Paramount Skydance reaffirmed plans for a September 30th 2026 close on its massive WB acquisition. At it's completion, David Ellison is pushing a combined 30-film theatrical slate. Q1 updates show progress despite ongoing regulatory scrutiny as expected. Ellison...
Per Reuters, Fox, CNN and any other media reporting from this weekend, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton was thrown into chaos. A man later identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, from Torrance California breached a checkpoint and...
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP quietly extended contract negotiations past its latest deadline, with sources telling Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter on April 23, that the proposed “Tilly Tax” on AI-generated performers remains the main sticking point. The union wants a...
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion all-cash takeover, per Deadline and Variety reporting filed this morning. The special meeting delivered a near-unanimous "yes" despite the open letter signed by more...
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna, pending resolution of an antitrust lawsuit from DirecTV and plaintiff states. Per Deadline and recent court filings around April 18-20 2026, the deal...
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,...