Author: Michael

President Donald Trump went on quite the tirade against Bill Maher over the weekend, telling the “Real Time” host to stop calling him for White House visits after his “sleazebag” interview with Karoline Leavitt on Friday. “Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement — But that’s all gone. It’s not ‘HOT’ anymore,” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social. His 1,300-word rant further referred to the comedian as “useless,” “a coward,” “fake news” and much more…

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John Malone was clearly onto something. Beaming into the Paley International Council Summit in New York on Wednesday, the legendary media mogul and Warner Bros. Discovery chair emeritus predicted Elon Musk’s SpaceX could strike an $8 billion to $10 billion investment and distribution deal with David Ellison’s Skydance. Less than 24 hours later, Semafor reported that Musk had invested roughly $1 billion in the newly combined media company. Malone’s prediction was considerably larger than the reported investment, and there’s no indication yet that a broader agreement is in place. But the timing was striking, particularly coming from a man whose…

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In Tim Burton’s classic 1989 “Batman,” Jack Nicholson’s Joker marveled at Batman as he escaped using the batarang and asked, “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” For Skydance co-CEO David Ellison, the answer is Warner Bros. He spent a year chasing Warner Bros. Discovery, and now the former “Flyboys” actor and tech scion has more famous IP than anyone else in Hollywood. The Joker is one of them. The deal, which closed earlier this month, put two century-old studios in the same building. Paramount and Warner Bros. still keep separate apartments, but they now share a landlord. Batman, Superman…

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