U.S. Agencies Court International Distributors as Market Consolidation Puts Domestics in Disarray
WME Independent / UTA / CAA As the global film industry emerges from the worst of the pandemic — and wide-ranging consolidation in the...
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HBO Max International Chief Johannes Larcher, LatAm Boss Luis Duran to Exit Warner Bros. Discovery
L-R: Johannes Larcher and Luis Duran (Courtesy of HBO Max) Johannes Larcher and Luis Duran, respectively HBO Max’s general managers of...
HBO Max U.S. General Manger Brad Wilson to Exit Amid Warner Bros Discovery Shakeup
Brad Wilson, HBO Max’s U.S. general manager and executive vice president of global data, CRM and growth, is exiting the streamer amid an...
Johanna Fuentes, Tom Ascheim to Exit Warner Bros. Discovery
Johanna Fuentes is about to exit her post as head of global communications for WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group. Tom Ascheim,...
Brett Weitz Out as General Manager of TBS, TNT and TruTV at Warner Bros. Discovery
Courtesy of David Buchan/Variety Brett Weitz is exiting as general manager of TBS, TNT and truTV, Variety has learned. Weitz, who was...
Warner Bros. Discovery Cuts Scripted Programming Development at TBS, TNT
Snowpiercer (Courtesy of David Bukach) TNT and TBS are pausing their scripted game under new parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, which...
Discovery Shareholders Approve $43 Billion WarnerMedia Merger
Discovery investors voted in approval of the company’s $43 billion acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T to create Warner Bros. Discovery...
Apple Takes Swing at Sports With Major League Baseball Rights Deal
MLB All Star Game (Courtesy of SHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) Apple has snared rights to a Friday-night package of Major League...
HBO Max Slashes Price In Half After HBO Leaves Amazon Channels In Bid To Stem Subscriber Losses
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 29: Tony Goncalves, Chief Executive Officer of Otter Media, speaks onstage at HBO Max WarnerMedia Investor...
HBO Max Pa’lante! Launches Pa’lante! Promise Through Partnership With WarnerMedia’s OneFifty Studios
Courtesy of HBO Max HBO Max Pa’lante!, the social-first audience initiative aimed at driving culturally-relevant programming on HBO Max...
Fox Corp. Acquires TMZ in $50 Million Deal, Expanding Digital News Operations
Fox Corp. aims to rev up the tempo of its digital news, sports and lifestyle offerings now that the company has completed its acquisition...
HBO Max Will Launch in Six Countries in Europe in October
HBO Max is coming to Europe on Oct. 26, and the first launch markets will be Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra, Variety...
DeMane Davis Signs Warner Bros. TV Deal, Joins CW’s ‘Naomi’ as Co-Executive Producer
Courtesy of Flo Ngala DeMane Davis, television director, producer and award-winning filmmaker of projects such as “Queen Sugar” and “Self...
Poland Moves to Bar Foreign Ownership of Media, Discovery Vows to Take Action Under Trade Treaty
Discovery Inc. After a long day of debates, the lower house of the Polish parliament has voted in favor of a bill that proposes to...
Discovery Q2 Income Grows as Advertising Rebounds
David Zaslav (Courtesy of David Buchan/Variety/REX/Shutterstock) Discovery said second-quarter profit increased as advertising rebounded...
Dish Finally Offers HBO Max, Re-Adds HBO to Lineup After Resolving WarnerMedia Standoff
Courtesy of WarnerMedia Dish Network, after removing HBO from its TV lineups almost three years ago, reached an agreement with...
HBO Max and HBO Gain 2.8 Million Subscribers in Q2, AT&T Raises Year-End Target
Courtesy of WarnerMedia AT&T says HBO Max is firing on all cylinders — amid fierce competition in the streaming wars — and the telco...
HBO Max Eyes European Streaming Strategy
Possessions (Courtesy of StudioCanal) In the year between last year’s European Film Market and this year’s virtual confab, new streaming...
WarnerMedia Merges HBO and HBO Max Production and Business Affairs Teams
Janet Graham Borba (Left) and Susanna Felleman (Right) (Courtesy of WarnerMedia) In a bid to further streamline its internal operations,...
Black and Female TV Directors See Gains but Not Latinx and Asian American Women, DGA Finds
Courtesy of Michael Buckner/Variety The Directors Guild of America’s latest breakdown of TV director employment shows major gains for...
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