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Warner Bros. Discovery president and CEO David Zaslav's pay package rose just over 4% to $51.9 million in 2024, according to the company's 2025 proxy statement filed Friday.

Zaslav had a 2023 pay package worth $49.7 million, up 26.5% from the year prior. Zaslav's compensation totaled $39.3 million in 2022, after he received an astonishing $246.6 million (which included $203 million in stock-option grants) in 2021.

For 2024, Zaslav's base salary was $3 million. He received stock awards worth $23.1 million, bonus compensation of $23.9 million and "all other" compensation of $1.9 million.

Cash bonuses and stock awards for Zaslav and WBD's other named executive officers are tied to free cash flow targets.

“A Minecraft Movie” leveled up at the box office, collecting a blockbuster $157 million in its opening weekend. It’s not only the biggest domestic debut of the year but the best in history for a video game adaptation.

Heading into the weekend, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s PG fantasy comedy, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, was projected to take in $70 million to $80 million, with some bullish analysts suggesting a final number closer to $90 million.

Thanks to pent-up demand for a family film, broad appeal and goodwill toward the 2011 video game, however, “Minecraft” squashed expectations in the U.S. and abroad. At the international box office, the tentpole added $144 million for a global start of $301 million. The film cost $150 million to produce before global marketing expenses.

On March 21, the same day Columbia University conceded to President Trump’s policy demands as a condition for restoring $400 million in federal funding, a timely screening of a new documentary dissected the 2024 student protests for Gaza at Columbia that sparked an international phenomenon. The Encampments (2025), produced by BreakThrough News and Watermelon Pictures, extricates the movement from the grips of mainstream media narratives and places it back in the hands of its organizers, including Palestinian graduate student and lead co-negotiator Mahmoud Khalil, who is currently detained and facing possible deportation.

Directed by BreakThrough News journalist Kei Pritsker and filmmaker Michael T. Workman, with rapper Macklemore and BreakThrough Editor-in-Chief Ben Becker among the film’s executive producers, the 76-minute documentary follows the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at Columbia University over the two-week period. The film specifically highlights the voices of Khalil, co-negotiator and graduate student Sueda Polat, since-expelled PhD candidate and student worker union leader Grant Miner, and university alum Naye Idriss.

“We want this documentary to be a tool to agitate, ignite, and inspire the movement and to also hopefully bring new people in,” Workman said at the screening, also noting that the film was created to “protect all of the students who are under fire right now.”

The Encampments rewinds the timeline to the organizers’ decision, on April 17, to escalate their push for the university to divest from weapons and surveillance technology manufacturers supplementing Israel’s killing and destruction in Gaza and settler expansion in the Occupied West Bank.

The refusal of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) leadership to come to the immediate and unconditional defense of award-winning Hamdan Ballal (Palestinian co-director of No Other Land), savagely attacked by Israeli settlers and soldiers Monday, has provoked a significant crisis in the filmmaking world.

A full two days after the beating and arrest, and only in response to criticisms from No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham, the Academy leadership broke its silence on the brutal episode and issued a perfunctory comment. That elicited an angry international reaction.

The size and character of the angry opposition to the Academy management’s kowtowing to the Zionist lobby and the Trump administration demonstrate the depth of the worldwide opposition to the mass murder and accompanying criminality going on in Gaza and the West Bank.

Warner Bros has completed the sale we told you about a couple weeks ago for their previously shelved Coyote Vs Acme movie.

Ketchup Entertainment today confirmed their completed deal for worldwide rights to the live-action/animated hybrid film that brings Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote to the big screen. We had the deal pegged in the $50M range and the film is expected to get a theatrical release in 2026.

Last night, I heard a full album of Lady Gaga singing jazz with Tony Bennett on a live stream. She's really fucking good and apparently aspired to that in the first place. Now this? Funny how people go through formative periods before landing.

Ruby and Alter Ego, recent solo albums by Blackpink members Jennie and Lisa, each debuted at No 7 on the US album chart before dropping out of the Top 10 after one week, and neither album produced a single that peaked higher than No 68. Relative newcomers such as Tomorrow X Together, Ateez and Twice have achieved solid first-week chart positions, thanks to strong physical album sales, before facing precipitous drop-offs. NewJeans – a young, critically acclaimed new K-pop group who looked to be the genre’s strongest hope in the US after Blackpink and BTS – have been bogged down by controversies and legal dramas in South Korea, stopping them from capitalising on the success of their 2023 single Super Shy.

