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Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. MrBeast‘s 2025 is off to a hot start. Fresh off breaking the record for Amazon Prime Video’s most-watched unscripted series ever, for “Beast Games,” the YouTube personality and social media star is topping Amazon’s toy charts with his new line of MrBeast Lab “Micro Beasts” figurines.

MrBeast and James Patterson are working on a new book together!

EXCLUSIVE: An eight-figure bidding war has broken out on the rights to a new thriller novel from the unlikely pairing of James Patterson and MrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor YouTube has set the date for its 2025 Brandcast event — during the TV industry’s upfront week in New York City — and it’s bringing pop star Lady Gaga and top creators like MrBeast and Brittany Broski out for the show. The YouTube invitation-only upfront presentation will be held Wednesday, May 14, starting at 5:30 p.m. ET at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor YouTube, 20 years after it launched and soon became the most massive video repository on Earth, has been an economic engine that powers a huge part of what’s known as the “creator economy.” Today, a class of entrepreneurial creators distributes their shows on the platform and take a cut of the revenue from ads served on their channels (a 55% share under YouTube’s standard deal). They have leveraged that footprint into other lines of business like merchandise, live events and more.

J. Kim Murphy Actors Mike Ferguson and Twana Barnett have joined the cast of “Last Hit,” a new action thriller that also stars Joe Davison, who appeared in the second season of “Stranger Things,” and Levee Duplay, who was in “The Tailor of Sin City.” The film will star Ferguson and Barnett as a pair of criminals looking to get a fresh start from their illicit pasts. Their boss, played by Duplay, takes one of them hostage to force a final job.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Will TikTok find a way to remain legal in the U.S. under a new ownership structure? A range of possible new owners for TikTok in the U.S. — including MrBeast, Elon Musk and Oracle founder Larry Ellison — have emerged as a federal law banning TikTok in the country went into effect this Sunday, Jan.

YouTube personality MrBeast’s new reality show Beast Games has become the most-watched unscripted series ever on Amazon’s Prime Video platform, becoming their biggest show since Fallout.According to figures from the company, the first series reached 50million viewers in the 25 days since its premiere on December 19, making it the second biggest series debut since Fallout in April 2024, which achieved 65million viewers in its first 16 days.The worldwide reach of MrBeast’s content was also evident in the figures, as Amazon reported that 50 per cent of the show’s audience came from outside the US. MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, co-created and hosts the show where 1,000 participants compete in various tasks for the chance to win a $5million prize.Despite this success, Beast Games has attracted some controversy through a lawsuit brought against Amazon and MrBeast from contestants on the show on September 16 last year.

Beast Games has set a record for Prime Video, becoming the streamer’s most-watched unscripted series ever in its first 25 days.

Could TikTok have found a new owner days before it’s set to go offline in the United States?

A Beast Games contestant has opened up about what it's really like to battle against 1,000 people – including former professional athletes like NFL players and track stars.

Social media star MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is giving away a grand prize of $5 million on his game show Beast Games… so you might be wondering how much money he’s actually worth.

MrBeast is engaged!

Amazon Prime is currently streaming a new game show that's breaking records and causing controversy, leaving viewers in disbelief. The show is hosted by YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, and features 1,000 contestants - the largest cast ever seen on a reality show - competing for a staggering $5 million (£3.9 million) prize.

Beast Games has premiered on Prime Video and you may be wondering about MrBeast‘s dating life!

MrBeast thinks safety concerns about his Amazon Prime Video series were overstated.

accused of grooming a minor has concluded and the YouTube star is sharing the results.On Friday, MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, 26, posted the findings sent to him by Alex Spiro of the law firm Quinn Emanuel, an outside attorney Donaldson hired to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct happening at his company.“A three-month investigation into allegations regarding my company has concluded. The lawfirm/investigators reviewed millions of documents/messages and conducted 39 interviews,” MrBeast wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Prime Video series that filmed over the summer.In a redacted version of the lawsuit, the contestants said they are seeking a jury trial to determine monetary damages “likely totaling in the millions of dollars.”The five plaintiffs claimed they were subjected “to unreasonable, unsafe, and unlawful employment conditions.”The complaints listed in the lawsuit include sexual harassment, failure to prevent harassment, negligent infliction of emotional distress, failure to provide uninterrupted meal breaks, failure to provide uninterrupted rest breaks, failure to pay minimum wages, failure to pay overtime, false advertising, unfair business practices and more.The lawsuit specifically claimed that the show — which allegedly has a $100 million budget — misrepresented itself by telling contestants there would be 1,000 participates, only for them to find out “upon arrival” that there were more.This “reduced” the contestants’ chances of winning the purported $5 million grand prize, the suit said.The complaint also alleged that MrBeast (whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson) “did not want to use the alleged unconstrained resources” that he had for the show “to provide fair wages, or even bare-minimum-legal working conditions.”Instead, MrBeast and the defendants allegedly “employed superior bargaining power to coerce the contestants to sign unconscionable contracts with illegal terms and illusory obligations,” per the suit.The defendants were specifically blamed for having “created, permitted to exist, and fostered a culture and pattern and practice of sexual harassment including in the form of a hostile work environment.”The Post has reached out to MrBeast’s rep for comment.Attorneys for the five anonymous people who filed the lawsuit

MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, and Amazon are facing a major lawsuit.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor A class-action lawsuit against YouTube star MrBeast and Amazon has been filed on behalf of five unnamed contestants in the “Beast Games” reality competition show alleging they were subjected to “chronic mistreatment,” sexual harassment and more. The complaint was filed Monday (Sept.

MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is a well-known American YouTuber, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He gained significant popularity for his extravagant challenges, generous philanthropy, and elaborate stunts.