As IT: Welcome to Derry hits the ground running on HBO, the show’s two-part debut week comes after the Hollywood strikes forced production to pause for eight months. Co-creator Barbara Muschietti estimated that “90% of three episodes” had been filmed before production shut down amid the WGA and S…

EXCLUSIVE: Typical of Donald Trump, the details of POTUS’ just announced bombshell 100% tariffs on movies made outside America are vague. Yet, what is already very clear, as studios and streamers try to figure out next steps, is that the Governor of California won’t be playing a supporting…

Nearly two years after the show debuted, the wait for Severance‘s return is nearly over. With Season 2 of the 7x Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ sci-fi series premiering Jan. 17, creator Dan Erickson and EP/director Ben Stiller explained that the Hollywood strikes were only partially to blame for the…

EXCLUSIVE: New research shines a spotlight on how American viewers have flocked to UK streaming content since the strikes. Viewing to British shows and movies on Netflix and Prime Video in the States skyrocketed by 40% between Q2 2023 and Q1 of this year, representing an additional 400 million…

The boss of the UK Cinema Association (UKCA) has said that British cinemagoers are not being fed enough quality local movies to get them back to movie theaters with the frequency of the pre-Covid era. According to Phil Clapp, most pre-Covid cinemagoers are now happy to check out movies at their…

U.S. employment rose in November as the jobless rate dipped. Labor settlements in both Hollywood and Detroit helped boost total non-farm payroll jobs by 199,000 last month. Unemployment edged down to 3.7%, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics in its monthly report — an…

Noah Pritzker's bittersweet father and sons tale Ex-Husbands (aka Men Of Divorce) world premieres in Competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sunday as one of the few U.S. productions to be accompanied by its cast this year thanks to its SAG-AFTRA interim agreement. Griffin Dunne…

About six weeks after the Writers Guild of America went on strike for the first time in more than 15 years, eight seasons of Suits landed on Netflix. All nine seasons had already been available on Peacock, but the "Netflix effect" rapidly proved itself once again. The streamer unexpectedly…

There are plenty of highlights for traditional ad sellers in 2024, from the Paris Olympics to the presidential election. But major media agency Magna Global sees the WGA strike and other factors dragging down revenue over the next year. In an update to its 2023 forecast issued today, Magna…

EXCLUSIVE: Just weeks after laying off dozens in its London HQ, DNEG, the company responsible for the VFX on movies such as Dune and Oppenheimer, is asking staff to take up to 25% pay cuts or join a loan scheme, as work slows to a standstill due to the strikes. Insiders believe their contracts will…

Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman-CEO Tony Vinciguerra figures Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour could gross $200 million, calling it a "massive, unexpected rescue" for movie theaters as Hollywood strikes have led to shifting release dates and slowed the production pipeline, casting a damper on this…

Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra is hoping that Hollywood’s creative community will stop worrying and learn to love artificial intelligence. Speaking at an investor conference in New York hosted by BofA Securities, the exec began his answer to a question about AI with the caveat…