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  • Monday, Feb. 5, 2024
Fantasia Barrino performs a tribute to Tina Turner during the 66th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

An average of 16.9 million viewers tuned in to see performances by Miley Cyrus and Billie Eilish and watch Taylor Swift make history at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, the largest audience for the telecast in four years and another consecutive annual increase for a show that is recovering from its pandemic declines.

Ratings were up 34% on Sunday across CBS, Paramount+ and other digital platforms from last year, and with delayed watching included was expected to amass over 17 million viewers. The telecast peaked with 18.25 million viewers during the In-Memoriam segment, with performances by Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, Jon Batiste and Fantasia Barrino.

The numbers Sunday easily beat the 12.4 million people who tuned in to watch Harry Styles, Lizzo and Bad Bunny perform during the show in 2023, along with a tribute to 50 years of rap history.

That's another year of growth seen under host Trevor Noah, who has hosted since 2021. Live More

  • Monday, Feb. 5, 2024
Minnie and Mickey Mouse perform for guests during a musical show in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, July 14, 2023, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- 

Disney wants to keep confidential any proprietary information or trade secrets that comes out of its state court fight with Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointees over who controls the governing district at Walt Disney World.

The entertainment giant asked a state court judge on Friday for a protective order allowing it to designate documents and depositions as confidential and requiring parties handling them to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

The litigation is likely going to involve the disclosure of trade secrets, as well as technical, financial and personal information, which could result in "significant harm" if they are made public, Disney said in its request. The request was unopposed by the DeSantis appointees.

Disney supporters had run the district, which provides municipal services such as firefighting, planning and mosquito control, for more than five decades after the Legislature created it in 1967. But legislation passed by the More

  • Monday, Feb. 5, 2024
The icon for instant messaging app Snapchat is seen on a smartphone, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. The owner of Snapchat is cutting approximately 10% of its worldwide workforce, or about 528 employees, just the latest tech company to announce layoffs. Snap Inc. said in a regulatory filing that it currently estimates $55 million to $75 million in charges, mostly for severance and related costs. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

The owner of Snapchat is cutting approximately 10% of its worldwide workforce, or about 530 employees, the latest tech company to announce layoffs.

Snap Inc. said in a regulatory filing that it currently estimates $55 million to $75 million in charges, mostly for severance and related costs. It expects the majority of the costs to be incurred in the first quarter.

This isn't the first time Snap has eliminated jobs. The Santa Monica, California-based company announced in August 2022 that it planned to cut about 20% of its global workforce. In the third quarter of 2023, it began winding down its AR Enterprise business, which included reducing its global employee headcount by approximately 3%, according to a regulatory filing.

There are 406 million daily average users that use Snapchat every day, on avarege, according to Snap's website. It has more than 5 million Snapchat+ subscribers.

Snap is among several in the tech industry More

  • Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
Martin Lawrence speaks during a star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in his honor in Los Angeles on April 20, 2023. Lawrence will star starred alongside Hall of Fame football player Shannon Sharpe in a Super Bowl commercial. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Martin Lawrence has kept busy: The actor-comedian readies for his new "Bad Boys" film with Will Smith this summer, recently joined his "Martin" cast members during the Emmys and stars alongside Hall of Fame football player Shannon Sharpe in a new Super Bowl commercial.

In the commercial, Lawrence and Sharpe pair up for a friendly game of golf — until their cart rolls into a pond. That's when Lawrence shows off his strength to the muscle-bound, retired NFL player who watches in awe as the comedian walks into the pond, picks up the cart and carries it out.

Lawrence, 58, enjoyed seeing his digitally-enhanced brawn in the ad.

"It was cool to hook up with Shannon and sort of switch roles in the muscle area," said Lawrence about the 30-second Oikos yogurt commercial. He'll be waiting to see his first Super Bowl commercial appearance from his home when the Kansas City Chiefs face the San Francisco 49ers in the championship game on Feb. 11 More

  • Friday, Feb. 2, 2024
Actor Sam Waterston attends the NBCUniversal "Law & Order" press junket in New York on Feb. 16, 2022. Waterston, who has played the spiky, non-nonsense district attorney on “Law & Order” since the mid-1990s, is stepping down. The last episode for Waterston’s Jack McCoy will be Feb. 22, NBC said Friday. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Sam Waterston, who has played the spiky, no-nonsense district attorney on "Law & Order" since the mid-1990s, is stepping down from his legal perch.

The last episode for Waterston's Jack McCoy will be Feb. 22, NBC said Friday. He has been in more than 400 episodes of the police drama, earning a SAG Award and Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the role.

"The time has come for me to move on and take Jack McCoy with me," Waterston said in a statement. "There's sadness in leaving, but I'm just too curious about what's next. An actor doesn't want to let himself get too comfortable."

Tony Goldwyn, who starred in "Scandal" and the 1990 film "Ghost," has been cast as the new district attorney.

