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YouTube Star and Comedian Daniel Howell Signs With UTA, InterTalent (Exclusive)
UTA and the comedy division of U.K. talent management company InterTalent have signed British YouTube star, author, TV host and comedian Daniel Howell. The news follows Howell’s global tour and builds upon the achievements of his 2020 book You Will Get Through This Night, which became a Sunday Times bestseller, online following and advocacy for […]
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Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s Wrexham AFC to Be Focus of New Men In Blazers Weekly Series
Wrexham AFC, the U.K. football club owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney — and the focus of the recently renewed FX series Welcome to Wrexham — is getting the Men In Blazers treatment. The soccer, er, football-focused podcast network is in the middle of an expansion push, and as part of that has decided […]
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How Reece Feldman Became Hollywood Studios’ Gen Z Whisperer, One TikTok at a Time
Reece Feldman admits that he broke a couple of rules on his way to becoming the go-to TikTok consultant for Hollywood studios. The 25-year-old behind the @guywithamoviecamera account — which has more than 2 million followers on TikTok — started working on reality shows in 2020, soon landing a gig as a production assistant on the […]
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Microsoft Hires Former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Shake-Up of AI Landscape
After a weekend in which the future of artificial intelligence research seemed up for grabs, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that his company has hired former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his top deputy, Greg Brockman. “Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research […]
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White House Condemns Elon Musk for Promoting “Antisemitic and Racist Hate” on X
The White House has condemned Elon Musk for promoting antisemitism after he agreed with a bigoted X post that accused Jewish communities of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites.” “We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms, which runs against our core values as Americans,” said a statement from the […]
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AI-Generated Voices of John Legend, Demi Lovato and Charlie Puth Are Coming to YouTube
Would you like a song from John Legend about your morning walk? Or a ditty from Demi Lovato about dinner last night? Or a ballad about a sunset from T-Pain? YouTube is releasing a tool that will make those a reality. Called Dream Tracks, the AI tool will let users input a brief prompt and […]
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Lawmakers Press Apple on Whether Jon Stewart’s Show Was Canceled Because of China Concerns
A group of House lawmakers want to know: Was China the reason for Jon Stewart’s exit from Apple TV+? Stewart’s show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, effectively ended last month when Stewart and his team parted ways amid “creative differences.” Sources told The Hollywood Reporter at the time that “there had been tension between Apple […]
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YouTube to Crack Down on AI-Generated Deepfakes and Sound-Alikes, As It Sets Guardrails on Tech
As the video platform YouTube is rolling out generative AI technology to its creators, it is also placing new guardrails on the technology’s use. The company on Tuesday set new rules on content created with the help of generative AI, including rules that crack down on videos that use someone else’s likeness, and giving music […]
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Trump’s Truth Social Lost Tens of Millions Since Launch, New Filing Shows
Since launching, former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social and its parent company Trump Media and Technology Group took in $3.7 million in net sales, and lost tens of millions of dollars. The numbers are the first time that any internal financial details on the social platform have been shared publicly, and they suggest that while […]
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If Other Executives Trolled Critics Like Casey Bloys…
How intense is the pressure of being CEO of HBO? You’re constantly calling Kim Cattrall, enduring the other execs at Craig’s passive aggressively asking how “Max” is going, and ever since his show ended, dealing with John Wilson filming outside your house. But the worst part of the job is that TV critics can just […]
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NBC News Now Adds Sky News Simulcast in Streaming Expansion (Exclusive)
Sky News is coming to NBC News Now. The NBC News streaming service will simulcast Sky News Today with Wilfred Frost on weekday mornings at 5 a.m. EST, an expansion into the early morning hours. The program is the first time that a Sky News program will be simulcast on the streaming service, and will be […]
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Ben Smith’s Book ‘Traffic’ Getting Docuseries Treatment From Atlas Media
Semafor founder Ben Smith’s book Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, is set to get the docuseries treatment. Atlas Media Corp., the non-fiction production company, has optioned the book for a docuseries. Traffic chronicles the rise and heyday of digital media companies like BuzzFeed and Gawker Media. But Smith […]
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Everyone Wants Their Own ‘Drive to Survive’
If you’re a sports league or a superstar athlete, it used to be that you wanted all eyes to be on the field, court or track. Now, the real action occurs as much after the game’s over, with cameras still rolling. The runaway success of Netflix’s Formula 1 docuseries Drive to Survive and golf docuseries […]
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Rob Lowe to Host Fox Nation Docuseries About Boston Tea Party
Rob Lowe is the latest high-wattage celebrity to join Fox Nation, the streaming service operated by Fox News. Lowe, who also stars in the Fox broadcast drama series 911: Lone Star, will host and executive produce a docudrama for Fox Nation about the Boston Tea Party. The four episode series, Liberty or Death: Boston Tea […]
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Jeffrey Katzenberg: AI Will Drastically Cut Number of Workers It Takes to Make Animated Movies
DreamWorks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg predicts that generative artificial intelligence will cut the cost of animated films by 90 percent, as the technology is set to deliver serious disruption to the media and entertainment sector. Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Summit in Singapore on Thursday, in a session that was streamed online, Katzenberg said that […]
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N.Y. Times Plans Major New Interview Series Built From Magazine’s ‘Talk’ Column (Exclusive)
The New York Times is planning a major new interview franchise, one that will live across its audio podcast division and within The New York Times Magazine. The new franchise will be released as a weekly podcast, and will also be published as a Q&A in the Magazine, it will be co-hosted by David Marchese, […]
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