Liberty Global CEO Michael Fries' 2020 Pay Falls to $44.9 Million

A major hedge fund with a reputation for aggressive cost cutting got the greenlight on Friday to acquire Tribune Publishing, the owner of big city dailies such as The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel and The New York Daily News.

Johnny Depp has taken legal action against the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor wants the non-profit organisation to reveal whether his ex-wife Amber Heard has made a donation to them, after she pledged to share her $7 million divorce settlement to them and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Johnny Depp has now moved to court to order ACLU aka American Civil Liberties Union to show proof of Amber Heard's donation from her divorce settlement. It has been known that Heard had pledged to donate her USD 7 million divorce settlement to the ACLU and the Children's Hospital Los Angeles after her and Depp's divorce was made final.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved the £31 billion ($44B) merger between Liberty Global-Owned Virgin Media and telecoms giant Telefonica’s British mobile company O2.

Live Nation Entertainment CEO Michael Rapino said ticket demand was on an upsurge as vaccines roll out and countries reopen.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterMichael Jackson’s image was worth just $4 million at the time of his death in 2009, a U.S.

AMC Networks president and CEO Josh Sapan received compensation worth $11.8 million in 2020, compared with $20.2 million in 2019. In 2018, Sapan had made $20.6 million, following $29.6 million in 2017, $30.5 million in 2016,$17.7 million in 2015 and $40.3 million in 2014, when he benefited from an amended and restated employment agreement that included a onetime special equity retention award.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDiscovery Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav’s total compensation fell more than 17 percent in 2020, topping out at $37.7 million.That was down from the $45.8 million that Zaslav pulled in the previous year and significantly down from the massive $129.4 million in compensation that the Discovery chief earned in 2018, which included the value of stock options that amounted to more than $100 million as part of a new employment contract.This time, the

Rutherford Falls, one of TV’s first Native sitcoms, is a testament to the show’s creators Ed Helms, Mike Schur, and Sierra Teller Ornelas (the first Native showrunner of a television comedy) and its writers’ ability to harness the nuance of the human experience.It’s also just really funny. “I feel like Native people have always known that we’re funny,” Teller Ornelas tells me over the phone on the afternoon of the show’s premiere on .

"Silicon Valley" star Thomas Middleditch will be paying his ex-wife Mollie Gates a seven-figure divorce settlement. The 39-year-old actor, and Gates, 33, a costume designer, reached a settlement in their divorce on April 8, Us Weekly reported.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile multiple outlets, including Variety, reported last April that Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino was foregoing his $3 million salary for all of 2020 due to the pandemic and its devastating effect on the live-entertainment industry and the company, according to SEC filings, he did so for less than two months. His salary was reinstated at 50% as of June 1, and boosted to 60% on Sept.

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIt was a good year to run a streaming service.Netflix co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos earned $43.2 million and $39.3 million, respectively, in 2020, representing sizable pay increases for the two men.Hastings, who also serves as the company’s chairman, earned $38.6 million in 2019 and $36 million in 2018.

NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell's 2020 compensation reached $16.5 million. NBCU owner and cable giant Comcast disclosed his and other top executives' pay for the most recent year in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen Ross Riege was in initial conversations for “Rutherford Falls” with fellow cinematographer and now director Lawrence Sher (DP on Todd Phillips’ “Joker”), one of the ideas was how to explore the quirkiness of a small town.The new Peacock sitcom, which premiered April 22, stars Ed Helms as Nathan Rutherford, a descendant of the town’s founder, who is on a mission to stop the removal of the burg’s emblematic statue.

LOS ANGELES -- In Sierra Teller Ornelas’ family, those who could spin a good tale earned a seat at her grandmom’s expansive dining table, with lesser voices banished to the living room.“There was the feeling of holding court that was really big in my family,” said Teller Ornelas, who happily recalled another of the perks: “If I was in trouble and I could say something funny, I would get in less trouble.”The Native American writer is now sharing her narrative gifts with the world at large in

LOS ANGELES -- In Sierra Teller Ornelas’ family, those who could spin a good tale earned a seat at her grandmom’s expansive dining table, with lesser voices banished to the living room.“There was the feeling of holding court that was really big in my family,” said Teller Ornelas, who happily recalled another of the perks: “If I was in trouble and I could say something funny, I would get in less trouble.”The Native American writer is now sharing her narrative gifts with the world at large in