WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar Tackles HBO Max Launch, Brand Confusion, Streaming Rivals In CNBC Interview

Dancing On Ice contestant Bez was left disappointed on Sunday's episode after he suffered an unfortunate tumble during his routine. During the latest instalment, the Happy Mondays star, 57, took to the ice with Angela Egan to perform to Walking On Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorHannah Waddingham made her Super Bowl commercial debut during today’s telecast of the championship game.The “Ted Lasso” star is featured in a spot for cash back shopping service Rakuten. She plays a villainous (and glamorous) character that could easily appear in a “James Bond” film — she has a hairless cat named Leonardo! — in a high stakes poker game who loses to a Rakuten user. The 60-second commercial, directed by Matt Aselton, was shot at Hatfield House outside of London.“They came to me because they wanted a very specific kind of type,” the Emmy winner told Variety.

Matthew Stafford‘s daughters were some of his biggest fans in the crowd at the Super Bowl on Feb. 13 as he and the Los Angeles Rams took on the Cincinnati Bengals. The 34-year-old quarterback’s four girls, including four-year-old twins Chandler and Sawyer, Hunter, 3, and one-year-old Tyler, were watching the exciting game with their mom Kelly and looked like they were having the time of their lives as they cheered on their dad. One of his daughters gave her mom a big hug after the QB threw the first touchdown pass of the game, which was caught by Odell Beckham Jr. 

Mickey Guyton just made her mark at the big game.

Piers Morgan, 56, has done many things during his lifetime, and 2022 was the year he finally got to attend the Super Bowl. But by watching his first ever game in person, he was stunned at the size of the US stadiums that are capable of holding the annual world-famous event.The former Good Morning Britain star shared his experience so far on Instagram, as he attended the game with his son Bertie.He shared a snap of the pair holding a branded Super Bowl cardboard frame outside of the Sofi Stadium in LA, but nothing could have prepared him for the vastness of its interior.Upon taking their seats, he videod the arena and was left speechless."Holy c**p," he penned, as he scanned the surroundings."What a stadium."The Sofi Stadium can typically seat 70,240, but it can hold more fans for the Super Bowl.It can expand out to 100,240 for more major events.Ahead of kick-off, Piers also took to his story to share a throw-back photo of him and one of this year's halftime show performers Snoop Dogg.A post shared by Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan)"Excited to be going to my first Super Bowl to see my mate Snoop Dogg do his thing with Eminem and Dr Dre at halftime..." he wrote."Should be quite a show."And quite a show it will be too, as fans also took to social media to share their own excitement ahead of one of the most talked about events of the year.The halftime show has seen some of the most iconic musicians take to the stage throughout the years, with The Weeknd making headlines last year for his legendary performance.This year's show performers are Dr.

Kanye West has continued his string of all-caps rants on Instagram, adding Machine Gun Kelly to his current list of feuds alongside Kid Cudi and Pete Davidson.It’s been a busy weekend for West. Yesterday (February 12), he broke the news that Cudi would not be appearing on his forthcoming ‘Donda 2’ album, citing his Kids See Ghosts collaborator’s friendship with Davidson (who is currently dating West’s estranged wife, Kim Kardashian).

Tears for Fears have shared a new single called ‘Break The Man’ – check it out below.The song is the third taste of the group’s first album in 17 years, ‘The Tipping Point’, which is due to arrive on February 25 via Concord Records. In October 2021, the duo – comprised of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith – released the record’s title track and last month, they released second single ‘No Small Thing’.‘Break The Man’ pays homage to women who fight against the patriarchy. “I feel that a lot of the problems we’ve been having as a country and even worldwide to a certain degree has come from male dominance,” Tears for Fears singer Curt Smith said of the single.“It’s a song about a woman who is strong enough to break the man.

series of Disney+ dropped during Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, and fans are getting an better look at the titular vigilante.With even more of the Egyptian imagery that plays such a key role to the story, to more, increasingly unsettling looks at the madness that plagues Oscar Isaac's troubled hero, this spot whets the appetite for the forthcoming series while still keeping the mystery shrouded and shadows and chaos.Moon Knight is secretly Marc Spector, a mercenary who may or may not be infused with powers from Khonshu the Moon God after being left for dead in the Egyptian desert.However, it may all be in his head, as he also suffers from dissociative identity disorder. In the comics, Spector has used his various identities to fight crime, but they've also been one of his biggest obstacles for obtaining any sort of normal life.Ethan Hawke, meanwhile, appears to play something of a long-haired messianic figure with kneeling acolytes.

