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EXCLUSIVE: As it preps for the release of notable titles like Nickel Boys, production company Louverture Films has added a handful of key execs and collaborators, including two principal partners and a chief financial officer. As those new arrivals come aboard, co-founder Danny Glover has announced…

EXCLUSIVE: Hyphenate Media Group has appointed Rachelle Mendez as the new Head of Unscripted. In her new role, Mendez, an 8-time Emmy award-winner, will oversee the development and production of new unscripted television shows for the company, leveraging her extensive background to innovate and…

Wrigley Media Grouphas named Ross Breitenbach, EP and creator of Netflix' Hack My Home, to the new position of head of unscripted and brand development.   Breitenbach, who just won a Daytime Emmy for the show, will expand the Lexington, Kentucky-based company's unscripted development pipeline, which…

In the hours after the UK's first TV election debate this month, the two main political parties turned to the same device to hero their leaders. The Conservative Party filmed two cabinet members watching the debate, sipping wine, and lauding their boss Rishi Sunak. Labour put the focus on voters, all of…

The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday that it has renewed the contract of CEO Bill Kramer through July 2028. His deal wasn’t scheduled to be up for renewal until 2025. Kramer was the director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures when…

"Everyone is talking about the doom and gloom of our industry, but we have to get over that and be optimists,” said Donna Langley today. “I really do believe that.” "As much as things change, they stay the same," the Chairman of NBCU Studio Group and Chief Content Officer also declared of the media…

In the latest executive shuffle at Paramount Global, home entertainment chief Bob Buchi is exiting and will be replaced by Amazon MGM digital distribution exec Andres Alvarez. Craig White, EVP, Worldwide Sales & Distribution for Home Entertainment, is also departing the company. Chief Content…

EXCLUSIVE: Nikki Cooper has been promoted to VP Television at Berlanti Productions. In her most recent role as Director of Development and Production, Cooper worked on shows such as Dead Boy Detectives for Netflix, Found for NBC and numerous development projects for Warner Bros. Television…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Demmler’s Talon Entertainment has hired Tony Armer, an industry veteran known for his tenure as Film Commissioner of Dallas and St. Petersburg, as its first Head of Physical Production. In his new role, Armer will work alongside Demmler to oversee all physical production as the…

Paramount Global’s unorthodox Office of the CEO, which started as a presumed placeholder, is turning into a longer-term fixture poised to once again reshape the tempest-tossed company. Consisting of three top Paramount execs – George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins – the Office replaced Bob…

Studiocanal exec Dominique Jubin has been named Head of French Drama at the French content house’s Canal+ Group cousin, Ciné+ OCS. Jubin will exit her post as Managing Director of Studiocanal Original, Studiocanal’s French TV series production unit, to take up her new role on July 1. That is two days…

David Zaslav can now boast of having a former Press Secretary to the President of the United States among his corporate inner circle. However, even with the trophy of Robert Gibbs now on his shelf, the Warner Bros Discovery CEO may do well to remember the transition from DC to Hollywood has proved full of…