SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Showtime’s The Loudest Voice & HBO’s Years And Years. The former premieres on June 30 & the latter debuts tonight. The initial round of voting for the 2019 Emmys ends today, but the opening salvos of the 2020 Emmys start tonight with the debut of Years and Years on HBO…

Rupert Murdoch, the 88-year-old chairman of Fox Corp., has fully recovered after being diagnosed with pneumonia about a month ago, according to a person familiar with the situation. The mogul’s most recent moment in the spotlight came on May 9, when he took the stage at Fox’s investor day, kicking off the event by…

Roger Ailes, the man who monetized vitriol while helping to elect Donald Trump, is about to become a loud presence on the screen once again, but this time he won't be running the show. Ailes is the lead character – indeed, the heavy – in both a Showtime series that premieres next week and a star-laden new movie. If he…

Fox Corp. executive chairman Rupert Murdoch bought shares in the company worth $21.2 million about a week after buying a similar amount “in error” and then quickly selling it again. According to the latest in a series of SEC filings, the company disclosed on Friday that Murdoch bought 600,000 shares in Fox Corp.…

UPDATE, with video Bill Maher has a plan for getting Donald Trump out of the White House – actually, a couple plans: Democrats, impeach. Melania, walk out. After calling on Democrats to “either do something” about what they’re calling a Constitutional crisis “or stop talking about it” – i.e., impeach or cut bait…

Rupert Murdoch began Fox Corp.’s investor day, appearing solo onstage to emphasize the effectiveness of the company’s evolution. The architect of the Fox empire said that even before the milestone Disney deal, which closed in March, Fox was “pivoting at a pivotal moment while staying true of course to our principles…

Reflections on the heyday of scandalous Fleet Street likely won’t stir Broadway audiences with the same vigor that roused the West End when Ink debuted there in 2017. Little matter. James Graham’s play is so well-crafted that not knowing your Sun from your Mirror is a fairly minor hindrance. Opening tonight in a…

EXCLUSIVE: The beleaguered film staff of the various divisions of Fox had to know they would be in for a hellish Thursday when they walked through the gold doors of Building 88 to their offices and noticed something different. The 20th Century Fox logo stenciled on the doors was gone. It was replaced by the blue Fox…

The billionaire set has always looked upon movies as diverting toys. They offer glitz and glamour, but also pose one ominous trap: public scrutiny. This was underscored by breaking news this week involving three high-profile billionaires: Steven Mnuchin, Arnon Milchan and Rupert Murdoch. Mnuchin, the very social but…

Closing time is finally at hand for the $71.3 billion Disney-Fox combination, which will see assets like the fabled Fox film and TV studio, FX Networks, National Geographic and a 30% stake in Hulu move to Disney. The transaction is scheduled to become official just after midnight ET — 12:02 AM, to be exact — on…

MySpace, which was once the most trafficked website on the internet, has admitted that some 50 million user-uploaded songs as well as other files have been lost due to a server malfunction. Concern has been mounting on Reddit and on social media over the past year as users who kept their files on MySpace started…

Hollywood endured a big setback this month, and it had nothing to do with the Oscars. A major studio, 20th Century Fox, officially disappeared into the mist, instantly transforming a once robustly competitive industry into a Disney oligopoly. The ultimate cost in jobs could range as high as 10,000, but the real cost…