Wilson Chapman editorGet ready to meet the many, many sides of Marc Spector.During the Super Bowl, Marvel Studios unveiled the second trailer for “Moon Knight,” the Oscar Isaac-starring limited series premiering March 30 on Disney Plus.The Marvel Cinematic Universe series stars Isaac as Moon Knight, a character first created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin in 1975 for the comic series “Werewolf by Knight.” In most depictions of the character, Moon Knight is the secret identity of Marc Spector, a former CIA operative turned mercenary who dies during a job in Sudan but is revived and turned into the conduit of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu, becoming a Batman-esque vigilante. One of the character’s most notable traits is his dissociative identity disorder, which manifests in several distinct personas with defined personalities.

Jordan Moreau For football fans, the Super Bowl is the biggest day of the year. For movie and TV fans, it’s pretty high up there, with new trailers from the year’s most anticipated titles dropping during the game.Some big movie trailers already debuted in the week leading up to the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals facing off, such as “Jurassic World: Dominion,” which brings back franchise leads Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum, and Jordan Peele’s next horror movie “Nope,” starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun.Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” aired at the beginning of the big game, teasing a showdown between Scarlet Witch and Doctor Strange, plus a mysterious voice that sounded a lot like Patrick Stewart’s Professor Xavier from the “X-Men” franchise.

Ready for the big game! Hannah Ann Sluss confirmed she’s dating Los Angeles Rams player Jake Funk — just before he took the field to play in Super Bowl LVI.

Super Bowl Sunday is back, and this year's halftime show has viewers geared up for "the biggest hip-hop party of their lives".The NFL world-famous performance has featured many big names in music over the years, but this time the line-up sent fans into a meltdown.This year's show performers are Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J.

WarnerMedia is looking to offload anime-focused streaming service Crunchyroll, and Sony is among the interested acquirers, according to a source with knowledge of the talks. The 14-year-old service passed 3 million subscribers in late July, up from 2 million at the end of 2018.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterIn a sprawling keynote conversation with Ziffren Brittenham partner Ken Ziffren at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium, CAA managing partner and co-chairman Bryan Lourd opened up about his thoughts on the ongoing Writers Guild conflict, the Black Lives Matter movement and the agency’s efforts to diversify, and the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the entertainment industry.Lourd was a late addition to the roster; former WarnerMedia Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt had originally been slated to speak before his sudden departure from the company amid a major executive shakeup last week.On the topic of the ongoing packaging feud between the Writers Guild of America and the major talent agencies, Lourd said that he

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe broad restructuring at WarnerMedia is a “natural progression” for the media conglomerate to hone its focus on HBO Max, according to John Stephens, AT&T’s chief financial officer.WarnerMedia laid off hundreds of employees Monday across Warner Bros., HBO and DC Entertainment. That came after a major management shakeup under new CEO Jason Kilar, under which HBO Max content leaders Robert Greenblatt and Kevin Reilly were let go and Warner Bros.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorAT&T CFO John Stephens said the layoffs currently affecting WarnerMedia should not be seen as a course correction after the May launch of HBO Max, but rather as a “refocusing” of the company.The executive discussed the reductions of about 600 WarnerMedia staffers and many other topics during an online appearance Tuesday at the Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference.Starting Friday and continuing into this week, the restructuring was punctuated by the departures of entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt and HBO Max chief content officer Kevin Reilly. The two had been installed as the principal architects of the streaming effort by John Stankey when he was overseeing WarnerMedia.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVAs part of the broad WarnerMedia restructuring announced by CEO Jason Kilar, Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman Peter Roth is consolidating the studio’s scripted and unscripted television production operations.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticCAA’s Bryan Lourd will take over as the keynote speaker for the 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium Wednesday, replacing Bob Greenblatt, the former Chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment.In a virtual sit-down interview with powerhouse attorney Ken Ziffren, the uberagency Managing Partner and Co-Chairman will now be the yearly media conference’s marquee attraction in a session that goes online on August 12, at 5 p.m. PT.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVIt is a difficult day at WarnerMedia, which is undergoing a round of major layoffs, part of a companywide restructuring spearheaded by new CEO Jason Kilar.As part of realignment, leaving the company are Jeffrey R. Schlesinger President, Warner Bros.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaHundreds of employees at WarnerMedia are being let go on Monday as part of a company-wide restructuring. Impacted staffers began getting informed about the cuts at roughly 10:30 am PT.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorLayoffs got under way Monday at WarnerMedia, with about 600 staffers departing the company, sources told Deadline.The reductions follow major changes announced late Friday by WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar.Advocating a shift toward consumer-facing operations and away from wholesale, he unveiled a new executive structure. The new setup expands the purview of former Warner Bros chief Ann Sarnoff, HBO programming boss Casey Bloys and WarnerMedia direct-to-consumer head Andy Forssell.