EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed actress Abby Ryder Fortson, the 15-year-old up-and-comer known for leading Lionsgate‘s recent coming-of-age dramedy Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, based on the classic Judy Blume novel published in 1970. Released on April 28th, Are You There God? tells the story of Fortson’s 11-year-old Margaret, watching as she navigates new […]

CNN Worldwide chairman and CEO Chris Licht addressed the bombshell profile in The Atlantic in comments to network staffers on Monday, telling them, “I should not be in the news unless it’s taking arrows for you.” Licht indicated that he had been doing “a lot of thinking” over the weekend about the profile, and said […]

Chuck Todd announced that he will step down as moderator of Meet the Press in September and will be succeeded by Kristen Welker. Todd has moderated the program since September, 2014. There already was speculation that there would be a change on the show, after David P. Gelles was hired as executive producer last year, […]

Billy Ray and Todd Garner are back for Week 5 of the WGA standoff on Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast. Click below to listen. This week, Strike Talk looks at the role of independent producers. While often characterized as being pitted against writers by the companies, they are actually natural allies to the writers. The adage is it starts on the page, but […]

Cynthia Weil, who teamed with husband Barry Mann to write such pop classics as “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” “On Broadway,” “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” and dozens of other hits for the likes of the Drifters, the Ronettes, Dolly Parton and B.J. Thomas, died Thursday. She was 82. Related Story Hollywood & […]

Market sentiment remains muted amidst an anxious wait for the outcome of the negotiations on the debt limit. Also keenly anticipated is the PCE inflation reading from the U.S. for the month of April. European benchmarks are trading lower. Wall Street Futures are trading in negative territory. Asian stocks finished trading on a mixed note. […]

Anyone who thinks that tech layoffs will not lead job attrition in the United States this year is wrong. According to a new report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, of 417,500 layoffs announced through the first five months of the year, 136,831 have been in the tech sector. (Your boss does not want you to […]

The German economy entered a technical recession in the first quarter, in contrast to the initial estimate, as high inflation damped household consumption, official data revealed Thursday. Gross domestic product declined a seasonally and calendar adjusted 0.3 percent from the fourth quarter of last year, when the economy shrank 0.5 percent, Destatis reported. The initial […]

India’s progress on digital inclusion stalled in 2022 with no change in mobile internet use for either men or women, the latest mobile gender gap report, published by global mobile industry association GSMA shows. Released on Wednesday, the report shows that 81 per cent of men and 72 per cent of women in India owned […]

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed stricter disclosure norms for certain foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) to bring in more transparency and trust against the backdrop of the Adani-Hindenburg Research saga. Under the new norms, FPIs with an exposure of more than 50 per cent to a single group or with assets […]