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Big Money! Jobs! Newsom Boasts Expanded CA Film/TV Tax Credits “Delivering Results”; Eddie Murphy’s ‘Donkey,’ Disney & Ben Affleck Flicks Get Latest Incentives
California Governor Gavin Newsom has marked the first anniversary of the state’s expanded film and television tax credit programme, which was raised to $750 million a year, by hailing it as a success that is bringing production back to California. On the same day, 41 films were awarded a combined $187 million in fresh incentives,…
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Buyer Beware: Why Sun Valley Has Been a Disaster for the Media Business
As the annual Sun Valley conference — the exclusive, off-the-record gathering of media and technology moguls hosted by investment bank Allen & Co. in Idaho — opens this week, Variety executive editor Brent Lang argues that the event has been a driving force behind the decline of the media business. The gathering has spawned some…
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ABC tells the government to get out of its newsrooms
ABC has written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to challenge an investigation into whether the daytime talk show The View should keep its status as a “bona fide” news programme. The dispute matters because that classification exempts the show from the “equal time rule”, and ABC argues the agency is improperly using its powers…
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French court clears path for conservative presidential candidate, but house arrest threatens campaign
A French appeals court on Tuesday upheld the embezzlement conviction of conservative former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, but reduced her ban from holding elected office, effectively clearing her to run in France’s 2027 presidential election. The decision is significant because it removes the legal barrier that had threatened to keep the National Rally leader…
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John Fetterman torches Bernie Sanders on Fox for pushing ‘predator … communists’
Senator Bernie Sanders has withdrawn his endorsement of Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, after a further alleged victim came forward with sexual assault allegations against him. The reversal is a notable one for the veteran progressive, and it followed a day of mounting pressure as a growing number of Democrats distanced themselves…
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Michael Rapaport owns up to getting Trump wrong after years of bashing him
Comedian Michael Rapaport, a long-standing and vocal critic of Donald Trump, has publicly explained why he stopped hurling insults at the president. Speaking on Jamie Kennedy’s podcast “Hate To Break It To Ya”, the 56-year-old said his views shifted after the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, when he concluded that Trump offered the best…
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Belgium manager praises classy gesture by Folarin Balogun after red card controversy: ‘I really liked that’
Belgium manager Rudi Garcia has praised United States forward Folarin Balogun for approaching him after Belgium’s 4-1 Round of 16 victory over the U.S. at the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Seattle. Balogun had been at the centre of a refereeing controversy: he was originally due to miss the match after a red card in…
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WME Group Promotes Marie Sheehy to C-Suite
WME Group has promoted Marie Sheehy to executive vice-president and head of communications, placing her in the company’s senior executive ranks. In the role she oversees all communications strategy and operations across the firm — which spans the WME talent agency, IMG Licensing and Pantheon Media Group — and acts as its lead spokesperson while…
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EUAN McCOLM: John Swinney’s policy on conversion practices is deranged… if passed it WILL be weaponised against parents
Writing in the Daily Mail, columnist Euan McColm strongly criticises Scottish First Minister John Swinney’s proposed legislation to ban conversion practices, arguing that if passed it would be “weaponised against parents”. The piece frames the plan as the latest example of what McColm characterises as the SNP’s long-standing tendency, over two decades in power, to…
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This race car is made from plant fibers, volcanoes, … and seawater?
Lola Cars, the storied British constructor rebuilding itself after a 2022 bankruptcy, is producing a fresh run of 16 continuation examples of its 1965 T70S sports racer, and what makes them notable is not the retro styling but the sustainable materials used to build them. Executive innovation director Matt Faulks told Ars Technica that the…