Glenn Gainor, who has served as the head of physical production for Amazon Original Movies, is poised to exit Amazon MGM Studios and hell soon be launching his own shop, a diversified film production outfit and consultancy designed to meet the current moment in global filmmaking. The new company is called Hollywood Ventures Group and its already staffing up. Joining...

Sports-first streamer Fubo saw its stock rise Tuesday after unveiling preliminary second quarter results that forecast a likely shrinking net loss on lower overall revenues. Fubo forecast Q2 total revenue in North America will exceed $365 million. Thats after delivering $382.7 million in overall revenue in the same period of 2024. And the company predicted a second quarter net loss...

Janet Yang,the outgoing president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has found her next gig and shell have some powerful partners by her side. South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM announced Tuesday that Yang, CJ Group chairwoman Miki Lee and Domink Ng, CEO of East West Bank, are joining forces to oversee a new content development label...

AudiostreaminggiantSpotifyposted second-quarter subscriber gains to end June with 276 million paying premium subscribers, up from 268 million as of the end of the first quarter in March. Monthly active users (MAUs) grew to 696 million from 678 million. Management had previously forecast 273 million premium subs and 689 million MAUs. In the first half of 2025, subscriber net additions grew...

Max Eisenbud has been promoted to head of client representation for WME Sports, overseeing the Hollywood talent agencys business across tennis, golf, action sports and sports content. The longtime tennis agent was most recently head of clients for the agencys IMG Tennis division, which he will continue to lead.IMG Tennis clients include Grand Slam champions Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff andIga...

Innovative Artists Entertainment is getting into the sports representation business by hiring veteran sports and entertainment attorney Brad Small. He joins Innovative from Fox Rothschild LLP, where he served as a partner in the firms entertainment and sports law department in Los Angeles. Having represented actors and athletes and others in contract talks for WWE Raw and WWE Smackdown, among...

Its all but official: Sony Motion Picture Group co-president Josh Greenstein will depart the studio for a top job under David Ellison once the $8 billion Paramount GlobalSkydance merger closes, sources confirm. The Hollywood Reporter was the first to report this spring that Greenstein would be part of the management team installed by Ellison at the newly configured conglomerate. Its...

Warner Bros. Discovery, meet Warner Bros. and Discovery. The media company has officially announced the names and senior leadership teams for after it splits itself in two, with David Zaslavs streaming and studios business to be called Warner Bros., and Gunnar Weidenfels global networks business to be called Discovery Global. The companies also announced the senior executive leadership at each...

Hope Hicks, who served as White House communications director in President Donald Trumps first term, and later worked as executive vp and chief communications officer of Fox Corp., is linking up with a former Fox News star: Megyn Kelly. Hicks is joining Kellys Devil May Care Media as COO, leading business development, growth opportunities, management and daily operations for the...

Live from New York, its MSNBC. MSNBC is bringing back its flagship live fan event for a second year, seeking to expand the cable channels business lines as it prepares for a looking spinout from NBCUniversal into Versant. The 2025 installment will be called MSNBCLIVE 25: This Is Who We Are, and take place on Saturday Oct. 11 in Manhattans...

If youve ever been stuck in traffic around southern California, you will likely recognize Adriana Gallardos face. The founder and CEO of Adrianas Insurance has catered to the Hispanic community for more than three decades. And for nearly as many years, her face has adorned billboards, bus stops and now some L.A. Metro trains. In her signature ads, Adriana is...

MFE-MediaForEurope, the pan-European TV group controlled by the family of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has upped its offer for German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1, boosting the share component of its voluntary public takeover bid while maintaining the cash portion. The revised offer, announced Monday, raises the stock component from 0.4 to 1.3 MFE A shares per ProSiebenSat.1 share, with the...

A lawsuit over the sale of A3 Artists Agency to Gersh has been resolved. Former agency partners Robert Atterman and Brian Cho, who accused majority owner Adam Bold of duping them into signing away their rights to stop the acquisition, moved on Wednesday to dismiss the case after a settlement was reached between the two sides in A3s bankruptcy proceedings....