The management and production company 3 Arts Entertainment is expanding into sports, acquiring AA Management in a significant deal for the Lionsgate-controlled company. AAs clients include Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce (as well as the New Heights podcast, which he co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce), Cleveland browns star Denzel Ward, NBA star Jonathan Kuminga, and model and TV host...

Disney is laying off several hundred employees globally as part of cost-cutting measures. The impacted teams are employees working on marketing for both film and television, as well as TV publicity, casting and development and corporate financial operations, a source familiar with the matter confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. While individual employees from those teams are impacted, and were notified...

CNN chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 report portraying a U.S. Navy veteran as illegally exploiting Afghans was found to be defamatory earlier this year, is leaving the network. Tough to say goodbye but its been an honor to work among the very best in the business, Marquardt wrote in a Monday post on X. Profound thank you...

Bank of Americas securities research team sees the spinoff drama at Warner Bros. Discovery over its linear TV, studios and streaming businesses worth viewing for outsized investor returns. We believe the market value for WBDs Studio and DTC (direct-to-consumer) assets standalone could far exceed the market cap of the company today, BofA Securities analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich said in a...

TelevisaUnivision is making a major change in its senior leadership ranks, with ad sales chief Donna Speciale to exit, and Tim Natividad set to join the company later this month as its president of ad sales. TelevisaUnivision CEO Daniel Alegre announced the news to staff Monday morning. Over the past several months, Donna and I have been in thoughtful conversation...

Hallmark Media has elevated John Matts to president, in a leadership change at the company that operates Hallmark Channel. Matts was most recently COO of Hallmark Media after joining as CFO in 2022. In his new role Matts will oversee advertising sales, culture, distribution, finance, research, and strategic insights, and will report to Hallmark Cards CEO Mike Perry. Darren Abbott,...

Byron Allen is putting his local TV stations up for sale. Allens Allen Media Group (AMG) says that it has hired the investment bank Moelis Company to market its local stations, which are comprised of 28 ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox affiliated stations in 21 markets. AMG owns stations in Honolulu, Hawaii; Madison, Wisconsin; Montgomery, Alabama; Flint, Michigan; and Tucson,...

Former crewmembers on Doctor Odyssey have sued 20th Television and parent company Disney over alleged sexual harassment and retaliation on the set of the medical drama. Caroline Mack, Alicia Haverland and Ava Steinbrenner, in a lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claim they were targets of an unchecked campaign of sexual harassment in which their supervisor bombarded...

Four publications have reached the end of the road: In Touch, Life Style, Closer and First for Women. McClatchy Media Company, which owns and operates the magazines, informed staff on Friday that all four will be sunsetting in the coming weeks when final issues are published by the end of June, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Despite the best efforts...

Facing mounting financial and legal woes, Kevin Costners company under which Horizon was produced has been sued for failing to pay for costume rentals. United Costume Corporation on Wednesday filed in Los Angeles Superior Court a breach of contract lawsuit against Horizon Series, Costners loan-out firm. It seeks roughly $350,000 for unpaid costume fees across Horizon: An American Saga Chapter...

PBS and one of its affiliates in Minnesota has sued the Trump administration over its efforts to defund funding for the public broadcaster. The suit, filed in a U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., argues that the administration is violating PBS and its stations First Amendment rights, and that efforts to influence funding decisions from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...

Microsoft-owned ZeniMax Media and a union representing hundreds of its workers have reached a tentative agreement on a first labor contract. The process to get there was long and wasnt without drama, given that just one month before, union members aligned with the Communications Workers of America overwhelmingly authorized a strike in a bid to push through some additional gains...

There are very few people whove ever gotten close to the feeling of flying on a dragon, but Mason Thames, star of the upcoming live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon, is one of them. So when he tells The Hollywood Reporter that the new coaster Hiccups Wing Gliders at Universal Epic Universes Isle of Berk felt more real...