Entertainment

HBO Max has handed an eight-episode, straight-to-series order to a Jimmy Olsen-led Superman spinoff, officially moving forward with a half-hour comedy titled The People v. Gorilla Grodd.

A proposed combination of Paramount-Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery could place roughly 4,500 film and television jobs in Los Angeles County at risk for as long as three years after a merger closes, according to a new county report that underscores the stakes of another potential wave of Hollywood consolidation.

YouTube is moving more aggressively to keep its biggest creators from taking their talents — and their audiences — to Netflix, adopting a sharper mix of financial incentives and platform pressure as Hollywood’s streaming wars increasingly spill into the creator economy.

Los Angeles County has opened an official inquiry into the projected employment fallout from the proposed combination of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount, adding a new layer of scrutiny to a deal already burdened by litigation, delays and mounting financial pressure on David Ellison’s camp.

Netflix India is making a bigger play for South Indian audiences, unveiling an expanded pipeline of Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films that will see the streamer premiere at least one South-language title every week through the remainder of the year.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Thursday that states challenging Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery would need more than promises about future conduct to resolve their antitrust concerns, signaling that any settlement would have to include significant changes to the shape of the deal.

Los Angeles County is putting a hard number on the potential local fallout from a Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger: roughly 4,500 film and television jobs could disappear in the region over three years if the deal moves forward, according to a new county-commissioned analysis.

YouTube has begun offering some of its most valuable creators multimillion-dollar incentives to keep their new videos on the platform exclusively for a defined window, according to people familiar with the outreach, as the Google-owned video giant moves to blunt Netflix’s growing interest in digital-native stars.

Netflix has been hit with a federal trademark lawsuit by Demon Hunter, the long-running Christian metal band, over the streamer’s animated musical KPop Demon Hunters.

The Recording Academy is rethinking its newly created Best Asian Pop Music category after BTS pulled out of consideration for the 2027 Grammy Awards, escalating a debate over how the music industry recognizes Asian artists on the global stage.

Two short videos that appear to show gameplay from Grand Theft Auto 6, along with an image purporting to show the game’s full Leonida map, surfaced online on Aug. 18, setting off a rapid takedown campaign just days before a planned Netflix reveal tied to the title.

Cinema United is pressing Paramount Skydance and California officials to find an off-ramp in the state’s antitrust challenge to the proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, a move that signals growing concern among theater owners that a prolonged legal fight could rattle an already fragile moviegoing recovery.

French film producer Nicolas Altmayer and Mathilde Favier, a senior public relations executive at Dior, have died after a car crash in western France, bringing a sudden and devastating loss to two of the country’s most visible cultural industries.

Disney’s ABC is facing an unusually sharp public rebuke from the Federal Communications Commission after the network moved to sue the regulator on First Amendment grounds, escalating a dispute over the agency’s review of ABC’s owned-and-operated station licenses.

Paramount chief David Ellison is escalating the battle over the company’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery by warning that the studio could move its headquarters out of California if state officials and their allies continue to pursue an antitrust challenge to the deal.

The Recording Academy is reassessing its newly introduced Asian Pop category after BTS informed the organization it would not participate in the 2027 Grammy Awards, escalating a debate over how the music industry’s most influential awards body recognizes pop music from Asia.

Paramount Skydance has asked a federal judge to make a dozen state attorneys general put up a $1.88 billion bond as they continue their legal fight against the company’s planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, escalating a courtroom battle that now carries major implications for Hollywood’s next wave of consolidation.

Paramount Skydance has asked a federal court to require California and other states challenging its proposed takeover of Warner Bros. to post a US$1.9 billion surety, escalating a merger fight that has quickly become one of the entertainment industry’s most consequential legal battles.

Walt Disney Pictures has set its live-action adaptation of Tangled for theatrical release on March 31, 2028, with Teagan Croft cast as Rapunzel and Milo Manheim set to play Flynn Rider.

Kevin Feige has offered one of Marvel Studios’ clearest signals yet that the MCU’s long-awaited “X-Men” reboot will not simply be a nostalgic replay of the mutant franchise audiences already know.