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Neil Sedaka, the buoyant singer-songwriter and pianist who had No. 1 hits with “Laughter in the Rain,” “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” “Bad Blood” and, for Captain & Tennille, “Love Will Keep Us Together,” died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 86. “Our family is devastated by the sudden passing of our beloved husband,…
Paramount‘s $111 billion megadeal for Warner Bros. Discovery is officially a go. The two companies formally unveiled the deal Friday after Netflix formally bowed out of the running a day earlier, citing a price that was “no longer financially attractive.” Paramount mogul David Ellison said:“From the very beginning, our pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery has…
SAG-AFTRA has been making more moves in the podcast space as video podcasts gain momentum on streamers and more. Recently, The Pete Davidson Show, the first original podcast launched by Netflix, made headlines after signing a SAG-AFTRA podcast agreement. The move may chart a course as more podcasts pop up on streamers, and as SAG-AFTRA…
During the pandemic, Grammy Award-winning musician Anderson .Paak was looking for a way to connect with his son’s two obsessions at the time: YouTube videos and K-pop. “He was like eight years old, and [I didn’t know] about either of those things,” .Paak tells The Hollywood Reporter. So he started pulling from his own experiences…
The FCC has signed off on Charter Communications’ $34.5 billion acquisition of Cox Enterprise. The mega-merger was announced in May 2025, and will see Charter, the second largest cable company in the U.S. acquire Cox, another one of the largest cable companies, with six million subscribers. The combined entity will take the Cox name and…
Now that Warner Bros. Discovery has officially lost Netflix as a suitor when the streamer declined to raise its bid, the studio is expected to agree to sell itself in full to Paramount. The next question becomes: what does the megadeal mean for David Ellison’s empire? Expect the partners to highlight the positive when an…
With Warner Bros. Discovery closing in on their new mega deal, Netflix now finds itself $2.8 billion richer. The streaming giant on Friday confirmed that Paramount paid out the $2.8 billion fee that WBD was obligated to pay in connection with terminating their signed deal. With the fee paid out, Netflix’s deal for Warner Bros….
Jason Blum’s name is synonymous with horror. And look up the word prolific, you’ll likely find him as part of that definition. Blum has over 200 produced credits to his name, mostly in movies but in television too. In 2025, he saw seven movies released, all in the horror field except one, the true-life drama…
Sometimes a song captures a mood better than any prose. When David Ellison was revealed as the winner in the two-man bid to bethe last king of Hollywood, or at least a key part of its hopefully ongoing legacy, a line came to mind: the title lyric from Fleet Foxes’ 2020indie-rock power ballad“Can I Believe…
After the bidding war over Warner Bros. Discovery ended with streaming giant Netflix bowing out of the race, leaving the field to David Ellison’s Paramount late on Thursday, the David Zaslav-led Hollywood studio is expected to soon make the $111 billion megadeal from Team Ellison official. Wall Street analysts have started chiming in on what…
