Broadway gained momentum heading into Labor Day weekend, with cumulative grosses for the industry up 11 percent and all shows posting gains compared to the prior week. The Outsiders returned to its streak of breaking the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre house record, now for an 8th time with $1.52 million for the week ended Sept. 1, up close to $100,000...

Two years after his Reliable Sources show was cancelled by CNN, Brian Stelter is rejoining the media network. Im returning to CNN in a brand new role as Chief Media Analyst, the reporter announced in an edition of the networks Reliable Sources newsletter on Tuesday. Ill be appearing on air, developing digital content, and helming this newsletter. Stelter noted that...

DirecTV CFO Ray Carpenter said the company will continue to fight as long as it needs to amid a carriage dispute with Disney, which has caused a number of Disney channels including ABC and ESPN to go dark for DirecTV customers. On a call with media and analysts Tuesday, Carpenter said the satellite TV company is pushing for skinny, genre-based...

Brooke Shields was elected president of Actors Equity in late May, and now heads the union of more than51,000 actors and stage managers on Broadway and nationwide. Its the first union role for the longtime actress, who is largely known for her on-screen roles, but has also appeared five times on Broadway. Now, a few months in, Shields spoke withThe...

YouTube became the first streaming service to command more than 10 percent of all TV use in the United States in July. That number also is good for another first: YouTube was the top distributor of TV programming for the month, dethroning Disney and becoming the first streaming-only company to lead Nielsens media distributor rankings. Viewing of YouTube on televisions...

As marketers look for new ways to attract moviegoers, TikTok has released stats showing it can have an impact on getting users to the theaters. According to a recent survey from TikTok, users of the social media app already have a larger affinity for going to the theaters users are more than 44 percent more likely than non-users to go...

A veteran Hollywood union is backing an ambitious push to unionize film and television production assistants, a move that has the potential to reshape how many entry-level creatives break into the industry. The Hollywood branch of Laborers International Union of North America (LiUNA), Local 724, is partnering with the grassroots group Production Assistants United to organize one of the last...

Brandt Joel, a top agent at WME who represents the likes of Jason Momoa and Matthew McConaughey, has become embroiled in a bigotry storm at the company after sending, and then deleting, an incendiary text to a WhatsApp group in reaction to the killing of six Israeli hostages over the weekend. On Sunday, Israels military said it has recovered the...

Disney finds itself at the center of another major TV carriage dispute, with its channels now unavailable in millions of homes. This time, the company and the satellite TV giant DirecTV find themselves at odds, with a number of Disney channels including ABC and ESPN going dark for DirecTV customers. The Walt Disney Co. is once again refusing any accountability...

SAG-AFTRA is praising the California state Senate for passing a law that restricts the usage ofartificial intelligence-createddigital replicas of dead performers. The actors union shared in a statement shortly after the passage of AB 1836 on Saturday, For those who would use the digital replicas of deceased performers in films, TV shows, videogames, audiobooks, sound recordings and more, without first...

Negotiations for a new contract for Teamsters-represented casting directors paused on Friday without a deal, the union announced. Negotiations for around 700 casting workers based in Los Angeles and New York were originally set to conclude at the end of the week, but the union stated additional bargaining sessions would be scheduled before the current contract expires on Sept. 30....

The musical adaptation of The Notebook will play its final Broadway performance on Dec. 15. The musical, which features a score by Ingrid Michaelson and a book by Bekah Brunstetter (This Is Us), opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on March 14, 2024, after premiering at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. The musical is set to launch a First National Tour in...

Annapurna has partnered with games maker Remedy Entertainment to turn the Control and Alan Wake video game franchises into films, TV series and other projects. Annapurna will also work with Remedy as a co-production and co-finance partner to adapt the upcoming game Control 2. Remedy and Epic Games Publishing also recently launched Alan Wake 2. The news comes as Annapurnas...