“This decade [has] to be about women having each other’s backs,” said Kate Winslet in her Sept. 19 Emmy acceptance speech for HBO’s Mare of Easttown. Around the world, the international film and television industry’s most powerful women had already been hard at work with that mission. Female producers, studio […]
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British consumers spent a record figure of almost £10bn on home entertainment last year as the pandemic continued to fuel a boom in streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify. That included a “miracle” increase in revenues from sales of physical music formats after two decades of seemingly inexorable decline, […]
Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Formerly Miller Park, the stadium has since been renamed American Family Field. File photo by Jeramey Jannene. The idea of creating an entertainment district near the Milwaukee Brewers ballpark has been broached since before the new stadium was built. […]
EXCLUSIVE: UK management firm YMU is launching a U.S. entertainment division under the leadership of former UTA agent April Tombs. As a branding and endorsements agent at UTA Tombs navigated partnerships for clients including Hilary Duff, Queen Latifah, Anthony Anderson, Jenna Dewan, and Brooke Shields. She has joined YMU as […]
While no business is immune to the effects of the pandemic, perhaps no other industry has been forced to change quite like live sports and entertainment. When your entire purpose is bringing people together for a live event, a lot is lost when that can’t happen. But what is gained? […]
As the surge of Covid infections in December and January due to the Omicron variant continues to recede, media and entertainment companies are starting to update their return-to-office plans. Major talent agency WME reopened its U.S. offices in Los Angeles, New York and Nashville and welcomed workers back. Other agencies […]
Industry vets Dominic Ianno, John Baldecchi, Alex Dundas and Griffin Gmelich have partnered to launch Los Angeles-based Roundtable Entertainment, we can reveal. The film and TV company will produce scripted and non-scripted content across film, episodic and podcasts, and will also distribute. Ingenious Media is backing the outfit’s debut movie […]
Editor’s note: Z2 Entertainment announced Monday afternoon that Crumb’s New Year’s Eve Boulder Bash on Friday has been canceled. The story has been updated to reflect this information. As cases of COVID increase, more live entertainment events are once again being put on hold across the country. Peter Chase, left, and […]