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While Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) has long enjoyed provoking audiences with his horror films, he’s found no such satisfaction in the case of his latest feature Fin, which documents a real-life nightmare. Roth’s first documentary spotlights industries that are leading to the death of more than 100,000,000 sharks…

AT&T CEO John Stankey said the company is working closely with regulators on the WarnerMedia-Discovery deal announced in late May and so far hasn’t seen anything “that’s been particularly problematic” in the review process. “No news is good news,” he said on a conference call to discuss the telecom and broadband giant…

Tiffany Haddish, Brad Paisley, and William Shatner are some of the stars appearing during Shark Week, television's longest-running summer event. The Discovery Channel and discovery+ showcase returns for its 33rd year starting Sunday, July 11 and continuing through Sunday, July 18. This year has the most hours of…

AT&T and WarnerMedia are selling Playdemic, the mobile games studio behind Golf Clash, to Electronic Arts for $1.4 billion in cash. It’s the latest in a stream of deals to come from the AT&T and Warner fold — culminating in last’s month’s news that the giant telco is divesting all of WarnerMedia after just three…

Discovery+ has greenlit its first series with Richard Hammond, in which The Grand Tour star will set up a classic car restoration workshop near his home in Herefordshire, UK. Producer by Hammond’s Chimp Television and financier Krempelwood, Richard Hammond's Workshop (working title) will follow the motoring enthusiast…

Aryeh Bourkoff, founder and CEO of independent investment bank LionTree said audio is looking more attractive than video these days as consumers are a bit tapped out on TV. People have 11 hours a day to spend on leisure time, he insisted during a Q&A at the Tribeca Festival Friday, and if that’s mostly video it’s a…

Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi and CFO/COO Sean Gamble both praised the pending mergers of MGM and Amazon and Discovery and WarnerMedia, saying they would help strengthen film production. “We’re positive about this combination,” Zoradi said in response to a question about Warner Bros. Discovery. “We think this could be very…

Discovery CEO David Zaslav said WarnerMedia’s content machine plus his company’s global reach will more than secure the merged ops a place at the Netflix and Disney+ winners table. At a media conference Tuesday, he gave multiple shout-outs to Casey Bloys, HBO’s hit The Mare of Easttown, CNN/Jeff Zucker, theatrical…

Two decades ago, Edgar Bronfman Jr., having just acquired control of Universal, took me on a tour of his studio. Pointing to the black tower, he told me: "I hate black buildings. That one will soon be white." It's still black. I remember his faux promise as a sort of metaphor for why Hollywood always greets corporate…

GAC Media, a newly-formed group of U.S. investors, has acquired the Great American Country network, a staple of country music fans, from Discovery for an undisclosed price. Contemporaneous with the deal, GAC Media also acquired Ride TV, a 24-hour, high-definition network for equestrian sports, culture and lifestyle…

One by one titans of media are delicately weighing in on deals last month that will reshape the landscape with Comcast CEO Brian Roberts saying AT&T's move to unload WarnerMedia "speaks for itself." "I look at our company and I don't think there's a similarity. I think for us, we are very pleased with our talent, our…

Discovery today announced the new name of the proposed standalone global entertainment company that will emerge from the combination of WarnerMedia and Discovery assets: "Warner Bros. Discovery." “The Warner Bros. Discovery name will honor, celebrate and elevate the world's most-storied creative studio in the world…