While programming drama has captured most headlines to this point since the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, now layoffs are hitting HBO and HBO Max.

Vin Diesel is going to great lengths to maintain the Fast & Furious continuity.

Spoilers ahead for Following. Christopher Nolan is arguably the most successful director working today. No other director can demand and receive a massive budget to helm tentpoles that aren't based on pre-existing properties. By this point in his career, Nolan's insistence on his original ideas are part of why he's able to create such vast visions of scale and import. Nolan has made himself the brand, and the brand is somewhere along the lines of "I make blockbuster features with an intellectual tilt." Of course, other filmmakers also seek to inject thoughtful themes and ideas into …

The dream has come to an end, HQties. HQ Trivia, the popular live trivia game show app that everyone and their brother seemed to be playing at one point, is shutting down, laying off all 25 of its full-time staff. According to a statement from CEO Rus Yusupov (via TechCrunch), HQ Trivia was in negotiations to be purchased by “an established business,” but the buyer pulled out at the last minute, leaving the struggling company with investors who were no longer willing to keep the ship afloat. “...for reasons we are still investigating, they suddenly changed their position and …

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Earlier this year, Disney/Marvel's Avengers: Endgame opened in China with $176 million, eventually totaling more than $614.2 million for the final film of the MCU (so far). One would have thought that the final chapter in the Skywalker Saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, might make a similar impact in the overseas box office, but you'd be very, very wrong. Previously, Star Wars: The Force Awakens managed $52.3 million on its opening weekend in China for a tally of $124.2 million, while Star Wars: The Last Jedi brought in only $28.1 million …

On the controversial and highly-anticipated first episode of Smackdown on FOX, Becky Lynch and The Rock teamed up against a common enemy.

Some DC employees are set to lose their jobs as an organization restructure will see three percent of the company's staff laid off.