LOS ANGELES Striking a narrative balance between the past and the present–each informing the other, perhaps most profoundly in season 3–is a delicate proposition that’s been deftly handled by a Yellowjackets (Showtime) team headed by creators/showrunners/executive producers/writers Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. The latter, though, added further to the juggling act by placing another role on his Read More 

LOS ANGELES & CANNES While the diverse voices and discussions in jury rooms will be heard loud and clear next week at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, SHOOT sounded out select judges ahead of time to gain their insights into the value of the competition, what’s on their wish lists, and the big-picture relevance of their specific Read More 

NEW YORK Charliebird, Happy Birthday, and Natchez took top honors in the U.S. Narrative, International Narrative, and Documentary competitions, respectively, at the 24th annual Tribeca Festival. Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shared the Performance Award for Dragonfly, leading a strong showing by women who claimed top honors across the majority of categories at the ceremony held at Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Warner Bros. Discovery will calve off cable operations from its streaming service, creating two independent companies as the number of people “cutting the cord” brings with it a sustained upheaval in the entertainment industry. HBO, and HBO Max, as well as Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, DC Studios, will become part of Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Disney will pay Comcast’s NBCUniversal nearly $439 million for its stake in Hulu, taking full control of the streaming service. The move closes out an appraisal process that’s dragged on for a few years. Disney said in November 2023 that it was acquiring a 33% stake in Hulu from Comcast for at least $8.6 billion. Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) A judge on Monday dismissed the lawsuit that actor and director Justin Baldoni filed against his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Lively after she sued him last year for sexual harassment and retaliation. U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman’s decision is the latest development in the bitter legal battle surrounding the dark romantic film. Read More 

LOS ANGELES The Television Academy has announced the induction of six television legends–Viola Davis, Don Mischer, Ryan Murphy, Conan O’Brien, Mike Post and Henry Winkler–into the 27th Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame ceremony will be held during the Televerse Festival on Saturday, Aug. 16. The Hall of Fame honors persons who have made outstanding contributions Read More 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant. The deal announced Thursday reflects a push by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to revive AI efforts at the parent company of Facebook and Instagram as it faces Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Disney and Universal sued popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have taken legal action against a maker of generative AI technology that could upend the entertainment industry. The copyright lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios to Read More 

WASHINGTON (AP) The House narrowly voted Thursday to cut about $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress as President Donald Trump’s administration looks to follow through on work done by the Department of Government Efficiency when it was overseen by Elon Musk. The package targets foreign aid programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides Read More 

CANNES, France The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced that a total of 26,900 submissions have been received into the 2025 Awards, reflecting strong global participation across the breadth of the creative industries. All pieces of work will now compete to set the global benchmark for excellence in creativity and effectiveness for the year ahead. Read More 

LOS ANGELES Superprime Films has brought filmmaker Josh Safdie aboard its roster for commercial and branded representation globally. This marks Safdie’s first signing to a commercial production company. Safdie has become a defining voice in contemporary cinema. The Safdie brothers (Benny and Josh) have carved out a fiercely original lane, telling stories with raw energy and emotional Read More 

NEW YORK Prose on Pixels (POP), Havas’ AI-powered content at scale agency, has made two strategic hires and instituted a refreshed operational structure that further cements Havas New York and POP US as a fully integrated, creatively-led production entity. In response to growing client demand for faster, smarter, and more creative end-to-end content solutions, Havas NY is Read More 

NEW YORK Epoch has signed writer, director, and performer Jeremy Beiler for commercials and branded content. This marks his first such U.S. representation. A three-time Emmy nominee and Writers Guild Award winner, Beiler is widely known for his boundary-pushing work on Saturday Night Live and Inside Amy Schumer, where he earned two Peabody Awards. Beiler wrote and Read More 

SAN FRANCISCO & NEW YORK Mekanism has brought Vidhi Shah on board as executive creative director. She will partner with chief creative officer Tommy Means to lead Mekanism as it seeks to deliver bold creativity spanning brand and performance marketing for the agency’s U.S. clients. Mekanism is bolstering its creative leadership with the addition of Vidhi Shah as Executive Creative Read More 

