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"KI-generierte Schauspielerin": Hollywood-Gewerkschaft gegen "Tilly Norwood"
Eine KI-generierte Figur steht angeblich kurz davor, als Schauspielerin von einer Künstleragentur vertreten zu werden. Die Kritik aus der Branche ist scharf.

Crypto.com strikes a deal with Hollywood.com to let users make predictions related to movies, actors, shows, and awards (Rob Golum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/crypto-com-teams-up-for-bets-on-holl…

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood:
🎵 Relax
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Ein Aspekt, der soweit ich sehe, kaum thematisiert wird, ist dass viele Hollywood-Blockbuster, die Werte favorisiert haben, die das Gegenteil dessen sind, was Trump, Vance, rfk und MAGA heute tun und vetbreiten, von der Weinstein Company (= Harvey Weinstein) produziert und erfolgreich vermarktet wurden. Hauptwahlkampfspender der erfolgreichen demokratischen präsidentschaftskandidaten war Weinstein. Zu Fall gebracht wurde Weinstein durch ein projekt von Ronan Farrow (Sohn des Mafia-Freundes Sina…

Ein Aspekt, der soweit ich sehe, kaum thematisiert wird, ist dass viele Hollywood-Blockbuster, die Werte favorisiert haben, die das Gegenteil dessen sind, was Trump, Vance, rfk und MAGA heute tun und vetbreiten, von der Weinstein Company (= Harvey Weinstein) produziert und erfolgreich vermarktet wurden. Hauptwahlkampfspender der erfolgreichen demokratischen präsidentschaftskandidaten war Weinstein. Zu Fall gebracht wurde Weinstein durch ein projekt von Ronan Farrow (Sohn des Mafia-Freundes Sina…

Hollywood insiders raise concerns over Sora's unauthorized use of artists' IP; WME told OpenAI that all its clients are opting out of having their IP in Sora (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/technology/openai-sora-video-app.html

OpenAI’s Sora Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)
Sora, OpenAI’s new video-generating app, is really a social network in disguise that can bring creative A.I. to the masses — and its problems, too.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/dave-chappelle-free-speech-riyadh-saudi-comedy-festival-1236391872/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68debdd004d79e00019ee0cb
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p125#a251002p125

...but AI audiences raved...
#TillyNorwood

Adopt, Don’t Shop! West Hollywood Makes History with Broad Ban on Animal Sales, PETA Celebrates https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/adopt-dont-shop-west-hollywood-makes-history-with-broad-ban-on-animal-sales…

Having just sat through a series of trailers for the upcoming Hollywood blockbusters as well as Superman, I think AI slop is the least of Hollywood’s problems. Heck, given the state of the industry it would be an improvement.

#GoodNews - Für Meinungsfreiheit:
Hollywood protestiert. Das First Amendment ist der 1. Zusatzartikel der Verfassung der USA, in dem die Meinungsfreiheit geschützt wird. Schauspielerin und Aktivistin Jane Fonda (87) erweckte die Protesbewegung aus der McCarthy Ära

Committee for the First Amendment

WBD plans to remove live CNN programming from HBO Max on November 17 as CNN prepares to launch a streaming service (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/cnn-pulled-hbo-max-streams-1236392501/…

CNN Live Stream to Be Pulled From HBO Max Next Month as News Channel Preps New Offering
The network is slated to launch its own direct-to-consumer offering later this year.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Frankie Goes to Hollywood:
🎵 Relax
#FrankieGoestoHollywood
https://lassodamore.bandcamp.com/track/frankie-goes-to-hollywood-relax-lassos-cocktail-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WJ92b9eMC0xZ7BaukU1E4

Open secret. It’s always an open secret in Hollywood until it’s too late. #d4vd #crime #hollywood

Paramount hires Josh Silverman, previously Mattel's chief franchise officer, as president of global products and experiences, overseeing consumer products, more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.

Paramount Hires Josh Silverman as President of Global Products and Experiences
The exec, most recently the chief franchise officer of Mattel, will oversee consumer products, live experiences, partnerships and publishing for the Skydance-owned media company.

SAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV show parody, saying it opposes replacing performers with "synthetics" (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Unsere stärkste Kämpferin für digitale Freiheitsrechte im deutschen Bundestag!
:nd_aktuell: https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193412.gamescom-spiele-sind-traeger-von-ideologie-genau-wie-hollywood.html

»Spiele sind Träger von Ideologie, genau wie Hollywood«
Die Sprecherin für Games der Linken im Bundestag erklärt, dass es zwischen Gamescom, Videospielen und Twitch-Streams in der Gaming-Blase nicht nur um Unterhaltung – sondern auch um politische Hegemoniefragen geht.

1960: The Year the Modern Horror Film Was Born https://jacobin.com/2025/10/1960-modern-horror-film/

1960: The Year the Modern Horror Film Was Born
A combination of the breakdown of the Hollywood studio system, the decline of censorship, and the rise of wildly — and luridly — creative filmmakers across the world looking to cash in on sex and violence made 1960 the year of the modern horror film.

Daniel Dae Kim Calls Out 'Chilling Effect' On Speech, DEI In Hollywood
https://deadline.com/2025/08/daniel-dae-kim-chilling-effect-dei-hollywood-1236496146/

"Hello," he lied.
-- Don Carpenter, quoting a Hollywood agent

»Israelische Spyware-Firma angeblich an Hollywood-Produzenten verkauft:
Das bekannteste Produkt der NSO Group ist die Spähsoftware Pegasus, mit der Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten überwacht wurden.«
Was wohl Hollywood nun an Propaganda mittels Spyware verbreitet?!?? Verwunderlich ist dies mMn nicht aber um so mehr sollte die Welt das Auge auf Spyware-Services, egal welche von wo, offen haben.
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Israelische Spyware-Firma angeblich an Hollywood-Produzenten verkauft
Das bekannteste Produkt der NSO Group ist die Spähsoftware Pegasus, mit der Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten überwacht wurden.

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead open their 20th anniversary fall tour, their 1st trip to #florida in 3 years & final visit to @thoughtsonGD@twitter.com’s beloved hollywood sportatorium.
soundboard:

A little Raymond #Chandler to light up your day: "Who said anything about Hollywood Boulevard?" I asked. "You did. Nobody but a guy from Hollywood Boulevard wouldn't talk back to a girl that insulted him civilly."
A man and a girl at a nearby table turned their heads and stared. The man gave me a short, sympathetic grin. "That goes for you, too," the girl…

KPop Demon Hunters' rise to become the most-watched Netflix original movie followed a slow burn and reaffirms the old Hollywood rule that nobody knows anything (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

🔥 This isn’t HOLLYWOOD– it’s Russian OIL going up in flames!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/this-isnt-hollywood-its-russian.html

@… about working with #Hollywood:
"Historically, my experience working in Hollywood has been utter hell, so I decided to fund and produce this thing entirely on my own. No more outside interference, no more batshit notes, no more art direction from people wh…

Chiefs vs Raiders: Patrick Mahomes, Marquise 'Hollywood' Brown connect to extend KC's lead https://chiefswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/chiefs/2025/10/19/chiefs-raiders-patr…

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege”
https://deadline.com/2025/09/andor-dan-gilroy-jimmy-kimmel-commentary-1236549627/

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column
Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column

Jerry Jones failures mocked by Hollywood A-lister day after Cowboys Netflix doc event https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-failures-mocked-hollywood-a-lister-day-after-dallas-cowboys-netflix-docuseri…

A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?

From the abandoned Nazi fortress in Los Angeles, to today’s Hollywood executives, to the history of the United States and all of Western Civilization, my new article:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/tinpot-in-tinseltown/

Tinpot in Tinseltown
from the abandoned Nazi fortress in Los Angeles, to today’s Hollywood executives, to the history of the United States and all of Western Civilization When I heard a rumor there was an abandoned Nazi bunker in Los Angeles, I had to find out more. I looked into it, and

California Sen. Adam Schiff and U.S. Rep. Laura Friedman call on Trump to consider a federal film and TV tax credit, instead of 100% tariffs on foreign films (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Legislators to Trump: Consider a Federal Film and TV Tax Credit Instead
Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Laura Friedman, who are both attempting to pull together bipartisan bills proposing such an incentive, were quick to respond to the president on Monday.

