Author: Ryan McNom

Lenders are moving in on studio complexes owned by Hackman Capital Partners, the biggest independent owner of soundstages in Los Angeles, as production levels in the region hover around all-time lows. A lender consortium led by Deutsche Bank have kicked off the process of selling Television City, a storied lot in the central L.A. Fairfax Avenue corridor. They’re owed more than $357 million, according to a notice of default filed last month. At the same time, Deutsche Bank is looking to offload Manhattan Beach Studios. An industrial company has submitted a preemptive offer, a person involved in the sale tells The…

In a move that’s sure to rile up the far-left activist crowd but makes perfect sense for anyone who values the safety of our nation’s border enforcers, Meta has quietly started blocking links to the so-called “ICE List” website across its major platforms: Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.This decision comes amid growing concerns over online harassment and doxxing targeted at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel, who are on the front lines protecting America’s sovereignty from illegal crossings and criminal elements.The ICE List, a crowdsourced wiki-style site launched in June last year, purports…

Stock Widget Paramount PARA +4.85% ▲, backed by billionaire Larry Ellison and his family, has officially opened the bidding for rival Warner Bros. Discovery WBD +3.40% ▲ — a potential massive merger that would dramatically change Hollywood. Warner Bros. Discovery’s board rejected Paramount’s initial bid of about $20 a share, but talks are continuing, according to two people close to the companies who were not authorized to speak publicly. One of the knowledgeable sources said Paramount was preparing a second bid. Warner Bros. Discovery owns HBO, CNN, TBS, Food Network, HGTV and the prolific Warner Bros. movie and television studio…

Stock Widget Monday’s widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) AMZN -1.95% ▼ served as a stark wake-up call. For millions of users across the United States and beyond, the internet ground to a halt, rendering popular platforms like Reddit, Roblox, Snapchat, and even critical services such as online banking inaccessible for hours. The disruption, which began late Sunday night and lingered into the afternoon, exposed the vulnerabilities in our increasingly centralized online infrastructure. As AWS, the cloud computing arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, finally declared the issue resolved by late Monday, questions lingered about the reliability of the systems…

Stock Widget In the cozy ritual of unwinding after a long day—perhaps curling up with an episode of The Last of Us or bingeing a classic like The Sopranos—streaming services like HBO Max have become a sanctuary for millions. These platforms offer more than mere entertainment; they provide escapism, education through documentaries, and a sense of community around beloved stories. Yet, as the streaming wars rage on, the comfort of affordable access may soon be disrupted. Warner Bros. Discovery WBD -1.85% ▼, the powerhouse behind HBO Max, is signaling significant changes that could hit subscribers’ wallets and habits hard. CEO…

Stock Widget MSNBC, the cable news network known for its progressive commentary and flagship programs like The Rachel Maddow Show and Deadline: White House, will undergo a significant transformation later this year, rebranding as MS NOW—short for My Source News Opinion World—and shedding the iconic peacock logo as part of its spinoff from Comcast’s CMCSA +1.20% ▲ NBCUniversal. The move, announced on Monday, August 18, 2025, marks a pivotal shift for the nearly 30-year-old network as it joins a new publicly traded company, Versant, alongside other cable assets like CNBC, USA Network, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and the Golf Channel. The…

Stock Widget In a transformative deal that could reshape the sports media landscape for years to come, Walt Disney Co. DIS +1.85% ▲ and the National Football League (NFL) announced Tuesday that the NFL will take a 10% equity stake in ESPN, the sports media titan owned by Disney. In return, ESPN will acquire key NFL media assets including NFL Network, NFL RedZone (distribution rights), and NFL Fantasy, marking a dramatic shift in both the ownership and distribution of professional football content in the U.S. While the companies declined to assign a specific monetary figure to the agreement, industry analysts…

CBS brass say they pulled the plug on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” because of its punishing losses — pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year — and claim politics had nothing to do with it, The Post has learned. The 61-year-old host got canned just days after he took a dig at the Tiffany Network over its $16 million settlement with Donald Trump over a controversial “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris as the network’s parent Paramount negotiates with the Trump administration regulatory approval for its $8 billion sale to independent studio Skydance. “I am offended, and I don’t know if anything…

While Disney insists that the P&T division is critical to its future success, the layoffs nonetheless cut an additional two percent of the company’s workforce. This latest round of cost cutting is just one of a long series of cuts lasting several years. Indeed, it isn’t even the first round of layoffs this month. Early this month the company pushed out several hundred workers from its marketing for both film and television, television publicity, and its casting and development departments. It was the fourth round of layoffs in the last ten months and came about a month after 200 employees were eliminated in March. The layoffs…

David Cope, a composer and pioneer in the field of algorithmic composition, who in the 1980s developed a computer program for writing music in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and other Classical masters, died on May 4 at his home in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was 83. The cause was congestive heart failure, his son Stephen Cope said. Before the proliferation of A.I. music generators, before the emergence of Spotify and the advent of the iPod, before Brian Eno had even coined the term “generative music,” Mr. Cope had already figured out how to program a…