Want to dress like Emily Cooper in the Netflix series Emily In Paris? Netflix and Google have struck a deal to help make that happen. In a multifaceted advertising deal, Google will become the title sponsor of Emily In Paris, including the just-released season four, as well as earlier seasons (the first time Netflix library seasons have gained a title...

Jeanette Moreno Kings daughter is 17 and wants to eventually work in animation. As the president of The Animation Guild a union that represents more than 5,000 artists, writers, technicians and production workers who have been credited on Kung Fu Panda 4, Wish and other recent releases Moreno King, you might think, would eagerly encourage this dream. But at this...

Disney has made a significant hire meant to bolster its streaming efforts, with the company bringing on board Adam Smith as chief product and technology officer for Disney entertainment and ESPN. Smith, who starts next month, will oversee the technology development and deployment in streaming, networks, advertising, production technologies and other digital touchpoints across Disney Entertainment and ESPN. He will...

TelevisaUnivision is adding to its sports portfolio. The Spanish-language media giant has inked a multiyear deal with Major League Baseball, including multiple new windows of programming, as well as playoff games. TelevisaUnivision networks will begin broadcast MLB games Aug. 20, continuing through the postseason. Perhaps the most important component of the deal is the playoff games, with the company having...

Verve, the literary and talent agency, is adding to its leadership ranks. The Los Angeles-based representation firm has hired executive Jennifer Jones as its general counsel/head of business affairs and promoted partner Liz Parker to managing partner, the agency said on Thursday. Jones arrives from Cond Nast, where she worked for three years as head of global business affairs, leading...

Members of the Crooked Media union unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement, gaining provisions including minimum starting salaries of $80,000, AI protections and a minimum of 49 days of paid time off. The 61-member unit of Crooked Media, which produces podcasts including Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It, ratified the agreement after more than a year of...

Does signing up for Disneys popular streaming service mean you have agreed to never sue the entertainment giant over anything forever? That is what Disney argues in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a 42-year-old New York doctor whose family claims had a fatal allergic reaction after eating at an Irish pub in Disney Springs in October. Disney is asking a...

Lionsgate has extended longtime CEOJon Feltheimers contract for another five years through July 31, 2029. Feltheimer signed a new deal in 2020 that aimed to keep him at the studio through Aug. 2025. On Aug. 8, Lionsgates compensation committee approved a new employment agreement with the studio head to keep him as CEO for another five years, the studio said...

The final round of Emmy voting may not kick off for another day, but there are already Emmys to hand out. The juried awards, those screened by a panel of professionals in the appropriate peer groupsin this case animation, costume design, emerging media programming, and motion and title designwere announced on Wednesday. Winners include Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake and...

The Writers Guild of America West is prohibiting its members from working with producer Steve Small and his company Fifty Feet Movie, LLC. The union notified members on Wednesday that it had placed Small, a former Paradigm agent and Emmett/Furla Films executive who has produced the indies The Hungover Games (2014), Cash Out (2024) and the upcoming Armored, and his...

Inevitable Foundation, the non-profit that focuses on supporting mid-career disabled screenwriters, is following up a July study on disability portrayals in film and television with a call to action in Hollywood. The open letter, released on Wednesday, coincides with a billboard campaign in Las Angeles and New York City calling out the 66 percent of respondants to the study that...

Hollywood actors union SAG-AFTRA has inked a deal with artificial intelligence ads marketplace Narrativ, offering union members the ability to license their digital voice likeness through the platform. Under the new pact, union performers who wish to offer their digital audio replicas on Narrativ can set their own wage rates, as long as they meet or exceed the unions commercials...

RuPauls Drag Race host Michelle Visage has signed with Verve. The TV personality, radio/podcast host, recording artist and author travels between Los Angeles and London as a judge on the American hit VH1 reality series and its international spinoffs like RuPauls Drag Race UK, where she appears alongside RuPaul, Graham Norton and Alan Carr. Her judging duties also took Visage...