in Elections
The Spanish-language media giant, led by Wade Davis, sees 2024 as "a historic year for us," saying that "we expect that to drive commensurate political ad revenue."

TelevisaUnivision reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $1.1B, adjusted OIBDA fell 9% YoY to $328.5M, and expects its DTC business to be profitable in H2 2024 (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
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TelevisaUnivision Nears Streaming Profit, CEO Calls Audience “Likely the Deciding Factor” in Elections
The Spanish-language media giant, led by Wade Davis, sees 2024 as "a historic year for us," saying that "we expect that to drive commensurate political ad revenue."

Prime Video will air NHL games on Monday nights in Canada for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons, after striking a deal with rights holder Rogers Communications (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Prime Video Adds Live NHL Hockey Games in Canada
The two-year deal will see National Hockey League games appear exclusively on the Amazon streaming site on Monday nights.