LOS ANGELES — When Jason Kilar began his tenure as the chief executive of Hulu in July 2007, some competitors considered the streaming service so likely to fail that they […]
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Back to news home‘Star Wars,’ ‘Pinocchio’ and More as Disney Leans Sharply Into Streaming
A significant portion of the presentation was dedicated to Star, which will be stocked with programming from Disney properties like ABC, FX, Freeform, Searchlight and 20th Century Studios, which Rupert […]
Disney to Reveal Plans to Turbocharge Streaming Offerings
LOS ANGELES — A significant expansion of the “Star Wars” universe. Tom Hanks as Geppetto in a live-action “Pinocchio,” and Yara Shahidi as Tinker Bell in a live-action “Peter Pan […]
Who’s Behind the Fight Between Warner Bros. and Hollywood? It’s AT&T
Even a small sample of the Warner Bros. 2021 film slate suggests the studio’s big-screen ambitions: a desert-planet messiah who can kill with a word (“Dune”); a colossal clash between […]
Warner Bros. Trades Box Office for HBO Max, but Stars Still Want Their Money
The 97-year-old studio, the ancestral home of Humphrey Bogart (“Casablanca”) and Bette Davis (“Now, Voyager”), suddenly finds itself at the uncomfortable center of a Hollywood that is changing at light […]
Warner Bros. Says All 2021 Films Will Stream on HBO Max Right Away
It was a framed as a singular event, and theater owners, desperate to fill screens with appealing content, happily agreed to it. “Given that atypical circumstances call for atypical economic […]
Hollywood’s Obituary, the Sequel. Now Streaming.
LOS ANGELES — “Hollywood’s like Egypt: full of crumbled pyramids. It’ll never come back. It’ll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the […]
Latinos, Long Dismissed in Hollywood, Push to Make Voices Heard
Tanya Saracho landed her first television writing job on the Lifetime soap “Devious Maids” in 2012. She was a diversity hire.It’s an official term for a practice meant to encourage […]
Hollywood’s ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’ Moment
LOS ANGELES — In explaining why WarnerMedia had decided to release the much-anticipated big-budget “Wonder Woman 1984” simultaneously in theaters and on the streaming service HBO Max on Christmas Day, […]
Kazakhstan Embraces Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Borat’ as Very Nice
In 2005, Dennis Keen, a high school junior in Los Angeles, was applying for a summer exchange program. After not much deliberation, he decided it would be punky and funny […]