The Hollywood Reporter

“I made a living for 34 years second-guessing everything I see or hear, so you have to take that into consideration.”

Disney is bracing for another round of layoffs, this time to its legal and global affairs department, as part of a corporate-wide workforce redesign in the adoption of artificial intelligence and other technologies.

So much for free speech.The studio releasing Alex Gibney’s new Elon Musk documentary Musk is finding itself unable to buy an ad on the biggest social platforms.YouTube, TikTok and Instagram and Facebook owner Meta are all declining to run the trailer for X, along with X itself, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.That last one is perhaps understandable given its owner. But the rejection by the other platforms has taken distributor Bleecker Street by surprise, which internally is scrambling to understand why their ad has been rejected, according to a person familiar with the company’s processes who is not authorized to talk about them publicly.The unwillingness of platforms to accept even paid advertising is sure to raise concerns about free speech and the dwindling number of companies that control many of the platforms in this country — and ironically provide a proof-text for the very point the film is coming to make. Gibney’s doc is a four-hour look at a title character who attempts to control the conversation in various ways, including with alleged suppressions on X, which he bought in 2022.

When Robert Kirkman launched Void Rivals No. 1 in 2023 as backdoor way to introduce a shared comic universe featuring Transformers and G.I. Joe, he wasn’t sure how it would be accepted. After all, the licensed comics featuring those two Hasbro properties had been published almost continuously for almost 30 years via companies such as Marvel, Devil’s Due and IDW. They were relatively sleepy but reliably steady sellers.

The Beckham business is booming.

The success of Christopher Nolan’s epic The Odyssey brought new awareness to the different Imax experiences out there. Consumers flocked to cinemas equipped with Imax’s rickety old 50 mm film projectors, while those that were unable to snag those coveted tickets sought out Imax theaters that were digital but could show the film in its full-scale, immersive glory.

Months after Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settled their It Ends with Us dispute, a related case involving top Hollywood publicists continues to offer its own fresh revelations. Stephanie Jones, who handled PR for both Baldoni and the movie’s production company Wayfarer Studios, has been pursuing a suit in federal court against Baldoni’s crisis communications strategists and former clients on the film project, alleging defamation as well as other claims.

NASA astronaut Victor Glover has signed with CAA for representation in all areas after he has retired as a space explorer.

Tyler Perry’s Netflix film 'Why Did I Get Married Again?' topped the Nielsen movie rankings and was third among all titles with 908 million minutes of watch time in the latest snapshot. Full streaming charts: https://lnkd.in/g_RBbkCF

The New York Times‘ exhaustive list of the best TV shows of the 21st century traces its origin to a similar list of the best books a couple years ago. The idea, Times canon editor Gilbert Cruz tells The Hollywood Reporter, was to reach out to the world’s best authors (many of them he notes, already write for the Times or the Times Book Review in one capacity or another), and have them select their favorites.