Cinedigm Rebrands to Cineverse, Signaling a Stronger Pivot to Streaming

K.J. Yossman London publicity firm WDW Entertainment has rebranded as WDM Entertainment and unveiled a new leadership team. The arts and entertainment communications agency, which was co-founded by CEO Amy Dowd in 2017, has welcomed industry veteran Daniel Maynard as managing director while Frankie Mendola and Sarah Wareing have been upped to associate directors. The agency’s new name reflects the surnames of WDM’s revised leadership and shareholders. Dowd and Maynard will also sit on the outfit’s board alongside CFO Evi Dennison. Maynard, who boasts over 20 years experience in media and entertainment in both in-house, consultancy and agency roles, previously worked as VP for communications (television and DTC) at Walt Disney EMEA, where he launched Disney+ across 17 markets, among other initiatives. Maynard has also held senior roles at 21st Century Fox, National Geographic, Freuds, BBC and Microsoft and is a member of the BAFTA television committee.

Spotify is cutting 200 jobs, about 2% of its workforce, in a revamp of its podcast business.

“Love in Taipei,” the film adaptation of Abigail Hing Wen’s New York Times bestseller “Loveboat, Taipei,” has been acquired by Paramount+ and will premiere in the U.S. this summer, the streamer announced Monday.

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Disney made it official with an SEC filing after the markets closed Friday, saying it would take $1.5 billion in write-downs associated with removing streaming programming from its platforms.

Channel 4 has picked up a wealth of U.S. content for its rebranded streaming service including Dr. Death, Queer As Folk and Becoming Elizabeth.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Lucasfilm’s immersive storytelling studio Industrial Light & Magic’s ILMxLAB is rebranding its creative studio to ILM Immersive. The move comes as ILM seeks to push state-of-the-art immersive innovations for its stories. In a statement to Variety, Vicki Dobbs Beck, VP of Immersive Content, said, “When we launched nearly eight years ago, we chose the name ILMxLAB to reflect the idea that this was a brand new storytelling space – a blank canvas. We knew we would need to experiment, explore and discover – much like a traditional lab. But we also imagined that, as we matured, we would want to transition to a new name that encapsulated our focus and future.”

Kylie Jenner has been living her best life in the French capital this week, and throughout her trip, has been taking to the gram to share some of her favourite Parisian looks. From her 21st-century Marilyn Monroe moment to her elegant LBD, Kylie’s style has been looking a little more elegant and low-key. Look, the Kardashian-Jenner clan are known for taking fashion very seriously, and a lot of the family’s Hulu reality show focuses on them working with designers and curating their looks for whatever high profile event they’re going to next.

have tentatively reached a deal to raise the debt ceiling. Hayes noted how the deal — which is, essentially, very far from the total destruction of Biden’s priorities demanded by the GOP’s most conservative members — appears to embody one of the selling points of Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.“Candidate Biden promised a return to ‘normalcy’ after the in-your-face, torturously attention-seeking presidency of Donald Trump,” Hayes said, adding that “another pillar” of Biden’s campaign was “a pledge to return the country to a bygone era of bipartisan deal-making.” Hayes then ran through a ton of what he sees as examples of both in action throughout Biden’s presidency.

Amid the HBO Max rebrand, Succession is ending after four seasons on the premium cable network. The Roy family is at odds with each other and the drama is set to start at 9 p.m. ET and 6 p.m. PT on HBO.

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The rebranding of Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming platform HBO Max became effective today with Max officially launching.

Paramount has confirmed the launch plans, including date, for the merged Paramount+ with Showtime service.

HBO Max is being rebranded as Max, and the new service will house twice the total amount of programming.

Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max (soon to be, simply, Max), Paramount+, Netflix, Peacock, Discovery+, Starz and even more streaming services, there’s no shortage of options when choosing what to binge-watch in your free time. However, sometimes the amount of great film and television available to stream can be overwhelming and lead to scrolling aimlessly — hoping to land on that perfect piece of content.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After 10 years as Cinedigm, the streaming and content distribution company is adopting a new moniker: Cineverse. According to the company, which announced the name change Monday, the Cineverse rebranding “is an important step forward” in its “evolution into a streaming content and technology company — focused on transforming the way people discover and interact with a universe of films, television series and other streamed content all bound together by compelling and innovative storytelling.” Along with the corporate name change to Cineverse Corp., the company’s stock symbol will also change from CIDM to CNVS. The shares will begin trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the “CNVS” ticker at the market opening on May 23.

EXCLUSIVE: As its stock price continues to languish, Cinedigm is following through on its stated plan to rebrand the company, emerging with the new name Cineverse in a bid to convey a long-under-way pivot to streaming.

Ryan Seacrest had some feelings about being back on the set.The former Host returned as a guest on the recently rebranded program on Thursday, just one month after exiting the series. Since his departure, host Kelly Ripa has been joined at the desk by her real-life husband, Mark Consuelos, with the show now appropriately called . «You know, guests never told me how great it is to be a guest,» Seacrest joked in an interview with ET later that day during a visit to Children's Hospital of Orange County, where he was catching up with patients and families in honor of the 10th anniversary of his Ryan Seacrest Foundation Studios location there. «It was so much fun to be back,» he told ET's Matt Cohen of his appearance.

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of Friday’s release of Fast X, in which he stars opposite Vin Diesel and many more, longtime F&F cast member Sung Kang has set a North American distribution deal with Cinedigm for Shaky Shivers, the ’80s-inspired horror comedy that marks his feature directorial debut. The film will hit theaters this fall, with an exclusive streaming release on the company’s streaming platform Screambox to follow.

More information has come out about Paul Cattermole’s sudden death.