Former Warner Bros Discovery senior exec Christina D. Sarnoff has launched her own banner with a focus on multicultural storytelling for the Hispanic market. Sarnoff, a senior manager of brand creative solutions at the major studio, left WBD in April. She told The Hollywood Reporter Sarnoff Media Co will look to empower the multicultural community, with a focus on the...

Universal Music Group announced Monday that it has named Matt Ellis chief financial officer at the company, succeeding Boyd Muir, who is now fully transitioning to his role as chief operating officer after being promoted last year. Ellis joins UMG from Verizon Communications, where he served as the telecom giants executive vice president and CFO. He spent 10 years at...

Olympic Gold medal track and field star ShaCarri Richardson has signed with Wasserman. The sports, music and entertainment company will represent the U.S. sprint star as she expands with brand marketing deals in the U.S. and internationally. Richardson became a sports star in 2019 when she broke a 30 year-old collegiate 100 meters record as a freshman at the NCAA...

The upcoming streaming service from Fox Corp. will be called Fox One, the company said Monday morning. The service is being positioned as a product for cord-nevers, consumers who never subscribed to a traditional pay TV service and likely never will. It will include both live and on-demand feeds of Fox, Fox News, Fox Weather, Fox Business and FS1, among...

The 2025 upfronts kick off in New York City on Monday, with entertainment giants like NBCUniversal, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery pitching their wares, even as digital-first interlopers like Amazon, Netflix and YouTube have butted their way into the week. While the upfronts used to about broadcast networks unveiling their fall schedules, the events have morphed into a celebration of...

Ben Silverman has written many Hollywood chapters. A William Morris agent turned production company chief who struck big with the U.S. version of The Office, he went on to a rocky studio executive tenure leading NBCs television efforts before reteaming with his former agency assistant Howard T. Owensto launch production-management firm Propagate Content ten years ago. After securing backing from...

Dubbing, as an art form, is at its best when it calls as little attention to itself as possible. Ironic, then, that it is the dubbers or synchronization artists, as they prefer to be known whose voices have become the loudest in Europes battle over the use of artificial intelligence technology in film and television production. On April 1, several...

On Friday, the results of a Writers Guild of America West vote over discipline for members accused of breaking strike rules signaled a divided union, at least on this issue. In the cases of three writers, disciplinary measures initially decided by the unions board were upheld, but by tight margins (between 52 and nearly 55 percent). A fourth writers public...

Did the Writers Guild of America West board of directors go too far in disciplining members that allegedly broke the rules of its 2023 strike? Or did it appropriately respond to actions that threatened the union and its members? Union members answered that question with a mixed response on Thursday in a vote that upheld three out of four punishments....

Dan Spilo is out at Industry Entertainment, the management company he spent decades building as a partner. His departure comes a day after The Hollywood Reporter exclusively broke the news that Spilo had split with his most prominent client, Reacher star Alan Ritchson. The professional breakup followed an incident on the Australian set of the action feature Runner, which stars...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved a state budget that increases the cap on the states film and TV subsidy to $800 million, nearly double the amount from 2022. The expansion creates a $100 million pool earmarked solely for independent projects and ups the payout for production companies that frequently film in the state. It also includes changes around...

Warner Bros. Discovery will take to the upfront stage next week with new leadership atop its ad sales division. The company named Ryan Gould and Robert Bobby Voltaggio its co-presidents of advertising in February, so when they take the stage at Madison Square Garden Wednesday, it will be their first time leading the presentation to clients. I dont think were...

Lets be honest: Gender-based lists like THRs Most Powerful Women in International Film should be pass by now. It is 2025, after all. But the fight for equity in the global entertainment industry is anything but over. In some places, its barely begun. From the backlash against DEI initiatives in the U.S. to a blistering French report exposing systemic abuse...