Many industry executives look back at the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Paramount (then Viacom) against YouTube in 2007 as a signpost of an era when linear broadcasters and online video platforms just couldn’t play nice, let alone share the same space. Paramount had accused the online video platform of illegally streaming its…
SATURDAY AM: The long-term lasting impact from Covid thwarting moviegoing is easily felt this weekend as two movies, one a $180M sci-fi franchise reboot in Tron: Ares, and the other a star-studded caper with a hunky leading man, Roofman, are coming in under their estimates respectively with $35M-$37M and $8M. Impact meaning: audience moviegoing habits…
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place has spent the better part of its first two seasons mounting some very big questions, particularly about its main character Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) and her involvement in the Wizard World. Well, viewers will finally be getting some answers when Season 2 debuts on Disney+ tomorrow. “I can’t wait to see…
Jilly Cooper, the prolific British author whose steamy Rutshire Chronicles novels were the basis of Disney+ comedy-drama Rivals, has died aged 88. She passed away suddenly on Sunday morning after a fall, according to a statement from her agent, Curtis Brown, and an outpouring of grief has begun following her death. “Mum was the shining…
UPDATE: Almost three years after now former 20th TV executive Nissa Diederich and Disney were accused retaliation, blacklisting and more in a $1 million and more lawsuit from stuntman Jimmy Sharp, the whole matter has crashed and burned. A Los Angles Superior Court judge has tossed out the action by the son of Jim Sharp…
From Oscar-envelope SNAFUs, LA wildfire evacuations, real-time tweet attacks from Donald Trump and advocating for his own son and other children’s healthcare, Jimmy Kimmel has more than met the moment many times over the years. Still, with the ABC late-night host’s return tonight after a weeklong benching …well, as longtime nemesis Trump said on a…