The most popular artists, songs and albums of the month, 3 month, 6 months and year [#1-#48]

A judge has ruled against one of Hollywood’s top business management firms, blocking it from enforcing a non-compete agreement against a former partner. The case involves a high-stakes fight within NKSFB, which provides accounting and business management services to Hollywood stars, athletes and musicians. The company, led by Mickey Segal, has accused ex-partner Wayne Kamemoto […]

The worst thing actor and comedian Patti Harrison has ever done dates back to when she was 5 years old and  attempted to get a kid into trouble at school so that she could go home early to read a book that had just arrived. “If it would have worked, I would truly have become […]

On a cross-country flight from New York to Los Angeles not too long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Steven Canals got into a conversation with his seatmate, a woman in her mid- to late-50s who, after hearing he was a writer and producer, asked him if he worked on anything she would know. When he […]

NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell took in $16.5 million in total compensation, while his boss, Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts raked in a staggering $32.7 million. The generous pay packages come despite the fact that much of NBCUniversal’s business of making and distributing movies and turning those properties into theme park rides was disrupted by […]

Cartoon Saloon, the Oscar-nominated Irish independent animation studio behind Apple TV Plus’ “Wolfwalkers,” has signed with CAA. Formed by creative heads Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey and Paul Young in 1999, the five-time Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Emmy-nominated studio will now be represented by the agency. “Wolfwalkers,” directed by Moore and Ross Stewart, is nominated […]

Suzanna Makkos has been named executive vice president of original comedy and adult animation for Adult Swim and HBO Max’s adult animation development teams, which WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group is merging under her newly expanded leadership. The move will not result in any personnel cuts or changes. “The adult animation boom is just starting, […]

ESPN recently tested a “BetCast” for NBA fans interested in sports wagering and a “KidsCast” of a Little League championship game aimed at the younger set. Now it’s going to try what might best be called a “MarvelCast.” The Disney sports-media giant on Monday, May 3, plans to air an “NBA Special Edition,” a game […]

Set on a forgotten Russian island in the Caspian Sea and playing out like a window to another world, doc feature “Ostrov – Lost Island” has been acquired for world sales by London-based Taskovski Films. Premiering at Swiss doc fest Visions du Reél in its main International Feature Film Competition, the documentary chronicles a community […]

General Motors, one of the nation’s largest advertisers, is trying to build new roads for minority-owned media outlets, part of a broader push on Madison Avenue to address a large gap between what is spent on large national media properties and media companies operated by owners from diverse backgrounds. The nation’s largest automaker said it […]

More than four months after the $16 billion #SignOurStages act was signed into law, and more than two weeks after the website through which venues could apply for federal aid launched and immediately crashed, the Small Business Administration says it will reopen Saturday — tomorrow — April 24. Independent music venues and theaters in the […]

The Scottish singer rode the wave of "Rollermania" to several chart hits in the glammed-out days of '70s rock.

Embedded from www.youtube.com. Streaming portal Paramount Plus has just announced the May 6-debuting program “From Cradle to Stage,” a Dave Grohl-directed series about musicians and their mothers. The series takes its title from Dave’s mother Virginia Hanlon Grohl’s 2017-released book, From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars. Grohl...