Lionsgate Makes Round Of Hires & Promotions In Development & Production

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EXCLUSIVE: Holly Jeter, a partner at WME in the Motion Picture Department, has departed the agency to serve as President of client, Halle Berry’s, new production entity. The new, yet to be named entity, will produce a wide array of projects from hard-hitting dramas to light-hearted comedies, action, horror, and more with a focus on elevating complex, strong, women and women of color in leading roles both in front of and behind the camera. Jeter is partnering with Berry as she enters a new two-picture, three-year first look producing deal with Netflix.

Apple CEO Tim Cook noted proudly that Apple TV+ shows and films have racked up nearly 200 awards and over 890 total nominations, giving a shout-out to Ted Lasso, The Tragedy of Macbeth, CODA, Swan Song and upcoming series Severance and The Afterparty.

Lionsgate is looking to absorb part of, or all of STX Entertainment, Deadline has learned from sources.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterLionsgate is in discussions to acquire some or all of STX Entertainment, the seven-year-old company founded by veteran producer Robert Simonds, insiders familiar with the matter told Variety. It’s an 11th hour wrinkle in the studio’s planned sale to a private equity player.Talks began late last year, according to sources, after STX had secured a buyer in The Najafi Companies, an investment firm run by Jahm Najafi, the vice chairman of the Phoenix Suns.

Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios is expanding its sales and distribution team with the hiring of Diane Ferrandez as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Distribution.

K.J. Yossman Quay Street Productions has made five new hires across production, development and business affairs.The company, founded by award-winning producer Nicola Shindler, is part of ITV Studios.It has hired Richard Fee as executive producer, Davina Earl as head of development, Athena Stavrakis as script executive and Kate Boyle (pictured above alongside Fee) as head of business affairs.

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Amy Schneider is making  history!Schneider claimed her 39th win Monday, surpassing Matt Amodio as the second-most winning contestant on the long-running game show. Ken Jennings, who partnered with Mayim Bialik to take over hosting duties from the late Alex Trebek, still holds the top spot, after he won 74 back-to-back games in 2004.Schneider's winnings are piling up too, with the 42-year-old software engineering manager collecting $1,319,800 in prize money thus far.«It still feels unreal,” Schneider said in a statement after her 39th win.

Mike Wass Frustrated by the direction of the music industry, specifically its fixation on short-term goals and social media engagement, Chelsea Cutler decided to share her feelings on Instagram. “I’ve struggled terribly the last year or so with how to adapt to the way the industry landscape has changed,” she wrote in a post dated January 3. “I don’t know how to keep up with how insatiable our content culture has become.”The 24-year-old then turned off her phone and went to bed.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has taken in for development Guys We F****d , a multi-camera comedy based on Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson’s Guys We F****d: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast, from Eric and Kim Tannenbaum’s The Tannenbaum Company (Two and a Half Men), and Lionsgate TV, where The Tannenbaum Co. is under a deal. The project is a co-production between Lionsgate TV and Fox Entertainment.

Manori Ravindran International EditorCAA has hired former Plimsoll Productions executive Saul Goldberg as an agent with its Alternative Television division, based out of the U.K.Most recently, Goldberg oversaw the U.S. operations for Bristol-headquartered unscripted production company Plimsoll, which has expanded rapidly in recent years following the sale of a minority stake to British private equity firm LDC in 2019.

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As Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe were writing the story for The Mitchells vs the Machines, they realized that all of the people they knew who inspired Katie Mitchell were queer. In discussing this with LGBTQ+ members of their crew, the decision to make Katie open about her queerness was obvious.

EXCLUSIVE: Enderby Entertainment’s Zero Contact, a novel solution to the conundrum of making films during the pandemic, has been acquired in the U.S. by Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment.