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Trustees of the American Federation of Musicians' pension plan have agreed to a $26.85 million settlement of a class action lawsuit that claimed they made a series of risky investments that endangered the pensions of thousands of musicians.
"The settlement is a victory for the Trustees, as the plaintiffs failed to…
Walt Disney’s executive chairman and former CEO Bob Iger will forgeo salary and his successor as chief executive Bob Chapek will take a 50% pay cut as companies addresss the economic upheaval and corporate and public pain and PR of the coronavirus.
In a memo to Disney employees, Chapek said that effective April 5, VPs…
Just the other day, in one of President Donald Trump’s daily briefings on the coronavirus, ABC News’ chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl tried to get clarity on an important point: Will everyone who needs a ventilator be able to get one?
“Look, don’t be a cutie pie,” Trump said to Karl, before insisting that…
For Dean Devlin, the idea of the new WGN America series Almost Paradisecame about 14 years ago during his honeymoon in Hawaii. He connected with the island and was intoxicated by island culture, island justice and island spirituality — and wanted to make a show set in Hawaii. His soulful connection to island life…
EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has landed all North American rights toBlood and Money (formerly titled Allagash), an indie thriller starring Emmy-winning Hatfields & McCoys actor Tom Berenger. Long-time cinematographer John Barr wrote and directed the film, his feature directorial debut, which will be released sometime in…
Some of us are addicted to history. We can't help it. I was well on my way to a probably less than useful PhD in Modern European History when I decided to chuck it in favor of a perhaps slightly more useful life as a journalist. But events keep luring me back to the historical pantry for one more bite of the…
On March 16, the 2020 IHeartRadio Music Awards were postponed just two weeks before they were set to air on Fox from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Like virtually all large venues, the Shrine was closed for all events to help slow the spread of the coronavirus by eliminating big crowds.
After the decision to…
Music fueled the soul Sunday night as Fox’s iHeart Living Room Concert for Americaspecial and ABC’s American Idoltied as primetime’s top-rated show to lead the night. The iHeart Living Room Concert, a benefit to provide relief and support to help fight the spread of COVID-19, featured big musical acts including…
EXCLUSIVE: Trioscope Studios, the company behind Netflix's upcoming WWII epic The Liberator, is to adapt a story about the CIA and Fidel Castro's Cuba into a TV series, after partnering with long-form journalism venture Truly*Adventurous.
The two companies are working together to adapt The Havana Job, written by…
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian producer and distributor Media Ranch is plotting an expanded push into the U.S. after signing with ICM Partners.
The company, which recently struck a deal for its variety show format Watch! to Keeping Up With The Kardashians producer Bunim Murray Productions, has signed with the Hollywood talent…
Quibi has released the first trailer for When The Streetlights Go On, the long-in-the-works coming-of-age murder mystery adapted from the Black List feature script by writers Chris Hutton and Eddie O'Keefe, from Paramount TV and Anonymous Content.
Written by O'Keefe and Hutton and directed by Rebecca Thomas, in When Th…
London-based sales firm Film Constellation has boarded international sales rights to Natalie Erika James’ well-received Sundance Midnight debut Relic, whose producers include AGBO and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories.
Scheduled for theatrical release in the U.S. in Q4, 2020, with IFC Midnight, the film was to play at…
