Fox Corp. has set a deal with TV ad measurement and attribution firm iSpot.tv that will provide performance metrics for ads appearing on linear and streaming platforms. In announcing the agreement, Fox said it will employ iSpot's conversion methodology to capture sales activity resulting from TV ads across the company…

Kanopy, which makes an array of film titles available for free to viewers through partnerships with libraries and academic institutions, has named Kevin Sayar as CEO. On October 21, Sayar will succeed Olivia Humphrey, who is moving with her family back to her native Australia and staying on as Kanopy’s executive board…

UK event cinema specialist Secret Cinema saw record ‘box office’ and attendance on its latest production, Casino Royale. According to the company, more than 120,000 customers attended the immersive event screening, which took in just over £8M ($10M) in ticket receipts. The show transformed a 70,000 square foot…

Mrs. Doubtfire has a sure date with Broadway and, as rumored, she’ll be arriving with Beetlejuice‘s Rob McClure in the title role, producers announced this morning. The musical, directed by Jerry Zaks and based on the 1993 Robin Williams hit movie, will begin previews March 9, 2020, at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre…

The two partners behind now-dissolved Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co have filed a libel and trademark infringement lawsuit against Netflix over The Laundromat, the streamer’s Panama Papers movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. The complaint was made to the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut…

UPDATE: 11 PM: Actress Gina Rodriguez late on Tuesday released a second, written apology that goes further than the brief video she had posted in the afternoon. “The word I sang carries with it a legacy of hurt and pain that I cannot even imagine,” Rodriguez wrote. “I feel so deeply protective and responsible to the…

A new three-year music video contract has been unanimously approved by the SAG-AFTRA national board of directors. "I am proud to be part of the team that helped achieve this contract, which includes new set minimums, protections against sexual harassment and better wages for background performers," said Danielle Town…

If there are two things that we learned tonight from the fourth Democratic debate of this primary season it is that Senator Elizabeth Warren is the frontrunner now and these double-digit candidates and multi-hours yak fest make the Academy Awards look like the Indianapolis 500. The former may be a true upturning of…

If you missed Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah offered a play-by-play of all the action. Host Trevor Noah and the Comedy Central team hammed it up at the candidates’ expense by live-tweeting the faceoff; then dissecting the exchanges during a live broadcast as part of their…

Facebook and other tech giants were targets of the Democratic candidates at Tuesday night’s debate, but the presidential hopefuls did differ on how they would rein in the behemoths. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has been the most aggressive in calling for breaking up some of the dominant firms, and most recently…