Tim Baysinger

How many aspiring billionaires can you cram into the lobby of a five-star hotel that's under construction? It was a question on the minds of thousands of attendees of the

After duking it out in the box office ring with returning challenger “The Devil Wears Prada 2” this weekend, “Mortal Kombat II” punched its way to a cool $40 million domestic gross and landed in second place.

Last night, the 30th annual Webby Awards honored the year's biggest online types at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.

Other than being on Netflix, what do the ripped-from-the-headlines productions “The Queen's Gambit,” “Inventing Anna,” “Baby Reindeer” and now “The Rip” have in common? All of them have become targets of defamation lawsuits brought by real life figures who say they are depicted in the scripts.

Like vinyl, broadcast TV may be en vogue again. Amid Hollywood contraction, old-school network jobs are suddenly sought after — or at least increasingly viewed as a steadier paycheck for Hollywood's shrinking creative class.

Like vinyl, broadcast TV may be en vogue again. Amid Hollywood contraction, old-school network jobs are suddenly sought after — or at least increasingly viewed as a steadier paycheck for Hollywood’s shrinking creative class.

Following the back-to-back theatrical disappointments of “Solo” and “Rise of Skywalker,” there's a lot riding on “Mandalorian & Grogu” which is the first “Star Wars” franchise film to hit theaters in seven years and arrives at a moment when Disney and Lucasfilm are transitioning to the regimes of

Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro became the latest execs from Hollywood to get their hands on a pro team by acquiring minority stakes in the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders. WME client Tom Brady and Silver Lake CEO Egon Durban are also minority owners.

The four-year old “AI on the Lot” conference put on by LA-based group AI LA turned into the Amazon MGM show this week.

Depending on who you talk to, AI is either the future, a cheap parlor trick or the death of creativity as we know it. But at this week's “AI on the Lot” conference, up and coming filmmakers, developers and wanna-be showbiz entrepreneurs were all banking that AI will be their on-ramp into an insular business.