Viewers tuning into CBS on the evening of May 22 may have been surprised. While Stephen Colbert’s exit from The Late Show was heavily discussed and promoted, its replacement features a very different format and aims for a very different tone. “No politics,” Byron Allen told CBS Mornings while describing his roundtable comedy late show. “You come, you laugh.”
Joe Rogan was snubbed by the Golden Globes, inciting a controversy that isn’t just about an awards show. It’s a story about power, cultural gatekeeping, and how Hollywood handles voices it can’t control.
A newly released Paramount SEC filing regarding its hostile takeover tender offer for WBD has ignited a firestorm around Warner Bros. Discovery’s handling of its proposed sale to Netflix. According to the document, Paramount submitted an improved $30-per-share all-cash offer on December 4th—an offer specifically crafted to address every concern WBD had previously raised. But the filing alleges something extraordinary: WBD’s board never responded. Not a counter. Not a question. Not even a courtesy acknowledgment.
For more than two decades, Jimmy Kimmel has been a fixture of ABC’s late-night lineup. But while headlines everywhere are declaring Jimmy Kimmel has been renewed for “another year,” the details of ABC’s contract extension tell a very different story — one the media is largely ignoring.
“Wicked: For Good” has delivered a strong opening by any normal box office standard, but when measured against the explosive performance of 2024’s “Wicked,” the decline becomes clear almost immediately.
What David Ellison and Paramount did Monday morning — issuing a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery for $108 billion — sent shockwaves through the industry. Now that the dust has settled, analysts are working through how Paramount was able to make such a monumental all-cash offer.
Paramount, led by David Ellison, isn’t giving up its bid to win Warner Bros. Late last week the Warner Bros. board announced it had accepted an $82.7 billion proposal from Netflix. It’s an offer Ellison tells shareholders is an “inferior proposal.” He has since launched an attempted hostile takeover after the historically brutal bidding war.
Four years after settling her lawsuit with Disney, Scarlett Johansson is looking back on the experience.
The Wicked: For Good box office has gone into a full collapse in its third weekend with a disastrous 72.9% drop.
For the last several weeks, social media has been buzzing with claims — and let’s be honest, fantasy fiction — that the Warner Bros. sale might result in the DC Snyderverse coming back. The idea spread quickly across fan communities, helped along by wishful thinking by entertainment news outlets and a handful of influencers who saw opportunity in the chaos. But now that the actual facts are on the table, it’s clearer than ever: this rumor never had a pulse.
Disney just delivered the kind of holiday-season thunderclap that studio executives dream about. After only two weekends in theaters, the Zootopia 2 box office total has rocketed to $915.8 million worldwide, placing the animated sequel within striking distance of the coveted $1 billion milestone far earlier than analysts expected. If current trends hold, the billion mark could fall within days, making Zootopia 2 one of the fastest animated titles in modern history to reach that benchmark.
President Trump has weighed in on the biggest entertainment deal in years—and his comments are already sending shockwaves through Wall Street, Washington, and Hollywood. Speaking on the red carpet at the Kennedy Center Honors, the president confirmed his meeting with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and said the proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. “will have to go through a process.” It’s the first major indication that the administration may not give Netflix an easy path toward swallowing one of the oldest studios in the world.
If there were any remaining doubts that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF) was looking to make inroads into global entertainment, they have been effectively removed. New details of the $55 billion private buyout of the video game company Electronic Arts (EA) first announced in September reveal that Saudi Arabia will own 93.4% of EA.