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Harold Wheeler, the veteran orchestrator on Broadway and longtime musical director for ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, has died. He was 83. Wheeler died Wednesday from an unspecified cause of death at his home in Los Angeles, Tony Award-winning producer Lamar Richardson told The Hollywood Reporter. Wheeler began as a musical director on Broadway in…
Tyrese Haliburton, the 2024-25 New York Knicks slayer, was forced to sit out this past NBA season following a devastating achilles injury immediately followed by a horrific bout with shingles. The result, in part, was New York sports history. Without their superstar, the Indiana Pacers fell from the second-best team in the league (by virtue…
Lionsgate has picked up the foreign TV rights to the Spanish-language feature filmBelleza, which stars Mexican singer and actress Maite Perroni. The deal for the overseas cable and streaming rights to Belleza beyond the U.S. market was done with Paul Presburger’s Miercoles Entertainment, which has a film slate deal with Lionsgate and is a part…
The nominees for the 2026 ESPYs are out, with New York Knicks hero Jalen Brunson leading a crowded lineup of sports stars for this year’s installment of the award show. Brunson is nominated in the best athlete: men’s sports category alongside Lionel Messi, Shohei Ohtani, and Matthew Stafford. Ohtani is actually nominated in three categories,…
Project Healthy Minds, the tech-focused mental health nonprofit, is adding a prominent media executive to its board of directors. Rich Kleiman, the CEO and co-founder of Boardroom and 35V, will join the organization’s board and help it expand its reach. Kleiman joins a board that already includes NBC Today co-host Carson Daly, Universal Music publishing…
Production assistants on three shows produced by Warner Bros. Television — Abbott Elementary, George & Mandy’s First Marriage and All American — have ratified their first union contracts. The staffers, about 15 in total, unanimously voted to ratify the three separate contracts in a vote that ended Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Their union,…
The estate of Whitney Houston has released a statement refuting Oprah Winfrey‘s recent comments claiming that the late singer fell of a stage while high on The Oprah Winfrey Show. “From the 2009 interview on the Oprah Winfrey show, Whitney absolutely fell off stage, but it was during a sound check and it was due…
Eraser director Chuck Russell had a major problem on the 1995 set of his Arnold Schwarzenegger-led actioner. He and his team caught wind of the fact that their third-act set piece had just been pulled off by Tom Cruise and Brian De Palma on the recently wrapped Mission: Impossible. With Eraser scheduled to release a…
A barrage of seemingly unrelated headlines suggest that Hollywood and Big Tech are on a collision course, and that the next few years will reshape how the world spends its free time and which platforms will dominate. As tech and AI companies push further into entertainment and media, their stewardship of that content (or lack…
Where can Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI movie Artificial go now? That’s the question that has been whirling around Hollywood since the news broke that Amazon MGM Studios was dropping the feature just months after Amazon entered into a $50 billion investment with Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The choice was particularly interesting to Hollywood rank and file, which,…
