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Showbiz News is the dated industry feed: executive hires and exits, agency signings, production starts and shutdowns, lawsuits, settlements and corporate announcements. Items are attributed, timestamped and revised as situations develop. For professionals who need a move the day it happens rather than a week later.
Dated industry announcements: executive appointments, agency signings, production starts, lawsuits and departures, attributed and updated as they develop.
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How Packaging Fees Actually Work — and Why the WGA Killed Them
For decades, talent agencies collected a cut of a show's budget for assembling its cast and writers instead of commission from their clients — here's the mechanism, and why the Writers Guild spent three years dismantling it.
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Record $430 Million Weekend Tests AMC's Billion-Dollar Theater Bet
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The $23-an-Hour Median: How Actors and Directors Actually Get Paid
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How Residuals Actually Work — and Why the Checks Got Smaller
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Universal Spent $25.7 Million Selling Oppenheimer To Oscar Voters
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WGA Sues to Block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
The Writers Guild filed an antitrust suit against the $110 billion merger on July 14, 2026, one day after twelve state attorneys general did the same.
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Super Mario Galaxy Movie Becomes First Billion-Dollar Release of 2026
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie crossed $1 billion worldwide in its tenth weekend, becoming the first 2026 release to reach the mark, per AP.
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DOJ Clears Paramount's $110 Billion Warner Bros. Acquisition
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division approved the Paramount-WBD merger on June 12, 2026, handing David Ellison the biggest regulatory win of the deal so far.
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Cannes 2026 Market Feels the Squeeze as Streamers Tighten Checkbooks
The 79th Cannes Film Festival ran May 12-23, 2026 while its business sidelines turned cautious — too many packages, fewer big checks, and streamers picking selectively.