Workers in the arcade department of the immersive restaurant Casa Bonita, owned by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have gained voluntary union recognition after a two-month long organizing effort. The eight-person unit of workers unanimously signed authorization cards in May asking for union representation from IATSE Local 7, with the goal of achieving greater job security, fair...

Webtoon Entertainment, the media company that spearheaded the mainstream embrace of webcomics, is rebranding and reorganizing the structure of its North American entertainment and intellectual property business as it aims to scale up the adaptations of its many titles. Effective immediately, Wattpad Webtoon Studios is morphing into Webtoon Productions, with David Madden elevated to president of the production company. He...

On May 13, as Netflix broke ground to redevelop 292 acres in Central New Jersey for a massive $848 million new film and TV production facility with 12 soundstages, Fort Monmouth County commissioner director Thomas Arnone made an offer to co-CEO Ted Sarandos, who was on hand. We will make this easy for you, Arnone said. That may well be...

SAG-AFTRA is putting its video game strike in the rearview mirror. Members of the performers union have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a labor agreement with major interactive companies that was reached in early June. More than 95 percent of voting members supported the deal in a vote, while less than five percent voiced their opposition, SAG-AFTRA announced on Wednesday. The...

The producers and distributors of Retrograde, a documentary following the final nine months of Americas 20-year war in Afghanistan, are claiming First Amendment protections in a bid to dismiss a lawsuit faulting them for the killing of one of the titles subjects by the Taliban. At the heart of the lawsuit: The death of Omar, a member of a group...

Summer shined on the Sun Valley Lodge for the Allen Companys annual gathering of media, finance and tech titans this week. But the storm clouds brewing over an entertainment industry facing unprecedented disruption from AI and other tech innovations means possible MA deals are certain to be raised in Idaho among power brokers at the annual Sun Valley Conference during...

When Linda Yaccarino joined Elon Musks Twitter two years ago, she left a comfortable job as one of the advertising indutrys most powerful players to bet that she could help Musk grow Twitter into a digital behemoth. Ive long been inspired by your vision to create a brighter future. Im excited to help bring this vision to Twitter and transform...

Wolf Kasteler has two new senior vice presidents. The bicoastal public relations and consulting firm has promoted Allie Jenkins and Chelsea Hayes in the agencys Los Angeles and New York offices, respectively. With their new senior vp titles, the pair will be charged with partnering across teams to help shape strategy, guide emerging talent and support operational procedures while working...

In a blow to consumers, streaming platforms wont have to make it easier to cancel subscriptions. A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down the FTCs click to cancel rule, which wouldve required companies to provide users with simple cancellation mechanisms to immediately halt all recurring charges and get their consent to convert auto-renewals and free trials to paid enrollments....

TikToks sponsorship of the Toronto Film Festival, the Junos and other marquee Canadian cultural events has been suspended as TikToks Canadian operations face a pending shut down by the federal government over national security concerns. The termination of TikTok Canadas funding for cultural organizations like the Junos, TIFF and Adsiq is entirely due to the federal governments order to shutdown...

Phil McGraws Merit Street Media is in bankruptcy court and is simultaneously suing its distribution partner, Trinity Broadcasting, for breach of contract that the company says led to the chapter 11 filing. But signs that the 15-month-old network was struggling were there well before Merit Street began bankruptcy proceedings on July 2. In its lawsuit, Merit Street says Trinity Broadcasting...

At a moment of cord-cutting and disruption in the traditional TV business, can an upstart cable news channel find a path to growth? NewsNation has only been operating as a 24-hour news operation for a year (and it has only been in the news business for four), but the Nexstar-owned cable channel thinks it has figure out a lane to...

Niels Swinkels has been named to the new post of president of international distribution at NBCUniversals special outlet Focus Features, Universal Pictures International president Veronika Kwan Vandenberg said Tuesday. In the new role, he will work closely with Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski and the Focus senior leadership team to oversee the international release of Focus titles and strengthen the...