Rupert Murdoch: Last News

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer For all the raunchy jokes, club drugs, buckets of blood and meta punchlines, “Deadpool & Wolverine” may be the most sentimental movie of the summer. Hollywood insiders and superhero film fans were stunned to discover that last weekend’s Marvel blockbuster basically amounts to a big, sobbing, “Steel Magnolias”-grade sendoff to 20th Century Fox.

William Earl Rupert Murdoch is facing a familial battle royale as three of the 93-year-old media mogul’s four adult children fight his efforts to adjust the family trust in order to leave eldest son Lachlan Murdoch in charge after his death, according to an investigative report published Wednesday by the New York Times. The Times report is based in part on a 48-page decision by a Nevada probate commissioneer that was filed under seal but obtained by the newspaper. Three of Rupert Murdoch’s four adult children — Prudence, Elisabeth and James — are fighting their father’s efforts to adjust the trust.

Steven Gaydos Executive VP of Content As the only female host in the 2024 late-night television landscape, Taylor Tomlinson, who is Variety‘s 2024 Creative Impact in Comedy honoree, represents a big win in one of the longest-running battles for gender equality in American entertainment. Nearly 40 years before Tomlinson’s “After Midnight” bowed on CBS, Joan Rivers made history when “The Late Show” debuted as the first flash of programming from the brand spanking new Fox Broadcasting Co. on Oct.

“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” Donald Trump said one day after an attempted assassination on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania,. I’m supposed to be dead.”

July in full swing sees top media executives and an impressive political cohort gathered at a storied mountain resort to hike, chat and whitewater raft. The elixir of relaxed proximity distilled in Sun Valley’s rustic woods is credited with hatching a number of consequential deals over the decades.

A new free ad-supported streaming service popular in the US has now launched in the UK, providing some competition for Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon’s Prime Video.

The White House again is pushing back at the New York Post over a video that the Murdoch-owned publication claimed showed President Joe Biden freezing up at the end of his blockbuster fundraiser in Los Angeles with former President Barack Obama.

The BBC and Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story producer 72 Films are teaming on a feature-length documentary about the state of Georgia‘s fight to put Donald Trump behind bars.

Donald Trump rarely meets a microphone he doesn’t like, but today the usually volatile former president backed off being bumped off TV by Joe Biden.

EXCLUSIVE: At an age when most teenagers are trying to master basic hygiene, Sharb Farjami was working full time in the advertising business. Today, roughly three decades after that early start, he has risen to one of the top posts in the industry as CEO of GroupM North America. As the media buying arm of giant holding company WPP, GroupM controls billions of dollars in annual ad spending.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor David Nevins has stepped down as CEO of North Road Co., the media venture launched in 2022 by Peter Chernin with backing from Providence Equity and other private equity partners. Nevins formally joined North Road Co. company last July.

Rupert Murdoch is a married man!

Prince Harry will not be able to expand his phone hacking lawsuit against News Group Newspapers to include Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan, the UK’s High Court has ruled.

K.J. Yossman Prince Harry’s bid to include claims against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and broadcaster Piers Morgan has been rejected by London’s High Court. Harry – along with more than 40 other plaintiffs – is suing Murdoch’s U.K.

Andrew Neil is reuniting with Rupert Murdoch’s media empire to host UK and U.S. election coverage.

Official portraits of royalty or politicians are often very staid and forgettable. That is not the case with King Charles‘ first official portrait.

Ellise Shafer Hugh Grant has settled his privacy case against the publisher of The Sun, Rupert Murdoch‘s News Group Newspapers. As reported by the BBC, Grant reached a settlement on Wednesday regarding allegations of unlawful information gathering against NGN. He had claimed that The Sun had employed private investigators to tap his phone in 2011.

Hugh Grant has settled in his privacy case with the publisher of Rupert Murdoch‘s tabloid The Sun.

Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch among others has been cancelled, following complaints from high-profile figures.It was announced on March 13 that this year’s honourees for the Opperman Foundation’s Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award included Musk, Murdoch, Martha Stewart, Sylvester Stallone and Michael Milken.The inclusion of the Tesla founder and the former FOX news CEO sparked backlash from members of the Ginsburg family. Ginsburg’s son, James criticised the foundation, saying his mother would be “appalled” at the honourees.Ginsburg told CNN: “When you think of trying to create a more just society, which of course was mom’s ultimate goal, those are probably about the last names that would come to mind.”Calling the news a “desecration to [his] mother’s memory”, he said: “I think she’d be appalled.”Yesterday (March 18) Barbra Streisand took to Instagram to show her support for the Ginsburg family, and join them in condemning the choice of honourees for the ceremony.Reflecting on receiving the honour from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor last year, Streisand wrote: “Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor stand as two of the most respected women role models, and their commitment to democratic values, especially women’s rights, is unequaled.”A post shared by Barbra Streisand (@barbrastreisand)She continued: “That’s why I join the Ginsburg family in condemning the choice of honourees this year.

The family of former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is calling out an organization which had been entrusted to hand out a yearly award in her name.

Gerald Levin, known to many as Jerry, wasn’t flamboyant. He wasn’t characterized, as were many of his media business contemporaries, by extravagant hobbies, odd peccadillos, inspiring speeches or a spicy personal life. He could be testy, but he didn’t engage in public brawls beloved by – and between – Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch.