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Netflix returned to the upfronts on Wednesday afternoon with a presentation that, at first, looked like it might be a production of Waiting for Gadot.

At first looking awfully serious, Jude Law and Jason Bateman stood in respective spotlights on an otherwise empty stage at downtown’s Perelman Performing Arts Center in Manhattan. But the facade soon cracked. The dependably sardonic Bateman set up a trailer for their new series, Black Rabbit, as Law played his part and pushed one of the streamer’s chosen slogans of the day: “Welcome to the center of attention.”

The messaging has not changed since the last dog and pony show for media buyers: Netflix has achieved cultural ubiquity in a manner that no other streamer has come close. Naturally, it is the best place for advertising. Right? Right? Amy Reinhard, Netflix’s president of advertising, kicked off a one-ish hour spiel by reiterating...

In some respects, Fox delivered the most traditional upfront presentation anybody is likely to see this week. Executives and talent kept the focus on live sports and news, all of the men wore suits and there was nary a mention of a subscription service. Even if they have one.

In other respects, the Monday afternoon program was a postmodern odyssey — as evidenced by 95-year-old Rupert Murdoch, seated in the fourth row with son Lachlan and members of the proletariat, nodding his head along to Jay Z’s “Public Service Announcement” as Jamie Foxx came on stage to deliver an impression of President Donald Trump mispronouncing “Tesla.”

And that was within the first five minutes.

Denis Leary told the Boston Celtics fans in the Manhattan Center audience to “fuck off” as a Knicks pep rally grew outside the Madison Square Garden adjacent venue. David Letterman was lifted in the air, a la Jennifer Grey,...

Rob Gronkowski kicked off Fox’s upfront presentation with a joke that shocked the audience full of advertisers and press: a roast of his former coach, Bill Belichick and his younger girlfriend.

Gronkowski was brought up to the New York City stage by Fox alongside “Celebrity Weakest Link” host Jane Lynch, who threw a “Weakest Link”-esque question to the former NFL player and Fox News analyst Harris Faulkner by asking “When was the very first upfront?”

Gronkowski guessed 1962, which was just a bit off from the answer of 1960. “Well, of course, back in 1962, Fox wasn’t even a twinkle in Rupert Murdoch’s eye,” Faulkner said. “Fox didn’t begin broadcasting until 1986.”

“Well, in 1986, Coach Belichick’s girlfriend wasn’t a twinkle in her father’s eye,” Gronkowski said, calling out Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson.

Gronkowski’s joke comes amid media frenzy surrounding Belichick and Hudson after...

Jeanine Pirro is exiting Fox News after 14 years to become interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. President Trump announced her appointment Thursday.

Pirro, a former country judge and district attorney from New York who has been a reliable supporter of Trump over the years, joined Fox News as a host in 2011. The first show he hosted for the network was “Justice With Judge Jeanine,” focusing on legal stories in the news. She most recently served as a co-host of “The Five,” which has routinely been the highest-rated program on cable news.

Trump announced Pirro, 73, as the new U.S. attorney for DC on Truth Social, his social media platform.

“I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,” Trump wrote. “Jeanine was Assistant District Attorney for Westchester County, New York, and then went on to serve as County Judge,...

An infallible dealmaker, resourceful problem-solver and filmmaker-friendly bon vivant, Tarak Ben Ammar has played a pivotal, yet often behind-the-scenes role, in building cultural and cinematic bridges between Europe, the U.S. and the Arab world in last 50 years.

The Franco-Tunisian producer and businessman, who runs Italy’s leading independent distribution company Eagle Pictures and one of the largest studios complexes in France, began as an outsider in the late 1960s. He quickly became an ally to iconic filmmakers such as Roberto Rossellini, Georges Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Franco Zeffirelli. He opened the doors of Tunisia to the film world, helping build an industry from scratch while facilitating the productions of such pics as “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Jesus of Nazareth” and “La Traviata,” among others.

As he ventured deeper into the entertainment industry, Ben Ammar became something of a “billionaire whisperer.” Some of the powerful (and sometimes divisive) figures he’s befriended,...

Billionaire Barry Diller is opening up about his sexuality for the first time in an essay about his romance with wife, fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg.

The essay – titled “The truth about us, after all these years” – was published by NY Magazine. It details their meeting, falling in love, their breakup, and their rekindling of their romance.

He also mentioned, for the first time, dating men.

Keep reading to find out more…

“While there have been a good many men in my life, there has only ever been one woman, and she didn’t come into my life until I was 33 years old,” he wrote. “I have never questioned my sexuality’s basic authority over my life (I was only afraid of the reaction of others).”

Of his romance with Diane when it first started decades ago, he shared, “People started saying, ‘Huh? What is it with this person? We thought he liked only men.

‘Allegiance’ Creator Anar Ali Signs With Atlas

The creator of CBC and NBCUniversal’s Allegiance has signed with Atlas Literary and Atlas Artists in the U.S. Anar Ali is behind the hit show that is currently nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards, including a writing nod for Ali and for Best Dramatic Series. Now into its third season after picking up a CBC renewal last week, Allegiance is a character-driven police procedural set in Surrey, British Columbia, which centers around identity and belonging, policing and politics and justice. Ali has also written a number of books and worked on shows like CTV’s Transplant. Her team at Atlas includes Alex Hertzberg, Ethan Harari and Adam Burger. “Anar is a unique artist with a powerful, transformative voice who has launched a hit in her native country. We look forward to helping her expand her audience to the global stage,” said Hertzberg,...

The red carpet has begun at the 2025 Met Gala and we’ll be updating this post all night long to show you Every celeb who is attending the event.

For those who aren’t ware, the Met Ball is the biggest night in fashion every year and hundreds of stars are expected to walk the red carpet.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has invited many celebs to act as co-chairs for the evening and there’s also a host committee this year that includes 25 more celebs.

The dress code this year is “Tailored for You” to celebrate the new Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibit. It’s the first Met Gala to focus on menswear since 2003 and we already have photos from inside the exhibition.

Head inside to see photos of Every celeb at the Met Gala in 2025…

Keep scrolling for photos of Every celeb on the red carpet at the Met Gala…...

This week’s episode of The Simpsons found Homer palling around with a reality TV chef named Thad, played by prolific voice actor John Dimaggio. And come to think of it, Dimaggio does have some experience when it comes to voicing cartoon celebrity chefs.

Thad, the goateed host of Dude vs Food, has spiky bleached blond hair, a wardrobe full of horrifically garish T-shirts and frequently wears his sunglasses on the back of his head. In other words, he’s not exactly the most subtle parody of Guy Fieri.

Although, Fieri never passed out on the set of his own show looking like the world’s tackiest bloated corpse — that we know of.

“Stew Lies” isn’t a very flattering portrayal of Fieri/Thad. While Homer is a huge fan, others aren’t so sure about his brand of “performative gluttony.” And without spoiling too much, the host doesn’t...

In Stephen Colbert's monologue marking the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Late Show host took aim at the former president’s dismal approval ratings. Not done there, Colbert also had somethign to say about how Trump’s influence may have helped shape the results of Canada's election.

Colbert opened with a nod to presidential history, drawing a comparison between Trump and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who originally set the benchmark for presidential productivity in the first 100 days. "I think it’s appropriate to compare him to Fdr," Colbert said, "because Trump is well on his way to bringing back polio."

The monologue then turned to how the American public has graded President Trump 2.0. Referencing a new poll, Colbert highlighted that only 23% of Americans gave Trump an “A” for his first 100 days, while 45% gave him an “F.”

The remaining 32%, Colbert joked, “want to kick him right in the D.

Spoiler Warning: To those who have not watched "Succession" and read this article and complain about the massive spoilers, "I love you, but you are not serious people."

HBO's acclaimed series "Succession" immersed viewers in the lives of the Roy family, the owners of the media and entertainment conglomerate Waystar RoyCo. At the head of the company is the family patriarch, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), one of the wealthiest, most powerful, and yes, most evil characters in recent television history.

Given Logan Roy's unimaginable wealth and influence as a media mogul, his tastes in housing reflect his domineering nature. Whenever he is not busy stepping on heads at company headquarters or playing emotional and intellectual mind games on his children, he spends much of his time in his luxury penthouse. And not just any penthouse, but one located on Fifth Avenue in New York City, across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

President Donald Trump is fuming after a series of recent polls have found that his favorability rating among Americans has continued to drop — in some cases into the thirties.

In a wild rant today, the president even wrote on Truth Social that certain pollsters are “criminals” and “should be investigated for Election Fraud.”

“They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I Win Elections Big, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle,...

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dipped below 40 percent, according to a new survey by The Associated Press-norc Center for Public Affairs Research.

The survey also found that about four in 10 Americans say Trump has been a “terrible” president during his second term, with about one in 10 describing his performance as “poor,” and two in 10 saying he has been “average.” Only three in 10 Americans rated Trump’s performance as “great” or “good.”

The AP/Norc Center survey is among multiple recent polls that indicate that as the president’s first 100 days in office nears,...

Donald Trump went after Fox News on Thursday after its latest poll showed him 11 points underwater in job approval.

Despite the presence of a friendly slate of opinion hosts on Fox News, the president has lashed out over its polls, which are done under the direction of the Democratic firm Beacon Research and the Republican firm Shaw & Company.

The poll results showed that 44% approved of Trump’s job performance, and 55% disapproved. It’s in line with a series of other survey results in recent days, as the president nears the 100-day mark.

Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Rupert Murdoch has told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump Hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done so. This ‘pollster’ has gotten me, and Maga, wrong for years. Also, and while he’s at it, he should start making changes at the China Loving Wall Street Journal.

President Trump is unhappy with Fox News Channel again over the conservative outlet’s poll finding that he has record-low approval ratings in the first 100 days of his second term in office.

“Rupert Murdoch has told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump Hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done so,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “This ‘pollster’ has gotten me, and Maga, wrong for years.”

Trump added that Murdoch “should start making changes at the China Loving Wall Street Journal. It sucks!!!”

It’s not known whether Murdoch has ever told Trump that Fox News would “get rid of” the outlet’s polling operation.

Trump was evidently reacting to a new Fox News poll of American voters, released Wednesday, that found overall approval of the president’s job performance was 44% — down 5 points from March and 1 point...

Jerry Hall is celebrating Mother’s Day a little early by posing for a new fashion campaign alongside two of her daughters and their children!

The legendary model stars in Burberry‘s new campaign alongside daughters Lizzy and Georgia May Jagger and her grandchildren Eugene and Dean.

“The new Burberry Mother’s Day campaign is a heartfelt ode to family and the special bonds that unite us,” the brand shared.

Jerry and her former partner Mick Jagger shared four children. They started dating in 1977 and ultimately split in 1999. While they got married in a Hindu wedding ceremony in 1990, it was not recognized as a legal marriage.

Jerry later tied the knot with business mogul Rupert Murdoch in 2016, but filed for divorce in 2022.

Browse through the gallery for nine photos from the Burberry campaign…...

Cautious optimism. This had been the mood, earlier this year, of many of New York City’s top brokers as they navigated the challenges of low inventory and high interest rates. Then came the stock market convulsions and recessionary fears triggered in April by President Trump’s sweeping tariffs. “Even with financial uncertainties — political instability, layoffs and global tensions — New York’s real estate market remains resilient,” said Steven Cohen of Douglas Elliman, speaking before the market convulsions. “Moving to its own rhythm and continuing to attract discerning buyers and investors — quite a bit of opportunity in the market right now.”

The volatility Cohen alludes to has since dramatically increased, as has the likelihood of a slowdown in the luxury real estate market. Yet the source of New York brokers’ optimism remains unchanged: a belief that the Big Apple will always find a way to thrive in the long term,...

Is there any upside to a billionaire? In honor of yesterday’s tax day, Stephen Colbert aired a music video for a song called “Billionaires Are Actually Good,” which included an appearance from The Traitors host Alan Cumming.

On The Late Show, Colbert opened the show by discussing how there are now more billionaires than ever. “All these billionaires are having an outsized impact on our politics these days,” he noted. The late-night host added, “So you know your government understands what you’re going through, folks. They have to buy eggs too.

Fox News is a news organization that brings in a ton of money, and so do its on-air anchors.

The conservative cable TV news network, which is based in New York City, was created by Rupert Murdoch, and first premiered in 1996.

Despite its many headline-making controversies, and often frequently called out for presenting biased and misleading information, which it has denied amid public battles with former President Barack Obama, it has since become the leading cable news subscription network.

We’ve rounded up all of the top anchors on Fox News, and ranked them according to their estimated net worth.

Click through to see who the richest anchors of Fox News are…...

Georgia May Jagger’s height of 5ft 5 ½ inches (166.4 cm) is within the average range for a woman. Other celebrities around her height include Margot Robbie, Emily Ratajkowski, and Kate Moss.

The average height for a woman in the United States is around 5ft 4 inches (162.6 cm), while the average height globally is around 5ft 3 inches (160 cm).

Georgia May Jagger’s US shoe size of 8.5 converts to a UK size of 6.5, an EU size of 39.5, and a Japanese size of approximately 25.5 cm.

Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger serve up striking mother-daughter glamour at the Saint Laurent Womenswear Spring/Summer 2023 show during Paris Fashion Week, with Georgia turning heads in glossy tights and crystal-embellished heels on September 27, 2022 (Credit: Jerome Domine / Abaca / INSTARimages / Cover Images)

Personal Reflections on Height and Modeling

In a 2011 statement, Georgia May Jagger admired her mother, former supermodel Jerry Hall, particularly her long legs, which she felt she did not inherit.

