Former Spotify and Disney executive Courtney Holt will join children's media company Moonbug Entertainment as its first global head of music and strategic audio initiatives. The British …
Former Warner Bros. executive Jay Levine will lead Kevin Hart's entertainment company as its new chief executive officer. Levine takes over the position at Hartbeat from Hart, who had be…
Despite a fourth-quarter earnings beat, growing engagement on the streaming platform to 80 million active accounts, Roku's stock tumbled more than 20 percent a day after the Feb. 15 earnings…
The Very Worst Thing that Could Possibly Happen, a fictional podcast from Wolf at the Door about a man who can write letters to his favorite deceased author, topped the Ambies 2024 nominatio…
Cinemark reported a narrowed fourth-quarter loss of $18 million, compared to a year-earlier loss of $99.3 million, as revenue rose 6.5 percent to $638.9 million, the exhibition giant reporte…
Roku added 4.2 million accounts to reach 80 million active accounts at the end of the fourth quarter, up 14 percent year-over-year, and reached 29.1 billion streaming hours, up 21 percent ye…
Disney is the latest streaming giant to jump into a password-sharing crackdown, with its efforts to make money from the effort set to begin in earnest this summer. The media giant has al…
Brené Brown has found a new podcasting home at Vox Media. Brown, a bestselling author and research professor, will bring her podcasts, Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead to the Vox Media Pod…
The Animation Guild is organizing production workers at DreamWorks Animation and at Flying Bark Productions. The guild (IATSE Local 839) sent a letter to DreamWorks Animation on Feb. 7 and f…
A group of 1,700 performers who play characters and cheer and dance in parades at Disneyland in California announced their intent Tuesday to unionize with Actors' Equity. The group, whic…
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has formed a creative partnership with Lemonada Media to develop a new podcast series. As part of the partnership, Lemonada Media, which is behind shows…
Appropriate, starring Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll, is transferring to another Broadway theater to extend its run. The Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play will move to the Belasco Theatre start…
Actors' Equity Association has voted to authorize a strike against the Broadway League amid negotiations over developmental work. The strike authorization vote, which was agreed to unani…
SiriusXM is laying off less than 3 percent of its workforce, or about 160 positions, as the company reorganizes to promote future subscriber growth. In a memo to employees Monday, CEO Jennif…
"Authenticity is dangerous and expensive."Â Tina Fey espoused those words of wisdom to Bowen Yang on the podcast Las Culturistas, which he co-hosts with Matt Rogers, as part of the show's…
Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl said his company remains happy with their deal with TikTok and he believes the social media platform and Universal Music Group will also come to an agreem…
Warner Music Group plans to lay off about 600 staffers in an effort to free up more money for music investment across the next decade. The majority of impacted staffers, which represent …
After Disney delivered strong quarterly earnings results, including cutting streaming losses and reaffirming a profitable streaming business this summer, CEO Bob Iger said the "last thing" t…
Amy Ryan will take over Tyne Daly's role in Doubt: A Parable on Broadway after the star was unexpectedly hospitalized. "Ms. Daly was unexpectedly hospitalized on Friday and unfortunately nee…
Jonathan Majors' sentencing date has been delayed until April 8 after his defense team filed a motion to set aside the verdict. The Creed III actor was convicted in December of reckless a…
Tom Holland will star as Romeo in a new version of Romeo & Juliet in the West End this spring. The play will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, the director of the retooled Sunset Boulevard…
Disney is calling on Professor Ludwig Von Drake as its reinforcement in its board battle against Nelson Peltz and his Trian Partners. The media and entertainment giant released an animat…
SmartLess, Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, On Purpose with Jay Shetty and Normal Gossip are among the titles in contention for the 2024 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards. The category, whic…
Joe Rogan has struck a new multiyear deal with Spotify, but will no longer see his podcast distributed exclusively by the platform. As part of the deal for The Joe Rogan Experience, whic…
Sara Bareilles is writing the score for a stage adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's novel The Interestings. The show will feature a book by Sarah Ruhl, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for In the Next…