'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' Star Whitney Leavitt & Husband Conner Welcome Third Child!

Netflix has tapped veteran advertising exec Nicolle Pangis to lead their growing sales efforts in U.S. and Canada.

An amended FCC filing by Skydance today says that David Ellison will hold 100% of the Ellison family’s voting interest in Paramount once that deal closes. The clarification comes amid possible concerns over control residing with his father, Oracle co-founder and CEO, Larry Ellison.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Julia Roberts is the latest Hollywood celebrity to champion Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign. The Oscar winner is featured as the narrator in a new Harris-Walz campaign video created by the progressive evangelical group Vote Common Good (via The Daily Beast).

William Earl administrator 2024 has been loaded with horror releases, with scary stories about everything from rampaging spiders to satanic late-night talk shows. This crop is distinctive for its unconventional reworkings of well-worn tropes.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Skydance Media submitted an updated FCC filing to reflect that David Ellison, CEO of Skydance, will hold 100% percent of the Ellison family’s voting interests in the newly combined Skydance-Paramount. According to the amended FCC filing Tuesday, David Ellison’s role will be chairman and CEO of New Paramount, combining the assets of Skydance and Paramount Global after the deal closes, expected in the first half of 2025. David Ellison also is designated as “sole manager” of the Ellison family entities — Hikouki LLC, Furaito LLC, and Aozora LLC — through which the Ellison family will own and control National Amusements Inc.

the Velvet Underground has died at the age of 86.His death was confirmed by his archivist, Michael Chaiken, who told the New York Times that Morrissey died from pneumonia in a New York hospital on Monday (October 28).Best known for films including Flesh (1968), Trash (1970) and Women In Revolt (1971), Morrissey was an instrumental figure in Warhol’s Factory studio after being contracted to run it upon meeting Warhol in 1965. He became known for making low-budget films about drug addicts and hustlers using a cast of models, socialites, artists, drag queens and others that would eventually be known as Warhol’s “superstars”.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor In his latest Broadway project, Emmy winner Darren Criss (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) and his co-star, Helen J. Shen, play retired, robotic “helperbots” in the near-future love story “Maybe Happy Ending.” And although it might seem like a challenge to find the emotion in an android, Criss is finding that more he plays with the artifice of it, the more relatable his robot becomes.

Liam Payne‘s first posthumous single have been cancelled, only two days after they were announced.The solo artist and former One Direction member died on October 16 following a fatal fall from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Argentine prosecutor’s office has revealed that the 31-year-old’s cause of death was due to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding.Last week, Grammy award-winning producer Sam Pounds, who worked with Payne shortly before his death, shared that he would be releasing a new song by the late singer on November 1.

Burning Man has called for “urgent” donations as a way to help save the festival amid staff lay-offs.The week-long non-profit festival – which is located in the deserts of Nevada and focuses on community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance – has been known to sell out of tickets months in advance, sometimes within 30 minutes of release. This year saw the festival open ticket sales to non-registered buyers for the first time after experiencing slow sales.Now, in a detailed post on the Burning Man official website, Goodell explained that the music and arts bash’s “need for philanthropic support is extremely urgent,” and cited various financial issues that the fest is dealing with as well as ticket sales not doing as well as they had anticipated for reasons as to why they currently need the support.“This $5.7M shortfall, combined with a $3M dip in receipts from main-sale tickets and vehicle passes, means that our year-end charitable donation target has essentially doubled to nearly $20M,” wrote Goodell in the post.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Tour opened in Palm Springs last February, Variety wrote, “It’s a rock ‘n’ roll show, by the way — maybe the best rock tour we’ll get all year, even if the season is young.” Now that a concert film is arriving to commemorate the recently wrapped tour, and the chance for reassessment is nigh, there’s no reason to take any of that back. “Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour,” premiering today on Netflix, further cements just how assured the show was as a captivating blast of guitar-driven energy, from a 21-year-old star who has clearly earned her rocker’s license.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Hungary’s 30% tax incentive for film and TV, which has helped attract recent Hollywood shoots like “Dune: Part Two,” “Maria” and “The Brutalist” to the country, has been extended by six years. Hungary, continental Europe’s biggest production hub, has attracted direct annual production spend totalling $910 million, a fourfold increase in the last five years.

Carolyn Giardina Jeff Gipson, the director of Disney Animation’s VR shorts “Myth: A Frozen Tale” and “Cycles,” has inked a deal with startup DreamFlare AI to create a series of shorts for its recently-launched generative AI content platform. With a background in VFX and immersive storytelling, Gipson was honored with the AIXR VR Film of the Year award in 2020 for his short “Myth: A Frozen Tale,” a story set in the “Frozen” world; an Advanced Imaging Society Lumiere Award for best animated VR film in 2019 for Cycles, a story that follows a family in their home that was billed as Disney Animation’s first VR short; and four Visual Effects Society Award nominations.

Pixies are doubling down in 2025.Starting in June, the surf punk pioneers will embark on a North American summer tour where they play two unique concerts in each city they visit.At each first show on the run, the quartet will perform their classic 1990 album “Bossanova” and 1991’s “Tromp Le Monde” cover to cover. Night two gigs will reportedly consist of the band’s greatest hits — we’re guessing “Where Is My Mind,” “Monkey Gone To Heaven,” “Debaser,” “Here Comes Your Man” and “Gigantic” will likely make the set list — along with tracks from their 2024 record “The Night The Zombies Came.”And, yes, Pixies are coming to New York.Midway through this ambitious nationwide trek, Black Francis, Joey Santiago, David Lovering and Emma Richardson are scheduled to bring their traveling two-night extravaganza to the newly opened Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday, July 15 and Wednesday, July 16.Kurt Vile and the Violators will serve as support at all shows on the summer jaunt.Five months before the double album/greatest hits excursion gets underway, Black Francis is heading out on a solo run of his own celebrating the 30th anniversary of his 1994 album “Teenager Of The Year.” That tour swings into Brooklyn Steel on Saturday, Feb.

Strictly Come Dancing fans have rallied around professional dancer Nancy Xu after she expressed her distress.

Dobbies Ayr is calling on nurseries and schools, warmly welcoming teachers, parents and guardians, to get in touch to request a free real Christmas tree.

A prominent businessman has led the line for amazing Ayrshire triumphs in the Scotland Loves Local Awards.

An Ayrshire debt, welfare and housing advice charity has secured vital funding for three years.

October has been a really big month for Netflix in terms of renewal and cancellation decisions for their original slate of TV shows.

It has been 14 years since the series finale of Ugly Betty aired on ABC and now you can rewatch the entire show on Netflix!

Jenna Ortega and Natalie Portman might be joining forces in an exciting new movie!

Jessica Chastain, Brendan Fraser and Bryan Cranston have boarded Al Pacino‘s new movie Assassination, which explores a new angle on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.