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What the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger settlement means for Hollywood
A day after Paramount Skydance and a group of state attorneys general announced a settlement clearing the way for its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, questions remain about whether the deal does enough to protect consumers and competition. The…
Jeffrey Katzenberg Says Hollywood Must Accept AI as a Tool: It 'Is Not Going Away'
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the legendary Hollywood producer and executive, thinks the entertainment industry needs to accept AI if it wants to remain relevant. In a 2,377-word essay posted to X on Wednesday, Katzenberg leaned on his history working…
The Harvard Lampoon Targeted The Hollywood Reporter - Is Hollywood Still Targeting The Lampoon?
Before there was the 1978 film Animal House, before Jim Downey became the youngest writer on a nascent sketch comedy show called Saturday Night Live, and before there was even a mass-market humor rag published out of West Hollywood called National…
'We all got played': Hollywood torn on Paramount settlement with AGs
Paramount Skydance's deal with the 12 states that sued to block its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery was meant to end a fight. Instead, the settlement has split Hollywood and heightened anxiety over the entertainment industry's future. We are…
Dick Guttman, Renowned Hollywood Publicist to Stars Including Barbra Streisand and Clint Eastwood, Dies at 93
Dick Guttman, the longtime Hollywood publicity executive and screenwriter who worked with clients including Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood and many more, died Sept. 19 in Los Altos, Calif. He was 93. Over his many decades in publicity at Rogers &…
A Hollywood happy ending for unnecessary Paramount drama
The Paramount-Warner Bros. deal is going through — and that's a good thing. We said California Attorney General Rob Bonta should reach an agreement — and he did. Left-wing activists are upset. “Gavin Newsom hands huge win to…
Media: 15 Years in Prison for Former Hollywood Mogul Weinstein
ARCHIVE – Harvey Weinstein appears in criminal court in Manhattan. Photo: Adam Gray/POOL Bloomberg/AP/dpa/Archive photo – NOTE: For editorial use only and only with full attribution as shown above Former Hollywood film mogul Harvey…
All Creatures Great and Small Charlotte star is the daughter of Hollywood actress
All Creatures Great and Small series seven is finally underway, and Tristan Farnon's blossoming romance with Charlotte Beauvoir appears to be going from strength to strength. The popular Channel 5 period drama returned on Thursday (September 17)…
Ari Emanuel Dishes on His Hollywood Career, Paramount Merger and Relationship With Elon Musk
Ari Emanuel has failed a lot in his career. He flubbed his first job interview at Creative Artists Agency. He later left CAA to join a new agency that folded after just four years. He had to call off the initial public offering for the agency he…
Nick Cannon Gets Candid About His Hollywood Past, Life as a Father of 12 and Plans for the Future
Nick Cannon just might be the busiest man in Hollywood. He's a TV and podcast host, radio personality, comedian, rapper and actor. He's also a dad of 12 with six different women. “It's challenging,” Cannon, 45, tells Us of his hectic…
EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Weinstein's Brutal Nickname in Hollywood Revealed by Top Talent Agent - 'The Man's a Nihilist
Harvey Weinstein 's disgrace began before serious allegations were levied against him, RadarOnline.com can reveal. During his days in Hollywood, Weinstein created quite a reputation for himself, according to Ari Emanuel, a top entertainment…
All Creatures Great and Small star is the daughter of a Hollywood icon
There's been plenty of change to speak of in season seven of All Creatures Great and Small, including blossoming romances for the men of Skeldale House. The much-loved Channel 5 period drama returned on Thursday (September 17), entering a post-war…
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years for 2006 sex assault
Weinstein, who was at the center of abuse allegations that spurred the # MeToo movement in Hollywood, was resentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley. In 2020, Weinstein was…
Oscar-nominated actress who hid her Indian roots to become a Hollywood star
Before Hollywood knew her as Merle Oberon, she was Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, known to her family as Queenie. She was born in Bombay in 1911. Her father, Arthur Thompson, was British, while her mother's family had roots in Sri Lanka. The…
Mahershala Ali Digs Into Why Being A Hollywood Actor Is A 'Frustrating Experience' (And It Ain't Just Blade)
Actor Mahershala Ali is an acclaimed talent in Hollywood, one who famously won the Academy Award for his work in Berry Jenkins' Moonlight. Unlike the La La Land Best Picture mixup, his win was clear back in 2017. Still, the film industry is a…
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