Veteran TV executive Allison Rawlingsis set to join Disney Entertainmentin November, serving as the head of publicity and communications at FX. She comes to the prestige outfit after nearly a decade with NBCUniversal. FXs communications strategy has always been founded on a passionate support for the artists who make our brand their home, as well as an unwavering commitment to...

Chris Cuomo cant revive his bid to disqualify the arbitrator overseeing his $125 million claim against CNN, a New York appeals court has ruled. The court found that Cuomo did not set forth facts to indicate that the arbitrator was biased in his handling of the arbitration. He had initiated the proceedings after he was fired by CNN in 2021...

When Rumala Sheikhani started accounting on shows like Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, she was processing extras paperwork the timecards, or vouchers, for daily job bookings by manually calculating payouts in Excel spreadsheets. You have 500 people showing up to set for one day and leaving, so its really hard to keep track of their paperwork and make sure theyve...

Ari Emanuel has officially launched his new holding company, which will house many of the assets that used to be a part of Endeavor Group Holdings. The new company is called MARI, and will house a number of significant tennis tournaments, including theMiami Open presented by Ita and Mutua Madrid Open, as well as the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open, Mubadala...

At a time of deep partisanship, at least theres one thing California Republicans and Democrats can agree on: Ads on streaming platforms can be way too loud. On Monday California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill with bipartisan support that requires ads on streaming platforms to be at the same volume as the programs they are attached to. In other...

NBA Hall of Fame inductee Dwight Howard has signed with Innovative Artists Entertainment. The former NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist and eight-time NBA all-star appeared in films like the basketball rom-comJust Wrightand The Equalizer 2, while also having TV credits like Black-ish, Never Have I Ever and The Odd Couple. Howard also competed on the 32nd season of Dancing With...

As Lesli Linka Glatter departed the top member post at the Directors Guild of America, she gestured toward some of the unions unfinished business. There is still so much to do, the outgoing union president wrote in a final note included in a DGA Monthly issue released Friday. The letter summarized some of the work the Homeland and Mad Men...

United Talent Agency is expanding its entertainment marketing division, bringing on ZoFairbourn to the practice, which advises brand clients on content partnerships and other entertainment opportunities. Fairbourn will be based in Los Angeles and report to UTAs entertainment marketing co-heads David Anderson and Julian Jacobs. She joins from Hello Sunshine, where she had been head of strategic partnerships and branded...

Veteran movie distribution executive Chris Aronson is departing Paramount Pictures. He announced the news in a note to staff early Tuesday. Aronson, an influential member of the entertainment community for decades, has served as president of domestic distribution at Paramount since 2019. Prior to that, he did a long stint at 20th Century Fox before it was swallowed by Disney....

Hamilton continues to lead the industry grosses as the musical brought in $3.7 million last week. While the tally was down $30,000 from the prior week, this is still a massive windfall for the 10-year-old musical, as Leslie Odom Jr. continues his run as Aaron Burr. The average ticket price also dipped slightly but still came in at an eye-popping...

In an effort to cut down on noise pollution from suddenly blaring advertisements on, say, Netflix or Disney+, California legislators have passed a law to mandate that the noise level of commercials is at the same level as the movie or TV series being streamed. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill, SB 576, that had been shepherded bySenator Thomas Umberg...

Cindy Holland is continuing to fill out her team at Paramounts direct to consumer division. PR executive Shannon Buck has joined the company as executive vp and head of communications and public relations at Paramount Direct to Consumer, which includes streamers Paramount+ and Pluto TV. She comes to Paramount from NBCUniversal, where she most recently was executive vp integrated communications....

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