Blake Lively went into 2024 riding high. After sidelining her acting career for her "brands," she starred in and produced It Ends With Us, a drama adapted from Colleen Hoover’s novel. This was a property Justin Baldoni's production company, Wayfarer, acquired from the...
The DOJ just opened an antitrust investigation into NFL television and streaming deals. This probe, reported in early April 2026, focuses on whether the league's media contracts drive up prices for consumers. It also investigates if it limits competition among...
In a previous article I penned a worrying set of numbers. Los Angeles shoot days plunged to 19,694 in 2025. These are the lowest levels outside the pandemic year. That is down from over 36,000 in 2022. Soundstage occupancy is stuck in the low 60s after years of...
Disney is preparing to eliminate as many as 1,000 positions in the coming weeks, with a heavy focus on the consolidated marketing department. This marks one of the first major moves under new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro, who took over in March 2026 after Bob Iger’s exit....
Hollywood's revolving door for scandal scarred executives just spun again and the timing couldn't be worse for the biggest media merger in years. Jeff Shell, who got booted as CEO of NBCUniversal in 2023 after an internal probe confirmed an inappropriate relationship...
As the downward spiral that is late night TV seems to accelerate toward it’s inevitable doom (unless you’re Gutfeld of course), a strange upside for the city of New York emerges. Potentially anyway. A small beneficial tax cut could be realized for a very odd reason.
For some of the oddest reasoning imaginable, the average New Yorker pays $2 a year in taxes toward keeping Saturday Night Live on the air. That’s right! A network television subsidy redirects some of the blame for the decline of the once funny counter culture juggernaut, beginning in 2017.
PlayStation 5 release of MachineGames Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, has entertained gamers on many platforms... including our own author, Frank, here at That Park Place. However, the physical edition’s storage requirements have sparked a minor controversy,...
Sports broadcasting has seen industry-shaking developments recently, creating a landscape filled with both challenges and opportunities. The collapse of Disney’s Venu joint venture and the subsequent antitrust lawsuit involving a Fubo subscriber have sent shockwaves through one of television’s last powerhouse industries.
In what can only be observed as a bizarre and politically motivated legal maneuver, the Biden Administration-controlled Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has initiated a dying breath lawsuit against Elon Musk, accusing him of failing to disclose his Twitter stock purchases in a timely manner back in 2022.
In an unexpected corporate pivot, several major U.S. companies are hurriedly dismantling their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs ahead of the second inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. This strategic retreat of ideologically captured companies, comes in light of the incoming administration’s vocal opposition to what they describe as “woke culture” and “anti-white racism,” with DEI initiatives at the forefront of their critique.
In a significant shift from its previous content moderation strategy driven by government influenced narrative support, Meta, the parent company of platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, has announced the termination of it’s biased third-party fact-checking program.
“You are the media now.” That’s the message. You are the purveyors of truth and sentiment: social media influencers, bloggers, Substack writers, YouTubers, and Rumble creators. You are the news. https://youtu.be/YSVF3HXnMqQ READ: Alyssa Mercante Bounces from Kotaku as...