Its a tale as old as time: Are you a corporate titan, unhappy with how you or your company are portrayed in the realm of popular opinion? Good news: You can buy the media. For a business as bad as media, big business sure is obsessed with it. And there may even be signs that a new class of vanity...

The union for writers behind the free streaming network CBS News 24/7 have reached a tentative contract deal with management at CBS and Paramount. The deal was reached after a tense bargaining period that saw CBS News 24/7 writers stage a 24-hour walkout following the expiration of their contract on March 9. The parties finalized the tentative three-year contract on...

A month ahead of its annual shareholder meeting, major theater chain Cinemark has disclosed its pay for its C-suite, with its top executive seeing a 10 percent bump in compensation for 2025. Sean Gamble, 51, who has led the exhibitor chain as CEO for the past four years, saw total compensation (including stock awards and incentive plan pay) rise to...

WME Group continues to slim down outside of its core talent agency business. The company said Thursday that it has sold its sports marketing agency 160over90 to the French advertising giant Publicis (one of the big three ad agencies alongside WPP and Omnicom). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though the Wall Street Journal pegged the value at more...

SAG-AFTRA has voluntarily recognized a union for its communications and marketing staffers after a card count found that a majority were in support of organizing. After a third-party checker examined union support cards this week, the union, aligned with National Organization of Legal Services Workers, United Auto Workers Local 2320 (NOLSW), was certified. NOLSW already represents organizing staffers at SAG-AFTRA....

Plan B Europe, the London-based branch of Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiners production outfit, has strengthened its team with two key hires. Part of Mediawan since 2022, Plan B Entertainment has confirmed the appointments of Maria Fleischer as executive producer and Charlie Silver as development producer to support the development and production of projects in the U.K. and...

Allie McLarty has been named the SVP of Global Communications at Paramount Studios. The studios chief communications officer Melissa Zukerman made the announcement today in a note to staff. In her new role, McLarty will report in to the head of global communications,Brooke Robertson, working across Paramounts film and television studios, as well as the nascent sports entertainment group. McLarty...

Canal+ Group has named AnneLaure Tingry its first-ever chief data AI (artificial intelligence) officer. She will be reporting to Maxime Saada, chairman and CEO of Canal+, and also join the media companys executive committee. As the global media and entertainment group steps up its focus on artificial intelligence, AnneLaure Tingry will be responsible for leading Canal+s data and AI strategy...

Seven weeks into their strike, unionized staffers at the Writers Guild of America West will lose their health care benefits on Wednesday. WGA West staffers can be covered by the Producer-Writers Guild of America (PWGA) Health Plan, the same plan that is offered to the Hollywood unions members. Staffers accrue coverage on a month-to-month basis as long as they work...

Powerhouse digital creators rep RebeccaRusheenhas joined Hollywood entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency as an agent in its Creators division. Rusheenstarted out in 2019 with Abrams, which later became A3 Artists Agency. She moved to the Gersh Agency in 2024 when it acquired A3s digital and non-scripted divisions. During that time, she has grown the brands of digital creators,...

A federal judge has struck down parts of an executive order seeking to cut off public funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and NPR, finding that the effort was unconstitutional. The First Amendment does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type, wrote U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in an order issued on Tuesday. The executive order, called Ending...

Can movies move Mazdas? The automaker is betting that they can. The car company is launching a new version of its CX-5 SUV, and used this years Academy Awards to launch a film-themed campaign that it plans to bring to video platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Hulu, with CMO Brad Audet telling The Hollywood Reporter that it is thinking about...

Just In Time pulled in more than $2 million last week, its highest tally yet, as Jonathan Groff played his final performance in the musical on March 29. The show, which chronicles the life of singer Bobby Darrin, has been trending up for the past several weeks, as fans flocked to the show ahead of Groffs departure, but reached last...