Recently, a Netflix production crew has been following Dana White around Las Vegas for a yet-to-be-announced unscripted project about his wild gambling exploits. Hes the ideal protagonist: a voluble, larger-than-life high roller whom its cameras have caught on at least one occasion up more than $800,000 at the Bellagio. The Ultimate Fighting Championship boss and Donald Trump confidant has become...

Remember when ESPN was exiting the sports-betting business an hour ago? Not anymore. ESPN has now announced its new online-gambling deal with DraftKings. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. DraftKings, ESPNs new online-betting partner, is undoubtedly an upgrade from its expiring one, Penn Entertainment. A person with knowledge of the new deal tells The Hollywood Reporter it will...

Charlie ErgensEchoStarreported a slight net Pay TV subscriber gain in the third quarter, along with another big spectrum deal and management tweaks. In the third quarter, it added 159,000 Sling TV subscribers to hit 1.995 million, but lost 152,000 Dish TV subs to hit 5.171 million, down from 5.323 million as of June, for a total sub count of 7.166...

The hero of Warner Bros. Discoverys third-quarter earnings was Superman, which helped drive the companys studio business to double digit growth, but linear TV continues to to be a drag on the companys bottom line, with TV advertising hit particularly hard. Not even Superman can save the linear TV business, it seems. Streaming continues to grow, with global streaming subscribers...

U.K. TV giantITV, led by CEO Carolyn McCall, is planning 35 million ($46 million) in temporary, or one-off, cost savings amid softer advertising demand in the fourth quarter. The news came Thursday as the company reported the latest revenue for its ITV Studios production arm and advertising business. Third-quarter revenue came in unchanged from the year-ago period, better than forecast....

In May, representatives for various studios and production companies gathered at a Los Angeles law firm for an auction held by Village Roadshow, one of the most prolific behind-the-scenes financiers in Hollywood. It had filed for bankruptcy earlier this year and its vast film library and studio business were up for sale. Warner Bros., which had a longtime partnership with...

AMC Entertainment Holdings has seen its third-quarter net loss balloon and total revenues fall due to weaker Hollywood box office. On Wednesday, the debt-laden parent ofAMC Theatresreported overall revenues at $1.3 billion, against a year-earlier $1.34 billion, when the exhibitor got a boost fromDeadpool Wolverine and Inside Out 2 in its theaters. The mega-exhibitors net loss for its most recent...

TKO Group Holdings, the company that owns UFC, WWE and IMG, among other businesses, once again raised its outlook for the year and saw net income and adjusted EBITDA rise thanks to a particularly strong quarter from WWE. The company beat Wall Street estimates in the process. The company reported Q3 earnings Wednesday after cutting a flurry of deals in...

IMDb has taken steps to highlight a broader range of professions in Hollywood. The widely used film and television database announced Wednesday that it is inaugurating 12 new credit categories on its name and title pages. As part of this effort to acknowledge the breadth of work in Hollywood, the company additionally is now accepting credits for dubbing foreign-language projects...

On Spotify, indie music fan Genevieve Capolongo combed the platform for lesser-known musicians outside the mainstream, like Prxima Parada, Julia Cooper, and Brusco. But despite her listening preferences, all that was recommended to her was major-label tracks from Drake, Zach Bryan and Justin Bieber. How those songs landed on her playlists points to whats becoming an increasingly contentious issue for...

Netflix is rolling out a new advertising metric that it says shows the wide reach of its ad-supported subscription tier. The streamer is calling it monthly active viewers, or MAV, and claims that it has 190 million such viewers in the 12 countries where it offers an ad tier. The idea behind it, Netflix president of advertising Amy Reinhard told...

Microdramas might be produced on micro budgets, but some veteran Hollywood executives are betting that in the long run they will pay big dividends. These series, also called verticals because they are filmed in portrait orientation and are intended to be viewed on cellphones, first took off in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. But in the past few years, upstart...

Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, the writers and directors behind the AFM-bound Queen of the Falls crime caper, have signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. Their latest project has brought on board Pedro Almodvars El Deseo banner as a co-producer.Queen of the Falls has The Last Showgirl star Pamela Anderson and Guy Pearce as leads playing two lovers...