NFL fantasy football waiver wire, Week 2: Hollywood Brown, Trevor Lawrence among top targets https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-fantasy-football-waiver-wire-week-2-hollywood-brown-trevor-lawrence-among-top-targets

Jane Fonda is joining forces with more than 500 celebrities and Hollywood heavyweights to defend free speech.
The membership roll already includes scores of famous actors like Jamie Lee Curtis, Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Pedro Pascal, Natalie Portman and Michael Keaton.
Successful directors like Spike Lee and Ben Stiller have signed on, along with singer and actress Barbra Streisand and pop star and songwriter Billie Eilish.
Fonda, a star who has championed progressive cau…

Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood
Even after the original group fizzled, many of its members were able to keep making films with progressive messages.

Your Path To Hollywood
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

I wonder if this is a Tesla OEM/factory option or an aftermarket thing?
"Rotting corpse found in Tesla trunk at Hollywood tow yard"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-09/human-remains-found-inside-tesla

Rotting corpse found in Tesla trunk at Hollywood tow yard
Human remains were found in the trunk of a Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard Monday afternoon, according to authorities.

📢 US-Schauspieler Robert Redford laut Medienberichten gestorben
Hollywood-Legende Robert Redford ist im Alter von 89 Jahren verstorben. Das berichten mehrere US-amerikanische Medien übereinstimmend.
➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/eilme

US-Schauspieler Robert Redford laut Medienberichten gestorben
Hollywood-Legende Robert Redford ist im Alter von 89 Jahren verstorben. Das berichten mehrere US-amerikanische Medien übereinstimmend.

1973: Hollywood inszeniert Gefängnishölle und scheitert glorreich an der Unterhaltungskategorie. #Papillon mit McQueen und Hoffman zeigt keine Helden, sondern Menschen, die alles opfern, um frei zu sein. #Mediathekperlen würdigt den

Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman - "Papillon" (1973)
Einer der größten, spannendsten und schönsten Filme meines Lebens. Da gibt es gar kein Vertun. Außerdem die einzige Zusammenarbeit von Steve McQueen und Dustin Hoffman. Kein Wunder, dass ich diesen Film lieben musste. Und lesen Sie das Buch! (ARD, Wh)

Bruce Willis - Seine Familie traf herzzerreißende Entscheidung #News #Nachrichten

the sheer amount of prominent old hollywood actresses and models and shit who just got diagnosed with schizophenia without a care as to everything leading up to their mental health collapse

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Tom & Jerry:
🎵 Maximum Style (Lover To Lover)
#Tom #Jerry
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https://open.spotify.com/track/5aqLROQOpWX2H8Q3b0IB6b

Both Gayle King and CBS News downplay a report that she will step down as anchor of CBS Mornings next year; King says she won't "negotiate in the media" (Lexy Perez/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Gayle King Responds to Report She’s Expected to Exit ‘CBS Mornings’
“What I’m hearing in the building is not what I’m reading in the press,” she said to TMZ on Friday.

💸 Hollywood is struggling. So why does anyone want to buy a movie studio now?
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-07-25/who-wants-to-buy-a-movie-studio-now-and-why
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Hollywood is struggling. So why does anyone want to buy a movie studio now?
As rumors swirl around Legendary's reported interest in acquiring Lionsgate, studios and film libraries are still attracting buyers, even as box office languishes behind pre-pandemic levels.

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Frankie Goes to Hollywood:
🎵 Two Tribes
#FrankieGoestoHollywood
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Comscore: US and Canada summer box office revenue was $3.67B, down slightly from $3.68B in 2024, and well short of the $4B from the Barbenheimer-fueled 2023 (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Summer Box Office Clobbered by Kryptonite: Domestic Revenue Barely Matches Last Year
The May to Labor Day season initially soared, but global grosses took a nosedive as foreign movie ticket sales plunged further and a glut of male-skewing tentpoles battled for scraps in the U.S.

