Entertainment Amazon Studios & Howard Announce 3rd Year For Entertainment Program – Deadline Christin Hakim, October 20, 2024March 19, 2023 Amazon Studios and Howard University have once again banded together for the Howard Entertainment program. The effort is meant to diversify the entertainment industry by creating a pipeline for Black and other underrepresented students into its ranks, according to a statement from the partners. This marks the program’s third year…. Continue Reading
Entertainment 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment of 2021 – The Hollywood Reporter Christin Hakim, September 9, 2024March 19, 2023 Profiles written by J. Clara Chan, Kirsten Chuba, Ashley Cullins, Mia Galuppo, Carolyn Giardina, Lesley Goldberg, Rebecca Keegan, Borys Kit, Pamela McClintock, Mikey O’Connell, Lacey Rose, Tatiana Siegel and Rebecca Sun President, MGM Motion Picture Group On a hot streak with both Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci and Paul Thomas Anderson’s art… Continue Reading
Entertainment HBO, Warner Bros. Among Top Winners at 2021 Clio Entertainment Awards – The Hollywood Reporter Christin Hakim, June 15, 2024March 19, 2023 Clio Entertainment, the international awards program recognizing creativity in marketing the entertainment business, celebrated its big winners at a 50th anniversary celebration, presented by Prime Video, in Los Angeles’ Sunset Room Hollywood on Tuesday. During the hybrid indoor-outdoor event, HBO was revealed as the television/streaming network of the year, Warner… Continue Reading
Entertainment Indian Streaming Platform ZEE5 In Deal With Applause Entertainment – Deadline Christin Hakim, May 16, 2024March 19, 2023 ZEE5 Global, the streaming platform specializing in South Asian content, has inked an agreement with local content studio Applause Entertainment that will see the latter create multiple Hindi shows for the streamer as ZEE5 originals. The first project under the agreement will be Kaun Banegi Shikharwati, a dramedy series with… Continue Reading
Entertainment Pipe expands into media and entertainment financing with its acquisition of Purely Capital – TechCrunch Christin Hakim, May 1, 2024March 19, 2023 When Pipe was founded in 2019, its vision was to provide SaaS companies a funding alternative outside of equity or venture debt. Specifically, the Miami-based fintech’s mission was to give SaaS companies a way to get their revenue upfront, by pairing them with investors on a marketplace that paid a… Continue Reading
Entertainment National dining and entertainment concept to debut new Allentown venue Thursday – The Morning Call Christin Hakim, April 11, 2024March 19, 2023 A national dining and entertainment concept is readying to debut its newest location in downtown Allentown. Sports & Social, a division of Live! Dining & Entertainment that also operates Xfinity Live! and Live! Casino & Hotel in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, is scheduled to open 11 a.m. Thursday, April… Continue Reading
Entertainment Entertainment Analyst – The Hollywood Reporter Christin Hakim, February 27, 2024March 19, 2023 Sony Corp. is an “underappreciated entertainment powerhouse” and its stock “unfairly trades at a discount to underlying value due to low-merit concerns about conglomeratization,” Cowen analyst Doug Creutz wrote in a Monday report. Initiating coverage of Sony shares with an “outperform” rating, he said that “we view Sony primarily as… Continue Reading
Entertainment Applause Entertainment Adapting Gandhi Biographies Into Drama Series – Deadline Christin Hakim, January 20, 2024March 19, 2023 EXCLUSIVE: Mahatma Gandhi’s life is to be detailed in a multi-season streaming period drama series akin to Netflix global smash The Crown, Deadline can reveal. Sameer Nair’s local production powerhouse Applause Entertainment has acquired rights to Indian historian and journalist Ramachandra Guha’s Gandhi Before India and Gandhi – The Years… Continue Reading
Entertainment The 20 Most Powerful Women in Global Entertainment – The Hollywood Reporter Christin Hakim, September 20, 2023March 19, 2023 “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… Continue Reading
Entertainment UK spends a record £9.7bn on home entertainment in 2021 | Digital media Christin Hakim, August 25, 2023March 19, 2023 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,… Continue Reading