Sen. Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, is holding a “spotlight hearing” Wednesday in Washington about Paramount Skydance‘s proposed $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. David Ellison, Paramount’s chairman and CEO, will not be able to attend the hearing because of a death in the family, according to the company. “Regretfully, Mr. Ellison…
Australian police have launched an investigation after Ruby Rose accused Katy Perry of sexual assault in a string of social media posts. Perry has strongly denied the claims. Victoria police said on Wednesday that detectives were examining an allegation of “historical sexual assault that occurred in Melbourne in 2010.” The police force did not name…
SALT LAKE CITY — Taylor Frankie Paul, a star of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives ” and a recently scrubbed season of “The Bachelorette,” will not be charged in recent fights with her former partner, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday. Police in the Salt Lake City suburbs of Draper City…
But Cukor insists that Maven was never supposed to be a weapon. He frequently defends the project as nothing more than an integrated data platform, which will afford its human users a dramatically increased capacity to make wise and careful decisions. With this positive vision in mind, Manson makes it at least intermittently possible to…
Close the novel and open your tote bag. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is right around the corner. This weekend, the festival will be returning for its 31st year. Held at USC, the event honors storytellers across genres, hosting readings, screenings and performances. It kicks off with The Times’ Book Prizes ceremony Friday…
United Agents, the London literary and talent agency that reps the likes of Jessie Buckley, Kate Winslet, Olivia Colman, Ricky Gervais and Rosamund Pike, is expanding into to the unscripted business with the launch of a dedicated division. The new arm will represent figures from factual and reality TV alongside digital-first creators and influencers and,…
HBO Max is bringing the knights of Westeros and the pupils of Hogwarts to India for the first time. The Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD)-owned global streaming service is launching in the Asian country with Disney-backed JioHotstar as its exclusive distribution partner. The service launches today and includes Euphoria Season 3, House of the Dragon Season 3 and the upcoming Harry…
PARIS — The rapper formerly known as Kanye West postponed his upcoming show in the city of Marseille after French authorities said they would seek to ban the concert. The decision by Ye came a week after he was banned from entering the U.K., where he was scheduled to headline the Wireless Festival in July,…
U.K. microdrama platform TattleTV – billed as the country’s first dedicated app of its kind – has adapted Charlie Chaplin‘s 1921 feature “The Kid” for vertical mobile viewing, making the silent-era film available exclusively to U.S. audiences. The technology works by generating new image data to fill a vertical frame rather than sacrificing the original…
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is returning to its A Comedy Thing YouTube channel for a second year with new formats including Pun Battle. Channel 4 said A Comedy Thing, which publishes weekly long-form programming for YouTube with up-and-coming comics, has delivered 6.5 million views on YouTube, clocking up 165,000 hours of watch time with an audience…