US-Investoren übernehmen Spyware-Hersteller NSO-Group
Spionage-Software Pegasus: Die umstrittene NSO-Group soll unter die Kontrolle einer US-Investorengruppe kommen. Auch Hollywood spielt angeblich eine Rolle.
https:…

Wenn Trump das weiße Haus abreist, wo werden denn die alien Invasion Hollywood Blöcke buster gedreht?

Wenn Trump das weiße Haus abreist, wo werden denn die alien Invasion Hollywood Blöcke buster gedreht?

Sources: studios see YouTube's influence but are wary of backing YouTubers after past flops, as top creators no longer view Hollywood validation as the end goal (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

‘Push back – or they’ll eat you alive’: James Cromwell on life as Hollywood’s biggest troublemaker https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/17/push-back-or-they-will-eat-yo…

Zwischen Starnberg und Hollywood: die grossartige Schauspielerin Marianne Sägebrecht wird 80!
#Alter #Schauspielerin #Frau

Kult-Schauspielerin: Wie ein Hufeisen-Unfall das Leben von Marianne Sägebrecht veränderte
»Out of Rosenheim«-Star Marianne Sägebrecht wird 80 Jahre alt, denkt aber gar nicht daran, die Arbeit einzustellen. Schließlich biete das Altern viele Vorteile.

How California rushed to expand the state's film and TV production tax credits in eight months, uniting union leaders, lawmakers, top filmmakers, and workers (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/california-tv-film-tax-credits-ne…

As California Dishes Out $256M In TV Tax Credits, Here’s How Lawmakers, Union Leaders & Production Workers United To (Hopefully) Revitalize Hollywood
As California dishes out $256M in TV tax credits, we dug into how lawmakers, union leaders and production workers united to help bring production back

Sinclair Won't Air Jimmy Kimmel's Return on Its 38 ABC Stations (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sinclair-preempt-jimmy-kimmel-live-return-abc-1236377475/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p129#a250922p129

SAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV show parody, saying it opposes replacing performers with "synthetics" (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#Kapwing hat laut @… das geschafft, was viele Tools versprechen: Alles gleichzeitig – und das meiste klappt sogar. KI darf schmücken, der Schnitt bleibt König. Teamarbeit? Läuft in der Cloud. Nur Filmschnitt Š la Hollywood wird’s nicht ersetzen – aber für Gelegenhe…

Hollywood Burbank Airport’s air traffic control tower is temporarily unmanned due to staffing shortages during the government shutdown.
Air traffic controllers are working without pay during the shutdown,
leading to an uptick in workers calling out sick.
Outgoing flights have been delayed an average of two hours and 31 minutes,
with several flights canceled.

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned amid government shutdown
The Hollywood Burbank Airport's air traffic control tower is temporarily unmanned and flights are delayed Monday afternoon due to staffing shortages amid the ongoing government shutdown, according to the FAA

Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies about the video app Sora; some agents say studios have been too reluctant to challenge tech giants (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

How Sam Altman Played Hollywood
OpenAI’s CEO brazenly regurgitated major studios’ characters to allow video app Sora 2 to spit out clips tailor-made for users. Insiders at the major agencies are alarmed — and some wonder whether the studios are doing enough.

Batman gegen die KI: Auch Warner zerrt Midjourney vor Gericht
Der Konflikt zwischen Hollywood und KI-Firmen geht in die nächste Runde. Ein weiterer Mediengigant fordert Schadensersatz vom Bildgenerator Midjourney.

Sources detail how Paramount's Taylor Sheridan partnership fell apart, even as NBCU's Donna Langley courted him; Paramount never made an offer to retain him (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne…

Paramount Never Made Taylor Sheridan an Offer to Stay: How TV’s Biggest Partnership Fell Apart
David Ellison has the deepest pockets in Hollywood. Sheridan has the best track record in streaming. Why the most obvious deal in TV didn't happen.

Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show's Controversial Suspension (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-live-return-abc-1236374942/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p121#a250922p121

A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?

RIP #RobertRedford
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/film/2025-09/schauspieler-robert-redford-ist-tot

Hollywood: Schauspieler Robert Redford ist tot
Der ehemalige Hollywood-Schauspieler und Filmproduzent Robert Redford ist tot. Er starb im Alter von 89 Jahren. Bekannt wurde er unter anderem für "Die Unbestechlichen".

Larry Ellison’s expected incursion into Hollywood and Big Media, if successful,
could also go well beyond what other tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff have attempted through their acquisitions of The Washington Post and Time magazine, respectively.
For those men, the acquisitions were more like expensive hobbies.
Mr. Ellison is up to something very different:
transforming himself into a media magnate.
Along with his son, David, he could soon end up …

Opinion | Larry Ellison Is Closing In on CNN, HBO and TikTok
Larry Ellison is now suddenly poised to become the most powerful media mogul America has ever seen.

Sling TV will pay $530K to settle a California suit accusing it of misleading users who didn't want to sell their data and having inadequate child privacy tools (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Sling TV First to Settle California Data Privacy Lawsuit Amid Sweep of Streaming Services
The lawsuit accused Sling TV of misdirecting consumers looking to stop the sale of their personal information

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

Microdrama platforms borrow aggressive, user-hostile monetization and retention tactics from free-to-play mobile gaming to fuel in-app purchases and ad revenue (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/805250/hollywood-…

Hollywood is in love with microdramas, for all the wrong reasons
Apps like ReelShort and DramaBox have seen strong growth and huge revenue numbers by embracing user-hostile design choices.

A group of American investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has agreed to acquire NSO Group in a deal valued at "several tens of millions of dollars" (Omer Kabir/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1jgvmitgx

NSO to be acquired by U.S. investors, ending Israeli control of Pegasus maker
Hollywood producer Robert Simonds leads the deal, subject to Israeli and U.S. regulatory review.

Netflix says it is on track to more than double its advertising revenue in 2025 and is currently using AI to test new ad formats (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflix-profits-grow-q3-w…

Netflix Revenues Continue to Surge in Q3 as Streaming Giant Keeps Rolling
The streaming giant reported its Q3 earnings Tuesday.

A look at the networks, studios, executives, and libraries of Paramount and WBD amid merger talk, and similarities with Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-merger-hollyw…

Sizing Up A Possible Paramount-WBD Merger, Hollywood Wonders If This Episode Is A Repeat
Paramount's interest in acquiring all of Warner Bros. Discovery gave Hollywood flashbacks to the 2019 Disney-Fox deal.

A look at MicroCo, a Hollywood startup aiming to tap into the micro drama craze, as Chinese apps gain US traction with millions of downloads, per Sensor Tower (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1…

A Hollywood Start-Up Targets the Micro Drama Craze
A new app will focus on super-short TV shows shot for phones, a bit like Quibi, an earlier app aimed at quick content.

Paramount signs a 10-year lease for 285K square feet at 1888 Studios in Bayonne, NJ, making it eligible for tax credits of up to 40% for movies and TV shows (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Paramount to Occupy Massive New Jersey Production Campus
The move to 1888 Studios comes amid New Jersey's rapid rise as a production hotspot.

WBD files a copyright suit against Midjourney, accusing the startup of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Batman (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Major AI Company for Copyright Infringement
The lawsuit against Midjourney was filed as a growing contingent of Hollywood steps into the fight over generative artificial intelligence.

A US judge turns down Dr. Phil's bid to proceed under Chapter 11 bankruptcy for his media startup Merit Street and converts the case to a Chapter 7 liquidation (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Dr. Phil Loses Trial Over His Media Startup’s Bankruptcy
A court determined that the TV host improperly filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect his own interests, with the intention of paying certain creditors over others.

