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Oracle CEO Safra Catz Exits Disney’s Board of Directors
The Walt Disney Co.’s board of directors is losing a longtime member. Safra Catz, the CEO of tech giant Oracle, is resigning from her board seat, the company says. An SEC filing said that Catz informed the board of her decision Thursday. With Catz’s exit, Disney’s board will shrink from 12 to 11 members. A […]
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Hollywood Fears of a Major Hack Are Growing
Ten years ago, a hacker group calling itself The Guardians of Peace released a trove of internal communications and data from Sony Pictures. Its demand? That Sony pull an upcoming film, The Interview, in which Seth Rogen and James Franco played journalists trying to secure an interview with Kim Jong-Un. What followed became an international […]
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Netflix Adds 8M Subscribers as It Grows Streaming Lead on Rivals
Netflix reported its second-quarter earnings Thursday, adding 8 million subscribers and expanding its lead as subscription streaming TV’s dominant platform. The company now has 277 million global subscribers. Netflix said last quarter that it will stop reporting subscriber numbers and average revenue per member beginning in the first quarter of 2025. Netflix reported revenue of $9.56 billion and […]
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Peacock-Netflix Streaming Bundle Launched by Verizon Ahead of Paris Olympics
Verizon continues to bundle streaming services. The telecom giant’s latest offer will bundle together yearly plans of both Peacock Premium and Netflix Premium, with users who pay for the Peacock plan getting Netflix thrown in for no extra charge. The deal, available through Verizon’s +play content hub, works like this: A customer buys a yearly […]
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The Latest Addition to NBC’s Paris Olympics Coverage? Google’s AI Tech (Exclusive)
When NBC “chief superfan commentator” Leslie Jones decides to learn about a new sport during her coverage of this year’s Paris Olympics, she will turn to Google Gemini to help her out. Or during NBC’s primetime coverage, when the host wants to explain why lane assignments matter in swimming, they will turn to Google search’s […]
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Kennedy Center Honors Will Fete Francis Ford Coppola, The Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt
The Kennedy Center has found the honorees for the 47th installment of The Kennedy Center Honors. Director Francis Ford Coppola; rock band The Grateful Dead; singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt; and jazz composer, trumpeter and pianist Arturo Sandoval will be feted at this year’e event, with The Apollo Theater in Harlem set to receive special honors “as […]
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AMC Inks Expanded Deal With Netflix, Bringing 13 Series to Streaming Giant
AMC Networks is betting that the “Netflix Effect” can bring its magic to a sizable portion of its lineup. A whole batch of shows from AMC are heading to Netflix in a new deal between the companies. AMC said Tuesday that it has inked a deal with the streaming giant that will bring the prior […]
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J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Soars on Netflix and Amazon Charts After VP Nod
Interest in J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy is soaring after the author and senator was selected to be former President Trump’s vice presidential nominee. The 2016 memoir from Vance became the No. 1 and No. 2 best-selling books on Amazon on Tuesday, representing both the paperback and hardcover editions of the book. Making the rise more […]
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Netflix Orders New Horror Series From The Duffer Brothers and Haley Z. Boston
Stranger Things may be nearing its end, but Netflix wants to stay in business with creators the Duffer Brothers for years to come. The streaming giant says that it has ordered a new “atmospheric horror series” called Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen. Haley Z. Boston is the creator and showrunner of the series, […]
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Jack Black Cancels Tenacious D Tour After Being “Blindsided” by Partner Kyle Gass’ Trump Comment
The Tenacious D world tour has been canceled after comments from Kyle Gass during a performance in Australia sparked global outrage. Tenacious D is the musical act made up of Gass and his creative partner Jack Black. Black posted on Instagram on Tuesday morning that he was “blindsided by what was said at the show […]
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Swipes at NBC Leadership After ‘Morning Joe’ Preemption
MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough says that he was “surprised” and “disappointed” after NBC leadership pulled his show Monday in favor of rolling breaking news coverage about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. ‘We’ve talked about it off the air, we’ll talk about it on the air, because we talk about everything on the […]
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Disney Hacked: Group Claims to Have Trove of Data, Company Investigating
Disney appears to have been hacked. The entertainment giant is the apparent victim of a cybersecurity incident, with hackers claiming to posses more than one terabyte of data from the company. “Disney is investigating this matter,” a spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter. The hacktivist group “Nullbulge” is claiming responsibility for the hack. The group describes […]
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