Disney has unveiled its next round of price increases on its streaming services. The company will increase the monthly price of its Disney+ plan with ads by $2 to $11.99 per month, while the no-ads Disney Plus Premium plan will increase by $3 to $18.99 per month, starting Oct. 21. While the company has cycles of price increases, these increases...

As Dwayne The Rock Johnson plays Mark Kerr in Benny Safdies The Smashing Machine, the real life mixed martial arts legend and UFC champion has signed with Innovative Artists for representation. The A24 biopic, which screened at the Venice and Toronto film festivals, is set for a theatrical release from Oct. 3. Innovative Artists will represent Kerr for acting opportunities,...

Hallmark Media and Netflix have inked a new and expanded output deal, one that will bring new content to Netflix users in the U.S., and to bring Hallmarks signature holiday movies to Netflix users outside of the U.S. The companies had partnered on an output deal last year that brought 10 of Hallmarks Christmas movies to the platform. According to...

In what the companies are calling a first of its kind deal, Netflix and beverage giant AB InBev say they have inked a global marketing partnership, one that will make its beer brands title sponsors of Netflix programming and live events, while bringing Netflix IP to live activations and packaging around the world. The deal will see AB InBev brands,...

The Directors Guild of America has elected one of its most celebrated members as its new president. Christopher Nolan was elected after running for the top office unopposed during the unions biennial national convention, with results released Saturday. He will take over for outgoing president Lesli Linka Glatter, who led the 19,500-member union through the 2023 actors and writers strikes....

President Trumps defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its reporters accusing them of undermining his candidacy ahead of the 2024 election has been dismissed. The court took issue with his lawyers essentially grandstanding in the complaint. The complaint is decidedly improper and impermissible, wrote U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday in the order issued on Friday. He...

Rachel Bloom has signed on to host the 2025 Clio Entertainment Awards. The ceremony is set to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, Nov. 13. Originally established by The Hollywood Reporter in 1971, Clio Entertainment is one of five verticals developed by the Clios to champion boundary-pushing marketing, advertising and communications that shape popular culture...

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner appeared to take aim at Bob Iger and the Disney brass Friday as he railed against the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? Eisner...

The chain of events that led to ABCs suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! unfolded unusually fast. It started with a thinly-veiled threat from Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr that his agency might take action against the network over accusations that the late night host mischaracterized the politics of the man who allegedly killed Charlie Kirk. We can do this the...

The Hollywood Teamsters have joined their fellow entertainment unions in expressing dismay over the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, focusing their remarks on the evils of corporate consolidation in addition to their free-speech concerns. Kimmel was yanked from the air on ABC on Wednesday after he made viral remarks that have been interpreted by some as suggesting that the shooter...

The Writers Guild of America East has found its next leader. Veteran television creator and showrunner Tom Fontana was elected to be the East Coast writers unions next president on Thursday after running on a platform that emphasized meat-and-potato wage and benefits issues in addition to the importance of defending free speech. Fontanas two-year term will start on Friday as...

Shari Redstone thinks that Bari Weiss will bring some much-needed change to CBS News, should Paramount Global complete its long-rumored acquisition talks with Weiss The Free Press. I know theres been talk about Bari, and I think she would be a good voice, so Im hopeful, the former Paramount Global chair said Thursday. Im not going to go into it...

The FCCs threats against Disney over the comments made by Jimmy Kimmel on his late night show are truly empty, according to the lone Democratic commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, Anna Gomez, but that may not be the point: We dont have the ability to actually take these actions, but its the threat of the enforcement that is the...