2026-01-30 14:22:00
🎞️ Cinemas and unions sound alarms over Netflix-Warner Bros. deal
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-12-05/netflix-warner-deal-how-theaters-and-unions-are-reacting
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Former Lionsgate executive Nathan Kahane launches True North, with backing from Entertainment 360, to produce and finance films from emerging filmmakers (Mike Fleming Jr/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/nathan-kahane-launches-true-nor…
Sydney Sweeney Created This Moment. But Does It Belong to Her? (Alexandra Whittaker/Cosmopolitan)
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a70001220/sydney-sweeney-interview-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p10#a260130p10
Maybe she should do a collab with Skrillex
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a69167004/jameela-jamil-accidentally-orgasm-farmers-dj-set/
So bad people are almost being paid to attend. Republican clubs buying the tickets en mass and offering them for free.
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/melania-trumps-film-struggles-sell-234538656.html
Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K ; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/entertainment-media-l…
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▶️ ICE Protestors Speak Up! & Don Lemon’s Arrest: Explained! | Have I Got News For You U.S.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ucinslJJYig&si=5DjovNPYHqlC3dDZ
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Ubisoft should leave game developing to Massive Entertainment, who actually knows what they’re doing. They’re literally the same company, how can one make games so great and the other one ruin perfectly great ideas?
New Year's Eve concert is latest cancellation at the Kennedy Center (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/12/29/new-years-eve-kennedy-center-concert-canceled/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p3#a251230p3
Unfashionably Late Podcast
Your deep-dive into everything loud, glittery, iconic and occasionally unhinged in entertainment...
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🤺 New league aims to drag fencing into entertainment era
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2025/12/03/world-fencing-league/
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CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil interviewed his own mother during Tuesday's broadcast regarding the cognitive benefits of grandparenting (Martin Holmes/Yahoo Entertainment)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/cbs-evening-new…
The Family Stone Band, Joelle James highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/the-family-stone-band-joelle-james-highlight-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-giants-122825
A new Croker vs Rover video! That's Friday night entertainment sorted then 🙂
#LandRover
Hard to be artistic director of a dead institution. More of Trump's "winning."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/01/28/kennedy-center-kevin-couch-resigns-svp-artistic-programming/
I just found out that Uncle Floyd passed and now i'm supposed to sleep??
RIP Legend.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/floyd-vivino-dies-uncle-floyd-172616352.html
'CBS Evening News': Tony Dokoupil Under Fire for Interviewing His Own Mom (Martin Holmes/Yahoo Entertainment)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/cbs-evening-news-tony-dokoupil-140533095.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p42#a260128p42
Even as an Okie who feels the urge to defend local acts, this is not a great one for the resume.
Kennedy Center’s new programming head resigns days after hire was announced https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/…
Among media stocks in 2025, WBD surged 172%, Fox jumped 47.3%, Paramount Skydance rose 29%, Netflix was up just 5.7%, and Disney was up 2.25%; Comcast fell ~20% (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Ubisoft entlässt 55 Angestellte bei Massive Entertainment und Ubisoft Stockholm
Ubisoft streicht 55 Stellen, unter anderem bei Massive Entertainment. Zuvor hatte der Publisher den Angestellten die Möglichkeit gegeben, freiwillig zu gehen.
The Family Stone Band, Joelle James highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/the-family-stone-band-joelle-james-highlight-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-giants-122825
Nicki Minaj says Trump, Vance are 'role models' for young men at Turning Point USA event | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/nicki-minaj-praises-trump-vance-at-turning-point-event-9.7025614
Nielsen streaming data: none of 2025's 10 most-watched shows were new, Tubi and Roku are almost twice the size of HBO Max and Peacock, and more (Bloomberg)
Never thought I would find out the laundering process of Melania’s undergarments.
Stargate: New series info and how to watch on Prime Video
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/stargate-franchise-amazon-mgm-studios-prime-video
"Some people are just professional reality people" - Marina Hyde, The Rest Is Entertainment
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Ginger Root:
🎵 Entertainment
#GingerRoot
https://gingerroot.bandcamp.com/track/entertainment
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uI5nDMdSjCOK4IDmZXYkP
I'd be interested find out if AI providers are considered responsible for any defamation their equipment generates and publishes. How much of the law assumes an intent that can't be applied to AI?
Is mens rea something that can be tested in LLM? Is that even a meaningful question? Is it all just libel through negligence?
I don’t get completism for entertainment franchises.
(Says the guy who read the Silmarillion *cover to cover* the week it was released.) (I was young) @… https://tapbots.social/@paul/115940357
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Balthazar:
🎵 Entertainment
#NowPlaying #Balthazar
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tcOzta2GXqSOu1uK8Cvfp
Don Felder, Cassadee Pope highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/don-felder-cassadee-pope-highlight-sunday-s-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-browns-112325
A profile of Dr. Phil, who launched Envoy Media two weeks after his company Merit Street Media filed for bankruptcy in July, prompting accusations of bad faith (Stacy Perman/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts…
Always always always adopt your pets.
Shelter dogs have such wonderful personalities.
