In what is apparently the conclusion of a deal that Variety tipped a year ago, Sony Music Group has completed a transaction to acquire half of Michael Jackson’s publishing and recorded masters in a transaction that values the total catalog at around $1.2 billion, and
Is politics a major buzzkill? Instagram execs seem to think so. In a blog post Friday, Instagram, the popular photo and video app owned by Meta, said it will no longer “proactively recommend” political content from accounts that users do not already follow. The same
Toronto-based Cream Prods. (“The Haunted Museum,” “Eli Roth Presents: My Possessed Pet”) formed an in-house sustainability team in 2021 and set out to green its production pipeline from top to bottom. It started by signing up for the Albert Calculator, an online toolkit that determines
Ozzy Osbourne has called out Kanye West for sampling a live version of “War Pigs” without permission. Apparently Osbourne denied West’s request to feature a section of the Black Sabbath song on the rapper’s new album, but West “went ahead and used the sample anyway
Matthew Vaughn’s “Argylle” has become the first major box office flop of 2024. The action-comedy, backed by Apple and distributed by Universal Pictures, only opened to $17 million during its domestic debut and might not even make it to $100 million worldwide by the end
A new standalone “Predator” movie is in the works at 20th Century Studios, with filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg set to direct. Plot details for “Badlands,” which will be set in the future, are currently under wraps, but the film will begin production this year. Trachtenberg landed
Zara Larsson has been through a lot since releasing her debut album “1” in 2014, which is why she’s relishing her newfound creative space. “This era is the fun, free, lover era,” she explains of “Venus,” her fourth album that released today. “Venus is the
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights worldwide to “Between the Temples,” a comedy with Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane that earned strong reviews when it debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Nathan Silver, the film follows a forty-something cantor who is