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On today’s episode of the Daily Variety podcast, University of Michigan Ross School of Business professor Eric Gordon breaks down the Warner Bros. Discovery sale spree as Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders prepare to vote on the company’s sale to Paramount Skydance. Gordon, who studies mergers and acquisitions and used Warner Bros.’ Discovery as a case study in one of his classes, said the process was “unusual” for both WBD and Paramount Skydance. WBD shareholders will have the opportunity to vote in favor of the transaction on April 23rd. It’s been a long road for the company since rumors of a…
On today’s episode of the Daily Variety podcast, University of Michigan Ross School of Business professor Eric Gordon breaks down the Warner Bros. Discovery sale spree as Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders prepare to vote on the company’s sale to Paramount Skydance. Gordon, who studies mergers and acquisitions and used Warner Bros.’ Discovery as a case study in one of his classes, said the process was “unusual” for both WBD and Paramount Skydance. WBD shareholders will have the opportunity to vote in favor of the transaction on April 23rd. It’s been a long road for the company since rumors of a…
Put a fork in there. Sandra Lee and her fiancé Ben Youssef have broken up and called off their engagement after five years of dating, Lee’s publicist Jennifer Abel confirmed to Page Six. TMZ first reported the news on Wednesday. Sandra Lee and her fiancé Ben Youssef (both pictured above at the 2024 event) insisted they call it quits. Getty Images for Elton John AIDS Foundation A representative for the former Food Network star confirmed the breakup news to TMZ. (Photo: Lee and Youssef on The Hollywood Reporter’s 2022 Most Powerful People in Media.) Getty Images for The Hollywood Reporter…
It’s been 15 years since the Producers Guild introduced its Green Production Guide, but convincing film and TV productions to think about the lifecycle of sets and props is still being developed. “A lot of these pieces don’t have a plan,” says Reece Medefesser, reuse coordinator at Ecoset in Northeast L.A.’s Glassell Park neighborhood. “They have to leave the stage. So what’s the easiest thing to do? Just throw them in the trash,” he says, and everything goes in the landfill. The PGA’s sustainability guidelines encourage producers to “prepare sustainable wraps at the end of production” and warn that “landfill…
“Dancing with the Stars” has officially been renewed for season 35 this fall, with two reality stars leading the competition. The first two celebrity contestants on the series will be “Summer House” star Ciara Miller and “The Traitors” personality Maura Higgins, according to an announcement at Wednesday’s Get Real event, according to Variety. The show will be hosted by Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro, and will feature judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough and Bruno Tonioli. The full cast list, as well as Miller and Higgins’ professional dance partners, have yet to be announced. Ciara Miller (pictured above in February)…
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains stories from Episode 7 of “Imperfect Women,” now streaming on Apple TV. Elisabeth Moss is no stranger to portraying a desperate mother on TV. The “Imperfect Women” star spent almost a decade playing June — the lead character of “The Handmaid’s Tale” who recently made a reappearance in the spinoff series “The Testaments” — whose key aim is to reunite with her abducted daughter.While her acting in the dystopian drama was hardly unconvincing (Moss won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Critic’s Choice Award for her work in “The Handmaid’s Tale”), playing a mother on-screen…
This men’s fragrance is the catnip for the Kardashians. The Euphoria star will be the new face of Bleu de Chanel, following reports that Kendall Jenner has been dating Jacob Elordi for months. In the comments section of a series of cryptic videos teasing Elordi’s new gig, fans immediately noticed the Australian’s unmistakable tall physique, strong profile and mini-mullet, and couldn’t help but call out the fact that Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend Timothée Chalamet previously starred in a campaign for the fragrance. Chanel teased the new face of its popular men’s fragrance, Bleu de Chanel, and fans immediately speculated that it…
It’s “speak-up season” in “Noah Kahan: Out of Body,” the new Netflix documentary from director Nick Sweeney about the celebrated musician. Kahan has been frank about the ups and downs in his emotional life, which was part of the essential appeal of “Stick Season,” one of the most unexpected and wildly successful breakout albums of the 2010s. But for Kahan there was still the slightest of removes in presenting those feelings to an audience through the filter of songwriting, as opposed to appearing completely unfiltered over a period of months of filming in which some old mental health concerns and…
Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers for episode 5, “Ball,” of “The Testes,” now available on Hulu. The girls of Gilead don’t go to prom, but this week’s episode of “Testament” gets them as close to a typical teenage experience as possible. In this new sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, aptly titled The Ball, marriage-eligible Agnes (Chase Infinity) and her other “green” friends attend a ball where they are paraded in front of all the commanders looking for young wives. Agnes is particularly interested in single men who are suitable for marriage. Her guardian Garth (played by Brad Alexander) is…
Jamie-Lynn Sigler has revealed that she stepped away from Hollywood because she wanted more privacy while battling MS. “We needed a change,” she told Us Weekly in a new interview about moving her family to Austin, Texas, five years ago. The “Sopranos” alum added, “When I moved here, I started using a cane sometimes because I didn’t feel seen.” “The Sopranos” alum Jamie-Lynn Sigler told US Weekly that she moved from Hollywood to Austin, Texas, because she wanted privacy during her battle with MS. Jamie Lynn Sigler/Instagram The actress (who appeared on “The Sopranos” above) said she liked that she…