Cameo Raises $100 Million From Investors Including Amazon, Google, UTA

Dundee United. The midfielder has been offered a pre-contract by the Saints and is also considering an extension at United.

Respawn Entertainment has announced that their battle royale game, Apex Legends, has officially passed 100million unique players worldwide.Respawn shared a celebratory video on the game’s official Twitter account which revealed the news, writing: “100 million strong, and we’re just getting started. Thank you, Legends!”Apex Legends originally launched on PC and consoles in February 2019 and has since gained a dedicated player base.

Incoming Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy made $35 million last year on a large stock grant according to SEC filings Thursday morning. Founder Jeff Bezos, who is planning to step away from the-day-to day operations, earned $1.6 million for the year, unchanged from 2019 and mostly for security, the company said in its annual proxy statement.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPearpop is turning social-media capital into real dollars — and the startup has banked $16 million to build out its marketplace for buying and selling social collaborations among creators.The total includes $10 million in Series A financing led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners as well as $6 million in prior seed financing co-led by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures and VC firm Slow

Plex, a 12-year-old streaming provider with a unique combination of third-party access and management tools for users’ media assets, has raised $50 million in growth equity.

Ed Meza @edmezavarItaly’s Iervolino Entertainment, the film and television production company founded by producer Andrea Iervolino and co-owned with Monika Bacardi, is planning to invest €100 million ($118.6 million) in the production of animated content along with an additional €8.5 million ($10.1 million) in its new production subsidiary in Serbia.The new Iervolino Studios, which comprises two facilities located in Belgrade and Novi Sad, will produce animated projects for the global market,

Though “Knives Out” would go on to have some awards recognition and become a sleep box office hit, during the marketing campaign for the Rian Johnson film, the classic whodunnit seemed like a fun little side-project for the cast and crew in between other, more lucrative jobs. I mean, the film had a modest $40 million budget and seemed to be filmed, edited, and released in quick succession as Daniel Craig had a small window before going into the filming of his final James Bond film.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPatreon just got a boatload of fresh funding — and the creator-monetization platform says it now has a valuation of $4 billion, more than tripling from its most recent raise in September 2020.The San Francisco-based company said it raised $155 Million in Series F financing led by new investor Tiger Global Management, with participation from Woodline Partners and existing investors Wellington Management, Lone Pine Capital, NEA, Glade Brook Capital and DFJ Growth.

State Department spokesman Ned Price raised the possibility that the U.S. could coordinate with other countries to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over human rights abuses.

Rebecca Davis editorChina’s Huace Pictures this week unveiled its upcoming film lineup, which includes a new project from young arthouse filmmaker Bi Gan (“Kaili Blues”) and sequels to its Chinese New Year hit “A Writer’s Odyssey.”Founded in 2014, Huace Pictures is the newer outgrowth of Shenzhen-listed, Hangzhou-headquartered Zhejiang Huace Film and TV, founded in 2005.

Cameo, the platform that connects celebrities to their fans, has raised $100 million at a valuation of just over $1 billion, the company says. Cameo says it will use the cash to improve its core product, roll out new products like fan clubs and "Cameo Calls," expand its global presence to more countries, and grow its burgeoning B2B business.

Godzilla vs Kong has turned out to be among the top earners amid the pandemic releases at the global box office. The film debuted with a collection of over USD 121.8 million at the foreign box office, as per Hollywood Reporter.

Ex on the Beach star's daughter, Azaylia, was diagnosed with the aggressive cancer at just eight weeks old and now, after an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant at seven months, she is in need of private specialist treatment.Appealing for help on Instagram over the weekend, Ashley wrote, "Consultants from around the world have come to the conclusion that the ONLY option to save Azaylia’s life is to fly to Singapore for CAR-T therapy plus a haplo transplant."This treatment and associated expenses

Ashley Cain's Go Fund Me page for his daughter Azaylia has reached and surpassed it's goal of £1million in just 16 hours.The 30 year old welcomed his seven month old daughter with girlfriend Safiyya Vorajee last August, with her horrifically battling the cancer since birth. Ex On The Beach star Ashley's baby girl recently underwent a bone marrow transplant and, last week, received test results to see if the procedure had worked, but shared the tragic news that it had been ineffective.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Rival Peak,” the first-ever interactive AI reality series, has ended on Facebook Watch with more than 100 million minutes watched over the course of its 12-week season.The show hailed from dj2 Entertainment, Pipeworks Studios, and Genvid Technologies. It attracted viewers from over 70 countries, with the biggest audiences coming from the U.S., India, Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines.

health workers in the pandemic has sold for a record 16.8 million pounds ($23.2 million,) auction house Christie’s said Tuesday. Proceeds from the sale will be used to fund health organizations and charities across the U.K., it said.The work by the mystery street artist, titled “Game Changer,” first appeared on a wall at Southampton General Hospital in southern England in May, during the first wave of the pandemic.