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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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, […]