Nolte: Max Adds CNN and Loses 700K Streaming Subscribers
The Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) streaming service Max lost 700,000 subscribers after adding CNN to its service.
The Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) streaming service Max lost 700,000 subscribers after adding CNN to its service.
CNN host Brian Stelter claimed Sunday on “Reliable Sources” that the failed attempt to make CNN+ a viable streaming service was because of the merger of the new owner’s Warner Bros. Discovery.
Streaming giant Netflix announced a suspension of all projects and acquisitions based in Russia.
Warner Bros. Television is denying a report claiming crew members of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” have been left in limbo over health and compensation in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Audiences are desperate for some lecture-free entertainment, some old school action and sex appeal, and Bad Boys 3 is the first to dare to deliver that in a while.
NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara is stepping down after claims that he promised acting roles in exchange for sex.
Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara sent a company-wide email Friday to apologize for the “mistakes” he made with actress Charlotte Kirk.
Rose McGowan claims she told actor Ben Affleck that Harvey Weinstein allegedly raping her. Not only did she tell Affleck, she claims to have told him almost immediately after the alleged crime way back in 1997.
The male talent behind next month’s Justice League, a hugely important tentpole for an embattled film industry, represents some of the very worst Harveywood has to offer. As a whole, these men have joked about rape, shamed women over their appearance (including cancer victims), and stand accused of serial-groping and couch-casting.
Hollywood’s worst fear just came true. The biggest scandal by far in Tinseltown history has just expanded beyond Harvey Weinstein. Tuesday night, Oscar-winning director Ben Affleck was publicly accused of groping actress Hilarie Burton back in 2003.
TEL AVIV – The first trailer for the much-anticipated live-action “Wonder Woman” movie, starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot, was released to a cheering crowd at San Diego’s Comic-Con Saturday.
Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evgina released an online video attacking Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., and Warner Brothers for putting him “through a living hell of Biblical proportion.”
There was the sound revolution that came with Al Jolson’s “Jazz Singer”; the Easy Rider-Raging Bull revolution with the end of the Production Code; the blockbuster revolution borne of “Jaws” and “Star Wars”; and the independent revolution of the 90s.
The 1940 classic cartoon Tom and Jerry now comes with a warning label from Amazon Prime Instant Video because of its alleged ethnic and racial stereotyping. The online subscription service has declared that the series may be harmful to children
“Woodstock: The Director’s Cut,” which Warner Brothers has just released in a splendid new Blu-ray package that includes all kind of extras (listed below) and a stunning widescreen transfer, did finally answer THE question I’ve always had about Woodstock: What
Hollywood’s having its 2nd good weekend in a row, up +18% over last year per Nikki Finke. All hail producer Michael Bay’s reboot of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which should land somewhere close to $60 million by Monday morning.
NEW YORK (AP) — Production on a new season of “The Big Bang Theory” is being delayed because of a contract dispute with its top actors. The Warner Brothers Television studio, which makes television’s most popular comedy, said that Wednesday’s
John Nolte mentioned that Tim Burton’s epochal “Batman” film is now 25 years old, which immediately made every aching joint in my aging body flare up, and more of my remaining hair turn white. Twenty-five years ago? Really? The nifty
Thirty-five years ago today, John “Duke” Wayne, made famous by playing the rugged hero in westerns directed by John Ford and Howard Hawks, went to his reward. In May 2012, I interviewed writer-producer A.J. Fenady (1), known for The Rebel, Branded, Hondo
It probably isn’t good news when a $150 million movie set to premiere in less than six weeks is abruptly yanked from the schedule and banished to February of next year, but that’s what just happened to “Jupiter Ascending,” the
On Monday, Hollywood announced a boycott against the Beverly Hills Hotel thanks to its ownership by the Sultan of Brunei, who recently declared that the country would be ruled under sharia law. According to the Hollywood Reporter, that means that