Internal memo: Vanity Fair will move away from news aggregation, reviews, and trade coverage, phasing out The Hive and Hollywood Daily (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/vanity-fair-cut-back-coverage-hol…

Vanity Fair Will Cut Back Some Coverage to Focus on Hollywood
Vanity Fair will scale back certain areas of coverage, including shutting down The Hive, to focus on entertainment and culture, editorial director Mark Guiducci said.

Luma AI partners with Adobe to bring its generative video model Ray3 to Firefly's paid users; Ray3 creates highly realistic 10-second videos without dialogue (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digi…

Luma AI and Adobe Partner to Distribute New Generative Video Model
Ray3, the companies hope, can become a staple to rival Google

Status, the newsletter founded by ex-CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, hires Brian Lowry as Hollywood correspondent and Natalie Korach as media correspondent (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Oliver Darcy Staffing Up Status: Hires Brian Lowry and Natalie Korach in Expansion Push (Exclusive)
The writers join from Vanity Fair and The Wrap, with Darcy also working with Stacey Farish on advertising and sponsorship opportunities.

Canada's Rogers launches the Rogers Xfinity StreamSaver plan, which bundles Netflix, Disney , and Apple TV for CA$22 per month (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/rogers-bundle-netflix-disney-apple-tv-canada-1236355729/
http://mediagazer.com/250828/p9#a250828p9

Charlie Jablonski, an NBC Sports executive who won 12 sports Emmy Awards for his engineering and technology work on the Olympics, died on October 25 at age 69 (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Charlie Jablonski, NBC Olympics Veteran, Dies at 69
The NBC Sports exec earned 20 Emmy nominations and 12 trophies for his engineering and technology work on the Olympics, starting with the 1988 Games in Seoul. 

Ex-Disney executive Sean Bailey launches B5 Studios, backed by RedBird, to use AI, video game engines, and other tech to produce content faster and more cheaply (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki says the company has no intention of bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery, noting "right now, we don't want to do a big Hollywood M&A deal" (Rei Nakafuji/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/media

Sony Group has no desire to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, CEO says
Sony Pictures Entertainment can succeed without pursuing scale alone: Totoki

MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler says the news channel will officially rebrand from MSNBC to MS NOW on November 15, ahead of the planned spinoff into Versant (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/msnbc-rebr…

“Same Mission. New Name”: MSNBC Switching to MS NOW Next Month
The rebrand of the cable news channel will take place Nov. 15, with a marketing effort launching next week.

Cinemark signs a deal with Imax to add 17 theaters, including four new US Imax laser projection screens, amid a rise in event cinema like Avatar: Fire and Ash (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Cinemark Signs 17-Theater Imax Deal in Latest Premium Play
The rise of event cinema has exhibitors nabbing new Imax locations, even as they have their own branded premium large format screens, in a bid for more assured revenue streams.

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Rises to $33 Million As He Assumes Control of Family Media Empire
Weeks after settling with his siblings over who will control Fox, the company revealed that the CEO's fiscal 2025 pay rose significantly from 2024.

Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival transformed how Hollywood does business, creating a pipeline for independent films to be shown around the world (Lukas I. Alpert/MarketWatch)
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Delta signs a multiyear deal with YouTube to bring a selection of the platform's content to its inflight entertainment systems, starting September 25 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Delta, YouTube Ink Inflight Entertainment Partnership (Exclusive)
Content from top YouTube creators and podcasts will be added to Delta's inflight entertainment system, with free trials of YouTube Premium and a YouTube Music boarding playlist also on tap.

Fox warns customers that Fox News and other channels could be pulled from YouTube TV "unless Google engages in a meaningful way soon" in a carriage dispute (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Fox and Fox News at Risk of Being Pulled From YouTube TV in Carriage Dispute
Fox began warning customers Monday that its channels could be pulled from YouTube TV unless they reach a new deal soon.

