A dispute over the estate of John Amos has turned to court, with the actors daughter suing her brother and people in his orbit for elder abuse, fraud and wrongful death. Shannon Amos accuses Kelly Christopher Amos of manipulating their father into signing various legal documents including new wills, trusts and powers of attorney that gave him near-complete control over...

3 Arts Entertainment has hired veteran sports executive and brand strategist Dr. Shey Olaoshebikanto grow its sports footprint. The move follows 3 Arts Entertainmentexpanding into competitive sports by acquiring AA Management in a major deal by the Lionsgate-controlled company. Olaoshebikan will manage clients as executive vp of 3 Arts Sports as the Hollywood production and management company moves into athlete...

UTA has signed John Legend and his production company Get Lifted for global representation in all areas. Across his career, Legend has won 13 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award and four Emmy Awards. He is about to embark on the North American leg of his Get Lifted 20th Anniversary Tour, in which he...

Actors Equity is gearing up for upcoming negotiations for a new Broadway contract with healthcare, improved scheduling and better sick coverage among the priorities. The union held a rally in Times Square Wednesday, with Actors Equity president Brooke Shields taking the stage alongside Equity executive director Al Vincent Jr, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler and several other union leaders, in front...

Apple TV+ is increasing its monthly price. (So much for that whole discount thing.) The streaming service will now cost $12.99 per month in the U.S., up from $9.99, representing a 30 percent increase. The price hike is effective as of today, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, for new customers; existing customers will see their bill go up within 30 days....

Enter the gates of Mar-a-Lago and you never know who you might run into. Guests at the sprawling Palm Beach estate aka the winter White House might brush past a foreign dignitary, a hopped-up tech titan, a mysterious Chinese billionaire or an overly Botoxed reality star. So when Casey Wasserman arrived for a private meeting in January, just days before...

Fox is launching a new streaming service, while also trying not to cannibalize its large cable audience. The company is launching Fox One Thursday, which will bring the companys live news programming, sports and entertainment together in one streaming app. In October, it will also offer Fox One consumers the option to bundle with ESPNs new direct-to-consumer app, which also...

Lifetime is cutting back its unscripted programming division, a decision that resulted in layoffs on Wednesday. Aside from Brie Miranda Bryant, senior vp unscripted development and programming at the cable network, the rest of the small unscripted team was let go. The layoffs at the A+E Networks-owned channel include Nicole Vogel, vp programming and development. Going forward, Lifetime will focus...

Its no secret that Hollywoods unique cocktail of high-pressure sets, big egos and freelance workers can produce some pretty toxic work environments. In recent years, news reports have emerged about talk shows, reality shows and scripted TV productions alike that allegedly made cast and/or crew miserable. Could QR codes and anonymized survey responses help change that? Thats the conceit behind...

Are Lionsgate and Starz worth more apart than together? That was the logic for separating the John Wick studios company, led by Jon Feltheimer, and the Outlander premium TV brand, run by Jeffrey Hirsch. In the lead-up to the spinoff, execs had touted that the separation would unlock value for investors by evaluating each business separately: For instance, Lionsgate would...

Just as major Hollywood studios are in a moment of belt-tightening, so too are soundstage operators, which are making tough choices about locations to keep during a film and TV production slowdown and facilities that could be cut loose. Take Hudson Pacific, the Victor Coleman-run owner of Sunset Bronson Studios (Netflix is an anchor tenant), which saw layoffs recently hit...

It was Nov. 1, 2023, about a week before the Hollywood actors union reached a deal with studios that ended a historic strike. The labor groups president, Fran Drescher, was feeling the heat from A-listers and rank-and-file performers alike to make good on more than 100 days of withheld labor. That day, she posted a morning routine video to her...

Gypsy soared to $1.6 million last week as the revival finished its Broadway run. The musical, starring Audra McDonald, played to 94 percent capacity at the Majestic Theatre and brought in an average ticket price of $134.58. The show, which opened in December, but announced an early closing Aug. 17, has not seen those ticket prices and box office tally...