Music icon and entrepreneur Sean Combs and Endeavor are launching a virtual development program and resume database for aspiring entertainment executives from underrepresented communities.
Called The Excellence Program, the partnership comes on the heels of Combs' signing with WME across all areas.
The six-week…
In what could be a harbinger for Broadway’s post-Covid protocol, Springsteen on Broadway has announced that audience members must be vaccinated with an FDA-approved vaccine, a policy no doubt disappointing to the many Canadians and Europeans who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Producers of Springsteen on Broadwa…
The Supreme Court has rejected the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, keeping in place the 11-year-old healthcare law that has expanded insurance coverage to millions.
The justices ruled that those seeking to strike down the law’s individual mandate did not have standing to do so.
The court…
David Byrne's American Utopia, the theatrical concert performance that played a limited engagement on Broadway to great acclaim and full houses for five months in 2019 and 2020, and months ago announced a 2021 return, has found its venue: Utopia will begin performances at Jujamcyn’s St. James Theatre on the previously…
EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Marie Tran and Yara Shahidi are leading a fictional adventure podcast for tweens.
The Star Wars actor, who voiced Raya in Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon, and the Grown-ish star will host Cultureverse, a 12-part series produced by Studio Ochenta for TRAX for public media organization PRX.
The…
Weta Digital has partnered with global software provider Autodesk to launch WetaM.
The preeminent VFX studio's "next generation creative cloud production pipeline" will integrate its Oscar-winning proprietary tools into the platform of industry-leading 3D software Autodesk Maya. WetaM is said to be groundbreaking in…
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are starring together — for the first time — in a new video warning of the peril if the Senate does not pass landmark voting rights legislation.
In the video, Perry and Bloom play the scruffed up and haggard versions of themselves in a dystopian future, the year 2055, delivering a warning…
A new nonprofit fund called Places Please Project will provide $500,000 in rental relief to New York City-based theater workers who have been out of work and struggling to pay rent as Covid shut down the industry for more than a year.
"Even as theater begins to reopen, its workers still grapple with uncertainty," said…
The Wiggles are ubiquitous, streaming on Netflix, YouTube and Spotify and airing over the years on major TV networks and selling out tour venues across the world.
Now, the 30-year-old Australian kids brand is finally getting what it has never had: a dedicated streaming and broadcast channel, through a deal with Loop Me…
UPDATED with latest: The White House has announced tonight that President Joe Biden will on Thursday sign the bill passed today in Congress that will make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
When the White House Press Office sent its daily guidance for Thursday to media late today, it included the following: “3:30 p.m.: THE…
Amazon Studios on Wednesday unveiled a division-wide policy that underscores its commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity for its content and productions, along with a “playbook” that includes guidelines for its collaborators in the creative community.
The policy covers four primary areas that offer actionable…
Disneyland opened its gates a bit more on Tuesday, but it was not enough. On the first day of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California reopening, the Anaheim park was allowed to return to full capacity — and it was inundated with visitors.
While Disneyland officials — and those at many other parks in Southern California…
