EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have tapped Lori Rovner to head business and legal affairs for Imagine Entertainment. As EVP in the newly formed role, Rovner will lead the business affairs operations and manage all aspects of the company's legal strategy, policy and procedure…
New York Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast described a pattern of repeated sexual assault by producer Harvey Weinstein, telling jurors in her opening argument Wednesday that they will come to see the famous Hollywood producer as "a sexual predator and a rapist."
The jury of seven men and five women listened…
Former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow says a bombshell rape allegation made against him this week is “ludicrous and untrue.” It is his first response to the claim made by his successor Deborah Dugan in an EEOC filing that Portnow raped an unidentified female recording artist.
“This document is filled with…
The previously announced revival of Charles Randolph-Wright’s play Blue, directed by Phylicia Rashad, will play a 16-week engagement at Harlam’s legendary Apollo Theater, with Tony winner Leslie Uggams and Emmy winner Lynn Whitfield heading the cast.
The production was announced last spring with the intention of…
EXCLUSIVE: Former Gersh talent agent Ana Bedayo has joined Grandview as a talent manager.
Before Gersh, Bedayo was at Management 360. She transitioned to entertainment from politics, where she was at consulting firm Dewey Square Group. It is unclear at this time which actors she will bring with her.
Bedayo said, “I…
EXCLUSIVE: Philo, the sports-free streaming bundle that launched nationally a bit more than two years ago, is starting to run its first rolling-stock commercials as part of a new marketing campaign.
Mixing 15-, 30- and 60-second spots across digital and linear platforms, with a focus on major markets like New York, LA…
One year after signing a deal to open its first U.S. production hub in New Mexico, Netflix has exceeded its spending targets in the state. The streaming giant spent more than $150 million in New Mexico in 2019, employing more than 2,000 production vendors and hiring over 1,600 cast and crew members, Economic…
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday reappointed UTA Co-President Jay Sures to the University of California Board of Regents.
The reappointment requires confirmation by the state senate and will take effect on March 2, Newsom’s office said. There is no compensation. The talent agency exec, a Democrat, was first appointed to…
Recently oustedRecording Academy president and CEO Deborah Dugan’s explosive EEOC complaint includes allegations that she was sexually harassed last year by Joel Katz, the Academy's general counsel. Katz today issued a statement through his attorney "categorically" denying her claim.
Dugan alleges that Katz harassed…
Nearly 40 years after its celebrated Off Broadway debut and subsequent hit movie adaptation, Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play, opening tonight on Broadway at the Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre, has lost little of its power. Even in a Broadway landscape that could give home to the…
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said Tuesday that the streamer's army of nominations and awards — flowing freely this season — is a magnet for top talent and an insurance policy of sorts to attract A-listers in a cycle of prestige content to keep and attract viewers.
Every nod and statuette furthers the…
The high-profile departure of Friends from Netflix after its run as one of the most-watched shows on the streaming service elicited shrugs from the company’s management team during their fourth-quarter earnings interview Tuesday.
Asked by Michael Morris, the Guggenheim Securities analyst who moderated the earnings…
