Christopher Grimes

Paramount Global’s controlling shareholder has held talks about a sale of the legendary Hollywood studio and other assets to Skydance, the production company behind Top Gun: Maverick, according to people familiar with the company controlled by Shari Redstone. Skydance, whose shareholders include the Ellison family and RedBird Capital Partners, has emerged as a leading contender to take over Redstone’s National Amusements, which has a controlling stake in Paramount.* The two companies have co-produced a series of movies.

Streaming service will publish "comprehensive deep dive" every six months.

Activist hedge fund Trian Partners plans to nominate two candidates to Walt Disney’s board of directors, intensifying a campaign against the media group that is expected to be one of the most contested proxy battles in years. Trian will put forward its co-founder Nelson Peltz and former Disney executive Jay Rasulo at the company’s annual shareholder meeting next year, it said on Thursday. “The root cause of Disney’s underperformance, in our view, is a board that is too closely connected to a long-tenured [chief executive] and too disconnected from shareholders’ interests,” Trian wrote in a statement.

Activist hedge fund Trian Partners plans to nominate two candidates to Walt Disney’s board of directors, intensifying a campaign against the media group that is expected to be one of the most contested proxy battles in years. Trian will put forward its co-founder Nelson Peltz and former Disney executive Jay Rasulo at the company’s annual shareholder meeting next year, it said on Thursday. “The root cause of Disney’s underperformance, in our view, is a board that is too closely connected to a long-tenured [chief executive] and too disconnected from shareholders’ interests,” Trian wrote in a statement.

Contenders for a US Senate seat in California are divided on Israel and also seek to paint themselves as the most anti-Trump candidate.

David Ellison’s Skydance is negotiating for a stake in holding company National Amusements

OJ Simpson, the American football superstar and Hollywood actor whose acquittal in a 1995 murder trial sparked a rancorous debate about race and justice in the US, has died of cancer aged 76.

Netflix to stop reporting subscriber numbers, prioritizing viewer engagement instead.

James Cameron, who dreamt up the evil Skynet artificial intelligence network in his 1984 film The Terminator , says an advanced AI system could one day do his job.