EXCLUSIVE:Brittany Myers Adams has joined Artists First as Brand Manager, and will be tasked with building a new branding division while exclusively representing clients in the branding/endorsement space.
Adams, formerly of WME, will bring over clients including Lena Waithe, Dan Levy, Cynthia Erivo and Kevin…
EXCLUSIVE: Sister is adding another top executive/producer to the fold in Carolyn Strauss, who is joining the content venture co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone.
Strauss, who is moving her producing deal to Sister, is coming off a 34-year tenure at HBO where she has spent her entire…
Comcast chief financial officer Mike Cavanagh said the conglom was “pleased” with the weekend PVOD debut of Pete Davidson-starrer The King Of Staten Island – its latest film to go directly on-demand — and reiterated that while the company's very eager for theaters to reopen it is likely the distribution model may have…
Fox Corp. COO John Nallen confirmed the company is in “very, very early discussions” with the NFL about renewing its rights deal with the league, a closely watched process that he said often gets misconstrued.
Investors should “get away from the press headlines of average annual value growth,” he said during an…
Michelle Slavich, the EVP Global Publicity & Strategy at Warner Bros overseeing film publicity for WB and New Line Cinema, has been hired at Netflix as VP Publicity. In the newly created role she will lead publicity for the streaming service’s series, films and documentaries in the U.S. and Canada.
The move comes…
Bob Greenblatt, WarnerMedia’s entertainment and direct-to-consumer chairman, called the decision to temporarily pull Gone With the Wind “a no-brainer” but said it will be restored because “we can’t censor these films.”
The executive made the comments Thursday in an interview on Sirius XM with Jess Cagle, the former…
EXCLUSIVE: Independent urban production outfit Swirl Films, known for hit Bounce drama series Saints & Sinners, has added two former BET executives to its management ranks.
Robert Boyd is joining the company as chief operating officer and Tony Strickland as unscripted chief and co-executive producer. Both will be…
Matt Duckor, who led lifestyle programming for Condé Nast, has left the company in the wake of a storm at Bon Appétit and the reappearance of past tweets from Duckor making racist and homophobic comments.
Former Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport resigned earlier this week after a photo of him in brownface…
Santa Monica-based game giant Activision Blizzard has appointe Dawn Ostroff to its board as an independent director effective immediately.
The longtime entertainment executive currently oversees content and advertising at Spotify. Previously she co-founded and served as president of Condé Nast Entertainment through…
Amazon-owned Audible is continuing its effort to boost its entertainment quotient, hiring PopTV president Brad Schwartz as chief content officer.
Schwartz, who is leaving ViacomCBS after seven years at the helm of Pop and its predecessor TV Guide Network, will start June 15 and report to CEO Bob Carrigan, who joined…
ViacomCBS has named longtime exec Bruce Gillmer to the newly created position of President of Music, Music Talent, Programming & Events effective immediately and reporting directly to CEO Bob Bakish, who continues to make his mark on the newly merged company. In effect, Gillmer, who started at MTV in 1987, is the…
