Why eSports Is ‘Growing Like Wildfire,’ From Activision Blizzard to Echo Fox
The Grill 2018: eSports “is not just a flash in the pan, it’s an industry that’s developing,” says Damon Lau, head of eSports at UTA
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MoviePass Owner Rules Out Bankruptcy, Announces $65 Million in New Funding (Video)
TheGrill 2018: “We’ve been the underdog since August 15 of last year… we’re still here, and we’re not going anywhere,” Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth says
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How Data Drives Studio Decisions as Much as Gut Instinct in Netflix Era
TheGrill 2018: “You want to start knowing and having less guessing to keep the business healthy,” 20th Century Fox’s Julie Rieger says
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Showtime’s David Nevins Says TV Spending Could Reach $100 Billion: ‘No Question – It’s an Arms Race’
TheGrill 2018: “There’s a lot of shows that have gone on to one of the streaming services and kind of disappear without a trace,” says pay cable network boss
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‘Raw': These Might Be the Loudest and Longest Boos We’ve Ever Heard at a WWE Event (Video)
Kevin Owens and Elias got serious heat Monday in Seattle
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‘Hannity’ Carries Fox News to Double-Digit Primetime Viewer Growth in Third Quarter
MSNBC also grows overall audience as CNN sheds eyeballs
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LeBron James’ ‘Shut Up and Dribble’ Gets Premiere Date (Video)
Newly-appointed Atlantic writer Jemele Hill will narrate Showtime docu-series
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Ratings: Cedric the Entertainer’s ‘The Neighborhood’ Moves in to CBS With 8.1 Million Viewers
“Happy Together,” not so much
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NBC Wins 7th Straight Premiere Week in Ratings, CBS Makes It 10 in a Row Among Total Viewers
NBC has No. 1 show (“Sunday Night Football”) and entertainment series (“This Is Us”), plus Top 2 new series and alternative shows
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Innovators List 2018: 12 Hollywood Disrupters, From Kenya Barris to Xumo
TheGrill 2018: We honor some of the industry’s most revolutionary new figures
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The Scene at TheGrill 2018: Will Packer, Patrick Soon-Shiong and More at TheWrap’s Media Leadership Conference (Photos)
Entertainment, media and technology converge at TheWrap’s 8th Annual Grill Conference at SLS Hotel Beverly Hills
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‘Night School’ Producer Will Packer on Hollywood Racism, ‘Advantage’ of Being ‘the Only Black Person in the Room’
TheGrill 2018: “For me it’s more microaggressions than someone saying ‘Get that black s–t out of here,'” Packer said of the racism he’s encountered
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Why Hollywood’s Merger Mania Will Leave a Host of Theater Chains and Entertainment Companies in the Dust (Video)
TheGrill 2018: “The theatrical distribution business is bound for failure,” says attorney Sky Moore
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Why the Dive in the Cryptocurrency Marketplace Is Good: ‘Gets Rid of a Lot of The Fat’
The Grill 2018: “This is going to allow the next wave of this revolution to actually start to become institutionalized,” says BANKEX’s Syed Hussain
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How to Watch the Chiefs-Broncos on ‘Monday Night Football’ for Free Online
Here’s an NFL viewing guide for cord-cutters and cord-nevers
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Kanye West Wants to Bring Colin Kaepernick to the White House (Video)
Rapper says, “we can remove that ‘sons of b—-es’ statement, and we can be on the same page”
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Combate Americas Announcer and Ex-WWE Superstar Alberto Del Rio to Return to Fighting
MMA league ambassador, now known as Alberto El Patron, will step back in cage next year for Combate’s inaugural pay-per-view
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NHL Network Takes a Shot at Reality TV With Cool New Docu-Series ‘Behind the Glass’ (Video)
Four-part, all-access series follows the New Jersey Devils through training camp and preseason as they “open up their doors and open up their lives” to fans, Steve Mayer NHL EVP, Chief Content Officer tells TheWrap
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Soccer Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo Accused of 2009 Rape in Civil Suit
Kathryn Mayorga says she was coerced into signing a settlement and nondisclosure agreement
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TheGrill Starts Today: See Will Packer, LA Times Owner Patrick Soon-Shiong and Showtime and AMC Bosses
Topics at this year’s conference include studio mergers, the rise of esports and the future of Cryptocurrency
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Ratings: ‘God Friended Me’ Premiere (Gladly) Accepts More Than 10 Million Viewers
NBC finishes first with “Sunday Night Football”
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Charles Aznavour, Iconic French Singer, Composer and Actor, Dies at 94
Dubbed France’s Frank Sinatra, Aznavour’s career spanned over 80 years
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Former ESPN Host Jemele Hill Joins The Atlantic
“She’ll be covering the intersection of sports, race, politics, gender and culture,” editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg says of Hill, who famously spoke out against Trump
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Welcome to TheGrill 2018: Now We’re Talking Disruption at Full Tilt
At our annual business conference, it’s hard not to notice that many of the changes that we saw as smoke over the horizon a decade ago are here and ablaze
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Cincinnati Bengals’ Tyler Eifert Snaps His Ankle in Gruesome Injury (Video)
Tight end’s foot was caught underneath him in a tackle
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How to Watch the Steelers-Ravens Game on ‘Sunday Night Football’ Online for Free
NFL has made it easier for cord-cutters to get their football fix without bustin’ the bank
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HBO to Throw in The Towel on Live Boxing Matches After 45 Years
Pay-cable network has no more fights scheduled past Oct. 27 Madison Square Garden middleweight title bout
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‘Nomis’ Film Review: Henry Cavill Hunts Predators, Catches a Trashy Thriller
Los Angeles Film Festival 2018: Despite a stellar cast, this sex-crimes mystery about cops, creeps, vigilantes and profilers is a bunch of serial killer clichés slapped together
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Fox’s ‘Last Man Standing’ Premiere Is Net’s Most-Watched Comedy in 7 Years
Season 7 start nabs highest rating since show’s Season 2 premiere on ABC
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ABC Wins Broadcast Battle for Kavanaugh Hearing Viewers, NBC Tops Key Demo
But Fox News Channel still triumphs over all
