As AMC Theatres reports a strong box office quarter and reiterates its plan to help claw its way out of debt, its top executive also has a message for moviegoers and studios: weve heard your feedback on how much pre-show content there is. On an earnings call, CEO Adam Aron discussed a recent deal to show pre-movie advertising before features...

For decades, print media has been transitioning to digital, with physical magazines, newspapers and newsletters declining in numbers and delivery cadence. But there are exceptions, just witness the New York Posts forthcoming California edition. On a smaller scale, Kevin Durants Boardroom plans to launch a new print magazine. Boardroom has only been a digital site, so it is moving in...

ESPN and Foxs previous effort at a sports-centric streaming service was a nonstarter, but the two companies are teaming up again. The Disney-owned ESPN and Fox announced a plan on Monday to bundle their forthcoming direct-to-consumer offerings. The ESPN streaming service (just called ESPN) and Fox One will be offered as a bundle beginning Oct. 2. (Both platforms are set...

ESPN has gained WWEs premium live events, but it is losing a lot of real fights. On Monday, Paramount announced a new seven-year, $7.7 billion deal with UFC (and WWE) parent TKO, making Paramount+ the new streaming home to UFC events in the U.S. including the MMA giants 13 numbered pay-per-views (on top of its 30 Fight Nights). Some of...

Pinewood Toronto Studios is set to name one of its soundstages after Paul Bronfman, the Canadian industry pioneer who diedin February at age 67. Bronfman was a longtime chairman of Pinewood Toronto Studios, and before that a founding partner and a major shareholder in Filmport Studios, a production studio complex that opened in Torontos portlands in 2008. A year later,...

Lisa Coffey is joining iHeartMedia in the newly created role of chief business officer. In the role, Coffey will oversee the development of iHearts new advertising products and platforms, including programmatic solutions for broadcast radio, and lead iHearts effort to digitize and scale the audio ecosystem.She will report directly to CEO Bob Pittman and COO and CFO Rich Bressler. Coffey...

A Hollywood box office recovery underpinned solid revenue growth for AMC Theatres during the second quarter. Overall revenue was up 35.6 percent to $1.39 billion, and AMC shrunk its net loss to $4.7 million, against a year-earlier $32.8 million loss. Investors betting market challenges brought on by the pandemic and the Hollywood strikes are behind the debt-laden company rewarded AMC...

A quick glance at Hollywood balance sheets, or Nielsens monthly Gauge report, underscores just how challenging the current moment facing Hollywood is. On the Gauge, YouTube and Netflix dominate, with seemingly every other streaming service fighting for scraps, perhaps resigned to an ever-so-slight increase in viewership during a good month. In their earnings reports, YouTube and Netflix are seeing their...

On Thursday, a trio ofHollywood Reporterstaffers attended a presentation by new Paramount owner David Ellison,who sat alongsidehis investors from RedBird Capital and new executives at his companys Manhattan headquarters to lay outhis vision for the embattled media firm. Ellison Co. had just spent some $8 billion for the 113-year-old studio and have hopes really, a need to turn it into...

Fran Drescher, who led the actors union during its historic 2023 strike, will not be running again for SAG-AFTRA president. A list of national candidates seeking political office in the unions 2025 elections that was released to members on Friday confirmed that the actor isnt seeking a reappointment to the unions top job after four years in charge. Instead, a...

Earlier this week, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer found himself inside Gaza, near the Egyptian border and the town or Rafah, or what used to be Rafah. That town has been reduced to rubble, there is very little if anything, that stands of Rafah today, Hemmer said in a report for his program Tuesday. Hemmer, the co-anchor of Americas Newsroom...

The Ethan Goldman-led production company Anchor Entertainment has signed with Verve. The new representation comes as Anchor ramps up in the non-fiction and unscripted programming spaces. Verves artist-first philosophy and hands-on approach instantly resonated with us. As we continue to grow our slate of premium nonfiction series and documentaries, were excited to join forces with a team equally driven to...

Lights, camera inaction. The historic Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard and its adjoining ArcLight Hollywood multiplex have together become perhaps L.A.s most iconic post-pandemic vacancies. The venues shuttered in March 2020, at the onset of COVID, prompting public lamentations from filmmakers ranging from Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang to Edgar Wright and Olivia Wilde. Operator Pacific Theatres soon went bankrupt...