From the Oscars to the Golden Globes, Hollywood has no shortage of starry awards shows — but there’s only one at which pop princesses like Lizzo and Katy Perry rub elbows with Nobel Prize laureates, while Paris Hilton takes selfies with scientists developing gene-editing techniques that can cure cancer.

The Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, also known as the “Oscars of Science,” was founded by Silicon Valley titans Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Julia and Yuri Milner, and Anne Wojcicki. Now in its 13th year, the show honors scientists, doctors and researchers who have made significant breakthroughs in their respective fields, and sends winners home with $3 million checks.

This year’s ceremony took place at Santa Monica’s Barker Hanger on Saturday, and celebrity attendees — including Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jodie Foster, Alicia Keys, Drew Barrymore, Christina Aguilera, Mr. Beast, Gayle King, Jeremy Strong, Jessica Chastain, Kate Hudson, Olivia Wilde,...

Prince Harry is no stranger to headlines, but this time, the drama isn’t about royal feuds or Netflix deals, it’s about a serious power struggle within Sentebale, the charity he co-founded nearly two decades ago. Dr. Sophie Chandauka, the organization’s board chair has accused the Duke of Sussex of bullying and harassment. With both sides standing firm and the UK’s Charity Commission stepping in, everyone has their eyes on the unfolding controversy.

What makes this even more intriguing is the deeper context. Harry has long spoken out against bullying, especially in defense of his wife, Meghan Markle. Now, the tables have turned, and he finds himself facing similar allegations. Meanwhile, Sentebale, an organization built on helping vulnerable children in southern Africa, is caught in the crossfire, with its entire board, including Harry resigning.

Prince Harry | Credits: ABC News/YouTube

As the charity’s future hangs in the balance,...

News Corp has completed the sale of Australian media company Foxtel Group to Dazn Group, the companies said on Wednesday. News Corp and Aussie telecom giant Telstra had struck the deal with the sports streaming platform late last year. The transaction is worth about $2.1 billion.

The completion of the deal follows Dazn receiving approval for the acquisition from the Foreign Investment Review Board, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and other regulatory authorities.

With the completion, shareholder loans were repaid to News Corp, and News Corp received a 6 roughly percent stake in Dazn.

News Corp is owned by the family of Rupert Murdoch and is the home to Dow Jones and such publications as The Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Post.

News Corp’s senior vp and deputy chief financial officer Andrew Cramer has also joined the board of Dazn, and the media giant emphasized that...

News Corp said Wednesday it has finalized the sale of Australian pay-tv operator Foxtel Group to global sports streaming provider Dazn.

It was revealed in December 2024 that Dazn was buying Foxtel Group from majority shareholder News Corp and minority shareholder Telstra in a deal with an enterprise value of $2.2 billion.

The transaction, which has now received all necessary regulatory approvals from Australian authorities including the Foreign Investment Review Board and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, features a A$592 million ($372.6 million) repayment of shareholder loans to News Corp. The Rupert Murdoch-controlled media giant also secured an approximately 6% minority stake in Dazn, along with a board seat for News Corp senior VP and deputy CFO Andrew Cramer.

“Foxtel’s successful transformation to becoming a leading provider of sports and entertainment is a result of the team’s tenacity, creativity and professionalism,” News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson said in a statement.

It’s been a mixed opening to 2025 for Hollywood stocks, but many outperformed a sharper decline in the broader stock market.

Signs of improving streaming profits at sector giants and hope for more consolidation or deals refocusing companies have been a boon for investor sentiment, while continuing challenges for the traditional cable networks and uncertainty over the regulatory outlook during the second term of President Donald Trump and recession fears have put media stocks under pressure.

“The ‘Trump put’ lost a lot of value in March,” Wolfe Research analyst Peter Supino wrote in a March 31 report. He concluded: “In media & entertainment, Roku and Sphere Entertainment face the highest risk, while Netflix and Liberty Media’s Formula One Group look most stable. In telecom & cable, Comcast faces the most risk, while telcos are the most defensive.”

Streaming giant Netflix, which had experienced a 90 percent jump to $891.32 in 2024, has edged up a...

Prince Harry has officially stepped down from Sentebale, the African charity he co-founded in 2006. Harry called the decision “devastating,” a sentiment shared by his longtime friend and co-founder, Prince Seeiso of Lesotho.

According to Harry and Seeiso, the relationship between the board of trustees and the charity’s chairwoman, Dr. Sophie Chandauka, completely broke down, leaving them no choice but to walk away. “What’s transpired is unthinkable. We are in shock that we have to do this,” their joint statement read.

