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 pu…

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 Wednesd…

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 having…

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…

There is a good chance the nearly three-year-old legal war between Fox and Netflix over executive poaching by the streaming service will still go to trial in May. However, if new motions see the case tossed beforehand and there is no trial, the studio still owned by Rupert Murdoch says it will seeking damages of "only…

(UPDATED 6:15 PM PT with Fox statement) Fox and Netflix's long legal dust-up over the streamer's snatching of two executives almost three years ago is heating up as the former attempts to get the upcoming trial pushed back and the sparring latter wants to draw Rupert Murdoch's New Fox and almost every other studio in…

In the kind of game that makes football fans proud of their devotion, it came down to the final minutes in last night's matchup between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs in the final Thursday Night Football of the season on Fox.

At the end, and after some verbal flubs by ESPN's Stephen A. Smith before…

The Walt Disney Company had a very good showing this morning with the unveiling of the Golden Globes nominations and CEO Bob Iger was quick to show the love for the House of Mouse's expanding empire.

More active than usual on social media the past few months, Iger took to Twitter on Thursday to offer praise to some of …

UPDATE, 12:34 PM: It took them a day but both Fox and Disney have now swung back at the $1.75 billion-dollar lawsuit over an abandoned Malaysian theme park based on the properties from the once Rupert Murdoch owned studio.

And, no surprise both defendants Fox and the Bob Iger run House of Mouse, say the filing in fede…

UPDATED with dual-structure vote totals. Waxing nostalgic about 21st Century Fox’s decades-long run in the media business, Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch offered a tribute to his father, Rupert Murdoch, during the company’s annual shareholder meeting.

Barring a major twist in the long march toward a $71.3 billion d…

With plenty else to chew on during this busy week of earnings, stock volatility and political strife, the media business now enters the weekend with a fresh round of speculation about a key piece of the overall M&A puzzle.

The  portfolio of 22 regional sports networks owned by 21st Century Fox must be divested by Disne…