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Emmys Slash Five Categories From TV Broadcast, and Hollywood’s Unions Are Furious
Emmys Slash Five Categories From TV Broadcast, and Hollywood’s Unions Are Furious The Television Academy has moved five award categories out of the main Primetime Emmy telecast, airing September 14 on NBC, shifting them instead to the earlier Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies held September 5-6. The categories being pulled from the broadcast are Supporting Actor…
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Judge Punts on Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger, Leaving $110 Billion Deal in Limbo
Judge Punts on Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger, Leaving $110 Billion Deal in Limbo U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín held an 80-minute hearing in Oakland on Friday, July 17, over an emergency motion from a coalition of 12 state attorneys general seeking a temporary restraining order to block Paramount Skydance’s roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner…
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God of War’s Kratos Gets Recast Mid-Shoot After Ryan Hurst’s On-Set Injury — Four Finished Episodes Scrapped
God of War’s Kratos Gets Recast Mid-Shoot After Ryan Hurst’s On-Set Injury — Four Finished Episodes Scrapped Amazon’s Prime Video will recast the lead role of Kratos in its live-action adaptation of Sony’s “God of War” video game franchise after star Ryan Hurst suffered a serious injury on set in Vancouver in late June, tearing…
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Intruder Screams Racial Slur at Craig Melvin Inside 30 Rock — Then NBC Fires the Guard Who Let Him In
Intruder Screams Racial Slur at Craig Melvin Inside 30 Rock — Then NBC Fires the Guard Who Let Him In A man identified by police as Andrew Truelove, 41, of Manhattan, breached security at NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center studios on the morning of Thursday, July 16, entering an unauthorized vestibule area near Studio 1A at…
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Paramount Gets the Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Judge Kicked Off the Case Over Union Ties
Paramount Gets the Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Judge Kicked Off the Case Over Union Ties Paramount Skydance filed an emergency motion on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, seeking the recusal of U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts from the multistate antitrust lawsuit seeking to block its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount attorney Jeffrey…
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Sam Neill’s Family Reveals He Died of Pneumonia, Not Cancer, To Shut Down “Outright Falsehoods”
Sam Neill’s Family Reveals He Died of Pneumonia, Not Cancer, To Shut Down “Outright Falsehoods” Actor Sam Neill, best known for playing Dr. Alan Grant in “Jurassic Park,” died on Monday, July 13, 2026, in Sydney, Australia, at age 78. His family initially announced the death on social media as “sudden and unexpected” without disclosing…
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Justin Baldoni Fights Blake Lively’s $8 Million Legal Bill After Losing His Defamation Suit
Justin Baldoni Fights Blake Lively’s $8 Million Legal Bill After Losing His Defamation Suit Blake Lively asked a federal court on June 29 to order Justin Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, to pay $8.04 million in legal fees and more than $539,000 in litigation costs, after a judge dismissed Baldoni’s $400 million defamation…
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12 States Sue to Kill Paramount’s $110 Billion Warner Bros. Grab — And the Writers Guild Just Piled On
12 States Sue to Kill Paramount’s $110 Billion Warner Bros. Grab — And the Writers Guild Just Piled On A coalition of 12 state attorneys general, led by California’s Rob Bonta, filed suit Monday in federal court to block Paramount Skydance’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing the deal would “extinguish competition”…
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NPR Exposes the Secret Payola Behind Your Favorite New Song — And Nobody Involved Looks Good
NPR Exposes the Secret Payola Behind Your Favorite New Song — And Nobody Involved Looks Good NPR published an investigation on Monday, July 13, revealing that music influencers on TikTok and Instagram are routinely paid by record labels and marketing agencies to promote songs without disclosing the financial relationship to their followers. Reporters interviewed five…
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States Sue to Kill the $110 Billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger — And Hollywood Is Furious at Everyone
States Sue to Kill the $110 Billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger — And Hollywood Is Furious at Everyone A coalition of 12 state attorneys general, led by California’s Rob Bonta, filed an antitrust lawsuit on Monday, July 13, seeking to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The states — California, Arizona, Colorado,…