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Penske Media subsidiary Rolling Stone has acquired a majority interest in Life is Beautiful, the music, arts and ideas festival held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. Former Zappos CEO and visionary entrepreneur Tony Hsieh founded the festival in 2013, as part of his vision to transform and revitalize the underserved…

EXCLUSIVE:  The former Mayor of New York City turned controversial Donald Trump fixer, Rudy Giuliani, is becoming great fodder for feature documentaries. This morning, Deadline has learned that a second docu is already in production on the former NYC-based U.S. Attorney mob crusader from MRC Non-Fiction and Rolling Sto…

EXCLUSIVE: A wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom! Rolling Stone is teaming with Bungalow Media + Entertainment to develop Little Richard: I Am Everything. The documentary, which will be directed by Lisa Cortes (All In: The Fight for Democracy) and executive produced by Dee Rees (Mudbound), will spotlight the…

If you find yourself somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert and the drugs are starting to take hold, you might as well continue on the road to a Colorado cabin where author Hunter S. Thompson wrote some of his most famous works. The cabin for the late author behind the best-selling novel Fear and Loathing i…

The July 4 weekend usually focuses on patriotic and classical music set to fireworks. But there were a few other developments that set off pop music explosions this week, including more back and forth in the ongoing feud between Taylor Swift and manager Scooter Braun, and Carole King’s strange explanation of why she…

Rolling Stone will premiere a documentary series on the infamous rise and takedown of the world's most elusive drug kingpin, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera. Five-episode USA v. Chapo: The Drug War Goes on Trial, directed by Bernardo Ruiz, from Rolling Stone and Jigsaw Productions, also gives viewers a…

Rolling Stone and Imagine Documentaries are partnering to produce Sound & Vision, a rock and roll anthology series of immersive films that will delve deep into music and cultural history. Mined from the extensive Rolling Stone archive, and helmed by visionary and award-winning filmmakers, each episode is a specific…

Penske Media Corp. has bought a 49% stake in Rolling Stone, giving the company full control of the storied publishing brand. Terms were not disclosed for the deal, which took effect January 22,but was announced today. Along with the online and print magazine, the transaction includes all event and licensing rights, as…

It's starting to feel a lot like that Joe Arpaio likes to sue media outlets almost as much as he liked violating the constitutional rights of the detained when he was the much-spotlighted sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County for 24 years. Convicted of contempt of court back in July of last year, the 2020 Senate…

Screenwriter and author Bret Easton Ellis claims free speech is being muzzled in the current political climate and that Hollywood has become “more uninteresting” as creativity is stifled. Speaking to Rolling Stone, the author of the generation-defining book Less Than Zero and screenwriter for American Psycho awaits a…

Johnny Depp — “alternately hilarious, sly and incoherent” in a major new Rolling Stone profile focusing on the actor’s legal and financial woes — has, according to the article, made $650 million on films that netted $3.6 billion. “Almost all of it,” says the magazine, “is gone.” The piece, titled “The Trouble With John…

PMC chief Jay Penske has closed a major deal to acquire a controlling interest in Wenner Media, the parent company of the venerable rock music bible Rolling Stone. Jann Wenner, who founded the magazine in 1967 with Ralph Gleason in San Francisco with a $7,500 loan from family members, will still be involved and take…