The Sept. 10 assassination of Charlie Kirk, the influential conservative activist and prominent media personality, at an open-air college event in Utah has reverberated across America. Among those likely reflecting deepest on the killing are other outspoken celebrities whose business is public performance along with the security experts whose job it is to protect them. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to...

Utah-based Angel Studios, the company founded by three Mormon brothers attempting to upend the Hollywood system by allowing under-served audiences to help build a slate of faith-based and value-centric films, including 2023 sleeper hit Sound of Freedom, has found a new nesting ground. On Thursday, Angel founders Neal, Daniel and Jeffrey Harmon rang the closing bell of the New York...

DC has shelved its Red Hood comic book series following writer Gretchen Felker-Martin sharing posts on Bluesky that joked about the shooting of Charlie Kirk, who was killed by an assassins bullet Wednesday. Hope the bullets okay after touching Charlie Kirk, read one post. Thoughts and prayers you Nazi bitch, read another by Felker-Martin. The writer is trans, while Kirk...

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) shareholders finally have a growth stock on their hands for today, anyway. Amid a Wall Street Journal report that Paramount Skydance is preparing a mostly cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, shares in WBD have jumped nearly 36 percent. The bid is said to be backed by the Ellison family. David Ellison, the son of Oracle...

Despite Hollywoods big streaming era boom going bust, top industry creatives and execs gathered in Toronto at the Access Canada Summit presented by The Hollywood Reporter were urged to stay buckled in for a roller coaster ride that promises both challenges and opportunities in an increasingly worldwide business. Every business model that we thought was set in stone is completely...

Paramount wants to carve out a bigger piece of the sports media business, and is creating a new division within the company to help it do so: Paramount Sports Entertainment. Jesse Sisgold, the former president and COO of Skydance Media and chairman of Skydance Sports, will lead the new division. The media company, led by CEO David Ellison, says that...

David Travis, a former home video executive and the husband of Family Affair actress Kathy Garver, has died. He was 79. Travis died Aug. 30 at the Motion Picture Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills of metastasized colorectal cancer, his family announced. Born on March 14, 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska, David Scott Travis managed a rental car agency...

The Westwood offices of filmmaker and manager Steven Paul are crowded with mementos of an idiosyncratic journey in the business. On one wall, there is a framed 1971 New Yorker Talk of the Town piece that profiles Paul as a 12-year-old actor in a Kurt Vonnegut play and an adolescent playwright himself. On another is a Hollywood Reporter story published...

In a small West Village theater, Spike Lees laughter rang out as he snuck in the back to catch some of the humorous moments in his 2002 drama, 25th Hour. This film still holds up, Lee said, later on the stage, sitting across from the films star, Edward Norton. Lee then asked how many people had seen the movie for...

A top political strategist to the stars is joining forces with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. On Wednesday the nonprofit, which offers emergency resources to SAG-AFTRA union members as well as professional and educational development, announced that Jennifer Gonring was joining its ranks as chief strategy officer. In that role, she will be focused on helping the foundation achieve growth goals through...

Eunice Kim, Netflixs chief product officer, is departing the streamer after five years. At the time of this writing, her reason(s) for leaving is unclear. Netflix intends to replace Kim. In the interim, chief technology officer Elizabeth Stone will take over Kims duties. Kim joined Netflix in 2021 to lead the Consumer Product Innovation team. In 2023, she was named...

The Associated Press wont have to face a defamation lawsuit over its reporting on the outcome of a trial between a U.S. Navy veteran and CNN, which earlier this year lost a case over a 2021 story falsely accusing him of operating a black market scheme to evacuate Afghans in the aftermath of the U.S. military withdrawal from the country....

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says that his familys blockbuster $3.3 billion settlement over control of the family trust is great news for investors. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference Wednesday, Murdoch said that the settlement will enable the company to act strategically, acknowledging the uncertainty that clouded the company while the legal battle over the Murdoch Family Trust ensued....