Even back home the genre is struggling. “K-pop has lost a lot of market traction in South Korea – the music is not being written to appeal to a Korean audience, but more to this homogenised, globalised audience,” says Sarah, the host of the Idol Cast podcast, who uses a pseudonym for fear of reprisal from K-pop fans. “It’s trying to be all things to all people, and ends up being sort of nothing to no one.”

Not a genre I've ever gotten into (ask me about trance from the turn of the century!), but it does seem as though this is self-defeating.

The iHeartRadio Music Awards were hosted in Los Angeles on Monday evening, and the one and only Lady Gaga was honored with the Innovator Award for her illustrious career.

"Growing up, I was nothing like most of the people I was around and everything about me represented a community of alternative kids that were underrepresented in my environment," Doechii said. "I was considered weird, but it's OK, because things worked out. As a kid that identified as an artist, as queer, and as a Little Monster, Lady Gaga wasn't just a pop star, she was a lifeline. Gaga taught us that it was OK to be our real selves, to try new things, to try anything, to speak out and to create."

Wasn't streamed, will be exclusive to Netflix on May 4. Star Wars aside, why the hell do they need so long, when some of the humour will be stale, to do post-production on an award gala? This isn't Game of Thrones, it's a bunch of people on a stage. Can't exactly go get more footage.

I got apple tv for a bit, I bloody loved Ted Lasso (heart warming comedy), Masters of the Air (band of brothers in the sky) Mythic Quest (hilarious). I'm also half way through The Line, a documentary on an army seal accused of murdering multiple people and I'm GRIPPED

The release of Coyote vs. Acme is starting to look more likely as Warner Bros. has been negotiating with a distributor to sell them the shelved project. The Coyote vs. Acme movie was originally cancelled by Warner Bros. in November 2023 for a tax write-off despite being complete. However, the movie started getting shopped to potential distributors after public backlash. By April 2024, it seemed the studio was unable to come to agreeable terms with potential buyers, leaving the movie shelved for the foreseeable future. However, it had not been outright cancelled despite a lack of news about its fate.

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In recent weeks, several Hollywood studios and entertainment companies pulled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives following pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration. Despite this, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists reaffirmed its support for diversity reform.

In a resolution passed by the SAG-AFTRA National Board Saturday, the actors union reported that the accurate portrayal of the “American Scene” is “essential to the integrity and credibility of the entertainment and media industry,” according to a letter by Fran Drescher, SAG president, and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, national executive director and chief negotiator. In addition, the letter states that SAG diversity measures have existed since the Sixties, when the formerly known Screen Actors Guild and producers agreed to the “American Scene” clause, which affirmed a non-discrimination policy for “any actor because of race, creed, color or national origin.”

If you are cool like me, you have probably cancelled all mega-corp owned streaming services. While it is really nice managing my own media library like an adult instead of letting corpos decide arbitrarily what I can watch on a given day, that does mean I no longer have their input on new content. So I can obviously pick up on what shows and movies are hugely popular, but that's a very small fraction of what gets released and simply non-representative of what is out there waiting.

Since most search engines are rendered useless by AI spam and SEO chasers, you can't exactly just google "best goofball comedies" or you'll just end up with the same 10-15 lousy suggestions on repeat.

Where do you go to discover shows and movies?

This just in — Looney Tunes is no longer streaming on Max! The Warner Bros. show is one of many cartoon series that the platform has removed in recent times. In October 2024, fans learned that Max had taken down several big shows from the studio, including Ben 10, Chowder, Steven Universe, and Regular Show, without warning. Not just that, but Warner Bros. has also removed several of the Scooby-Doo movies from Max, along with two Tom & Jerry titles.

The exact details may never be known, but Mr. Hackman, 95 with advanced Alzheimer’s, was alone for about a week after his wife and sole caregiver died.

(Books count as Entertainment, right? If Zuckerberg has no haters, I am dead. Currently waiting in line for this book on Libby as I type this)

Meta Platforms META.O on Wednesday won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book "Careless People" by a former employee, according to a copy of the ruling published by the social media company.

The book by Meta's former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, was called by the New York Times book review "an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world," and its leading executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan.

After what seems like eons, season three of Euphoria is finally in production, and has added some exciting new cast members to boot — including Spanish pop star Rosalía, who famously dated the show’s star Hunter Schafer in 2019.

(I'm sorry Beehaw but I am in LOVE with Rosalia and I am taking you down this sad bisexual girl's obsession trench with me.)