Creative Artists deal to buy rival could reshape talent industry
Creative Artists Agency is buying its smaller rival ICM Partners for an undisclosed amount, the largest industry consolidation in more than a decade and one...
Are you ready for sentient Disney robots? VIEW
Robots have been part of Disney’s special theme park sauce since the 1960s, when Walt Disney introduced “audio-animatronics,” mechanical figures. Today, the company's secretive research...
After months of avoiding the vaccine issue, companies begin to mandate
Some of the nation’s largest employers, for months reluctant to wade into the fraught issue of whether COVID-19 vaccinations should be mandatory for workers, have...
James Bond, meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon makes $8.45 billion deal for MGM
In the ultimate symbol of one Hollywood era ending and another beginning, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, home to James Bond, "Thelma & Louise" and Rocky, found a buyer...
Disney lays off a quarter of U.S. theme park workers
Disney says it will eliminate 28,000 theme park jobs in the United States, or about 25% of its domestic resorts workforce. The cuts include workers...
Disney World Opens Its Gates, With Virus Numbers Rising
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique, a Magic Kingdom hair salon where little girls get styled like Disney princesses, remained closed over...
AMC aays ‘almost all’ U.S. theaters will reopen in July
Movie theaters around the world are reopening, with AMC Theaters, the world’s largest cineplex operator, announcing that “almost all” of its locations in the United...