The studio will not renew with its rich pact with the filmmaker when it runs out at the end of this year. Warner Bros. Pictures is ending its long-running relationship with producer Joel Silver, who has produced some of the studio’s biggest franchises such as theLethal Weapon and Matrix movies as well as the recent Sherlock Holmes films. The studio has…

When did you first become aware of the business side of the music? I would say I learned the hustle at an early age. My dad didn’t just hand me the game. I was given summer jobs and tasks throughout my childhood that taught me through experience how this industry works. Once I pretty much…

Facebook is testing a smaller, less invasive version of the “Trending Articles” insert that began appearing in some users’ Newsfeedsearlier this month. Now, instead of displaying a vertical block of stories — between three and six, from the screenshots we saw before — users see just one headline, accompanied by a thumbnail, source, introductory text…

Jay-Z and his Roc Nation superstar Rihanna will headline the 2012 London Olympic Games music lineup. They will perform at the BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend 2012 which will be on June 23rd and 24th, a month before the games begin. The diverse musical weekend will have sounds from Beethoven to Jay-Z and from Shakespeare…

Apple hasn’t shared an iTunes Match figure, though here’s our running tally of music subscription totals.  These are the latest updates from Sirius XM, Spotify, Rhapsody, Muve, Slacker, WiMP, and eMusic, though Spotify declined to comment on a running, US-based estimate.  Pandora was calculated using recent, fiscal 2012 statements. Also, here’s more on Deezer stats.  And if…