Verizon Selling Yahoo, AOL and Media Assets for $5B to Private Equity Firm Apollo

Matthew McConaughey is getting nostalgic on social media this week, sharing a throwback picture from his time as an exchange student in Australia as a teenager. The Dallas Buyers Club actor, who is now 51 years old, posed shirtless in the picture, which was taken back in 1988 when he stayed in New South Wales for several months as a 19-year-old.

EXCLUSIVE: Bondit Media Capital, which became an important funder for independent film and television during Covid, is partnering with Vancouver-based Arcana Studio to launch Bondit Canada Capital.

When Jennifer Carroll Foy was growing up as a young girl in Petersburg, Virginia, she had to sit with her aunt at her kitchen table trying to make the agonizing decision about whether the family was going to pay their mortgage or buy the medicine they needed for her sick grandmother.

It has been 17 years since viewers saw the emotional final episode of Friends after a decade of gripping highs and lows. Now we can pull back the curtain and reveal some of funniest quips and sweetest anecdotes from the 'awkwardly magic' reunion.

Following last week’s first look teaser at the long-awaited Friends reunion, HBO have released a full trailer showing fans exactly what they can look forward to on May 27. HBO Max released the video on Tuesday, May 19 – at round 6pm for all the fans tuning in from the UK – and in just 12 hours it was viewed over 4 million times on Youtube alone.

Muse have marked the forthcoming 20th anniversary of ‘Origin Of Symmetry’ by announcing a remixed version of their seminal album – you can hear a new take on ‘Citizen Erased’ below.The new remix album from the Devon band will arrive on June 18, falling just short of 20 years since the original record arrived on July 17, 2001.While Muse are yet to officially comment on the new release, frontman Matt Bellamy previously told NME that they were considering a “special show” to mark the milestone.“The

AT&T and Discovery are pursuing a merger of their entertainment assets that would reshape the media business, particularly the fast-growing realm of streaming.

Berkshire Hathaway, the $700 billion holding company headed by legendary investor Warren Buffett.The highlight of the event known as “Woodstock for capitalists” is three-plus hours of open Q&A with Buffett, Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger and other top managers at the firm.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“How It Ends,” a serene apocalyptic comedy from partners Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein, has been acquired by MGM’s American International Pictures label.The film was an official selection at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, written and directed by Lister-Jones who produced with Wein.  American International Pictures will release the project in theaters and on digital platforms on July 20 in the U.S.

homophobic robotext referring to him as “a gay Democrat” to delegates ahead of the Virginia GOP’s nominating convention on Saturday, May 8.The lawsuit, filed by Del.

Ethan Shanfeld BondIt Media Capital has increased its credit facility with Revere Capital by up to $70 million.Founded in 2013, BondIt has posited over $150 million of capital into over 325 film, TV and other media projects.

Verizon said Monday it’s clinched a deal to sell its media assets to  Apollo Global Management and related entities for $5 billion. Verizon will retain a 10% stake in the company, which will be known as Yahoo at close of the transaction and continue to be led by CEO Guru Gowrappan.

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Hood, Deputy General Secretary of UK trade union Equity, is joining casting platform Talent Systems as Managing Director of Spotlight.

The Weeknd has teased some “magic” new material that he made during the COVID-19 lockdown.The singer released his chart-topping album ‘After Hours’ just as the virus hit the US last March.Since then, he’s played the Super Bowl halftime show, hinted that the ‘After Hours’ era might not be over yet and shared a new remix of ‘Save Your Tears’ with Ariana Grande.In a new series of tweets this week, the singer – real name Abel Tesfaye – teased music made in a “small quarantine room”.Sharing a gif of

CHARLESTON, WVA. – West Virginia’s Republican governor Jim Justice on Wednesday signed HB 3293, a bill that bans transgender youth athletes from competing in women sports in the state’s middle, high schools and colleges.

WASHINGTON – The National Black Justice Coalition, a D.C.-based LGBTQ rights organization, issued a statement on Monday disclosing that an unarmed 32-year-old black man who was shot as many as 10 times by a sheriff’s deputy in Spotsylvania County, Va., on April 21 is gay.

previously vowed to sign the measure into law, arguing that restrictions on transgender female athletes were needed to ensure that cisgender women are able to earn honors and awards, or qualify for regional and national meets without worrying that they will lose out to athletes assigned male at birth, who, if they have not undergone hormone therapy, retain unfair physiological advantage.Justice said he had considered the fact that the NCAA could retaliate and refuse to schedule championships or

Verizon is exploring a sale of Yahoo and AOL that would end a rocky era for the telco as a media owner after a spate of disappointing acquisitions. A sale could bring $4 billion to $5 billion and giant investment group Apollo Global Management is said to involved, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.