Justin Balsamo and Cari Sanders, two of the top awards strategists in Hollywood, have teamed up and launched their own full-service awards consulting operation, Tenth House PR, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. They intend to work on Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and major guild campaigns. Sanders has spent the past 18 years working under renowned awards strategist Tony Angellotti at...

Paramount Pictures has been sued by two former employees, who allege the studio turned a blind eye to sexual harassment and assault by their supervisor. One of the accusers, in a Jane Doe lawsuit filed on July 14 in California state court, claims she was sexually assaulted multiple times from 2016 to 2018 at the studio lot and offices. The...

Justin Baldoni and his production banner Wayfarer could be on the hook for a steep legal bill to litigate allegations of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us. Wayfarers insurer for the film, Harco National Insurance, filed a lawsuit in New York federal court on Monday seeking a court order that it has no duty to pay...

DNEG,the London-headquartered VFX and animation house that has won Oscars for the likes ofDuneandTenetand has also worked onThe Last of Usand season 4 ofStranger Things, has named Jeff Lehman executive producer for its Immersive Experiences division, DNEG IXP. He joins the company from NBCUniversal, where he served as assistant director, media production for Universal Creative. Lehman brings over 20 years...

Canadas film industry has long had American studios and streamers headed north to shoot movies and TV originals on the strength of generous currency savings from a low Canadian dollar compared to the U.S. greenback. So the American dollar so far in 2025 falling in value by around 3 cents, or 5 percent, against the Canadian loonie due to the...

Andy Byron, the CEO of Astronomer, who also caught on the Coldplay kiss cam earlier this week, has now resigned, according to a statement from the data infrastructure company, The Hollywood Reporter received. During Coldplays Wednesday night concert in Boston, a jumbotron caught the CEO with his arms around his top human resources executive, Kristin Cabot, in a kiss-cam segment....

NFL hall-of-famer and podcasterShannon Sharpehas settled a lawsuit brought by a woman, who accused him of raping her twice across a two month period last year in her Las Vegas home. Tony Buzbee, a lawyer for the Jane Doe, announced on Friday that a deal was reached to resolve the lawsuit. Terms of the agreement werent disclosed. Both sides acknowledge...

President Trump has sued the Wall Street Journal for defamation over a report detailing a 2003 letter from him to Jeffrey Epstein in which he wrote that they share a wonderful secret. With the lawsuit, filed on Friday in Florida federal court, the Journal becomes the latest media outlet targeted by Trump for adversarial reporting, joining ABC News and CBS...

Mark Geragos, the Los Angeles-based lawyer to the stars who made a name for himself representing deeply beloved and maligned celebrities and public figures like Michael Jackson, Sean Combs and Erik and Lyle Menendez, must pay $100,000 to a youth basketball coach for his role in the 2018 Nike extortion scheme, a jury has decided. Gary Franklin had alleged that...

Skydance chief David Ellison met with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr earlier this week as the entertainment executive seeks to complete FCC approval for his companys acquisition of Paramount Global, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Ellison met with Carr, his chief of staff Greg Watson, and Ben Arden, special counsel in the Office of the Bureau Chief of the Media Bureau,...

The union representing writers on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert is calling for a New York state investigation into Paramount following the cancellation of the show on Thursday, airing concerns that the move may be a form of bribery. The unions East and West Coast branches asked that New York state attorney general Letitia James open an inquiry into...

This year, DC turned 90 years young. And what better way to celebrate than highlighting your100th anniversary. In an outside the box move that kicks off a Road to 100 festivity, DC plans to celebrate every era of its storied history annually in 10-year increments, starting at the beginning: 1935-1945.So for this years San Diego Comic-Con, DC has created an...

Netflixs second-quarter results are in, and so are the first Wall Street verdicts. Several experts further pushed up their stock price targets on the streaming giant and increased financial forecasts after what was generally seen as a strong set of figures with no major surprises. Netflix exceeded some key targets for the latest period and also boosted its full-year 2025...