Paramount Global wants to take Las Vegas visitors to the Danger Zone. The media company is partnering with Advent Allen Entertainment to create and launch a fully immersive experience based on its Top Gun franchise, which stars Tom Cruise. The experience will be built on an undeveloped site at The Strat Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, and while details...

U.S. private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners said Friday that it has reached an in-principle agreement to acquire The Telegraph Media Group at a total enterprise valuation of 500 million ($673 million) to become the U.K. media companys sole controlling owner. It is the largest investment in U.K. print media in a decade and unlocks a new era of growth...

Ted Sarandos, Alexis Ohanian and Eli Manning are joining the board of trustees at the Paley Center for Media. The Netflix co-CEO, Reddit co-founder and two-time Super Bowl champion are also joined by Gary Vaynerchuck, CEO of VaynerMedia, and David W. Checketts, managing partner of Checketts Partners Investment Management. Jim Burtson, president of CAA, and Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram,...

Steven Paul, one of the minds behind a proposal from Hollywood ambassador Jon Voight to boost filming in the U.S., has acquired a small studio in Van Nuys, with plans to use the facility as a new shooting base for his production company. As Voights manager, Paul helped construct a sweeping proposal centered around a federal film incentive program and...

Sofi Manassyan, dancer, actress and digital content creator, has signed with CAA. She will be represented by the Hollywood talent agencys digital media department, which helps social media-first creators expand business opportunities. Manassyan, 17, has built up a massive social media following across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok with digital content that blends dance, lifestyle and viral challenges. Her ability to...

SAG-AFTRA has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Fortnites production company, alleging that its use of an AI-powered James Earl Jones Darth Vader voice infringes on the unions right to negotiate major changes to its collective bargaining agreement. The union claimed that a signatory to its collective bargaining agreement, Llama Productions, made unilateral changes to terms and conditions of...

In 2023, SAG-AFTRA film and television performers stayed out on strike for a grueling 118 days in no small part due to AI. With DALL-E and ChatGPT still a relatively recent phenomenon but the tech rapidly encroaching on Hollywood, the pressure was on, and the union eventually struck a deal that left some members pleased and others dismayed, fearing the...

Regal Cinemas has added another four Imax theaters. The second-largest movie theater chain in the U.S. has expanded its partnership with the wide-screen exhibitor for new laser projection screen locations in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, D.C. Expanding its longstanding partnership with Imax signals Regal is back spending on upgrades to its domestic circuit after parent Regal Cineworld emerged from...

Family offices have long been part of Hollywoods DNA, quietly shaping its most iconic moments and technological progress. Paramount Pictures was one of Hollywoods first family-controlled studios under business titan Adolph Zukor, who developed the vertical integration approach, ensuring that ambitious films like Wings (1927), the first Oscar winner, got the resources and distribution they needed to succeed. The recent...

Streaming continued its upward trajectory in April, but linear TV platforms also saw an increase in their share of viewing time. Nielsens monthly Gauge report shows streaming taking up 44.3 percent of all TV use in the United States, up from 43.8 percent in March. The April period (which ran from March 31-April 27 in Nielsens books) is the third...

Lets get this out of the way first: I love really like New Jersey. I was born there and raised there, and lived a year or so in Los Angeles before deciding to return there. I got married there (but engaged in L.A.) and am raising my kids there. Its a great place to be, even if currently a horror...

In 2024, the Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission launched a first-of-its-kind workplace misconduct reporting tool tailored to the entertainment industry that was quickly adopted by unions and select studios. Now, one aspect of the MyConnext platform is being opened up to all industry workers: its ombuds program, which offers human advisers for workers faced with tricky situations on the job. The...

As it prepares for its future spun off from Comcast, the new leaders of MSNBC have made a key hire to build up its political reporting infrastructure. Sudeep Reddy was enlisted away from Politico to join the cable news TV brand as it establishes its own presence in Washington, D.C. apart from NBC News and creates its own beltway bureau....