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The Sonic series is about to become that most coveted of Hollywood franchises: The shared universe. Following on from the success of 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog (one of the few films that survived that year in tact) and 2022’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the Sonic-verse is expanding onto the small screen for streaming spinoff series, Knuckles. No prizes (or golden rings) for guessing which of the Blue Blur’s crew the show focuses on. Yup, Knuckles the Echidna has always been one of the most popular characters in the Sonic…

The Motion Picture & Television Fund is making moves on its board of directors. The organization has expanded the roster from 12 to 21 members by moving six existing members from its board of governors over to the board of directors and adding three new executives to the ranks. New blood includes Nicole Clemens, president of Paramount Television Studios; veteran producer and Hollywood royalty John Goldwyn, who serves as principal of John Goldwyn Prods.; and attorney Maria Rodriguez, a managing…

National Amusements, CBS and Paramount’s parent company, reported a year-old hack this month affecting 82,128 people. TechCrunch first covered the breach, revealed in a company legal filing with Maine’s Attorney General under a 2005 state digital privacy law. National Amusements hasn’t commented publicly on the intrusion outside of the legal filing, and it isn’t clear if customer (or “only” employee) data was stolen.Maine’s data breach notification says the hack occurred over a year ago, from December 13 to 15, 2022. It…

“My goal is that there should be a Star Trek something on all the time on All Access,” CBS TV Studios president David Stapf told Deadline in 2018, when the return of Captain Jean-Luc Picard for a new Star Trek series was a glimmer in the mind’s eye. Five years and a name change later, Paramount+ achieved that for a time—and with its own hubris, promptly destroyed it.Strange New World's Melissa Navia Talks Flying the Enterprise | io9 InterviewParamount+, née CBS All Access, didn’t have the smoothest of launches out of…

via Paramount It doesn’t matter how much you love cinema, you’re never going to love it anywhere near as much Tom Cruise. However, when it comes to all-out appreciation for the IMAX format, Christopher Nolan might just have him beat. That shared adulation for the premium viewing experience is threatening to cause an uproar, though, after reports emerged that Cruise had embarked upon a one-man crusade to try and sway distributors from playing Nolan’s Oppenheimer in IMAX theaters for three straight weeks, with the…

Image via Disney Plus May Calamawy, the breakout star of Marvel’s Moon Knight series on Disney Plus, is joining the ever-expanding cast of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator sequel. Calamawy is an Egyptian actress who turned heads in Moon Knight playing Layla El-Faouly, the on-again-off-again love interest of Oscar Isaac’s Marc Spector. (On again when he’s Marc Spactor; off again when he’s one of several other personalities.) Per Deadline, Scott did a thorough search for the role that Calamawy landed, having many…

Welcome to the Wide Shot, a newsletter about the business of entertainment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.“South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have managed to get themselves back in the news again lately, mainly for the second episode of the show’s 26th season (“The Worldwide Privacy Tour”), a Canadianized lampooning of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and the ongoing feud engulfing the world’s greatest geopolitical anachronism, the British royal family. More relevant to this column, though (and, sadly,…

”Tech vs Media“ podcast: The CEO lays out how using the brands across the company improves promotion and reach As the heavily fought streaming war continues, Tom Ryan, CEO of streaming at Paramount, attributes Paramount+’s success to leveraging “the whole household.” “We set out to create a service for the whole household, so that means content for everyone really getting more than one person in the household to engage with the service,” Ryan said on TheWrap’s “Tech vs Media” podcast …

Paramount Global PARA -7.20% reported a drop in third-quarter profit on higher costs, while revenue increased nearly 5% as the media company added 4.6 million subscribers to its Paramount+ streaming service. Both the top and bottom lines missed Wall Street expectations. Shares fell 8.7% premarket to $17.52. The New York-based company said Wednesday that revenue gains for its direct-to-consumer and film business were offset…

American actor and comedian Pete Davidson along with Michelle Yeoh has been cast for voice roles in `Transformers: Rise of the Beasts`, the upcoming franchise entry from Paramount. Variety reported that the news of the duo joining production was shared by the film`s director Caple Jr. via an Instagram post. It featured a couple of videos from recording sessions of Davidson and Yeoh. While the former voices the character of Mirage, an Autobot that has previously appeared in Paramount`s `Transformers` films, the latter…