Jeffrey Katzenberg Remains Upbeat on Quibi: ‘I’m Still Quite Optimistic This Is Gonna Work’

Peter White Television EditorThree months after launch, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form service Quibi is entering its first awards season.As the nascent platform, which is still finding its feet with subscribers, kicks off its debut FYC campaign, Deadline has assembled a virtual roundtable of creators and stars to explore how it lured Hollywood A-listers to the second screen, what they really thought of it when they first heard about it, the creative process, the importance of

Chrissy Teigen has repeatedly clarified the list that features her and her husband John Legend‘s name as members of a flight log who visited Jeffrey Epstein‘s island are fabricated, and yet, she keeps having to reiterate her stance over and over.

Days after the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, actress Alicia Arden is asking police in California why they seemingly ignored her claims of sexual battery at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein in 1997. Arden has previously claimed that she met the late disgraced financier at Shutters on the Beach, a hotel in Santa Monica, for what she believed to be a business meeting about becoming a Victoria’s Secret model.

We may never hear from Jeffrey Epstein himself, but that doesn’t mean the truth will stay buried.

here.In a statement on Monday, Fox News said, “On Sunday, July 5, a report on Ghislaine Maxwell during Fox News Channel’s ‘America’s News HQ’ mistakenly eliminatedPresident Donald Trump from a photo alongside then Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell.

Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI in New Hampshire on July 2 on charges that she conspired with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors. Her alleged crimes, which were detailed throughout Netflix’s new docu-series, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, completely horrified viewers.

many of us wondered if Quibi could deliver on its central promise – to refashion the style of streaming into “snackable” bites – or if, teetering under the weight of its massive funding and true who’s who of talent as the world shut down, it would become shorthand for an expensive mistake.The service, the brainchild of the DreamWorks Animation cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg and the former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman – two billionaires deeply entrenched in Hollywood and Silicon Valley

Ted Johnson Joe Biden continues his fundraising blitz on Saturday morning with an event hosted by Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg.This is Quibi founder’s first fundraiser for Biden since he became the presumptive Democratic nominee, and the event is expected to bring in a long list of top Hollywood executives.During the primary, Katzenberg spread his money around during the primary season, co-hosting events for multiple candidates.

It’s now mid-June, just over two months from the launch of the streaming service, Quibi, and all signs are pointing to a launch that was incredibly flawed, to say the least. The service has fallen well short of its modest expectations and is spending insane amounts of cash just to keep its name in the streaming conversation.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorQuibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg says the slow start of the mobile streaming service since its April 6 launch has provided “almost a beta” period that gives the well-funded start-up a chance to regroup.In an online video conversation with Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries hosted Thursday by SeriesFest, Katzenberg maintained Quibi is poised for a rebound in the second half of 2020 as states reopen more fully.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorQuibi, built for mobile-only viewing by an audience envisioned to be phone-toting millennials, now wants to get on more living-room TVs.The company, founded by ex-movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, has been in talks with both Roku and Amazon about building native apps for their connected-TV platforms, Variety has learned.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorInternational television festival SeriesFest has announced its lineup for Season 6, a reimagined virtual experience set for June 18-24. The six-day Fest/Differently will include competition screenings, panel discussions, workshops, along with sneak peeks and TV premieres.

Idles, Courtney Barnett and Glass Animals.The ‘Pooneh Ghana and Friends T-shirt Collab Fundraiser’ will raise money for a large number of charities, including a slew of anti-racism organisations and those tackling the coronavirus outbreak, such as the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO.As well as the three aforementioned artists, the likes of Cage The Elephant, Sunflower Bean, The Big Moon, Pond and DIIV are all also featured in the charity t-shirt range, which will be on sale until July

Prince Andrew has yet to participate in a formal interview with U.S. federal prosecutors regarding his alleged ties to convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.  In a new statement from U.S.