>Prince Harry Reaches $12 Million Settlement In Legal Battle Against Rupert Murdoch’s Tabloid ‘The Sun’

Sentebale, which means “forget-me-not” in Sesotho, was founded to support young people affected by HIV/AIDS in Lesotho and Southern Africa. It was meant to be part of Harry’s ongoing tribute to his late mother, Princess Diana, whose humanitarian work on HIV/AIDS was well documented. But nearly two decades later, the...

Seth MacFarlane (and Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman)'s adult animated comedy is coming home. American Dad!, the long-running TBS series, is poised to make its return to basic cable when its forthcoming 20th season airs on Fox. For fans of the cartoon, the move follows what seems to be a trend for MacFarlane's animated properties, as his original breakout — Family Guy — made a similar jump back to its home network following some time away.

The news was reported in an exclusive to Deadline, which explains the American Dad! jump as something that's long been in the works. We're talking since the early days of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. American Dad! was the first series to debut on Fox's Animation Domination programming block when it launched in 2005, so its return to the network makes a lot of sense. It also makes for a sort of new animation domination for the network,...

From left: C-span founder Brian Lamb, former co-ceo Susan Swain and current CEO Sam Feist.

C-span has brought coverage of Congress and the federal government to cable and satellite television audiences for more than four decades. This week, the network will do something rare: Shine the spotlight on itself.

This Wednesday, C-span founder Brian Lamb and former co-ceo Susan Swain will sit down with current network CEO Sam Feist to discuss the founding and history of the cable and satellite political affairs network on “The C-span Story.”

The network was established by the cable television industry — and later joined by the nation’s direct-to-home satellite companies — as a way to offer rolling coverage of Congressional affairs, to include live daily broadcasts from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Later, a companion channel, called C-Span 2, did the same for the U.S. Senate, and a third channel...

Succession is one of modern television’s revolutionary shows that speaks to its audience in layers. To some, it exists as a cynical examination of corporations, while to others, the show is a darkly satiric reenactment of the legacy of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News media empire.

Succession [Credit: HBO]

Whichever way one looks at it, the HBO series has always been about the cutthroat world of business politics. But the blatant and transparent portrayal of misogyny and sexism seems to be a far more dominant theme in terms of storytelling than the arc of succession.

In this one aspect, even Taylor Sheridan needs to bow down to Jesse Armstrong when it comes to the portrayal of women in television.

Succession takes the lead over Yellowstone on 1 issue Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy in Succession [Credit: HBO]

In Taylor Sheridan‘s universe, strong female characters exist in a quite literal sense of the word.

Fast means Free Ad-Supported Streaming. In the USA there are at least four (4) free ad-supported streaming platforms that you can Go-to for Korean dramas. ♦ 1) Tubi TV — Owned by: Fox Entertainment (Rupert Murdoch) (Launched: April 2014) (2) Pluto TV — Owned by: Operated by the Paramount Streaming division of Paramount Global. (Launched: March 2014) (3) The Roku Channel — Owned by: Roku, Inc. (Launched: September 2017) (4) Freevee — Owned by: Amazon (Launched: January 2019) ♦ Being a K-drama addict, I tried them all. In the end, Tubi TV came out on top. First: Tubi has a specific category – K-Drama + – that you can easily search and find something to watch. For many of the other platforms, you have to comb through their database and searching is just too much work! Second: Tubi has a library of K-Content by Cj Enm. Cj Enm is a leading entertainment company in South Korea, producing and distributing a wide range of content, including K-pop, TV series,...

Rupert Murdoch is appealing the Nevada ruling that doomed his secret plan to amend a family trust, but the 93-year-old still has some options to consolidate control should he ultimately lose, according to experts in family trusts and estate planning, analysts and an investment banker.

Several avenues remain open to Murdoch: he and Lachlan could seek to buy out the voting shares of the other Murdoch children, though they’ve tried and failed to do that before.

In a more complex move, they could look to break up some of Fox and News Corp.’s assets, or a partial sale and negotiate a stake or board seat in some new entity, though such a move would likely require shareholder approval and may invite lawsuits or regulatory pushback.

From left: Lachlan, Rupert and James Murdoch in 2016. (John Phillips/Getty Images)

Most likely, the experts told TheWrap, the Murdochs will reach...

The Fox Broadcasting Network is set to expand in 2025. According to CEO Lachlan Murdoch, the company plans to launch a brand-new streaming service.

If everything surrounding the highly anticipated launch goes to plan, the newly minted streaming service will be available at the start of the NFL and college football seasons. Speaking at Morgan Stanley's Technology, Media and Telecom conference via The Wrap, Murdoch said that "the aspiration" is for the platform to hit the "mid-single digit millions of subscribers range."

