At around midnight on a winter night in 2023, Omar, a then 21-year-old member of a group of Afghan minesweepers tasked with protecting Green Berets in the region, heard a knock on his door. His brother, eight years his junior, asked who it was. The Taliban, answered a man on the other side of the side of the gate, dressed...

UConn and WNBA legend Sue Bird is getting deeper into business with Vox Media, launching a new podcast that will focus on womens basketball. The podcast, Birds Eye View, will offer an insider take on the WNBA, with its first episode debuting May 16. New episodes will drop on Fridays, and will be available on the major podcast platforms, including...

At a moment where the TV business is undergoing a dramatic transformation, and with the advertising business similarly in flux amid tariffs and technological changes, NBCUniversals Spanish-language media division Telemundo Enterprises is betting that live events and programming a lot of them will help it stand out in a marketplace that is as crowded as ever. Executives at the company...

With Hollywood reeling from the potential cataclysmic effects of Donald Trumps calls for 100 percent tariffs on non-U.S. produced movies, California Gov. Gavin Newsom sprung into action on Monday evening, proposing a team up with The White House on a $7.5 billion federal film tax credit scheme to provide relief to the entertainment industry. Newsoms proposal would see the federal...

The Teamsters are celebrating President Donald Trumps idea to impose tariffs on films produced abroad, calling it a strong step toward reining in the studios un-American addiction to outsourcing our members work. The statement from International Brotherhood of Teamsters general president Sean OBrien and motion picture division director and Hollywood Teamsters leader Lindsay Dougherty came one day after Trump posted...

When William Wyler was prepping Roman Holiday back in the prehistoric days of the early 1950s, he wanted to shoot the movie in Italy, not on a studio backlot the way nearly all Hollywood films were in those days. Paramount Pictures resisted, the Italian Ministry of Tourism resisted, pretty much everyone resisted. But Wyler insisted, and thats how we have...

Although the entertainment business is still grappling with President Donald Trumps post suggesting that a tariff on foreign-made films is in the works, the White House said in a clarifying statement Monday that no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made. Although no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made, the Administration is exploring all options...

Another Alamo Drafthouse theater is poised to go union. On Friday, a majority of eligible employees at the Sony-owned theater chains Slaughter Lane location in Austin, Texas voted to affiliate with the United Auto Workers in a National Labor Relations Board election, according to union organizers. Workers voted 52-16 to join the UAW, with 94 percent of those eligible participating...

When Walt Disney Animation Studios opened its Vancouver production facility in 2021, the first project it took on was the series adaptation of Moana, which later became the more than $2 billion feature-film box office hit Moana 2. This development served as a warning sign for the California animation industry, according to a new report from the Animation Guild, BRIC...

The daughter of Stan Lee, J.C., has settled a lawsuit against Max Anderson, the comic book legends former longtime road manager accused of elder abuse and pilfering tens of millions of dollars in memorabilia, autograph revenue and appearance fees. Ahead of a trial slated to start next week, both sides on Thursday informed the court of a deal to resolve...

Meadowlark Media CEO John Skipper is exiting the media company. Skipper co-founded Meadowlark in 2021 alongside radio host Dan Le Batard with a goal of bringing his show to digital platforms. Skipper, the former president of ESPN, subsequently pushed Meadowlark to develop documentary and unscripted fare, inking a first look deal with Apple TV+, and developed a franchise called Sports...

On a scale of highly valued to thankless, the roles that production assistants play on film and television sets can swing towards the latter. Delivering lunch, escorting cast members, managing background actors, maintaining radio equipment its all in production assistants repertoires, with the general expectation being that, as entry-level workers in a cutthroat creative industry, they are eager to please...

Shelter PR has raised the roof for four of its staffers. The bicoastal public relations firm has confirmed promotions of four senior publicists in its Los Angeles and New York offices: Jenny Tverskyhas been named executive vp overseeing company and staff relations on both coasts; Jessica Sze,a founding member of Shelter PR, has been promoted to vp of Shelter PRs...