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Advertising inventory for Super Bowl LV, which CBS will broadcast on February 7, has virtually sold out. ViacomCBS confirmed the status of sales and said a 30-second spot has commanded about $5.5 million,  roughly in line with rates for last year’s game. Fox reported $600 million in revenue from Super Bowl LIV…

AT&T said the number of activated subscriptions to streaming service HBO Max doubled in the fourth quarter to 17.2 million compared with the third quarter, partly due to the release of Wonder Woman 1984. The number of overall domestic subscriptions to both regular HBO and HBO Max reached 41.5 million, which the…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has gone all in with Lisa Cortés, and vice versa. The All In: The Fight For Democracy co-director has signed with the uberagency in all areas, I've learned. Cortés' new representation comes as the Oscar nominee and Emmy winner finds herself at the center of a vast political shift in the nation. A change…

On Tuesday, Johns Hopkins University revealed that Covid-19 had infected more than 100 million people globally. That milestone comes a little over one year since the first case was confirmed in the United States. The U.S. now accounts for over one-quarter of those 100 million cases, even though it has only 4% of the…

Film producer and President of the Latinx arts advocacy group Nosotros Joel M. Gonzales has been named Senior Vice-President and Head of Latinx Content at Confluential Films. In his new role, Gonzales will work alongside Confluential Films founder, Tommy Oliver; Executive Vice President, Mel Jones; and Head of…

President Joe Biden gave a timeline for vaccinating much of the American population against Covid-19, as he announced a plan that could see 300 million receive recommended doses by the end of the summer. The White House announced that the U.S. will purchase an additional 200 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine…

Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management have acquired the Sony Pictures Animation Campus in Culver City, the partners said Tuesday. It's their second venture in two days as transactions involving studio spaces explode. Hackman announced yesterday it will operate the historic Raleigh Studios in…

"The good news is we've seen highs almost near 4,000 admissions a day into our hospitals because of Covid," California’s Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday. “Now we’re seeing days below 2,500 and even getting lower, which is exactly what's going to keep our hospital conditions improving…

EXCLUSIVE: H.E.R, Glennon Doyle, Kelly Rowland and Pharrell Williams are among the artists set to be featured on a new podcast from Sony Music Entertainment and gospel artist Kirk Franklin. The pair are launching Good Words with Kirk Franklin on February 9. The show will feature Franklin, a 16-time Grammy winning…

The WGA and WME have agreed to a six-month postponement of the trial their long-running anti-trust lawsuits against each other, saying in court filings that they "wish to have time to focus on settlement talks without jeopardizing the overall litigation schedule." They also noted that "certain discovery disputes…

EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Hughes, whose nine-year run at Lionsgate culminated with a stint as EVP of worldwide digital distribution, has joined online content marketplace Vuulr as the startup’s CEO Americas. Founded in 2019 and backed by investors in Singapore, Vuulr will now start to emphasize staffing and client development…

Melina Matsoukas brought on veteran producer Khaliah Neal as Head of Film & TV of her production banner De La Revolución Films, which recently secured a first-look feature deal with MGM. Prior to her new post, Neal was a film and tv executive at Michael B Jordan's Outlier Society where she helped spearhead scripted…