California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he’d consider structural remedies to resolve a lawsuit over the Paramount-WBD merger but dismissed “behavioral” remedies that are hard to enforce, like David Ellison’s pledge that the combined company will release 30 movies a year. “There’s ways where the issue could be resolved with potentially structural remedies, he said […]
Some guys have all the luck, even if sometimes it’s bad. Rod Stewart’s reps said Tuesday that the singer has canceled his One Last Time farewell tour concerts for the next four weeks to recover from a recent “routine coronary stent procedure.” No firm dates were given, but he was booked to play U.S. shows […]
There will be another season of HBO Max’s Harry Potter TV series. The new Harry, Ron and Hermione have received their Hogwarts admission letters, as have the newest additions — four out of Ron’s six siblings. Since those magical owl deliveries, the Ginny Weasley role will be recast for Season 2 due to Gracie Cochrane’s […]
Crunchyroll has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to Makoto Shinkai’s next feature film. The distribution will exclude Asia, except for India. Plot details, along with the title and release date for Shinkai’s next film, are not being disclosed at this time. Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures previously partnered on the global distribution of Shinkai’s Suzume (2023), […]
National CineMedia has agreed to buy Captivate Holdings, a leading operator of digital video elevator and lobby advertising in North America, from PE firm Generation Partners for $275 million. Combining NCM’s cinema advertising with Captivate’s footprint will make it a major player in premium video and digital out-of-home advertising with more than 48,000 screens across […]
For over 75 years, Mel Brooks has been making people laugh. Hard. He’s brought to the screen Mongo, Lili Von Shtüpp, the grandson of a certain mad scientist (aka Young Frankenstein), Frau Blücher (“A little Ovaltine, perhaps?), Louis XVI (“It’s good to be the king”), Max Bialystock, Leo Bloom, Barf, Dark Helmet, President Skroob, Yogurt, […]
As expected, the Writers Guild of America has not taken kindly to Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison’s latest threat to pull the storied studio out of California if state AG Rob Bonta refuses to settle an antitrust suit to block the planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. “By threatening to leave the state because it doesn’t want the […]
Paramount’s Chief Legal Officer Makan Delrahim said that “everything is on the table” when it comes to finding a resolution to a state attorneys general lawsuit seeking to block the company’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. At a Politico conference on Tuesday, Delrahim also defended the company’s consideration of exiting California. California Attorney General […]
Xavier Becerra, the Democratic nominee to become the next governor of California, recommended that state attorneys general and Paramount reach a settlement and avoid an antitrust trial over the proposed Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Weighing in for the first time on the lawsuit, Becerra said at a Politico conference on Tuesday, “I hope it settles […]
Mel Gibson is sharing an update on the development of Lethal Weapon 5 following years of the actor’s intentions to make the sequel. In a new interview, Gibson gave details on what this fifth installment would look like and where the characters would be after all these years. “The characters are quite different. They’re older. […]