The Late Show‘s 11-year run on CBS ended on a muted note of melancholy Thursday – outside New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater, at any rate. As Stephen Colbert taped his final late-night episode for broadcast later Thursday, a crowd of a few dozen fans gathered in the chilly spring drizzle to pay their respects. Some […]

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British postcard by Paramount. Photo: Paramount. James Spader, Jon Cryer, Mollie Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy in Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986).

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Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison — a self-professed gamer — has finally hit the restart button on Paramount’s gaming ambitions: His company unveiled Paramount Games Studio and splashy AAA title “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin” as its first project on June 5 during Summer Game Fest in L.A. The new division, led by […]

Paramount has dropped the first trailer for Heart of the Beast, its new survival thriller film directed by David Ayer, starring Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons and Anna Lambe. Heart of the Beast centers on a former Army Special Forces soldier (Pitt) and his retired combat dog who battle for survival after a plane crash deep […]

Paramount’s new head of international has dived deep into how David Ellison sold him the dream. Kevin MacLellan told the Enders TMT Leaders Live Conference that his hire at the new Paramount-Skydance, which will soon incorporate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), came at a time when the “frightened paralysis” of the film and TV industry was […]

Belgian-based Kinepolis, a top European theater operator, agreed to acquire 13 Showcase Cinemas in the U.S. from Harbor Lights Entertainment (formerly National Amusements Inc.) in a deal worth $30 million. National Amusements was the start of the Redstone family media empire, launched by Sumner Redstone’s father as a single Rhode Island drive in and later […]

With a blistering lawsuit filed Monday, the state of Florida may succeed where Elon Musk failed in bringing OpenAI and Sam Altman to heel. “Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said this morning after filing an 83-page complaint in the Sunshine State’s […]

Paramount’s K-Pop Superstar: The Movie will now be known as K-Pop: The Debut with the Benson Lee directed title now shifting from Feb. 12 next year to Feb. 26. K-Pop: The Debut moves onto a competitive weekend with Warner Bros’ Sam Esmail directed Panic Carefully starring Julia Roberts and Eddie Redmayne and Sony’s family drama […]

Whatever else you want to say about Leah McSweeney, it can’t be denied that the Real Housewives of New York alum is persistent when it comes to her lawsuit against reality kingpin Andy Cohen, Bravo and its parent company NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros. Discovery. Hoping to fight off a dismissal motion from Cohen and the […]

The Justice Department said Friday that it concluded that Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery was “not likely to result in harm to competition or American consumers,” citing its review of the streaming, linear television and theatrical release marketplaces. In a statement today, the DOJ noted the multiple transaction in which Warner Bros has […]

U.S. President Donald Trump has been investing in the stock market while leading the country. He has a vast portfolio of hotels, golf courses, and luxury residential properties bearing his name, valued at more than $6 billion. But he also has a significant stock portfolio that he continued to grow during the first quarter, according to the extensive report containing his financial disclosure, released Thursday night by the Office of Government Ethics. A White House spokesperson maintains that the president does not make decisions about the investment process, which is managed by advisers. They explain that independent financial managers traded on his behalf using programs that track recognized indices.

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Paramount said to today that competition authorities in Australia and New Zealand, as well as Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Serbia and North Macedonia have approved its pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Foreign direct investment authorities in Germany, Slovenia, Belgium, Czechia, New Zealand, Italy, France and Romania are also on board, the David Ellison-run company said […]