A former sound engineer who wrote a memoir about working on the Fleetwood Mac album Rumors is suing the creators of the Broadway play Stereophonic for allegedly stealing copyrighted material from the book. In the suit, filed in the Southern District Court of New York this week, Kenneth Caillat, the former sound engineer, and his co-author Steven Stiefel, allege that...

Spanish- and Portuguese-language content creators and executives from Europe, Latin America and beyond are gearing up for four days of screenings, panels, keynotes, market meetings and social events at Iberseries Platino Industria in Madrid. The fourth edition of the industry gathering in the Spanish capital organized by the Secuoya Foundation, Spains largest rights collection agency EGEDA, and the Ibero-American Federation...

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, the production and finance company that has backed theMatrixandOceans franchises, is undergoing a small round of layoffs. The banner, led by CEO Steve Mosko, has cut eight staffers in business affairs, administration as well as film and TV roles over the course of the last couple weeks, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The pink slips arrive...

New York and Los Angeles-based casting professionals have voted to ratify a new three-year agreement with studios and streamers. The Teamsters Local 399, which represents the group alongside Local 817, announced on Tuesday that 91.85 percent of its bargaining unit voted to support the deal. The two Locals bargain on behalf of around 700 freelance casting directors, associate casting directors...

IMDb has unveiled a feature allowing members of SAG-AFTRA to display their affiliation with the performers union on their public and IMDbPro profiles. The Amazon-owned online film and television database introduced verified badges for union members in September. As part of our ongoing work to empower entertainment professionals to showcase themselves and their careers on IMDbPro, weve launched a new...

OpenAI has closed a massive $6.6 billion funding round that values the generative artificial intelligence giant at $157 billion. The company announced the news in a blog post Wednesday, writing that the new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that help people solve hard problems....

ABC News and the ABC stations group were impacted by layoffs Wednesday, part of an ongoing round of restructuring at Disney. Some 75 staffers at ABC News and at ABCs owned local TV stations will be let go, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, split about evenly between the national news organization and the station group. No programming will be impacted,...

In the biggest overhaul to its mobile app since 2008, The New York Times is rolling out a completely new app experience, one that brings all of its products and brands into one place, and adds personalized recommendations to users in a bid to help solve the problem of news discovery. I think one of the huge things we heard...

Charter Spectrum has cut a new carriage deal with NBCUniversal, one that will bring its Peacock streaming service to the pay-TV giants TV customers at no extra charge. With the addition of Peacock, Spectrum will offer some $65 worth of streaming services to customers of its Spectrum TV Select packages, including Peacock, Disney+, ESPN+, Paramount+, AMC+, BET+, ViX, Max and...

The trend of demand for mainstream TV series and growth in Fremantles film business, thanks to the likes of Luca Guadagninos Queer, starring Daniel Craig, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Pablo Larrans Maria starring Angelina Jolie were among the key topics of debate as executives fromthe production giantin Madridon Wednesday on the second day of the fourth edition ofIberseries Platino Industria. Seb...

Fifth Season has expanded its sales partnership with Roku, taking on Rokus unscripted originals slate for Latin America and Canada, in addition to the territories Fifth Season already handles. Highlights of the deal, announced ahead of the international television market Mipcom later this month, include second seasons of Rokus Honest Renovations featuring Jessica Alba, Morimotos Sushi Master, UFO Cowboys, Reptile...

There was a new top ticket on Broadway last week, as Sunset Boulevard, starring Nicole Scherzinger, began previews. The musical revival, which has been reimagined by director Jamie Lloyd, only played one performance at the St. James Theatre last week, on Sept. 28, but brought in $304,934 and played to capacity. The show commanded an average ticket price of $187.42,...

Disneys TV units are undergoing a major reorganization. The media giant announced Tuesday that it will shutter its ABC Signature studio, combining its operations with 20th Television. Additionally, the comedy and drama development teams at Hulu and ABC are merging. Karey Burke, president of 20th TV, will continue to lead the combined studio. Simran Sethi has been upped to president...