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...

Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, is ending its run after being snubbed by the Tony Awards. The musical, which opened at the Nederlander Theatre on Feb. 13, will now end its run May 18. The show, directed by Tina Landau and featuring music by Kate Diaz and lyrics by Diaz and Landau, is the first show to announce closing after the...

Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos is planning to sell some of his holdings in the company. Bezos, whose net worth is valued at over $200 billion, will sell up to 25 million shares in the company, valued at around $5 billion, Amazon disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday. Amazon filed its quarterly 10-Q report with the Securities and...

The sports streaming platformFuboTVreported it ended the first quarter with 1.47 million paid subscribers in North America, down from 1.67 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2024 and 1.61 million at the end of the third quarter that year. Fubo had 1.51 million North American subscribers in the year-ago period. The streamer in the first quarter had...

Exhibition giantCinemarkreported revenue of $541 million, down 7 percent year-over-year from $579 million, for the first quarter of 2025 and swung to a quarterly loss of $39 million, compared to a year-earlier profit of $25 million. But the company touted: North American industry box office momentum accelerated in April, nearly doubling year-over-year, leading into a blockbuster summer film slate. Quarterly...

A man has pleaded guilty to hacking the computer of a former Disney employee, whose information was used to obtain and leak troves of data about the entertainment giants theme park and streaming businesses. As part of a deal with federal prosecutors, Ryan Mitchell Kramer, a California resident, pleaded guilty on Thursday to two charges related to illegally breaking into...

Live Nation reported $3.3 billion in revenue for the first financial quarter of 2025, an 11 percent drop from the particularly strong first quarter the live music giant had posted a year ago. Adjusted operating income fell 6 percent to $341 million from 362.5 million year over year. In the concerts division, revenue fell 14 percent to $2.84 billion, and...

Tech giant Apple, led by CEO Tim Cook, delivered revenue of $95.36 billion for the second quarter of 2025 overshadowed by sweeping new tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration. The iPhone makers overall revenues surpassed analyst expectations after a consensus estimate from FactSet forecast Apple would record $94.4 billion in revenue. Apples services segment, which includesApple TV+, Apple...

Roku CEO Anthony Woods total pay package increased to $27.7 million in 2024, up from $20.2 million the year before. His pay package included a base salary of $1.1 million and option awards of $26.6 million. He received $18,848 in medical and life insurance premiums. Woods base salary dropped slightly from his 2023 total of $1.2 million, the companys compensation...

AMC Networks has unveiled the 2024 compensation packages paid out to the leadership team of the company that operates such cable networks as AMC, IFC and Sundance TV and such streaming services as horror streamer Shudder. CEO Kristin Dolan earned $8.69 million in 2024 compared with $14.6 million in 2023, the firm disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Securities...

An early promise of streaming platforms was that users would be able to watch series and movies without the commercials that break up programming on broadcast or cable networks. Thats no longer the case: Almost every major streamer has an ad-supported tier, and new data from Nielsen suggests that a good number of viewers are using them. The ratings provider...

Aisha Bowe, an aerospace engineerwho flew to sub-orbital space onBlue OriginsNew Shepard rocket in mid-April, has signed with CAA. The Hollywood talent agency will work with Bowe to expand opportunities in publishing, speaking, podcasting, commercial endorsements and non-scripted television. The former NASA rocket scientist was among the first-ever citizen astronauts (along with Katy Perry and Gayle King) to fly on...

Fox News co-host Steve Doocy is the latest high-profile news anchor to shift to a new role. The Fox Friends co-host said Thursday that he is moving to Florida, and will work three days per week as the coast-to-coast co-host for the morning show, anchoring from the south, midwest, and other parts of the country. Or as Doocy put it:...