LOS ANGELES Arts & Sciences has added actor-turned-director Torstein Bjørklund to its talent roster, marking his first career U.S. commercial representation. Bjørklund is known throughout Scandinavia and Europe for his quirky humor, straightforward storytelling, and feel-good sensibilities. He grew up way above the Arctic Circle. His childhood desire to become an actor led him to study at Read More 

NEW YORK Ad agency VCCP has appointed Robert Valdes as chief production officer of its content creation studio, Girl&Bear, signaling a continuation of its growth in the U.S. market and doubling down on its commitment to modern production practices. Launched in the U.K. in  2021 as a content studio for the VCCP network, Girl&Bear has since expanded Read More 

LOS ANGELES Superprime Films has officially launched Superprime Paris. This marks a major step in the Los Angeles-headquartered company’s continued international expansion into a market that has long been creatively and strategically important to Superprime and its directors. Over the years, Superprime has created standout films across the region for brands including Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Perrier, Cartier, Read More 

WASHINGTON, D.C. “The Other Hand,” a campaign from Goodby Silverstein & Partners for Cheetos, was named “Best of Show” at the 2025 American Advertising Awards, sponsored by AAF. National ADDYs competition winners were announced and honored at a gala awards ceremony on Friday evening (6/6) as part of AAF’s ADMERICA annual conference held in Pittsburgh. Campaigns need Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Harvey Weinstein ‘s sex crimes retrial came to a disjointed end Thursday as the jury foreperson declined to deliberate and the judge declared a mistrial on a remaining rape charge, a day after a split verdict on the other charges in a case that has been seen as a bellwether of the #MeToo era. The Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs protested the rising tide of secrecy at the hip-hop icon’s federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial on Thursday after Combs and the public were excluded from lengthy arguments over whether another famous rapper’s name could be disclosed. Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo complained to Judge Arun Subramanian after Combs was Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Before Celine Song was an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, she was a playwright in New York who needed day jobs to pay rent. That’s how she found herself as a professional matchmaker. What may have begun as a purely transactional gig, a way for her to keep making her art in an expensive city, taught her more Read More 

VENICE, Italy (AP) Kim Novak, the glamorous and fiercely independent star of one of the greatest films ever made, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival this fall. Festival organizers said Monday that they will also host the world premiere of Alexandre Philippe’s documentary “Kim Novak’s Vertigo,” which was Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The BET Awards delivered a night of major star power and poignant moments Monday night, marking the ceremony’s 25th anniversary with a mix of comedy, emotion and calls for justice. The night delivered a stirring mix of purpose and entertainment from Doechii ‘s powerful speech, Jamie Foxx ‘s emotional reflection and Kevin Hart ‘s sharp Read More 

NICE, France (AP) An ominous chain unspools through the water. Then comes chaos. A churning cloud of mud erupts as a net plows the seafloor, wrenching rays, fish and a squid from their home in a violent swirl of destruction. This is industrial bottom trawling. It’s not CGI. It’s real. And it’s legal. “Ocean With David Attenborough” is Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) HBO’s new biographical series “Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose” (“Sin Querer Queriendo”) has been received with delight by the many fans in the U.S. and Latin America who grew up watching the late Mexican comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños. The eight-episode miniseries, which debuted Thursday, dramatizes the professional and personal journey of Gómez Bolaños, who transformed Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Ever wanted to soar through the skies on the back of a friendly dragon? The new “How to Train Your Dragon” may be the ticket, from a decidedly safer, though possibly still vertigo-inducing, distance. This live-action adaption of the underdog adventure story sends the audience cascading through the clouds with the teenage Viking boy Hiccup Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) In the box office showdown between a deadly assassin and a chaotic CG alien, “Lilo & Stitch” still had the edge. The Disney juggernaut celebrated a third weekend at the top of the charts, while the John Wick spinoff “Ballerina” did not jeté as high as expected. According to studio estimates Sunday, “From the World Read More 

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