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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,…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Amazon Prime Day, running from June 23 through 26, certainly has no shortage of discounts, but the e-tailer always has sales — so what’s actually worth snagging during the four-day shopping holiday?…
UFC fighter Josh Hokit says he didn’t intend his “Michelle Obama is a man” comment to be an insult. In fact, he claims, it was meant to be a “compliment.” “I thought I was giving her a compliment,” he said in an appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show. When Helwani expressed skepticism, and began saying…
Kenneth Falcon (pictured above, left) wants all 4,000 of his tradespeople out of a job by 2028. It’s cool: as Netflix‘s director of enterprise operation, that’s kind of his job. Plus, they’ll all move on to the next gig — construction is not so dissimilar from film and TV production. In December 2022, Netflix purchased…
Former Fox News host and MAGA-sphere podcaster Tucker Carlson’s disillusionment with Donald Trump appears to have expanded into a broader frustration with Republicans, and he now says he no longer supports the party. Carlson is now a titan of the podcasting world. Still, for years, his primetime Fox News opinion show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, was…