McCoy and the prosecutors would take up the legal case once the New York City detectives were finished investigating a crime, representing, as the narrator says, "two separate yet equally important groups."

McCoy was a brilliant, More

  • Friday, Feb. 2, 2024
Carl Weathers poses at the Disney + launch event promoting "The Mandalorian" at the London West Hollywood hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., on Oct. 19. 2019. Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing-off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” died Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. He was 76. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" movies, facing off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Predator" and teaching golf in "Happy Gilmore," has died. He was 76.

Matt Luber, his manager, said Weathers died Thursday. His family issued a statement saying he died "peacefully in his sleep."

Comfortable flexing his muscles on the big screen in "Action Jackson" as he was joking around on the small screen in such shows as "Arrested Development," Weathers was perhaps most closely associated with Creed, who made his first appearance as the cocky, undisputed heavyweight world champion in 1976's "Rocky," starring Sylvester Stallone.

"It puts you on the map and makes your career, so to speak. But that's a one-off, so you've got to follow it up with something. Fortunately those movies kept coming, and Apollo Creed became more and more in More

  • Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024
A person stands in front of a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., March 7, 2023. Meta releases results on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Meta Platforms Inc. tripled its profit and posted sharply higher revenue in the final quarter of 2023, boosted by a rebound in digital advertising as well cost cutting and layoffs in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the "year of efficiency."

"The company can talk all it wants to about AI and the metaverse, but it's still a social media company that gets nearly all its revenue from advertising, and advertisers still clearly love Meta," said longtime tech analyst Debra Aho Williamson.

The Menlo Park, California-based parent company of Facebook and Instagram said Thursday that it earned $14 billion, or $5.33 per share, in the October-December period. That's up from $4.65 billion, or $1.76 per share, a year earlier.

Revenue grew 25% to $40.11 billion from $32.17 billion.

Analysts, on average, were expecting earnings of $4.82 per share on revenue $39.1 billion, according to FactSet Research.

"This was a pivotal year for our More

  • Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024
Minnie and Mickey Mouse perform for guests during a musical show in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, July 14, 2023, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Disney has requested a second court delay in its legal battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees over who controls Walt Disney World’s governing district. The request this week comes as the company is accusing the appointees and the governor’s office of failing to produce documents it had requested as part of the litigation. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- 

Disney on Thursday appealed a judge's dismissal of its free speech lawsuit over what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis' retaliatory takeover of Walt Disney World's governing district, as the Florida governor separately called any appeal "a mistake."

"They were wrong and we were right," DeSantis said at a news conference in Jacksonville a day after the ruling. "They should move on."

Disney filed a notice of appeal over Wednesday's ruling by a federal judge in Tallahassee, saying that it would set a dangerous precedent if left unchallenged by giving states the green light to weaponize their powers to punish opposing viewpoints. A separate lawsuit over who controls the district also is still pending in state court in Orlando.

Disney had argued that legislation signed by DeSantis and passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature transferring control of the Disney World governing district from Disney supporters to DeSantis appointees More

  • Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024
Isaac Silverglate
NEW YORK -- 

VaynerMedia has hired Isaac Silverglate as executive creative director. Silverglate will be responsible for the creative direction of PepsiCo brands including Pepsi, Starry, Cheetos, Naked, and Mug Root Beer. Silverglate will report directly to global chief creative officer Rob Lenois. He joins VaynerMedia from McCann New York where he served as deputy chief creative officer, focused on Verizon.

“We continue to drive VaynerMedia’s proposition of creativity with social at the center, which is making social creative daily to build the brand while also gleaning insights about the brand, category, and consumer to develop big, innovative brand ideas that drive the business. To do this, we were looking for a creative leader who understands both,” said Lenois. “Isaac has an impressive background at both traditional agencies and digitally focused shops, leading teams to deliver culturally relevant and business-driving work. I am excited to see how he More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024
Eric Branco
NEW YORK -- 

Black Man Films’ “Silent Partner” begins production this week in New York City, marking the feature directorial debut of accomplished DP Eric Branco.

Based on the Academy Award®-qualifying short film of the same name, “Silent Partner” is written by actor and Black Man Films co-founder Roderick Lawrence, James J. Johnson and Branco. 

Rounding out the cast are: Stephen Hill (“Magnum P.I.”), Haskiri Velazquez (“Saved by the Bell”), Welker White (“The Irishman”), Karen Aldridge (“Fargo”), Isabella Pisacane (“This is the Night”) and Shoshana Bean (“Wicked”). Casting is by Bess Fifer and Aaron Schoonover of Fifer and Associates.

Director Branco’s previous film and television credits as DP include “Let the Right One In,” “Bupkis,” “Clemency” and “The 40-Year-Old-Version.” His work on “Story Ave” recently netted him an ASC Spotlight Award nomination, as well as a Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival. 

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