Hallmark Channel debuts “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story”
Hallmark Channel is leaning into its Kansas City roots — and the world-famous romance between music star Taylor Swift and football player Travis Kelce — to score during its lucrative…
Disney’s ‘Moana 2’ rolling toward history-making Thanksgiving weekend
“Moana 2” is shaping up be one of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ biggest wave riders ever. The animated musical about the seafaring Polynesian princess delivered a domestic Thanksgiving Day haul…
Canadian news publishers sue OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement
OTTAWA, Ontario — A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to…
Australia approves law banning kids under 16 from social media
MELBOURNE, Australia — A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Senate on Thursday and will soon become a world-first law. The law will make platforms including TikTok,…
Capitol rioter’s defamation suit against Fox News is dismissed
A Delaware court judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News filed by a Jan. 6 rioter who said the network falsely identified him as an FBI informant. U.S.…
Huge sports events are coming to streaming. Is the technology ready for prime time?
The much-hyped Mike Tyson fight against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul showed the potential power of Netflix to create live, global sports events on streaming video. For many people though, it also…
Australia social media ban for kids is closer to becoming law
MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the…
Investors slam Warner Bros. Discovery with lawsuit over loss of NBA deal
Investors are calling foul over Warner Bros. Discovery’s loss of its NBA media rights deal. A lawsuit filed this week in New York federal court alleges that shareholders suffered “significant…
Disney agrees to pay $43 million to settle lawsuit over women’s pay
Walt Disney Co. has agreed to pay $43.3 million to resolve a long-running lawsuit brought by a group of female employees who had alleged gender pay discrimination at the Burbank…
Could ‘Wicked’ turbocharge the Broadway movie adaptation genre?
It’s not easy to defy gravity as a musical movie, particularly one that’s been adapted from a Broadway play. But with the record-breaking premiere of Universal Pictures’ “Wicked” last weekend,…