During a year rife with disruption, the entertainment industrys top business managers the advisors who handle many important strategic and financial decisions for their star clients are set to convene together at The Hollywood Reporters 14th annual power event in Beverly Hills next month. John McILwee, founder of J. McILwee Associates, Inc., has been chosen as the honoree to receive...

April King has joined talent agency Artist Collective Entertainment (ACE) as a partner. King moves to the company from WME, where she spent two years. She brings to ACE her roster of artists including P-Valley star Brandee Evans, Grammy-nominated singer and actress Keri Hilson, former Destinys Child singer LeToya Luckett and Polite Societys Priya Kansara. Prior to WME, King spent...

Newsmax has settled a defamation lawsuit brought by Smartmatic over false claims the right-wing news channel aired during the 2020 presidential election. The deal was reached on Thursday after jury selection started. Terms of the agreement, which averts a trial scheduled to start with opening statements next week, werent disclosed. Newsmax is pleased to announce it has resolved the litigation...

Lachlan Murdoch saw his compensation rise in Foxs fiscal 2024, while Rupert Murdoch is in line to receive some enhanced retirement benefits in connection to his decision to step away from the company last year. Fox revealed the pay packages in its annual proxy filing Thursday afternoon. Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch secured a pay package valued at $23.8 million,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law on Thursday that offer new financial protections to children who perform and appear in income-generating online content. One of those bills, California Assembly Bill 1880, expands Californias longtime Coogan Law protections for child performers to influencers and online content creators who are minors. The Coogan Law, which was signed into law...

Ultimate Fighting Championship and former fighters suing for wage suppression have reached a new deal to settle a class action accusing the MMA promoter of violating antitrust laws. TKOGroup born out of the merger between UFC and WWE will pay $375 million to resolve the lawsuit, according to a Thursday securities filing. The agreement was reached after their last deal...

The artificial intelligence research company that inked a notable partnership with Lionsgate to train its AI model on the studios massive 18,000-title movie and TV library is now looking to encourage the use of the emerging tech with a fund for indie filmmakers. Runway, led by CEO Cristbal Valenzuela, unveiled The Hundred Film Fund, which it says will provide grants...

Live Nation Entertainment has unveiled plans for a new 50,000-seat stadium in north Toronto to host top global music acts. Rogers Stadium, to be built on a former runway, will open in June 2025 on former Downsview Airport lands earlier slated to host a giant film studio complex. Live Nation is partnering with Northcrest Developments after it shelved plans for...

The World With RichardEngeland Yalda Hakim, a new weekly global affairs podcast from the well-known NBC News and Sky News faces, will only launch on Wednesday, Oct. 9. But its two stars are already busy preparing for it. The podcast, revealed exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, promises to combine eyewitness reporting from the front line of the worlds...

A new $40 million fund, called theNext Narrative Africa Fund, has been unveiled to empower content creators in Africa and the diaspora and finance the development, production and marketing of projects that confront and shift long-standing narratives about Africa. It is being set up byNext Narrative Africa, a multimedia production company telling African stories for global impact, and Kenyan creative...

Amid a long summer season of cost-cutting and budget trimming in Hollywood, Disney has made a new round of cuts within its corporate structure impacting staffers. We continually evaluate ways to invest in our businesses and more effectively manage our resources and costs to fuel the state-of-the-art creativity and innovation that consumers value and expect from Disney, a rep for...

Two years after SAG-AFTRA indicated that it wanted to bring intimacy coordinators into the union, the labor group has taken a first step towards making that goal a reality. On Wednesday the performers union said it had filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. SAG-AFTRA is seeking to bargain on behalf of intimacy coordinators...

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will be deposed as part of a lawsuit from authors involving the companys artificial intelligence technology. U.S. District Judge Thomas Hixson on Tuesday rejected Metas bid to bar the deposition of Zuckerberg, pointing to evidence indicating that hes the principal decision maker of the tech giants AI initiatives. Authors Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher...