The production assistants organizing movement has gone from one acclaimed show to another. Organizers on Monday filed for a National Labor Relations Board union election to represent production assistants on Abbott Elementary, the critically lauded ABC sitcom following teachers at an underfunded Philadelphia elementary school. Workers on the show are attempting to join a union affiliated with LiUNA Local 724,...

What does marketing and entertainment look like in a world being altered by artificial intelligence? Some of the most prominent executives in the industry gathered in a plant-lined room on the roof of the San Vicente Bungalows in New Yorks West Village on Sept. 9 to discuss. The Hollywood Reporterand Amazon AdsMost Influential Trailblazers in Marketing Dinner saw guests share...

Some claims in a novel lawsuit from a production company for Blade Runner 2049, accusing Tesla of feeding images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image generator to create unlicensed promotional materials and Warner Bros. Discovery of facilitating the alleged infringement, have been dismissed. Teslas partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery to promote its robotaxi at a glitzy unveiling, which...

Tom Brady is coming out of retirement and returning to the football field the flag football field. The NFL legend will headline a new event called The Fanatics Flag Football Classic, the brainchild of Brady, Fanatics, Fox Sports and OBB Media. The event will be held Saturday, March 21 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of this...

The Walt Disney Co. is turning to a veteran executive from its ESPN business to lead communications for its ad sales division. Katina Arnold will become senior vp of Disney advertising communications, working alongside Disney advertising chief Rita Ferro and Disney Entertainment Television and direct-to-consumer executive vp Naomi Bulochnikov. Arnold joins from ESPN, where she was most recently VP of...

Longtime CBS Evening News anchor and regular 60 Minutes contributor Dan Rather does not like what he sees happening at and to his old employer. Before David Ellison bought Paramount Global and merged it with his Skydance (forming Paramount Skydance), there were several instances in which the previous owners tried to sort of dictate what kind of news comes on...

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has chosen Audible as the audio home for A Better Paradise, a series of novels that ultimately will comprise three books. A Better Paradise Vol. One: An Aftermath arrives in print, ebook and audiobook on Oct. 14. Ray Porter will narrate after building admiration among audiobook aficionados for work on books such as Andy Weirs Project...

Andy Cohen is sticking with SiriusXM, inking a new deal with the satellite radio giant for his flagship daily show Andy Cohen Live and his Radio Andy channel. Cohen has become a staple of the service with his pop culture news and analysis and his newsmaking celebrity interviews. He also played a practical joke on the media and many of...

Fran Dreschers Robin Hood fund is finally getting off the ground, nearly two years after it was touted as a major win of the 2023 actors strike. Actors union SAG-AFTRA announced on Friday the establishment of the SAG-AFTRA-Producers Success Bonus Distribution Fund, a mechanism that will allow a large pool of union performers to share in the success of top...

Sean Astin followed in the footsteps of his mother Patty Duke on Friday as he was elected SAG-AFTRA president 37 years after she left the post. The Lord of the Rings actor will preside over the sprawling 160,000-member union alongside his running mate Michelle Hurd, who was appointed secretary-treasurer. Astin won nearly 80 percent of the votes, while his opponent...

The Writers Guild of America East is joining the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. The East Coast-based branch of the Hollywood writers union has won voluntary recognition for union coverage of public childrens animation programming from Fred Rogers Productions, the former home of the iconic PBS show Mister Rogers Neighborhood, and Spiffy Pictures. The union announced the deal on Friday. Writers on...

Top Comcast executives urged employees Friday to maintain a respectful exchange of ideas following the assassination of the conservative political activist Charlie Kirk earlier this week. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, president Mike Cavanagh and Versant CEO Mark Lazarus sent the note Friday morning, acknowledging the decision by MSNBC to part ways with contributor Matthew Dowd for insensitive comments made on...

Digital content creator and actor Nolan Hansen has signed with CAA for representation. Hansen secured viral fame as the quirky underdog character on MrBeasts YouTube challenge channels, or the heavily-subscribed online channels run by Jimmy Donaldson as part of his MrBeast empire. That led to Hansen becoming a series regular on Amazons competition reality series Beast Games, which in its...