In the third major shake-up of leadership in New York’s non-profit theater world in recent months, the Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that Tony Award-winning director Christopher Ashley will become its Artistic Director in July 2026 for the 2027-28 season. Ashley, the Artistic Director for 17 years in a celebrated run at La Jolla Playhouse […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cinema marketing agency PaperAirplane Media has hit another milestone with 1 million digital assets downloaded from their proprietary platform The Hangar. PaperAirplane via The Hanger which launched in October 2020, connects movie theaters, studios and theatrical media ad agencies, creating and fostering in-theater promotions. Essentially exhibitors don’t have to go distributor-by-distributor in obtaining marketing materials […]
EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Nader has been tapped as executive producer and showrunner on the upcoming ABC multi-camera comedy series Shifting Gears (working title), starring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings. It is the first project under an overall deal the veteran writer-producer has signed with the studio behind Shifting Gears, 20th Television, a part of Disney Television […]
Monika Bacardi and longtime business partner Andrea Iervolino, producers on dozens of movies including Ferrari and To The Bone, have entered into a war of words and legal saber rattling following their recent split. The producers were longtime partners at prolific Italian production and distribution company ILBE (Iervolino & Lady Bakardi Entertainment), but Bacardi is […]
After failing to reach a new deal on Tuesday, casting directors and Hollywood studios are planning to continue negotiating this week ahead of a Sept. 30 contract expiration date. That’s according to a social media post from Teamsters Local 399, which along with Teamsters Local 817 represents a group of around 700 Los Angeles- and […]
As the conversation around UFOs/UAPs continues to heat up on Capitol Hill, documentarian James Fox has set his next feature on the subject. Fox directs The Program, which is described as exploring “the unprecedented bipartisan Congressional effort to uncover what intelligence agencies really know about UFOs, now referred to as UAP.” In July 2023, three […]
Christopher Ashley, the longtime artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse, will take over as artistic director of Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway. He will begin his tenure in July 2026 for the 2027-2028 season. Scott Ellis, current interim artistic director, will continue in the role for the 2025-2026 season, and Ellis will work with Ashley […]
Some familiar voices will be coming to Meta’s AI chatbots on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. At the Meta Connect event Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the voice updates to the company’s suite of AI products, alongside other offerings like AI dubbing and tools to use AI to edit photos. Zuckerberg said that the voice […]
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will be deposed as part of a lawsuit from authors involving the company’s artificial intelligence technology. U.S. District Judge Thomas Hixson on Tuesday rejected Meta’s bid to bar the deposition of Zuckerberg, pointing to evidence indicating that he’s the “principal decision maker” of the tech giant’s AI initiatives. Authors Sarah […]
Jane Schoenbrun has discussed “dancing with the devil” a.k.a., senior execs in Hollywood’s film industry, while making hit film I Saw the TV Glow. Trans director Schoenbrun spoke candidly at the San Sebastian Film Festival event Wednesday afternoon following a screening of the movie, taking the time to praise Emma Stone, whose production company Fruit […]