AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan Steps Down After 26-Year Run; Ex-Showtime Chief Matt Blank Takes Top Job In Interim

Jessica Chastain wears a classic black gown for the premiere of her new movie, The Forgiven, during the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 11, 2021 in Canada.

Tripwire Interactive has announced that CEO John Gibson has “stepped down” from his position at the company, following a comment he made supporting a controversial anti-abortion law that passed in Texas.In a statement shared earlier today (September 7), Tripwire Interactive has distanced itself from comments made by Gibson and announced that he has been replaced by Alan Wilson, who will act as interim CEO.

It’s been more than two decades since Minnie Driver and Matt Damon’s messy breakup, but Driver is opening up about a random encounter she recently had with her “Good Will Hunting” co-star.

Did you know that Minnie Driver and Matt Damon were a couple more than two decades ago?!

Jessica Chastain and Dawn French have led tributes to Richard E Grant’s wife, vocal coach Joan Washington, who has died. In a tweet shared on Friday (3 September), the Withnail and I star wrote that Washington had died the previous night, with no cause of death given.

John Cho is reacting to some controversy surrounding his Cowboy Bebop casting.

Josh Sapan, a cable pioneer who has headed AMC Networks and its predecessors in the Dolan cable dynasty for more than 25 years, is seguing to the vice chairman role at AMC Networks.Matt Blank, a contemporary of Sapan’s who headed Showtime for 20 years, has been tapped as interim CEO while AMC Networks conducts a search for a new CEO.Sapan’s move was anticipated in the two-year contract he signed in December 2020 that gave him the option to shift from president and CEO to the vice chairman role

Vanessa Grimaldi and Josh Wolfe are married! The Bachelor alum, 33, and her businessman beau, 35, have officially tied the knot in an intimate ceremony with family in their native Montreal, Canada on Friday, Aug. 20. Vanessa confirmed the news to PEOPLE and said she is “over the moon.”

Dune, has said that he was “blown away” when he saw the film, and described it as “a cinematic masterpiece.”Brolin, who plays the ally Gurney Halleck in the film, also likened the film to another that he starred in, the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men.“You don’t know until you see it how great it’s going to be,” he told ACE Universe.In spite of calling the film, which also stars Oscar Isaac, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Jason Momoa, “by far, the toughest thing I’ve done,” director Denis

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Cíntia Gil, the director of international doc event Sheffield Doc/Fest, has left her position citing “artistic differences over the present and future direction [of the event]” with the board of trustees.

making a joke that mocked Asian accents while discussing Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani.“Bally Sports Detroit is extremely disappointed with the remarks analyst Jack Morris made during last night’s Tigers game. Jack has been suspended indefinitely from Tigers broadcasts and will be undergoing bias training to educate him on the impact of his comments and how he can be a positive influence in a diverse community,” Bally Sports Detroit, which airs Tigers games, said in a statement.