Funk pioneer George Clinton has sued his former business partner Armen Boladian to reclaim ownership of his music catalog for alleged fraud and copyright infringement. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Florida federal court, Clinton claims Boladian and several of his companies engaged in a decades long scheme that involved forging his signature on deals that surrendered his rights...

SiriusXM continues to feel the heat from Donald Trump threatening tariffs on automakers. Right now, were a little concerned and cautious about where the ad sales are going, SiriusXM CFO Thomas Barry told the Deutsche Bank Media, Internet Telecom Conference on Tuesday during a session that was webcast. The U.S. President most recently pausing tariffs for the Big Three car...

Singer and actress Kristin Chenoweth has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. Chenoweth is an Emmy and Tony-Award winning singer who originated the role of Glinda the Good onstage in Wicked, and has been seen on screen, including in an Emmy-nominated role in Glee, an Emmy-winning role in Pushing Daisies, and appearances in Schmigadoon!, The West Wing and...

Tony Etz, who executive produced Brian Dennehy-starring telefilms before serving as a CAA agent for 30 years, died Monday in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer, the agency announced. He was 64. During his CAA tenure that began in 1994 as an agent in the TV department and ended as co-head of packaging, Etz represented writers, directors, actors...

Substack is seeing explosive subscriber growth this year, with the crazy political environment and a strategic push into audio and video helping it do so. Substack co-founder Hamish Mckenzie tells The Hollywood Reporter that the platform has passed 5 million paid subscribers. That is up from 4 million just four months ago, and 3 million a year ago. A year...

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang won the podcast of the year award at the 2025 iHeartPodcast Awards. The interview and culture podcast saw the two hosts welcome a number of starry guests over the past year, including Ariana Grande, Charl XCX, Dua Lipa and more. This week, Lady Gaga has been announced as the guest.The podcast also...

If you have the requisite cones and rods, the moment is imprinted on your retina: Dorothy Gale awakens from a nasty bump on the head, opens the door of her drab sepia-toned farmhouse, and crosses over into an eye-popping realm of dazzling primary colors ruby slippers, yellow brick roads and emerald cities. Not only arent we in Kansas anymore, we...

A Los Angeles jury has found that Disney didnt steal the idea for Moana from an animators story about the adventures of a young surfer in Hawaii. After deliberating for just over two hours, the jury on Monday sided with a Disney unit that it didnt infringe on Buck Woodalls copyright to Bucky and the Surfer Boy because none of...

Warner Bros. TV is promoting two veteran executives. Clancy Collins White has been named president creative affairs, a new position at the studio that will add casting and research to her purview. Casting chief Mele Nagler, meanwhile, has been upped to executive vp, reporting to Collins White. Clancy has been an essential part of Warner Bros. Televisions success for more...

Atlantic Theater Company and IATSE have reached a tentative agreement that would cover all production workers employed by the Off-Broadway theater company. The agreement comes after workers at the Atlantic Theater went on strike in January after negotiations for the first union contract covering behind-the-scenes workers, including theatrical electricians and carpenters, painters, wardrobe and costume dressers, fell apart. The strike...

The excitement and cosplay fun of San Diego Comic-Con is coming to Europe. Under an agreement managed by IMG Licensing, SDCC is setting roots outside the United States for the first time in its history, making its European debut in Mlaga, the Andaluca region of Spain, this September, organizers said on Monday. For four days from Sept. 25-28, 2025, the...

Last week, executives at The Walt Disney Co. were still riding high from this years Oscars telecast. Final numbers from Nielsen revealed that the show averaged 19.7 million viewers, perhaps not the ratings bonanza from a decade go, but numbers that put the awards show in elite company with only the NFL. John Campbell, senior VP of streaming brand solutions...

Issa Rae has been vocal about her disappointment with Hollywoods stalled efforts to tell a wider array of stories. And the situation on that front has grown even more dire since she last opined on the subject. During a Saturday keynote conversation at South by Southwest, the creator and actress revisited the subject in the wake of many Hollywoods diversity,...