As Hollywood creatives flock to verticals during a dry period for jobs in traditional film and television, the Writers Guild of America West is emphasizing that work for these projects can be covered under a union agreement. The union issued a statement to members on Wednesday that underscores the ascendancy of these projects, which are typically feature-length narratives that are...

The Broadway tax credit program has found enough money to last at least another month. The NYC Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, which allows commercial productions to subsidize up to 25 percent of their production costs, will now extend its window and accept applications from shows that have their first paid performance by Oct. 20, 2025. The program had...

Scholastic and its 9 Story Media Group are getting into the free streaming business. 9 Story is launching a Scholastic-branded AVOD app in conjunction with Future Today. The free channel, featuring about 400 hours of programming to start, is available on Roku and Amazon Fire TV as of Wednesday and is slated to roll out on other platforms in the...

Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal Pictures have sued a Chinese artificial intelligence image and video generator for copyright infringement, opening another front in a high-stakes battle involving the use of movies and TV shows owned by major studios to teach AI systems. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in California federal court, accuses MiniMax of building its business by plundering...

A former contestant on Love Is Blind has sued the makers of the Netflix dating series for a series of alleged labor violations, marking another lawsuit challenging working conditions and pay in reality TV. In a proposed class action filed in California state court on Monday, Stephen Richardson says he and the shows other contestants shouldve been classified as employees,...

Paramount Skydance has named Scale AI chief financial officer Dennis K. Cinelli to its board of directors. Cinelli will act as an independent director on the board, effective immediately. His appointment expands the board to 11 directors, following the post-merger appointments of new CEO David Ellison as chair, Sherry Lansing, former head of Paramount Pictures, Oracle CEO Safra Catz and...

Hamilton hit close to $4 million last week as original cast member Leslie Odom Jr. returned to the Broadway production. The musical, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary on Broadway, brought in the eye-popping $3.8 million last week, which is a total the musical has only previously seen around its lucrative holiday weeks, and played to more than 100 percent...

Webtoon Entertainment saw its stock price soar on Tuesday on news it has expanded a partnership with Walt Disney, which in turn has acquired a 2 percent stake in the media company behind the mainstream embrace of webcomics. As the digital comics company makes inroads in Hollywood, Webtoon and Disney will build and operate a new digital comics platform to...

Hasbro Entertainment president Olivier Dumont is exiting the company. Hasbro is the toy company that holds the rights to Peppa Pig, PJ Masks, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and My Little Pony (among others), all of which have been adapted into various films and series. It also makes board games like Monopoly and Scrabble, the kind that could and are (somehow) also...

One of the great legs-up available to TV and film creators is the use of existing IP, and many of todays most-popular adaptations are coming from video games. Thats not necessarily brand new, but what were just now beginning to understand is the powerful two-way relationship between original material and a successful conversion as the latest study from Ampere Analysis...

Shari Redstone isnt exiting the media business just yet. A few months after handing over the keys to Paramount, the mogul has been named chair of the board for the global entertainment studio Sipur (it means story in Hebrew), best known for its Emmy-winning Oct. 7 documentaryWe Will Dance Again and the Netflix drama series Bad Boy. Currently president of...

The start of the college football season, and a large cohort of streaming-first viewers returning to school, put a stop to several months of declines in cable and broadcast TV viewing in August. Streaming still outdrew the combined TV use of cable and network outlets for the month, according to Nielsens Gauge numbers, but for the first time April, linear...

Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing HBO Max to fresh corners of Asia. The company said Tuesday that its flagship streaming platform will launch direct-to-consumer on Oct. 15 in Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and six other smaller regional markets. The expansion continues the services gradual push across the region following earlier rollouts in East Asia,...