The ties between Hollywood and the Democratic party got a little tighter this week. A major studio has recruited a key player from the Clinton administration for a pivotal press role. Warner Bros has hired former White House Press Secretary and
John Wayne: The Epic Collection Set for May 20 Release John Wayne fans rejoice. On May 20, Warner Brothers releases a massive collection of 40 John Wayne films on DVD. The collection also includes a book listing his films and
Some in Hollywood continue to lobby the Golden State for what is commonly derided as a corporate bailout. The amount of film production taking place outside of California is approaching crisis levels as union groups and now high profile studio boss Harvey Weinstein
(AFP) “The Lego Movie” notched a second straight week atop the North American box office, earning nearly $49 million this weekend, industry estimates showed on Sunday. Box office dominance is proving to be child’s play for the Warner Brothers movie,
As Hollywood goes through the annual ritual and frenzy of the Oscars, celebrating all it is and aspires to be through the prism of this year’s films, it’s worth noting that on this day 100 years ago the first feature
By KELVIN K. CHANAssociated PressHONG KONGRun Run Shaw built a Hong Kong movie and TV empire that nurtured rising talents like actor Chow Yun-fat and director John Woo, inspired Hollywood filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and produced the 1982 sci-fi
For its 30th anniversary, Warner Brothers has just released a fantastic Bluray package of writer/director Philip Kaufman’s “The Right Stuff” (1983). The transfer is absolutely perfect, as is the 5.1 sound mix. The set also includes a separate disc with
While California desperately tries to keep film and TV production in-state, Hollywood’s production companies are raking in the dough elsewhere. Michigan’s film office has announced it will offer $35 million to Warner brothers for shooting parts of Man of Steel
Imagine if Miley Cyrus had printed the number “17 trillion” across her twerking buttocks; think how many people would know our national debt. Without commenting on the quality of the current pop culture, it’s impossible to deny its power, although
Oscar-winning Argo director Ben Affleck will play Batman in Warner Brothers’ followup to Superman flick Man of Steel, according to Variety. Predictably, hordes of nerds and fair-weather nerds who deem superhero casting decisions sacred are outraged. I have but one thing
Everybody needs to get paid. I understand that. We all have bills, and money is a cool thing to have. If I got a call from Warner Bros. Entertainment tomorrow, and they asked me to write them a modern House
Conservatives have embraced Man of Steel, and rightly so, turning it into a cash cow for Warner Bros. The film is open about its religious aspects and has the kind of conservative leanings that we haven’t seen in major blockbusters
Because American culture is still a fairly new the phenomenon it still manifests itself in new ways. For instance, back in the seventies, while watching reruns of the Bowery Boys on the Channel 18 Saturday Afternoon Movie, it was my
In 2012, Paramount and Universal Studios both celebrated their 100-year anniversaries. So it might seem a bit odd, and rather opportunistic, that Warner Bros. decided to celebrate their 90th this year. The studio’s reasoning is good, though: The decade that
REUTERS – Tens of thousands of people packed New Zealand’s capital city, clambering on roofs and hanging onto lamp posts on Wednesday to get a glimpse of the stars at the red carpet world premiere of the film “The Hobbit:
By DENISE LAVOIEAP Legal Affairs WriterBOSTONA former Boston University student who was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs on the Internet says he will continue fighting the penalty, despite the Supreme Court’s refusal Monday to
Tartarus is the hell of Greek mythology, but in Hollywood remakes it’s as popular a destination as Olympus itself. Disney and 20th Century Fox sent Hercules and Percy Jackson down to the depths of the underworld. Now Warner Brothers has
Supposedly non-existent conservative Hollywood is uniting behind Mitt Romney. Tuesday night, at a fundraiser in Los Angeles at the Century Plaza Hotel, roughly 600 donors came to push Romney’s campaign to the conclusion. There were some major players in Hollywood
(Reuters) – Little Lions Gate Entertainment beat out its bigger and better funded rivals to win the right to make a film of “The Hunger Games,” which opens on Friday with blockbuster expectations. Personal appeals for the rights began back