EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros Television Group is growing its publicity team with the hiring of former Disney Television Studios executive Yong Kim, who will serve as VP Worldwide Television Publicity. WBTVG has also hired Evan Seymour as Director, Publicity & Multicultural Communications, and Meghan Johnson as Director, Publicity. Kim will report to Rebecca […]

Erik Lundh is a principal economist at The Conference Board. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Last year was a tough one for American consumers. Prices for just about everything, from eggs to used cars to electricity, crept higher, and by the end of the year were […]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA, has opened a Preliminary Evaluation (PE) of a population of about 416,000 Tesla vehicles after it received 354 complaints alleging unexpected brake activation on these vehicles while driving at highway speeds. The NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) is evaluating the alleged […]

Stocks have gone on a rollercoaster ride over the course of the trading session on Thursday, with the major averages rebounding strongly from an initial sell-off only to pullback sharply once again in afternoon trading. In recent trading, the Dow and the S&P 500 have fallen to new lows for […]

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Andrew Semans (Resurrection, Nancy, Please) has signed with WME for representation. Semans’ sophomore feature, Resurrection, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and will be released theatrically by IFC Films this year. The psychological thriller based on his original screenplay, which appeared on the 2019 Black List, centers on Margaret […]

The Commerce Department released a report on Thursday showing new residential construction in the U.S. pulled back sharply in the month of January. The report said housing starts tumbled by 4.1 percent to an annual rate of 1.638 million in January after inching up by 0.3 percent to a revised […]

As the housing market has exploded, home prices have risen nationwide as much as 19% per month year over year in the second half of 2021. While the cost to buy a home had moved higher in almost every city, the migration of Americans from large coastal cities like New […]

College campuses have long been a hotbed of fierce political debate in the U.S., as young adults come across new ideas and viewpoints while attending school. Amid an increasingly polarized American political climate, 73% of Republicans and those who lean conservative believe higher education is going in the wrong direction, […]

Hollywood’s Covid safety protocols have been extended to April 30 and updated to redefine “fully vaccinated” to include booster shots, effective March 15. The updated rules also upgrade mask requirements to include KN95, KF94 or N95 masks that are to be provided by the employer; add a number of additional […]

Shares of ViacomCBS are down more than 20% in early trading as Wall Street digests the company’s streaming strategy, outlook and financials announced after the market closed Tuesday, and clearly has some issues. The company, which is changing its name to Paramount, has its supporters. Guggenheim reiterated a ‘buy’ rating […]