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Culkin said he only realized the similarity between Benji and the person he based him on, a year after filming the movie.

Murdoch discussed the company's latest streaming venture during a recent earnings call. The CEO revealed that prices will be "relatively low," with the service featuring content from Fox's existing shows and brands.

The premiere of a new documentary about legendary Washington Post publisher Katherin Graham was notable not for the prominent business leaders and politicians who attended the event — held Sunday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — but for who didn’t go: Any of the storied newspaper’s current leadership.

The paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, was in Los Angeles attending the 2025 Academy Awards. But current publisher and CEO Will Lewis also skipped the celebration for “Becoming Katherine Graham,” as did executive editor Matt Murray. According to the New York Times, Lewis was in fact specifically invited to the event, but told organizers no. Murray has not spoken publicly about his absence.

The snub comes as the Post remains mired in a worsening crisis that is in many ways of Bezos and Lewis’ own making.

The paper was rocked by internal discontent when Lewis, a veteran...

Robert Thomson, a close ally of Rupert Murdoch and CEO of the media titan’s News Corp, said the initial “turmoil” of Donald Trump’s time in the White House is certain to calm down in the coming months.

Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, Thomson said the whirlwind early weeks of Trump’s second term have unfolded at a pace that cannot be sustained. He pointed to Monday’s negative reaction to the president’s vow to initiate previously shelved tariffs against Canada and Mexico, calling it a check on the president’s impulsiveness.

The “tariff turmoil” and other sources of “uncertainty” are not “what Chairman Mao used to call a ‘permanent revolution,'” Thomson said. “This is not a permanent revolution.”

Instead, the tariffs are “transactional” measures, the exec reasoned, and “there’s a certain method to the madness. If that’s the case, then...

President Donald Trump this week introduced a new immigration plan he wants to implement, offering people the option to get a green card — or, rather, a gold card. And Stephen Colbert promptly shredded the concept on Wednesday night.

According to Trump, a gold card would carry a price tag of $5 million, making it exclusively available to only exceedingly wealthy people from foreign countries.

“Echoing the eternal words on the Statue of Liberty, ‘Give me your tired your poor — psych! Give me 5 million bucks, biatch! We buying bottles in the clurb!'” Colbert joked.

In explaining the gold card to press, President Trump noted that it will “give you green card privileges-plus,” which only made Colbert scoff harder.

“Green card privileges-plus? So Trump’s going to Delta Comfort our immigration system?” he joked, putting on his Trump impression to explain the system. “‘It’s great. There’s green card, green card...

Fox released Arrested Development in 2003, which set itself apart from other sitcoms due to its innovative production techniques along with its clever writing combined with its outstanding group of performers. The plot of the show follows a formerly rich family, the Bluths, who find themselves in financial and legal trouble.

The character at the center of this dysfunctional family is Michael Bluth, played by Jason Bateman, who tries to keep his relatives together while he deals with his own problems. The ensemble cast includes Michael Cera, Will Arnett, Jessica Walter, Jeffrey Tambor, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, and Alia Shawkat, who have contributed with very memorable performances.

Jason Bateman in Arrested Development | Credit: Netflix

Moreover, at times, it does seem as if Arrested Development was documenting real-life events, making its fans often wonder whether the Bluths happen to be inspired by a real family. Let’s take a...

With David Shipley stepping down as editor of The Washington Post opinion pages, the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, has announced a dramatic shift in focus for the storied publication.

“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos said on X on Tuesday.

The move would appear to bring the Post more in line with Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal opinion section, which has touted free markets along with conservative social viewpoints since he purchased the paper for $5 billion in 2007. And, similarly, The Economist and Michael Bloomberg’s Bloomberg Opinion tread in related territory.

Will Lewis, publisher and CEO of the paper, added in his own statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter: “I want to thank him [Bezos] for clearly and...

It’s been four years since Michael Wolff wrote a book about President Donald Trump. His last was 2021’s Landslide, which he wrote right after 2019’s Siege: Trump Under Fire, which, of course, came out just a year after the publication of his blockbuster page-turner Fire and Fury in 2018.

Today, we’re getting the not-so-long-awaited All or Nothing, which details the backroom shenanigans behind how 45 managed against all odds to get elected 47. Trump may not be one of Wolff’s biggest fans — “a total Loser,” the president raged on Truth Social last weekend — but The Hollywood Reporter has seen some early pages detailing Trump’s on-again-off-again relationship with News Corp mogul Rupert Murdoch, and Wolff does, as always, spill the tea.

You’ll probably recall how Murdoch turned on Trump after Jan. 6, only to have second thoughts after it became clear that Trump could actually get back into the White House.

When Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson ceded all creative control of James Bond to Amazon MGM Studios, eras ended.

Half-siblings Broccoli and Wilson had extraordinary control over the Bond franchise, personally steering the films after they inherited the company Eon Productions from Broccoli’s father and Wilson’s stepfather, Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli in 1995. More than any director, they were the arbiters of “what is a James Bond film,” navigating Bond’s post-Cold War reinvention with Pierce Brosnan in the ’90s and selecting Daniel Craig as his replacement in 2005.

Reports in Deadline on February 20 say that Amazon bought out the pair for $1 billion — but that the vibe in Broccoli and Wilson’s orbit is “of a death in the family.”

Not long ago, a Bond fan might expect a 007 film to feature a Jeff Bezos-style villain. He shares a bald pate with Blofeld, as well as his own personal rocket fleet.

Rupert Murdoch’s son, James, has condemned his father’s “misogynistic” views with brutal comparisons to the drama series Succession. James and his older brother, Lachlan, have been locked in an angry battle since the announcement that Lachlan will succeed their father as owner of the massive News Corp. empire.

James bashed his family and revealed the depths of the drama surrounding the real-life Succession-esque conflict in an interview published for The Atlantic. James, 52, is allegedly the inspiration for the character of Roman Roy, played by Kieran Culkin.

“My father was always trying to pull everyone into the company so that he could manipulate them against each other,” he said.

In the interview, James shared that he would not bring himself to watch the hit drama on Max (formerly HBO) based on the Murdoch family, declaring it too “painful.” However, he suggested that his relatives were good inspirations for the series,...

Although Elon Musk’s quixotic purchase of Twitter, which he redubbed X, seems to have played a significant role in giving him full and unfettered access to the gears of government, one right-wing rich guy’s purchase of a media company did not result in his desired electoral outcome last year. Putative billionaire David D. Smith, Sinclair Broadcast Group’s executive chair, bought The Baltimore Sun in January 2024 and, yet, his candidates in the primary and a ballot initiative that he solely funded were resoundingly defeated by voters in Baltimore.

A culmination of the long-running battle over the Murdoch Empire, with the powerful Fox News’ future as a conservative kingmaker in U.S. politics hanging in the balance has played out in a Nevada courtroom as any hope of the rift between the two politically-opposed flanks of the media’s most powerful family shattered as years of bitter feelings surfaced.

Patriarch Rupert Murdoch, 92, was slouched in a Manhattan conference room across from his son, James Murdoch in March 2024, the Atlantic Magazine reported on Friday, as the family’s black sheep was deposed. Questions, including: Have you ever done anything successful on your own? And does it strike you that, in your account, everything that goes wrong is always somebody else’s fault? The questions, he soon noticed, were not coming from the lawyer, really, but being texted to the counsel from his father across the table.

Rupert, struggling to ensure...

John Malone.

Cable television pioneer John Malone is working with the biographer of his book “Cable Cowboy” to write a new memoir that takes a deeper dive into the complex relationships forged during some of his biggest business deals.

The book, “Born to Be Wired,” is expected to debut in bookstores on September 2 and will examine a number of business launches and transactions — from the formation of Tci Cable and the subsequent sale to AT&T, to the development of the Discovery Channel and QVC.

Malone also discusses working with some of the television and media industry’s biggest power players, including News Corporation and Fox Broadcasting founder Rupert Murdoch, Turner Broadcasting and CNN founder Ted Turner, Barry Diller of Iac, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Reed Hastings of Netflix. He also explores the formation of Liberty Global and his subsequent investments in brands and services like Formula 1 and SiriusXM.

Amanda Seyfried delivered a stunning performance as Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout, earning critical acclaim and an Emmy for her portrayal of the Theranos founder. Seyfried’s ability to capture Elizabeth Holmes’ voice, mannerisms, and descent into deception was nothing short of remarkable. The series dissected Holmes’ rise and fall with precision, bringing to life the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley’s most infamous fraudster.

Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout | Credits: Hulu

Despite her riveting performance, The Dropout seems to have faded from the public conversation. As Elizabeth Holmes begins to reemerge from prison, people and publications have started labeling her recent actions as an orchestrated PR campaign. This renewed media attention is an opportune moment to revisit Seyfried’s masterful work and remind audiences why Holmes’ story captivated the world in the first place.

Elizabeth Holmes’ alleged PR campaign from behind bars Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout...

Despite the fact that The Simpsons is still one of the most popular shows on the Disney+ streaming platform, the “evil corporation” can’t get their heads straight when it comes to the episode plot lines — probably because Disney is busy trying to think unsexy thoughts.

