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<b>Sony Takes 80 Percent Stake in Peanuts, Securing Future of Charlie Brown and Snoopy      </b>

Sony Takes 80 Percent Stake in Peanuts, Securing Future of Charlie Brown and Snoopy

Newsmakers, TVDecember 20, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Sony has acquired an 80 percent ownership stake in Peanuts, the beloved comic strip and media franchise created by Charles M. Schulz, marking one of…

<B>The Oscars Are Headed to YouTube, Ending a 50-Year Broadcast Era</B>       </B>

The Oscars Are Headed to YouTube, Ending a 50-Year Broadcast Era

Film, NewsmakersDecember 18, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

The Academy Awards will leave ABC behind and move exclusively to YouTube beginning with the 2029 ceremony, marking the most dramatic distribution shift in the…

<b>Beloved Hollywood Power Couple Rob Reiner And Michele Singer Reiner Killed In Apparent Homicide</b>

Beloved Hollywood Power Couple Rob Reiner And Michele Singer Reiner Killed In Apparent Homicide

Film, NewsmakersDecember 15, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

  Rob Reiner, the beloved actor, director, producer and activist whose films helped define modern American cinema, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, the photographer…

<b>Paramount Crashes the Party With Hostile Bid for Warner Bros., Throwing Hollywood Into New Uncertainty     </b>

Paramount Crashes the Party With Hostile Bid for Warner Bros., Throwing Hollywood Into New Uncertainty

FilmDecember 8, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

The ink was barely dry on the announcement that Netflix and Warner Brothers intended to merge when Paramount barged in with a hostile takeover bid…

<b>Golden Globes Buzz: “One Battle After Another” Takes the Lead as Nominations Drop      </b>

Golden Globes Buzz: “One Battle After Another” Takes the Lead as Nominations Drop

FilmDecember 8, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

The list of films vying for top honors at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards has arrived — and it’s a wide-open race. One Battle After…

<b>Critics’ Choice Shocker — “Sinners” Sweeps the Nominations with a Bullseye of 17     </b>

Critics’ Choice Shocker — “Sinners” Sweeps the Nominations with a Bullseye of 17

FilmDecember 8, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

The critics have spoken — and they’ve laid down a bold challenge to the rest of awards season. Heads turned overnight when the 31st Critics’…

<b> <i>Wake Up Dead Man</i>: A New Turn for the Knives Out Mysteries    </b>

Wake Up Dead Man: A New Turn for the Knives Out Mysteries

FilmDecember 7, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

A new chapter in the Knives Out universe arrives with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, a film that trades the glitter of…

<b>Chase Infiniti: The 25-Year-Old Breakout at the Heart of <i>One Battle After Another</i></b>

Chase Infiniti: The 25-Year-Old Breakout at the Heart of One Battle After Another

FilmDecember 7, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Chase Infiniti is a young American actor whose career has taken off with remarkable speed. Born Chase Infiniti Payne in Indianapolis on May 5, 2000,…

<b><i>One Battle After Another</i> Surges to Oscar Contender Status     </b>

One Battle After Another Surges to Oscar Contender Status

FilmDecember 7, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has quickly climbed to the front of the awards-season conversation, becoming one of the most talked-about films of…

<b>James Cameron: The Visionary Behind Pandora’s Expanding Universe      </b>

James Cameron: The Visionary Behind Pandora’s Expanding Universe

FilmDecember 7, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

For more than four decades, James Cameron has occupied a rarefied space in filmmaking—an artist who marries technical daring with emotional storytelling, a director whose…

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  • Sony Takes 80 Percent Stake in Peanuts, Securing Future of Charlie Brown and Snoopy December 20, 2025
  • The Oscars Are Headed to YouTube, Ending a 50-Year Broadcast Era December 18, 2025
  • Beloved Hollywood Power Couple Rob Reiner And Michele Singer Reiner Killed In Apparent Homicide December 15, 2025