The Writers Guild of America is on the verge of ordering its writers not to work with Village Roadshow, claiming the firm is behind on paying its writers. I can confirm that theyre late on paying their writers and a stop-work order is imminent, a WGA spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. A representative for Village Roadshow, the once-prolific shingle behind...

The Writers Guild of America is forcefully calling on Hollywoods major studios to take a stand on the purported use of their members works as AI training data. Leaders of the WGA West and East demanded that companies take immediate legal action against any firms that have used writers work to train AI toolsin a letter sent to the chief...

Tom Holland is continuing his relationship with Sony Pictures, as the stars newly launched production company has inked a producing deal with the studio. Sony announced Thursday that the studio has partnered with Billy17, the banner that Holland recently co-founded with brother Harry Holland and Will South. The pact kicks off with Burnt, which the Billy17 team has been developing...

She was Liz Fuller, an aspiring manager who had been Miss Great Britain from 1996-97. He was Ron Meyer, at the time the executive vice chairman of NBCUniversal. The romance was brief, running hot and then quickly going very cold. According to Fullers vivid account in a January 2021 email obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, she met Meyer, who was...

Whats a suitable next act for a former ABC executive turned talent agency chief, a former NBC network news division executive that also pens screenplays and a veteran film and television producer? For Lloyd Braun, Noah Oppenheim and Sarah Bremner its putting together their own production banner to finance and co-finance feature films and scripted TV series, with cash provided...

YouTube TV is raising prices again. The cost of the live TV service will rise to $82.99 per month from $72.99 per month starting Jan. 13 for existing members, according to an email sent to subscribers Thursday. The $82.99 pricing starts Thursday for new members. The company attributed the price increase to the rising cost of content as well as...

Jacqueline Castro has been appointed vice president of production for Telemundo Studios. In the role, Castro will lead production strategy for Telemundo Studios and oversee in-house and third-party productions. Castro comes to the role after working as executive director of unscripted content and production for Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she led projects for the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets....

Warner Bros. Discovery, led by CEO David Zaslav, has become the latest Hollywood studio to rework its corporate structure with an eye toward a possible spin off of its legacy TV assets. WBD on Thursday said it was reorganizing its corporate structure into a global linear TV division, separate from from its streaming and studios division. The new corporate structure...

If the prevailing wisdom among media executives the last several years was its not worth trying to buy our rival, or scale up with a bolt-on acquisition, because itll get tangled up in red tape government reviews then, post-Election Day, the mood has swung the other way rapidly to expect a deal bonanza next year. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers latest closely-watched...

The distributor for Strange Darling has sued its marketing partner on the horror fan-favorite for fraud and breach of contract. Bob Yaris Magenta Light Productions, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court that seeks at least $10 million, accuses Spellbinder of failing to contribute its half of the $2 million marketing spend for the film. It...

A Writers Guild of America East-backed union at the nonfiction entertainment division of RadicalMedia has been voluntarily recognized by management. Thats according to the WGA East, which says that a bargaining unit of 65 staffers in production and postproduction roles was recognized by the Summer of Soul producer on Dec. 6. The union is aiming to start negotiations over a...

Nexstar, led by CEO Perry Sook, is set for another round of layoffs at its broadcast and sales divisions as part of a corporate cost-cutting initiative. Our broadcastingand salesdivisions are streamlining their organizations to reduce our operating expenses and accelerate collaboration across the company, the company said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter as the local TV giant...

The Animation Guilds executive board is praising its tentative agreement with Hollywood studios after a handful of negotiation committee members posted on social media that they will vote not to ratify it. The board noted in a message to members on Wednesday that it had voted to recommend the ratification of the provisional deal, which was reached with the Alliance...