When Disney acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019, fans of Rupert Murdoch’s most valuable and iconoclastic comedy franchise worried that The Simpsons’ new owners wouldn’t properly appreciate the sanctity of the show and its first 10 seasons. Whereas Fox allowed Matt Groening and the gang to play fast-and-loose in regards to pushing boundaries and insulting their corporate overlords, Simpsons fans worried that The Mouse would keep the series on a much shorter leash compared to its previous master and possibly even censor past jokes that reflected poorly on the megacorporation.

Those specific fears turned out to be (mostly) unfounded, as Disney doesn’t edit...

John Malone, the architect behind some of the most consequential media deals of the past several decades, is ready to go public with his own take on the entertainment and tech landscape.

The mogul, whose moniker “Cable Cowboy” nods to his roots running Tele-Communications Inc., has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster for a new memoir titled Born to Be Wired. Malone reteamed with Mark Robichaux, the author of 2003’s biography Cable Cowboy, to edit the tome, which is set for release on Sept. 2.

“Over a lifetime of business deals, the most valuable currency has been relationships,” stated Malone of the new memoir. “This book is about the people who changed my thinking, the hard-won lessons that nearly broke me, and strategies that helped me navigate chaos and carve my own path to success.”

Malone, whose net worth is $9.83 billion per Bloomberg Billionaires Index’s latest tally, controls Liberty Media,...

Billionaire media sage John Malone, who has built and presided over a number of influential companies in telecom, cable, sports and digital, will publish his memoir in September.

Simon & Schuster said Wednesday it will publish Born to be Wired: Lessons from a Lifetime Transforming Television, Wiring America for the Internet, and Growing Formula One, Discovery, Sirius Xm, and the Atlanta Braves. The book, due to hit stores September 2, lets Malone tell the story of his key role in the growth of cable TV, the launch of high-speed internet and many other chapters in his decades in the industry.

Malone, who will turn 84 next month, is chairman of Liberty Media and a member of Warner Bros. Discovery’s board of directors.

While he appears regularly at Liberty’s annual investor day and at occasional conferences, Malone maintains a fairly low public profile but his insights travel. With a doctorate in operations research from Johns Hopkins,...

Elizabeth Holmes is speaking out for the first time in a prison interview.

In a cover story for People magazine published on Wednesday, the former Theranos founder and CEO opened up about life in prison while also reflecting on her fallen professional past.

In 2014, Holmes became the nation’s youngest self-made billionaire after launching her blood-testing startup, Theranos, a decade prior, which promised to revolutionize health care and was backed by such investors as Rupert Murdoch. However, after The Wall Street Journal published an exposé that questioned the legitimacy and accuracy of the company’s technology, Holmes and Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani were thrust into the center of a highly publicized federal probe. They were indicted on charges of misleading investors and defrauding them and patients. During her trial, Holmes pleaded not guilty to the health scam.

“I’m not the same person I was back then,” Holmes now tells People.

Fans of the HBO series Succession will be well aware that the show is loosely based on the Murdoch family and their power struggles over their media empire. The show’s depiction of a family patriarch’s death and the chaos that ensues has inspired real-life discussions among Murdoch’s children.

Succession (2018-23) | Credits: HBO

Succession takes inspiration from a number of real-life families in its storytelling about the warring children of a media dynasty. However, creator Jesse Armstrong has acknowledged that the original, and perhaps most influential, inspiration was the Murdoch family. And it’s since been confirmed that several Murdochs are Succession viewers.

This, even led to an awkward moment between Brian Cox, who plays Logan Roy on the show, and an actual member of the Murdoch family.

Brian Cox ran into Keith Tyson, husband of Elisabeth Murdoch

During an appearance on Full Circle with Anderson Cooper, actor...

Three years ago at the Super Bowl in Los Angeles, Kendrick Lamar was the home-turf newbie on the halftime show hip-hop dream team of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and 50 Cent. On Sunday in New Orleans, the top-of-his-game Compton-born Pulitzer Prize winner didn’t have to share the glory with anyone as he further solidified his dominance of the genre and the culture.

“This is the great American game!” bellowed an Uncle Sam-clad Samuel L. Jackson as a tic-tac-toe board lit up the stadium and Lamar appeared surrounded by dancers clad in red, white and blue.

(L-r) Samuel Jackson and Kendrick Lamar during the Super Bowl Lix Halftime Show

Much more a successor to Lamar’s stunning Juneteenth performance in front of a jubilant Kia Forum in L.A. last summer than that Super Bowl Lvi celebration of West Coast rap and the 50th anniversary of the genre,...