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Karlie Kloss to Reboot Life Magazine
More than two decades after it was shuttered by Time Inc., Life magazine will be revived. Bedford Media, the holding company founded by model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss and her husband, investor Josh Kushner, has acquired the publishing rights to Life from Dotdash Meredith. Bedford says that Life will be relaunched as a print magazine, […]
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Amazon Pours $2.75B Into Anthropic in Push to “Accelerate” Generative AI Tech
Amazon is investing $2.75 billion in the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, part of a larger push to “accelerate” adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies. The company announced the investment Wednesday, noting that the new $2.75 billion investment is on top of the $1.25 billion the company poured into Anthropic last year. The companies also said […]
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Gamer Star Ninja Reveals Skin Cancer Diagnosis
Professional video gamer and Twitch star Tyler Belvins, known as Ninja to fans online, has been diagnosed with skin cancer. The 32-year-old gamer took to X (formerly known as Twitter) on Wednesday to share the news that he said he was still in shock over. “A few weeks ago I went in to a dermatologist […]
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Wondery’s Genre-Defying Plans to Transform Podcasts
It seems unnecessary to say about one of the top three podcast publishers, but “Wondery Means Business” is the name of the first of six innovative marketing campaigns being pushed out by the Amazon company this year. Not that anybody doubts it. With 220 active shows, 72 million streams and more than 55 pods reaching No. 1 on […]
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Hulu on Disney+ Launches Out of Beta With Marketing Push to Grow Subscribers
Hulu is officially on Disney+. Disney says that Hulu on Disney+ is now live and out of beta, giving subscribers to both services (or to the Disney bundle) access to content in one place. “Its whole goal is to make happier subscribers and healthier subscribers, provide them convenience, deeper engagement, better retention and increase the […]
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Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network, Hires Ex-ESPN Anchor Sage Steele as First Host
HBO Real Time host Bill Maher is launching a podcast network. The Club Random Studios network (the name is derived from Maher’s Club Random podcast), will seek to host podcasts built on an idea of “freedom of expression,” the late night host tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I am looking for people who are not talking-point […]
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Peacock’s Paris Push: NBCUniversal Streaming Service Plans 2024 Olympics Focus
The relationship between Peacock and the Olympics goes back to the launch event for the NBCUniversal streaming service. In January 2020, with the world mostly oblivious of what was coming just a few months later, NBC executives touted live streams from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a key selling point for Peacock’s launch. Of course, […]
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Max Picks Up Bellator MMA Rights as Streamer Leans Into Sports
Max, the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service, is leaning further into live sports, acquiring the U.S. rights to the mixed martial arts outfit Bellator. Bellator kicks off on March 22 from Belfast, with eight events set for this year in Paris, Dublin, London, Chicago and San Diego. TNT Sports will also run Bellator content on […]
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Andy Borowitz Relaunching The Borowitz Report on Substack (Exclusive)
Andy Borowitz is bringing his signature political satire to Substack. Just a few months after the satirist parted ways with The New Yorker amid cost-cutting at its parent company Condé Nast, he is re-booting the column on the newsletter platform. “I always knew this day would come,” Borowitz tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. […]
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Higher Ground Sets ‘Ways to Win’ Podcast Hosted by Basketball Coaches John Calipari and Craig Robinson
Higher Ground, the media company founded by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, is adding another podcast to its portfolio. The latest show is called Ways to Win, hosted by executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches Craig Robinson and Head Coach of Kentucky Men’s Basketball John Calipari. President Obama is set […]
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LeBron James and JJ Redick Set Basketball Podcast ‘Mind the Game’
Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James is getting into the podcast game, partnering with former NBA star JJ Redick on a new project, Mind the Game. Unusually for a sports podcast hosted by bona fide stars, Mind the Game does not have any advertisers as of now, nor does it have a media or distribution […]
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Weeks After Layoffs, Sports Illustrated Publishing Rights Move to Minute Media
Sports Illustrated has a new home. Weeks after mass layoffs hit the iconic sports publication Sports Illustrated under Arena Group Holdings, the owner of the brand rights to the outlet has found a new home. Authentic Brands Group says that Minute Media has obtained the publishing rights to SI, which will officially part ways with […]
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Don Lemon’s Agent Denies He Demanded $5M Advance, Tesla Cybertruck From Elon Musk Before X Show Cancellation (Report)
Don Lemon’s agent has denied allegations that he submitted a list of extravagant demands to X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk before his planned show was canceled on the social media platform. Claims published in the New York Post on Friday alleged that Lemon had sent a “wish list” to Musk as they negotiated details […]
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Reddit Says FTC Inquiring About Deals to License Data and Train AI Models
The tech platform Reddit says that the Federal Trade Commission is inquiring about its deals to license data to artificial intelligence companies seeking to train their models. The company disclosed the investigation in an SEC filing Friday afternoon, adding that it received word of the investigation on Thursday. “On March 14, 2024, we received a […]
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Pete Distad Named CEO of Upcoming Disney-WBD-Fox Sports Streaming Service
The upcoming sports streaming service from Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox may not yet have a name, but it does have a CEO. Pete Distad, a veteran of both Apple and Hulu, has been hired to be CEO of the new joint venture, which is hoping to launch its service later this year. The […]
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“It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis
While David Zaslav and Bob Iger’s tax-optimization strategy of deleting films and TV shows from their streamers has triggered plenty of agita among creators, the custodians of Hollywood’s digital era have an even greater fear: wholesale decay of feature and episodic files. Behind closed doors and NDAs, the fragility of archives is a perpetual Topic […]
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