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EXCLUSIVE: Glen Basner’s FilmNation has made waves at recent Sundance Film Festivals with mega sales for The Big Sick and Late Night. This year the indie stalwart is in Park City with its biggest ever production presence at a festival. The lineup comprises Benedict Cumberbatch Cold War drama Ironbark, Sean Durkin's Mar…

The WGA's demand for more streaming residuals from the studios could set the stage for the first industrywide strike in more than a decade. And it's not just that writers are in a fighting mood after feuding with the agencies for more than nine months: there's big money at stake – and not just from the ever-growing…

With the Directors Guild prepping for Saturday’s DGA Awards, more than 50 female helmers and actors including Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Olivia Wilde, Reed Morano, Brie Larson, Jill Soloway, Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon have signed a letter calling for a change to guild rules so parents can take more time…

Disney is temporarily closing its theme park in Shanghai as efforts continue to contain the coronavirus outbreak in China. “In response to the prevention and control of the disease outbreak and in order to ensure the health and safety of our guests and Cast, Shanghai Disney Resort is temporarily closing Shanghai Disney…

Discovery Networks has abandoned a plan to eliminate royalties to music composers for its shows on HGTV, Food Network, Animal Planet and more. The move by Discovery came after pressure from composers and their advocates. Discovery said in December it would no longer pay royalties on music composed for its US TV shows…

Even before the great James Cromwell arrives at the punchline of a decrepit dirty nun joke, or the incomparable Jane Alexander gets to a vibrator bit exhausted seasons ago by Grace and Frankie, Bess Wohl’s affable, unremarkable marriage comedy Grand Horizons has its “something borrowed” locked down. The “something…

EXCLUSIVE: The Content Group, the flagship division of Steve Michaels’ Asylum Entertainment Group, has acquired reality production company Collins Avenue Entertainment, which is behind Lifetime’s popular Dance Moms franchise, from Kew Media Group. Under the deal, TCG will retain all of Collins Avenue's physical…

Vital Pictures/NME will distribute its first film with Beneath Us,a “suspenseful and socially-relevant original horror story” from Max Pachman, who makes his feature directorial debut with the project. Beneath Us (opening in select theaters on March 6) features both English and Spanish dialogue and will be distributed…

Netflix shares, which are the subject of great debate on Wall Street, rose more than 7% Thursday in the wake of a concession by Comcast earlier in the day that the media giant will continue to lose subscribers. Establishing a new six-month high, Netflix’s stock finished at $349.60 on nearly triple its normal trading…

UPDATE, 3:25 PM ET: Harvey Weinstein’s defense team tried to raise doubts about the validity of Annabella Sciorra’s claim that he raped her in the winter of 1993-94 in an extensive cross-examination that included the airing of a short clip of her appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. The clip was from Aug. 6…

As the Deborah Dugan controversy continues to swirl around the Recording Academy ahead of Music’s Biggest Night this weekend, the group’s Chief Awards Officer is defending its Grammy Awards nomination process. “It is the goal of the Recording Academy to ensure the Grammy Awards process is led in a fair and ethical…

Nexstar Media Group, which gained control of LA TV station KTLA after buying Tribune Media last year, has appointed Janene Drafs as the station’s VP and GM. Drafs succeeds Don Corsini, who had a long and high-profile career as a broadcast news leader in the LA market, including a decade running KTLA. Corsini announced…