Bruce Springsteen may have set an unbeatable bar for Broadway solo shows with his 2017-18 box office record-breaker Springsteen on Broadway, but as last week’s announcement of an upcoming Broadway concert series by former Smiths frontman Morrissey suggests, the Boss’s unmatchable success might be more encouraging than…

President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are embarking on a 13-city tour beginning this fall, in which they engage each other in conversation, without an interviewer posing awkward questions. The events, produced by Live Nation, kick off November 13 in Las Vegas, after the conclusion…

Continuing to prepare for life after the Disney deal, 21st Century Fox said it has led a $100 million fundraising round for a yet-to-launch social broadcasting platform called Caffeine. The round also included participation from existing Caffeine investors Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners, as well as other…

In a scene from a new documentary, directed by Colin Hanks, about his friends in the Eagles Of Death Metal rock band and the Paris terror attack of November 13, 2015, the band's front-man Jesse Hughes makes clear that he will be marked by that night forever. "I take it as a holy charge, this duty of leadership that&#8221…

Liberty Media is too important a company to ignore. But the Q1 earnings statement out this morning is a jumble after it spun off Starz and formally took control of Sirius XM. It reports net earnings of $8.1B, up from $151M in the quarter last year — almost all of the gains from transactions — on revenues of $789M, up…

Liberty Media owns about 27% of the live entertainment power, so it’s not surprising to see its CEO at the head of the table. Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino says that Greg Maffei — a former CFO at Microsoft and Oracle — can help “as our team executes on the three-year plan, driving profitability and shareholder value.&#8221…

This isn’t a complete surprise following the announcement late last month that Madison Square Garden Executive Chairman Jim Dolan resigned from the Live Nation board. MSG had 3.9M Live Nation shares — about 2% of the total — and says this morning that it sold all of the stock for $44 million. That comes to about…

The announcement, in a Live Nation SEC filing today, offers no explanation for the resignation that it says was tendered Friday and was “effective immediately.” But it follows the surprise year-end resignation of Irving Azoff, who was the entertainment company’s executive chairman and is close to James Dolan. (Indeed…

EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: Hollywood knows that, when it comes to Madonna, never count her down and out. Because few performers are as shrewd about their careers as this 53-year-old multi-hyphenate singer, actress, producer, and now film writer and director who has stayed buzz-worthy for three decades. I’ve learned…

The trading day ended with a thud. The benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 wound up -2.1% as word spread that Germany might balk at a proposal to help bail out debt-laden members of the European Union including Greece and Portugal. That affected media stocks; the Dow Jones U.S. Media Index fell 3%. Disney was the hardest…

The federal government will have to slash $1.2T in spending, mostly beginning in 2013, if the 12-member congressional Super Committee can’t strike a deficit reduction deal soon. They still appear split — even though, as a practical matter, they have to reach an agreement by midnight in order to have something ready…

Investors seemed to like what they heard at today’s annual confab for John Malone’s Liberty Media. Shares of the hodge-podge of companies it either owns or controls were up on a day when the market was shaken by new fears that the European debt crisis will widen. Liberty Starz ended the day +1% and Liberty Capital was…