Category: Entertainment

Warner Bros. Animation’s Boss Is Out Right as the Studio Gets Split in Two Sam Register, who has run Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe for 18 years, is departing after the studio and Register “mutually agreed” not to renew his contract, Variety reported in an exclusive Tuesday, August 25 [1].…

Dolly Parton Dies at 80, and the Business She Built Now Has to Run Without Her Dolly Parton, the country music icon, actress and philanthropist, died Tuesday, August 25, at age 80. Her team said she passed in Nashville surrounded by loved ones after a brief battle with cancer; she had reportedly been hospitalized four…

Harry Potter Recasts Lockhart After Two Weeks — And Nobody Agrees on Why HBO confirmed Monday that Kit Harington has been cast as Gilderoy Lockhart in season two of its “Harry Potter” television series, replacing Nicholas Hoult just two weeks after Hoult’s casting in the role was first announced. HBO and representatives for Hoult attributed…

California’s AG Just Told Paramount to Stop Playing Games With Its $110 Billion Warner Bros. Deal California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled a planned Monday settlement meeting with Paramount Skydance over the company’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying the studio showed a “lack of good faith” after details of a preliminary…

Paramount and the States Suing to Kill Its $111 Billion Warner Bros. Deal Are Finally Talking Paramount Skydance and the twelve state attorneys general suing to block its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery are set to meet Monday for settlement talks, a court-ordered mediation session that California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office confirmed…

Meghan Markle’s Netflix Comeback Reportedly Dies Before It’s Announced Meghan Markle’s casting in a role Guy Ritchie was reportedly writing for her in the third season of Netflix’s “The Gentlemen” has been withdrawn, according to veteran journalist Tina Brown, who broke the news Saturday on her Substack. Deadline had reported earlier in the week that…

Journalist Sues Taylor Sheridan and Paramount, Claims She Invented “Yellowstone” First Entertainment journalist and TV writer Lauren J. Salkin filed a federal lawsuit in California on Friday, August 21, 2026, against Taylor Sheridan, Paramount, and NBCUniversal, alleging they stole the building blocks of “Yellowstone” from a pilot script and pitch materials she submitted in 2016…

Apple Music Will Finally Tell Listeners Which Songs Are AI-Generated Apple Music announced this week that it will roll out visible “Made With AI” labels later this year, tagging songs whose vocals, instrumentation, or composition were materially generated using artificial intelligence. The initiative expands on an AI Transparency Tagging system Apple quietly introduced in March…

Paramount and California Trade Threats Over $110 Billion Warner Bros. Merger While Writers Warn It’s a “False Choice” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called on Paramount Skydance and California Attorney General Rob Bonta to urgently negotiate a settlement in the 12-state antitrust lawsuit blocking Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. “The continued uncertainty…

Amazon Accidentally Streamed Jason Statham’s $100M Movie Free, Days Before It Hit Theaters The complete 95-minute cut of Jason Statham’s action thriller “Mutiny” briefly appeared as a fully populated listing, complete with cast information and synopsis, on the U.S. version of Amazon Prime Video roughly 48 hours before its scheduled August 21 theatrical release. The…