Frank Price, the writer-producer who presided over the TV and movie divisions at Universal and served two terms as the head of Columbia Pictures, dies at 95 (Mike Barnes/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Frank Price, Studio Chief at Columbia (Twice) and Universal, Dies at 95
He first made his mark as a producer on NBC's 'The Virginian' and greenlighted films including 'Gandhi,' 'Tootsie,' 'Back to the Future' and 'Boyz n the Hood.

Nielsen: Jimmy Kimmel Live! drew 6.26M viewers on Tuesday, over 3x its Q2 average, despite not airing in 23% of US homes due to Nexstar and Sinclair blackouts (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
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‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Draws Record Ratings in Return from Suspension
More than 6 million viewers tuned in for the late night host’s first show back, which wasn’t available in 23 percent of the country due to affiliate blackouts.

A proposed class action suit against Amazon filed August 22 claims it misleads customers, who think they own content they bought when they only have a license (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
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You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon
A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can "buy" a movie when they're purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.

Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies about the video app Sora; some agents say studios have been too reluctant to challenge tech giants (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
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How Sam Altman Played Hollywood
OpenAI’s CEO brazenly regurgitated major studios’ characters to allow video app Sora 2 to spit out clips tailor-made for users. Insiders at the major agencies are alarmed — and some wonder whether the studios are doing enough.

Jimmy Kimmel's 28-min return monologue gets 13M views in 14 hours on YouTube; his current most-watched monologue, on his son's health issues in 2017, has 14M (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Return Monologue on Way to Breaking Host’s YouTube Views Record
Kimmel's emotional and highly anticipated return to ABC is racking up views and might become the most popular 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' monologue on YouTube.

Jimmy Kimmel returned to TV after nearly a week's suspension, said it was never his intention to make light of the murder of a young man, and thanked supporters (David Bauder/Associated Press)
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Jimmy Kimmel set to return after ABC lifts suspension
Jimmy Kimmel has returned to late-night television after a nearly weeklong suspension. An audience filed in to watch Kimmel’s return Tuesday in a Hollywood taping but there were no immediate reports on what Kimmel said. The suspension triggered a national discussion about freedom of speech and President Donald Trump’s ability to police the words of journalists, commentators and even comics. Two groups of ABC affiliates that denounced Kimmel last week said they would not carry his return on …

Disney says Jimmy Kimmel will return to ABC on Tuesday and the suspension was "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment" for the US (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show’s Controversial Suspension
The Walt Disney company in a new statement says the move was made "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country."

US survey: most Fox News anchors saw increases in respondents who trusted them "a lot" or "some"; Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow saw trust levels decline (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
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America’s Most Trusted News Stars in the Trump Era Are …
Fox News anchors rise, Joe Scarborough and Chris Cuomo fall and David Muir reigns in primetime, THR's exclusive poll finds.

Netflix plans to release the Stranger Things S5 finale in 350 movie theaters in the US and Canada from December 31 to January 1, despite previous statements (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Series Finale Officially Coming to Theaters, Despite Previous Statements
The streamer has confirmed that the hit show's finale will be in theaters after previously seeming to shoot down the idea amid the show's creators, The Duffers Brothers, defecting to Paramount: "They would have been nuts not to do it."

Former movie executive Bill Block launches GammaTime, a microdrama platform with more than 20 shows, with $14M in seed funding (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
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Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
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Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

Netflix says it is on track to more than double its advertising revenue in 2025 and is currently using AI to test new ad formats (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Netflix Revenues Continue to Surge in Q3 as Streaming Giant Keeps Rolling
The streaming giant reported its Q3 earnings Tuesday.

Tubi joins Roku in striking partnerships with top creators like MrBeast and Jomboy Media to repackage their content on FAST channels (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Top Creators’ Shows Find Second Life Off YouTube
Tubi and Roku are increasingly picking up creators' already shot videos to repackage them on FAST channels.

Fox plans to broadcast 69 live matches from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the Fox broadcast network, up from 34 matches in 2022; the remaining 35 will run on FS1 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Fox to Air More Than Twice as Many FIFA World Cup Matches as It Did in 2022
The Fox broadcast network will air 69 matches, compared to 34 in 2022, with the remaining 35 running on FS1.