A few years ago, the idea that a feature could be generated written, shot and acted largely by artificial intelligence felt like science fiction. Now, OpenAIs Sora 2 can spit out hyper-real video from a prompt, AI talent like Tilly Norwood is courting representation, and the entire industry feels like one update away from apocalypse. I got a full treatment...

European media giant Bertelsmann has found the successor to Thomas Rabe, the long-serving chief executive at both Bertelsmann and its television operation RTL Group. As of January 1, 2027, Thomas Coesfeld will succeed Rabe as chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann and Clment Schwebig will take over as CEO of RTL Group. Coesfeld is being promoted from withing the ranks. He...

Manager and producer Kevin Rowe is joining Entertainment 360 following his exit from the now-shuttered management and production company he co-founded, 2AM. We are thrilled to welcome Kevin to Entertainment 360. His eye for talent and keen instincts for whats next have made him a leader throughout his career and we deeply value the entrepreneurialism and high integrity with which...

LuckyChap, the powerhouse production company behind Barbie, Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, is expanding overseas with the launch of LuckyChap International, a new London-based film and television venture created in partnership with European studio Mediawan Group. The joint company, officially launching in January 2026, will be led by executives Mona Qureshi and Tanya Qureshi, who have been appointed co-managing directors...

Nielsen has tapped Peter Naylor as its first chief client officer, charged with working with advertisers and publishers across traditional and digital channels. Naylor, who will report to Nielsen CEO Karthik Rao, comes to the TV measurement firm after working at Netflix as vp of global advertising sales, leading sales for the Americas at Snap Inc., and serving as senior...

Sudhir Reddy has been named the new president of Digital Domain, the VFX company behind Avengers: Endgame, Dune and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Reddy will report to CEO and chairman of the Board William Wong. Over his 27-year career in VFX, Reddy helped shepherd Digital Domains international expansion. He was head of digital studio of the companys Hyderabad,...

The Walt Disney Co. has given one of its top executives a contract extension. Hugh Johnston, the CFO of Disney, has inked a new deal that will keep him at the entertainment giant through Jan. 31, 2029. Johnston joined Disney from PepsiCo in Nov. 2023, succeeding the companys longtime CFO Christine McCarthy. At Disney, Johnston has been a public face...

Tubi continues to lean into the creator economy, announcing a slate of shows from a number of popular YouTubers and social media stars. The Fox-owned AVOD service, which announced its Tubi for Creators program in June, has set the first slate of shows from the initiative. The series come from creators Joey Graceffa, Kevin Fredericks (KevOnStage), Rock Squad, Shuang Hu...

One of the biggest investment banks in the country is getting into the talent agency business. Goldman Sachs on Tuesday announced a deal that will see it acquire a majority stake in ExcelSports Management, the agency that represents clients like Tiger Woods, Caitlin Clark, Derek Jeter and Nikola Djokic. Front Office Sports reported that the deal values Excel at nearly...

Chess broke the eight-performance house record at the Imperial Theatre, bringing in just above $2 million last week. The musical revival, starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, played to 96 percent capacity at the Imperial Theatre, and was also the third-highest grossing show in the industry. The show is set to open Nov. 16. Hamilton again led the...

Cirque du Soleil has named luxury goods and live entertainment veteran Mark Cornell as its new president and CEO. Cornell was most recently CEO of ATG Entertainments, the live theater operator in Londons West End and on Broadway. The exec succeeds Daniel Lamarre, who stepped in as interim CEO in April 2025 and before that ran the global circus troupe...

Veteran digital media exec David Freeman is set to leave CAA at the end of the year to launchhis own banner, KyneticMedia Ventures, in mid-2026. Freeman who has been with the major Hollywood talent and sports agency for 15 years and is currently head of digital media at CAA Creators plans to open Kynetic Media Ventures as an innovation studio...

In order to step foot inside the project that Netflix views as a critical piece of its future, you have to walk through a vestige of its past. The streaming giant on Monday night christened its first Netflix House, a real-world, physical representation of what it has built for TV. And the grand entrance is a red envelope, which visitors...