Longtime Hollywood publicist Ina Treciokas has launched Ingenuity Group as a talent and brand consultancy shop. The former partner at Slate PR has chosen a solo venture after one of the industrys highest-profile publicity firms that represents a long list of A-list stars, creators, talent and events chose to close its doors. Four of Slate PRs founders Stephen Huvane, Simon...

Youre killing us, Rockstar (because now we cant virtually perform vehicular homicide until next year). The latest delay for the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will cost the video game industry $2.7 billion in 2025, according to the latest data from Ampere Analysis. The overall spend on games content and services will still cross $200 billion for the first...

The Department of Justice is investigating concert promoters Live Nation and AEG in a criminal probe regarding their responses to refunds for pandemic-era concert cancellations, Live Nation confirmed Thursday in a statement, denying any wrongdoing. Bloomberg first broke the news of the investigation, reporting that it is linked to an initiative Live Nation, AEG and the major Hollywood booking agencies...

YouTubes hiring of longtime Disney executive Justin Connolly to serve in a newly-created role as global head of media and sports has sparked a lawsuit against the Google-owned company. Disney, in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges breach of contract, tortious interference with contractual relations and unfair competition. It seeks a court order to block...

A writers screenplay is optioned for a fee tied to the films budget. That budget is later increased when a big name is brought on to star. Are the writers managers, whore also producers on the movie, obligated to disclose the bump and renegotiate their clients pay? The answer to that question could be yes, with an appeals court reviving...

A few months ago, HBO content chief Casey Bloys and Warner Bros. Discovery streaming chief JB Perrette approached the companys leadership, including CEO David Zaslav, with a suggestion. They had been conducting research around the streaming service Max, trying to gauge what subscribers were watching and what they werent, which brands mattered to them and which didnt. The company also...

In one of the biggest telecom acquisitions in years, the cable giants Charter Communications and Cox Communications have agreed to merge in a $34.5 billion deal. Charter is the second largest cable company in the U.S. after Comcast, while Cox is also among the largest with six million subscribers. Combining the two companies would create a cable behemoth, with enormous...

U.K. broadcasterChannel 4, led byCEO Alex Mahon, who recently said she would step down this summer after eight years, will move into in-house production in a sea change and will also start looking to buy production companies with strong commercial potential in an evolution of its acquisition strategy. Over the course of its 40-year history, the broadcaster has concentrated on...

Good Night, and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, remained the top grossing show on Broadway last week, bringing in $3.95 million and playing to more than 100 percent capacity at the Winter Garden Theater. The play announced last week that it plans to stream the show live on CNN on June 7. As has been the trend, Othello, starring Denzel...

When it filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, Village Roadshow pointed to the souring of its longtime partnership with Warner Bros. for its financial woes. At the heart of the falling out that was years in the making: A legal battle over the studios decision to release Matrix Resurrections simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters, eating away at box...

Barry Diller has one request before settling in on his living room sofa for a two-and-a-half-hour interview about the juicy revelations in his new tell-all memoir, Who Knew. Dont write about my house, he says. Dont describe the decor. Photographed by Daniel Prakopcyk Consider it done. No mention here of the serene, unostentatious Beverly Hills mansion tucked behind a gate,...

For years, Tuesdays have been a boon for moviegoing. It doesnt take a genius to figure out why: Ticket prices are deeply discounted in the U.S. and Canada. The amount of the reduced cost varies from market to market and circuit to circuit, but bargain hunters are embracing the option to see a movie at a lower cost in an...

An indie production company behind Afterburn, an upcoming post-apocalyptic sci-fi film starring Dave Bautista and Samuel L. Jackson, has been has been awarded $7.7 million by an arbitrator over fraud tied to the financing of the project. A backer of the movie, Tristian Peter, was found to have defrauded the company, Fourth Chance Productions, and breached a purchase agreement in...