Apr 16, 2026, 08:00 AM ET New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Wednesday joined U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer in calling on FIFA to contribute toward World Cup transit security costs. MetLife Stadium will host eight World Cup games, including the tournament final. The Athletic reported earlier this week that NJ Transit is considering charging $100…
The entertainment industry understands better than anyone that a brand is only as good as the experience it delivers. We spend billions ensuring that every frame, every note, every performance, matches the promise we make in the marketing. And yet when it comes to the one street on earth that carries that industry’s name, Hollywood…
The organized crime task force in the Law & Order universe has worked its last case. NBCUniversal has canceled Law & Order: Organized Crime after five seasons. The series, in which Christopher Meloni reprised his SVU character, Elliot Stabler, in a different branch of the NYPD, ran for four seasons on NBC before becoming a…
Universal Pictures is capitalizing on the heat from Sydney Sweeney and the success of The Housemaid by stepping on the gas on its own Sweeney thriller, The Caretaker. Indie horror darling David Bruckner has been tapped to direct the feature project that adapts the upcoming book by Marcus Kliewer and that was initially set up…
After nearly three decades, Netflix founder Reed Hastings is stepping down from the board of directors at the streaming giant. The exec will focus on his philanthropic efforts and won’t stand for reelection at the Netflix annual meeting in June, the company said on Thursday. While it marks the formal end of an era, Hastings…
Who needs Warner Bros.? Netflix reported better-than-anticipated first quarter (2026) revenue thanks to surprisingly strong member growth, particularly in Japan, where the World Baseball Classic was a massive hit. Better ad sales and higher subscription prices also kicked in. We did not get an updated subscriber total on Thursday. What we did get was a…
The Artemis crew held their first press conference after completing a historic 10-day mission around the Moon. Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, shared details of their experience with reporters. On 1 April, the crew blasted off Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and…
Reese Witherspoon, Oscar winning actress, producer and renowned book-lover, sat down with her book club yesterday and learned a surprising fact about their exposure to artificial intelligence. “I said to the 10 of them, ‘How many of you guys use AI?’ And only three of them used AI. And then I said, ‘How many of…
Roundabout Theatre company is bringing a revival of Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid to Broadway next season, in addition to a revival of the musical The Full Monty and a new play by Dominique Morriseau. In the fall, the nonprofit theatre company will stage The Imaginary Invalid, a 17th-century comedy about hypochondria, reimagined by the actor…
Gina Prince-Bythewood‘s first film since 2022’s The Woman King has arrived, as the filmmaker brought Children of Blood and Bone to Paramount’s CinemaCon presentation on Thursday. Prince-Bythewood took the stage alongside stars Thuso Mbedu, Damson Idris, Amandla Stenberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor andRegina King to offer up a first-look at the feature, which is set in an…
