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Is there a path back? That still stands as an unanswered question in the wake of the #MeToo tsunami that swept Hollywood starting with the downfall of Harvey Weinstein in 2017. And it’s a question that now presents itself with new specific, thorny facts — accompanied by a cloud of nebulous rumors — as Skydance moves closer to sealing a deal with Paramount that would install former NBCUniversal chief Jeff Shell as president of the combined entity. Shell never has been accused of being a predator who assaulted or coerced women, but as any industry watcher knows, he was fired last August for an inappropriate relationship with Hadley Gamble, an international CNBC correspondent based in Abu Dhabi. Some NBCU executives and industry observers were shocked that Shell, who often sang…
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively The couple reigns at No. 1 and 2 on the domestic box office chart as Deadpool & Wolverine and It Ends With Us nab $50 million-plus weekends. Nicole Clemens As part of a plan to cut $500 million in costs and make major layoffs to its U.S. workforce, Paramount TV Studios is being shuttered and its president is exiting. Roy Wood Jr. The longtime Daily Show correspondent nabs host duties as CNN hires the comedian to lead its quiz series adaptation Have I Got News for You. Dr. Phil McGraw Just six months after it launched, the TV host’s production company, Merit Street Media, undergoes significant layoffs amid restructuring. Showbiz Stocks $221.27 (+7%) APPLE (AAPL) After inflation worries and concerns around the Google antitrust suit…
The latest buzzy biopic is set to tackle a challenging, beloved personality: chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain. Dominic Sessa, who broke out in Alexander Payne’s Oscar winner The Holdovers, is set to play the young Bourdain in Tony, with Star Thrower, the outfit behind the Oscar-winning biopic King Richard, producing. A24 is in talks to board the project. In the crowded landscape of biopics, Tony stands apart. For the past several years, bio-docs and nonfiction entries that are made with the participation of their subject proved good fodder for streaming. But, as budgets got pinched, sales out of festivals over the past year have slowed, with the days of the eight-figure deal likely behind us. (Bourdain, who died in 2018, was the subject of the 2021 documentary Roadrunner.) As…
In September 2022, a few months before he unexpectedly returned to Disney, Bob Iger warned that “a world of hurt” was coming to the linear TV business. Sitting onstage at The Beverly Hilton, Iger told his interviewer, Kara Swisher, that “linear TV and satellite is marching toward a great precipice, and it will be pushed off. … I can’t tell you when, but it goes away.” It now feels like the business has finally plummeted off that precipice. On Aug. 7, Warner Bros. Discovery took a $9.1 billion impairment (when a company writes down the value of an asset for accounting purposes) on its linear cable channels, a move made in part because of the apparent loss of NBA rights and uncertainty around affiliate renewals. A couple of days later,…
Jeanette Moreno King’s daughter is 17 and wants to eventually work in animation. As the president of The Animation Guild (TAG) — a union that represents more than 5,000 artists, writers, technicians and production workers — Moreno King, you might think, would eagerly encourage this dream. She’s instead advising caution. “I can’t promise her that that’s going to be possible,” she says. The industry is in turmoil as TAG entered its latest round of contract talks with top studios and streamers on Aug. 12. As the business undergoes a major contraction, rounds of layoffs have buffeted top firms like Netflix Animation, DreamWorks Animation and Pixar in the past few years. There’s also the threat of generative AI on the horizon, with several animation roles expected to be among those hardest…
$1,016,182 Duncan Crabtree-Ireland SAG-AFTRA National executive director $775,000 Russell Hollander Directors Guild of America National executive director $682,692 Ellen Stutzman Writers Guild of America West Executive director $553,487 Matthew Loeb IATSE International president $437,528 Alvin Vincent Jr. Actors’ Equity Association Executive director $374,210 Cathy Repola IATSE Local 700 (Motion Picture Editors Guild) National executive director $349,061 Lowell Peterson Writers Guild of America East Former executive director $312,325 Thomas J. O’Donnell Teamsters Local 817 President $290,297 Alex Tonisson IATSE Local 600 (International Cinematographers Guild) National executive director $272,962 Lindsay Dougherty Teamsters Local 399/International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 399 Secretary-treasurer and IBT vp and trade division director $215,144 Steven Kaplan IATSE Local 839 (The Animation Guild) Business representative Source: U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards Online Public Disclosure Room. Salaries…
