Endeavor’s UFC Merging With WWE to Form $21.4 Billion Entertainment Giant

Scarlett Johansson and Gwyneth Paltrow are setting the record straight about rumours of friction while filming “Iron Man 2”.

Variety reports that on a recent episode of “The Goop Podcast,” Scarlett Johansson and Gwyneth Paltrow discussed their time in the MCU, including working together on “Iron Man 2.” And no, sorry Marvel fans, the actresses didn’t have a feud on that movie’s set.

“Gooppodcast.“I think you may come back at some point,” Johansson, 38, interjected about her potential return as Pepper Potts in the superhero franchise.Paltrow then joked: “Really? A 64-year-old Pepper Potts? How great.”“One hundred percent, that’s happening. I can see it,” the “Marriage Story” star teased back. “They’re never gonna let you go.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Scarlett Johansson recently joined Gwyneth Paltrow on “The Goop Podcast” and reminisced on their days together making Marvel movies. Paltrow kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008’s “Iron Man” as Pepper Potts, a role she reprised in two “Iron Man” sequels and several “Avengers” movies. Johansson made her MCU debut as Black Widow in “Iron Man 2.” Online reports at the time claimed the two actors clashed on set. “People ask me, ‘Is it true that you and Scarlett Johansson didn’t get along on ‘Iron Man’?” Paltrow recalled. “Is that a rumor?” Johansson responded. “You were so nice to me on that movie. I was so petrified. You were so nice to me! You could’ve been awful. I was so out of my comfort zone on that movie. I’d never done anything like that before. Plus, you had established such deep friendships.”

Variety’s Miami Entertainment Impact list will be celebrated April 13 at the Miami Entertainment Town event, presented by City National Bank. CEO The Latin Recording Academy   Abud’s appreciation for Miami is multi-layered.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter In a storyline worthy of the finest pro wrestling angles, the McMahon family’s nearly complete control of WWE is coming to an end after seven decades. That is not to say there will no one within the McMahon family at the helm of the sports entertainment juggernaut. With the announcement that Endeavor Group is purchasing WWE and combining it into a new company with the UFC, it was revealed that Vince McMahon will be executive chairman of the board of the new entity. In addition, Paul Levesque — known to fans as Triple H and also McMahon’s son-in-law — will stay on as chief content officer, a role he assumed in September 2022. But no longer will the WWE be the family-run business that WWE and its predecessors have been since McMahon’s father and grandfather began promoting professional wrestling in New York in 1953. As such, it marks the end of an era for TV’s dominant pro wrestling franchise.

Two of the world’s biggest fighting organizations are coming together.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Endeavor Group Holdings and World Wrestling Entertainment said Monday that they had signed a definitive agreement to form a new, publicly listed company consisting of two complementary, global sports and entertainment brands: UFC and WWE. The deal was reported to be close over the weekend by financial media CNBC and Bloomberg. Upon closing, Endeavor will hold a 51% controlling interest in the new company and existing WWE shareholders will hold a 49% interest. “Together, UFC and WWE will have global reach, impressive scale and omnichannel distribution,” Endeavor said in a statement.

Amazon Studios has closed an exclusive multiyear first-look film deal with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, the company announced on Friday.Under the pact, Amazon Studios will have a first look on narrative features and documentaries Imagine Entertainment intends to produce.“Whether it’s a captivating drama like ‘Thirteen Lives’ or a poignant documentary like ‘Lucy and Desi,’ the team at Imagine Entertainment has an incredible gift for storytelling,” Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon and MGM Studios said in a statement. “As we look forward to more exciting projects on the horizon, we are honored to make our longstanding relationship official and to bring more powerful, engaging stories to audiences around the world.”“Brian, Ron, and I, along with our entire team at Imagine including Karen Lunder, President of Imagine Features, and Sara Bernstein, President of Imagine Documentaries, couldn’t be more excited to have a home at Amazon and continue our shared desire to make tentpole films that inspire, elevate, and entertain audiences,” Justin Wilkes, President of Imagine Entertainment added.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has closed an exclusive multiyear first-look film deal with Imagine Entertainment. In making Amazon its new movie home, co-founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will give Amazon first look on narrative features and documentaries Imagine intends to produce.

wcinkala pmc-editorial-manager Variety announced Thursday the programming for its second annual Miami Entertainment Town lunch, to be held on Thursday, April 13, in Miami. The event, in partnership with CN Bank, celebrates the growing entertainment and media industry based out of Miami and recognizes those profiled in Variety’s Miami Entertainment Impact Report. At the celebration, Ronald Day, President of Entertainment and Content Strategy for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, and Karen Barroeta, Executive Vice President of Production and Development Telemundo Global Studios, will participate in a keynote conversation with Rodrigo Nieto-Galvis, Entertainment Banking Team Leader at CN Bank Miami. The conversation will be centered around Telemundo’s strategy and around music and original programming based out of Miami.

Terry Sanderson, the man suing Gwyenth Paltrow, apologized for a slight against her.

Getting in on the action. Gwyneth Paltrow‘s ski crash trial has inspired tons of memes since it began on March 21 — and her fellow celebrities can’t help sharing their own jokes about the court proceedings.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski accident trial has been making headlines for much more than just the 2016 incident at the center of the case.

Gwyneth Paltrow‘s kids are sharing their side of the story!

The jury in Gwyneth Paltrow's ski collision trial will likely hear from her husband Brad Falchuk today as proceedings near a close. Yesterday, depositions from her now-teenage children, Apple and Moses, were read to the jury. Paltrow's defense has used a number of digitally created animations to illustrate different angles of the actress' version of events.

Gwyneth Paltrow currently finds herself in the spotlight as she is facing trial over a crash with a man at a ski resort in Park City, Utah back seven years ago. Terry Sanderson has claimed the actor hurtled into him in a "full body hit" on the slopes of Flagstaff Mountain at the Deer Valley Resort on 26 February 2016. He alleges that this resulted in having a "permanent traumatic brain injury, four broken ribs, pain, suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress and disfigurement" that has robbed him of “his enjoyment for life," and is suing Paltrow for $300,000 after originally seeking $3.

Gwyneth Paltrow‘s children are speaking out. On Tuesday, Moses, 16, and Apple, 18, had their past depositions read allowed in court by lawyers, rather than taking the stand in their mom’s ongoing ski accident trial.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter had never seen her mother “shaken up like that”, and was “concerned” following her ski crash, a US court has heard. Apple Martin, who was around 11 or 12 at the time of the incident, said her mother had been “frantic” and “in a state of shock” following the collision in 2016.The Oscar-winning actress has claimed that retired optometrist Terry Sanderson collided with her at the Deer Valley resort in Utah, which resulted in her losing “half a day of skiing” with her family.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s children have shared their testimony in the actress’s ski crash trial. According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly, as the Goop founder’s ski crash trial continued on Tuesday, her daughter Apple, 18, and son Moses, 16, took to the witness stand. Paltrow has been sued by retired optometrist Terry Sanderson for allegedly crashing into him while skiing in 2016, leaving the 76-year-old injured.