CBS & Paramount Global Hit With Discrimination & Retaliation Suit By Ex-’60 Minutes’ Producer; Alleges “Toxic Environment” Against Women At Network

Zack Sharf Digital News Director David Fincher was recently asked by The Guardian about how his 1999 directorial effort “Fight Club” has become a favorite amongst incels and far-right groups for depicting disenfranchised white men coming together to rally against capitalist society. The director distanced himself from such a topic, telling the publication, “I’m not responsible for how people interpret things…Language evolves. Symbols evolve.” “Ok, fine,” Fincher replied when the Guardian writer said “Fight Club” has become a touchstone for the far right.

Thania Garcia BMG has laid off an estimated 40 employees amid changes impacting its international and theatrical departments. Music Business Worldwide reports CEO Thomas Coesfeld shared the news in a company-distributed memo addressing BMG consolidating its New York and Canada-based recorded music operations into its Los Angeles office. The New York-based theatrical productions will also cease along with any of its future ventures in film.

EastEnders’ Jay Brown is finally about to open up as his struggles continue after Lola's death, the show’s spoilers have revealed. During Monday's episode, 23 October, viewers saw Jay confess to Billy Mitchell that he has been taking drugs. However, he didn’t admit to paying Nadine – who looks like his late wife Lola – to sleep next to him, but his friend Ben Mitchell later revealed it, as the family gathered in the Queen Vic to talk about his downward spiral.

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax‘s high-profile TV series remake of Robert Altmann‘s Prêt-à-Porter has shifted development from Paramount+ to the BBC.

In a blind taste test, Which? pitted Baileys against Aldi, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s to find the best value Irish cream liqueurs. Baileys triumphed overall, but only just, with several supermarket liqueurs impressing the tasters. The top cheaper pick, Lidl, scored just 1% less than Baileys overall and is nearly half the price.

Phil Foden might have finally found his best position in the England set-up - and it's remarkably similar to his favourite position with Manchester City.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director In a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, Martin Scorsese recalled Paramount Pictures execs telling him point blank they would not be backing the overhauled script for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The rejection came before the new script was even finalized. “The studio said, ‘We backed the other version, we can’t back this one,’” Scorsese remembered.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor CANNES – Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish delivered a testimonial to the power of “new age” local and regional content licensing partnerships during a wide-ranging Q&A held Tuesday after the Viacom veteran was feted as Mipcom’s Personality of the Year. During a wide-ranging Q&A that followed the award presentation, Bakish batted down industry speculation about Paramount’s financial health (“To say we were saved by the strikes is totally an overstatement”) and his hope that the SAG-AFTRA strike will soon be in Hollywood’s rear-view mirror (“We’ll get there”). Paramount Global unveiled a multi-year pact with Greek pay TV service Cosmote TV just before Bakish sat for a Q&A with Variety co-editor in chief Cynthia Littleton.

Layoffs have hit Bandcamp, according to multiple posts from current and former employees on Twitter, with as many as half of the platform’s workforce cut from their jobs. Bandcamp was sold by Epic Games in September to Songtradr.

Mipcom, change is in the air yet again on both sides of the Atlantic. In the U.S., the largest media conglomerates are all in rebuilding mode, even the mighty Disney.

Pop-up soundstage specialist Volume Global has teamed with White Owl Film Studios, an Indigenous-owned multimedia company representing Canada‘s First Nation community, on a new production facility in Wahnapitae First Nation territory.

Fans have jumped to the defence of Helen Flanagan and asked 'what's wrong with people' as she was hit with an 'inappropriate' complaint. The actress took to social media to share a sweet video of her spending quality time with her children on a recent break abroad.

Jace Evans is safe with his grandmother Barbara Evans at this time. We’ve all been concerned for Jenelle Ev

William Earl Paramount Global is the first major Hollywood studio to release a statement regarding the Israel-Hamas War, as the company posted to Instagram Thursday: “Paramount Global condemns the terrorist attacks by Hamas. We stand with the people of Israel and the global Jewish community.” Paramount’s statement continues, “We stand with all the innocent lives impacted. We stand with the children who deserve to be children.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Raffaele Annecchino, the former president of Paramount Global who left the company last year, is launching a consultancy firm called Blue Ocean Media Partners. In its first deal, he has forged a partnership with Spain’s Mediapro Group, which is looking to expand its footprint in the Middle East.

Azealia Banks is coming very hard for Drake on social media.

EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks Animation is making cuts and slashing four percent of its staff. We understand that the cuts are due to the downward cyclical turn in the business, rising production costs and the strikes.

Jesse Owens’ remarkable accomplishments at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin are unimpeachable: a record four gold medals won under the eye of Adolf Hitler, who was no doubt humiliated and infuriated by the black man’s achievements on his turf.But according to a new book, one of those medals — for the 4x100m relay — almost went to Marty Glickman, the man who was the voice of New York sports for decades.In “Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend” (NYU Press), author Jeffrey S. Gurock explains how Glickman, then an 18-year-old student at Syracuse University, was scheduled to run the relay but was inexplicably pulled from the four-man team — along with fellow Jewish teammate Sam Stoller— and replaced with Owens and Ralph Metcalfe.Glickman had no doubt what had happened.

Janelle Monae has dropped the uplifting remix of her song ‘Champagne Shit’ featuring Latto and Quavo.Taken off her recent album ‘The Age Of Pleasure’, which NME gave four stars, ‘Champagne Shit’ now has two brand new verses from the rappers. Monae has previously described the album as “our oasis made with love, rooted in self-acceptance, throbbing in self-discovery, and signed with cherry red kisses from me to you.” NME said of the record: “listening to Monae’s liberating latest album, you start to believe that pleasure is, too.”The album can also count former US president Barack Obama as a fan.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Anonymous Content enacted a small round of layoffs on Friday, representing about 8% of the workforce at a company of around 170 people. The talent management and production shop reduced staff across all divisions, including representation, television, motion picture, literary, media rights and branded entertainment. Insiders familiar with Anonymous cited the Hollywood labor strikes and a volatile larger entertainment marketplace as reasons for the job cuts.