▶️ Rob Lowe has some thoughts about surprise puppy presents
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/12/23/rob-lowe-do…
😇 Religion/spirituality may protect against depression among young adult online gamers
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-religionspirituality-depression-young-adult-online.html
Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens' - Slashdot
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/01/20/0045220/bank-of-england-must-plan-for-a-financial-crisis-triggered-by-aliens
Australia's Nine Entertainment plans to sell its broadcast radio business to the Laundy family for AU$56M and buy digital outdoor ad firm QMS Media for AU$850M (Roushni Nair/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
Kennedy Center's new programming head resigns days after hire was announced (Travis M. Andrews/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/01/28/kennedy-center-kevin-couch-resigns-svp-artistic-programming/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY5NTc2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwOTU4Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Njk1NzY0MDAsImp0aSI6Ijc2ODdkMjBkLTZhOTktNDE0MS1hNTFlLWFiMDBlZGU3YmIxMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50LzIwMjYvMDEvMjgva2VubmVkeS1jZW50ZXIta2V2aW4tY291Y2gtcmVzaWducy1zdnAtYXJ0aXN0aWMtcHJvZ3JhbW1pbmcvIn0.Czvdm8mxwKIvkix6cgHFnatDIn8DtEUwKXP_qIJ__fI&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p5#a260129p5
Don Felder, Cassadee Pope highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/don-felder-cassadee-pope-highlight-sunday-s-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-browns-112325
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Jam:
🎵 That’s Entertainment
#TheJam
https://thetransitions1.bandcamp.com/track/thats-entertainment-the-jam
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MH7TkjQ4RA1vG454dciw0
Nicki Minaj says hate for her Trump fandom makes her 'support him more' (Jenny Goldsberry/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/entertainment/4437527/nicki-minaj-says-hate-for-her-trump-fandom-makes-her-support-him-more/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p121#a260128p121
First it was the half-time entertainment was 'anti-trump', now, it's 'too far'. What's the real reason? He doesn't want to get booed?
Donald Trump will not attend Super Bowl because it’s ‘too far away’ | Super Bowl LX | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/24/trump-super-bowl-bad-bunny-backlash-california
Legendary rocker
#Bruce #Springsteen delivered an impassioned condemnation of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement
during a surprise 75-minute performance Saturday night
at the "Light of Day" benefit concert in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Springsteen dedicated his 1978 ant…
Rolling Stone Uncut
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“He’s the scary bad cop to St. Nicholas’ good cop,
to stoke some fear in the naughty children and get them to behave better.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertain
Bad Bunny to 'honor queer icons' at Super Bowl halftime show after MAGA backlash | Irish Star
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/bad-bunny-superbowl-performance-36601204
Google's pivot to AI Overviews cut Stereogum's ad revenue by 70%, founder Scott Lapatine says, so the site is shifting toward a subscription-focused model (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/821
Kanye West cites bipolar disorder in apology for antisemitic behavior: 'I love Jewish people' (Asher Notheis/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/entertainment/4433295/kanye-west-cites-bipolar-disorder-apology-antisemitic-behavior-love-jewish-people/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p55#a260126p55
Für 72 Milliarden US-Dollar: Netflix kauft Warner Bros.
Es ist ein Mega-Deal in der Entertainment-Branche: Netflix will die Filmsparte von Warner Bros. inklusive HBO Max für 72 Milliarden US-Dollar kaufen.
https://ww…
Stone Temple Pilots, Brooke Eden highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/stone-temple-pilots-brooke-eden-highlight-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-broncos-week-14-120725
Former Paramount streaming exec Jeff Shultz is named CEO of Radial Entertainment, which was formed last summer from the merger of FilmRise and Shout! Studios (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/radial-entertainment-jeff-shultz-ceo-123659…
Stone Temple Pilots, Brooke Eden highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/stone-temple-pilots-brooke-eden-highlight-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-broncos-week-14-120725
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80% (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-acquire-peanuts-457-mil…
PG-rated movies dominate the US Box Office, driven by films like A Minecraft Movie; an NRG study finds kids want a social experience with friends and family (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/wicked-
Third Eye Blind, Daniel Emmet highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/third-eye-blind-daniel-emmet-highlight-sunday-s-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-chiefs-week-18
Universal Music India acquires a 30% equity stake in Mumbai-based Excel Entertainment in a deal valuing the Indian production house at $290M (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Third Eye Blind, Daniel Emmet highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/third-eye-blind-daniel-emmet-highlight-sunday-s-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-chiefs-week-18
Tencent Music reports Q3 revenue up 20.6% YoY to $1.19B, online music services revenue up 27.2% YoY to $979M, and subscription revenue up 17.2% YoY to $632M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/tencent-music-q3-revenue-2025-1236577827…
Paramount wins UK rights to show most UEFA Champions League games from 2027 to 2031; sources say its bid was much higher than TNT's current £1B per year deal (Matt Hughes/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov…
Sources: Paramount Skydance, Comcast, and Netflix bid in the first round for WBD; Comcast and Netflix are seeking just the studio and streaming parts of WBD (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/business/media/warner-discov…