The Hollywood Reporter

A little over 10 days after dropping Justin Baldoni, his agency, WME — which also represents his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds — has released a statement insisting the married stars didn’t pressure WME to drop Baldoni.

A trio of major music publishers suing Anthropic over the use of lyrics to train its AI system have reached a deal with the Amazon-backed company to resolve some parts of a pending preliminary injunction.

A little over 10 days after dropping Justin Baldoni, his agency, WME, which also represents his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, has released a statement insisting the married stars didn’t pressure WME to drop Baldoni.

On a cool November evening in New York City, a swarm of hundreds of drones gracefully buzzed over the Hudson River, taking shape above a darkened ship floating in the water.

After years of investor concerns about advertising market trends, streaming losses, cord-cutting in the streaming age eating away at Hollywood giants’ cable networks units, their former core profit growth engines, and competition from technology giants, a whiff of entertainment optimism is sweeping across Wall Street as the calendar changes from 2024 to 2025.

Fallout from an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively over the filming of It Ends With Us has sparked another lawsuit, this time against The New York Times for libel.

After publicizing misconduct allegations over the filming of It Ends With Us, Blake Lively has sued Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment and orchestrating a campaign to smear her.

Wicked brought in a staggering $5 million last week, marking the highest weekly gross in history for any Broadway show.

In 2022, the stocks of Netflix and most Hollywood studios fell to earth. Then in 2023, major media and technology players had another grim year with investors as faith in streaming took another hit. But in 2024, signs of progress in streaming business profitability and renewed M&A talk helped the stocks of some of the sector biggies.

In legal circles, it wasn’t the monetary figure in Disney’s $15 million deal to resolve defamation claims from President-elect Donald Trump that was surprising, or even the fact that the network settled at all. It was the timing.