[ad_1] iHeart Podcast Awards 2024 Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron,” which just won the Oscar for animated feature, is streaming on Max in the US. Warner Bros. Discovery announced a multi-year deal with independent distributor GKids to extend exclusive U.S. streaming rights to Max films for Studio Ghibli, the legendary Japanese animation house. … Read more
[ad_1] Austin, Texas-based web animation studio Rooster Teeth, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, is closing after 21 years. General Manager Jordan Levin announced the studio’s closure at a general meeting and in an accompanying letter on Wednesday, March 6. With the closure, approximately 150 full-time Rooster Teeth employees will be laid off, in addition to … Read more
[ad_1] Music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones accuses Sean “Diddy” Combs and his son of a “massive” cover-up of his involvement in a 2022 shooting, according to an amended complaint. The new allegations are in addition to Jones’ original lawsuit, in which he accused Diddy of sexual assault and harassment. In new documents, Lil Rod … Read more
[ad_1] What you need to know Toys for Bob, one of the Activision Blizzard studios, owned by Microsoft, will become independent. Best known for working on games like Spyro Reignited Trilogy, the team has primarily worked in a support role on Call of Duty over the past few years. While the team is going independent, … Read more
[ad_1] Tyler Perry’s planned $800 million studio expansion in Atlanta has been put on the back burner due to his growing concerns about developments in artificial intelligence. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday, Perry expressed the need for the industry to anticipate the potential impact of AI, saying, “There has to be … Read more
[ad_1] Tyler Perry Noam Galai/Getty Images For the past four years, Tyler Perry had been planning an $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio, which would have added 12 sound stages to the 330-acre property. Now, however, those ambitions are on hold, thanks to the rapid developments it’s seeing in the artificial intelligence space, including … Read more
[ad_1] Witnesses testified about Jam Master Jay’s final moments when he was shot inside a Queens recording studio in 2002. The testimony came during the trial of two suspects accused of the rap superstar’s murder. Singer Yarrah Concepción watched Jam Master Jay collapse to the floor with his arms over his head moments after he … Read more
[ad_1] Trial for 2002 murder of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay continues in Brooklyn federal court The police officer who first arrived at the scene testified about what he found and found the rap legend dead. A judge denied a prosecutor’s attempt to use a suspect’s rap lyrics during the trial. The police officer who was … Read more