Dawn Chmielewski
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Emmy Awards 2021: Stay Tuned For Results
Tonight’s 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards show kicks off a battle of the streaming platforms, with Netflix’s The Crown and Apple TV’s Ted Lasso heavily favored to sweep the drama and comedy categories. We'll update regularly with the winners. → Read More
Can Cedric The Entertainer’s ‘Fun Skits’ Land Viewers For Emmys?
Cedric the Entertainer is doing his best to single-handedly build excitement for the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony he’s hosting Sunday night on CBS. → Read More
Apple TV+ Brings Out The Big Celebrity Guns (Again) To Hang On To Subscribers
The Cupertino tech giant continues to bet on star power and prestige projects to build its two-year-old streaming service, as it seeks to convert those who have been receiving Apple TV+ free with the purchase of a device into subscribers. → Read More
What The Shake-Up At Paramount Means For ViacomCBS’s All-In Bet On Streaming
ViacomCBS is aligning resources to spur the growth of its paid streaming service, which lags rivals Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max. NBCUniveral’s Peacock has 54 million “sign-ups,” a number that includes free and paid subscribers, making it difficult to compare with the other streaming services. → Read More
From Avengers To Shang-Chi, What Marvel Studios Is Really Worth To Walt Disney
Marvel has become the beating heart of the world’s biggest entertainment business, its 24 titles collectively grossing $21.9 billion in Disney’s hands, making it bigger than Bond, more potent than Potter and massive compared to The Fast And The Furious. → Read More
Let’s Make A Deal: Who’s For Sale In Hollywood And For How Much?
Valuations for entertainment’s hottest production companies are already soaring and the deal makers are just getting started. → Read More
How Much Scarlett Johansson Can Win If She Triumphs In Disney Lawsuit
Scarlett Johansson, who stars as the superhero Black Widow in the latest Marvel release, filed suit against Disney Thursday for what Hollywood sources say could be more than $50 million in lost bonus payments. → Read More
The Devil Made Me Do It — The Streaming Edition
Ampere Analysis projects that some $225 billion will be spent globally this year on original and acquired content, as big media and big tech rivals race to hoard entertainment’s most familiar properties for their own. → Read More
Hollywood Has A Troubled History With Games. Can Netflix Prove It Has More Than A ‘Zero Chance’ At Success?
Netflix thinks it can rewrite Hollywood’s troubled gaming narrative and to do it has hired Mike Verdu, a former Facebook and Electronic Arts executive, to lead a game development division it hopes to launch by year-end. → Read More
Bob Ross, Elvis And A Focus On Dead Celebrities Gives New Life To Cinedigm
Cinedigm is hoping to ride the streaming wave into the future, as it exits a dying theatrical equipment licensing business that was pummeled by the pandemic. → Read More
Ava DuVernay’s Array Film Collective Partners With Google To Create $500,000 Film Grant
Ava DuVernay hopes to smooth the path for the next woman or person of color with a $500,000 filmmaking grant offered in partnership with GoogleGOOG. The grant is designed to finance the recipient’s first feature-length film, and, in the process, help foster a diverse community of storytellers. → Read More
How ‘Friends’ Generated More Than $1.4 Billion For Its Stars And Creators
The wildly popular television comedy generated nearly $1.4 billion in earnings since Friends’ broadcast debut in 1994, according to Forbes estimates. Of that, Forbes estimates that the six Friends stars received nearly $816 million in pre-tax earnings, or roughly $136 million each. → Read More
Why Amazon Is Paying More For MGM Than Disney Did For Star Wars And Marvel
Rumors of Amazon’s interest in MGM have proven true after the online retailer announced it will pay $8.45 billion for the venerable studio, Amazon will have to prove that its library can live up to a richer price tag than the one Walt Disney paid for Marvel Entertainment and Lucasfilm. → Read More
Chinese Billionaire Sells Off Most Of AMC Stake
Dalian Wanda Group has sold off most of its holdings in movie theater chain AMC Entertainment, marking a dramatic retreat from Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin’s bold Hollywood ambitions. Another U.S. asset, Legendary Entertainment, is exploring its financial options. → Read More
From Malone To MGM, Big Media’s New Deal Talk Hints At A New Wave Of Consolidation
When the WarnerMedia-Discovery deal that was quietly negotiated in a Greenwich Village brownstone became public, it stirred speculation about a wave of consolidation to come. It didn't take log. Within hours, news accounts affirmed a Forbes report from January that Amazon was in deal talks with MGM. → Read More
WarnerMedia Deal Lands Another AT&T Win For Cable Billionaire John Malone
Billionaire John Malone has a seat at the table with what could be one of the most formidable media companies on the planet. The $43 billion deal brings together AT&T’s Warner Bros. studio, HBO, CNN and TBS and Discovery’s array of cable channels, including HGTV, Food Network and Discovery. → Read More
Oscars 2021: The Live Winners List
This year's Academy Awards celebrate film at a moment when the industry is confronting existential change → Read More
Inside The $205,000 Oscar 2021 Gift Bag: From A Spa Retreat To ‘Poetry For Neanderthals’
Every year, celebrity and product-placement marketing company Distinctive Assets puts together a gift bag that the 25 nominees for best actor and director awards take home with them, whether they win or not. → Read More
Still Eclipsed By Much Larger Rivals, HBO Max Finally Crashes The Streaming Party
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar angered just about everyone in the movie business when the Warner Bros. studio announced in December that it would release all of its 2021 films simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. This morning WarnerMedia parent AT&T said the strategy is paying off. → Read More
Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Tap Indie Film Executive To Lead Archewell
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex today confirmed they’ve hired veteran producer Ben Browning as head of content for Archewell Productions and Archewell Audio. → Read More