Former CBS Chief Joe Ianniello Launches SPAC to Raise $300 million

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCelebrity chef Matthew Kenney is expanding his plant-based culinary empire to meal delivery. XFood is a collaboration between Kenney and e-commerce company PlantX, of which he is culinary chief officer.“Our goal is to always reach as many people with plant-based options as possible,” says Kenney, who launched the first of his many vegan restaurants almost 30 years ago.

Naman Ramachandran Vax.India.Now, a virtual fundraiser to support India in its fight against COVID-19, has raised more than $5 million.Liam Neeson, Annie Lennox, A.R. Rahman, Pia Toscano, Zubin Mehta, Gloria Estefan, Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Yo-Yo Ma, David Foster, Norwegian DJ Alan Walker, Asif Mandvi, Nishat Khan, Ranjani Gayatri Sisters and Matteo Bocelli participated in the July 7 event, which was globally livestreamed by CNN and Dreamstage.live, and hosted by Hasan Minhaj.

The Cajun chicken wasn’t the only thing that was a little bit spicy at Le Bilboquet on Saturday night. Claudine De Niro caused a scene at the fancy Hamptons restaurant, we’re told, by confronting a woman who she accused of taking her boyfriend Cuba Gooding Jr.’s phone number.

General Hospital, has died on the set of his upcoming film.The 60-year-old actor was filming western Treasure Valley, which he both wrote and starred in, when he died sitting on a horse, according to co-star Jim Heffel.“Jay Pickett decided to ride off into the Heavens,” Heffel wrote in a Facebooktribute. “I lost a good friend and the world lost a great person.”Yesterday I lost a good friend and the world lost a great person.

A judge in New York has sided with Bob Dylan in his legal dispute with the estate of a former collaborator which sought a cut of the $300 million the musician reportedly secured by selling his songs catalogue to Universal Music last year.The court confirmed that Jacques Levy’s deal with Dylan back in the 1970s was a work-for-hire agreement which paid the songwriter royalties but which did not make him a co-owner of any copyrights, or grant him a cut of any profits from the sale of those

Jay Pickett has sadly died at the age of 60.

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. could be on the hook for millions of dollars in damages after failing to respond to a lawsuit that accused him of raping a woman in New York City in 2013.

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. could be on the hook for millions of dollars in damages after failing to respond to a lawsuit that accused him of raping a woman in New York City in 2013.

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Kanye West prepares to release his 10th studio album, he is bringing back one of his favorite collaborators — JAY-Z. On Thursday evening, West had a special listening event for his new album,, which is named after his late mother, Donda West. The event took place at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

Former longtime CBS executive Joseph Ianniello has launched a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, with a handful of former colleagues to scout for acquisitions in media, entertainment and sports.

Screen Media and Millennium Media have formed a distribution partnership kicking off with noir thriller The Enforcer, which stars Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth and rapper/actor 2 Chainz.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaScreen Media, the distributor of “The Outpost” and “Willy’s Wonderland,” has reached a distribution deal with Millennium Media, the company behind The Expendables and Olympus has Fallen franchises, to release at least five films a year for the next three years. The first film under the deal will be “The Enforcer” starring Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth and 2 Chainz.

$100 million Spotify deal is justified. The actor and “WTF with Marc Maron” host also mocked Rogan and others’ recent move to “hipster Alamo,” Austin, Texas.  Maron paid a visit to Tom Segura’s “2 Bears, 1 Cave” podcast on Monday, where he assured Segura, who recently set-up shop in Austin himself, that, “you’re different.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterMark Ebner woke up on Friday and was startled to see news about Dillon Jordan, a 49-year-old movie producer who was arrested on charges that he had used his movie company as a front for a wide-ranging prostitution ring.“It was like Christmas in July,” Ebner told Variety. “They finally got this guy.”Ebner is a journalist who has written extensively about the underbelly of the entertainment industry on his website, HollywoodInterrupted.com.

Gloria Estefan is calling for global support for the people of Cuba.