IATSE, the American Federation of Musicians and Directors Guild of America, are speaking out against ABCs suspension of Jimmy Kimmels late night talk show, calling it part ofa disturbing trend of increasing interference in creative expression. The Hollywood unions issued the joint statement after Wednesdays announcement that Jimmy Kimmel Live! was being preempted indefinitely by ABC after his comments about...

Newly-single Lionsgate has cut around 50 jobs company-wide, or approximately 5 percent of its workforce, in its latest belt-tightening effort, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The latest round of layoffs at Lionsgate, the studio behindJohn WickandThe Hunger Gamesfranchises, brings to 13 percent the total headcount reduction for the studio over the past year. Its also understood the latest job cuts...

The union that represents writers on Jimmy Kimmel Live! is ripping the network for pulling the show off air after the comedian made some viral remarks about the shooter of Charlie Kirk. The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other to disturb, even is at the very heart of what it means to be a free...

The Animation Guild has launched an ambitious attempt to unionize feature production workers at Netflix Animation Studios as part of its broader effort to expand its reach inside the animation production space. On Wednesday, a group of 60 workers requested voluntary recognition of a union from management, according to The Animation Guild. The group is attempting to bring an array...

Vernon Sanders, the head of TV for Amazon MGM Studios, is exiting the company. Sanders shared his decision in a note to staff Wednesday. Throughout my tenure, the company has repeatedly entrusted me with expanded responsibilities and new challenges, Sanders wrote to staff. While I have been deeply honored by that growth in scope, Ive found myself increasingly distant from...

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...