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“No,” a blunt Ari Emanuel told the Code Conference at the Beverly Hilton tonight when asked if he would buy UTA now CAA bought ICM Partners yesterday. “We don’t need it,” the Endeavor CEO added.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterEndeavor has no plans to exit the content creation business once it completes the required sale of its production unit.Mandated by the franchise agreement the company signed with the Writers Guild of America in February, the forthcoming sale of Endeavor Content will see Ari Emanuel’s shop part with 80% of its interests in making scripted film and television.

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel never brought up the name Scarlett Johansson, whose challenge to Disney alongside her reps at rival CAA has riled the industry. But in a virtual appearance at the Goldman Sachs Communcacopia Conference, the exec said talent is “getting paid very, very well” despite massive shifts in windows.

according to CNN.A representative for MSNBC did not immediately return a request for comment, but per CNN, this change will happen sometime next year.

The Wall Street Journal. The exact terms and duration of the new deal were not immediately clear.

Jennifer Yuma editorEndeavor Group Holdings has appointed technology executive Jacqueline Reses to its board of directors.The move expands the Endeavor board to eight members: Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell, Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban and managing director Stephen Evans, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Uncle Nearest CEO Fawn Weaver and former Xerox chief Ursula Burns.

Rachel Maddow is considering the possibility of stepping down from her MSNBC when her contract ends next year, albeit negotiations on her future are continuing between her representatives and the network.

which first reported on Maddow’s contract talks Thursday, added that Maddow is considering leaving the network to start her own media platform. Rashida Jones took over as MCNBC president earlier this year.

Endeavor Group Holdings has added Ursula Burns, former CEO of Xerox and telecom firm Veon, to its board of directors.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMore than two weeks after Ariel Emanuel stepped down as a Live Nation board member after 14 years, the Department of Justice announced that he and fellow top Endeavor officer Mark Shapiro resigned their board positions after the DOJ expressed antitrust concerns, according to a DOJ statement Monday (June 21). The DOJ’s concern was that Emanuel’s and Shapiro’s “positions on the Live Nation Board created an illegal interlocking directorate,” i.e.

Endeavor Group Holdings’ CEO Ari Emanuel and president Mark Shapiro have resigned from Live Nation’s board of directors after the Justice Department expressed antitrust concerns.

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel told investors that recent high-profile media mergers, including Discovery’s planned takeover of WarnerMedia and Amazon’s deal last week to acquire MGM, are proof that “content is in high demand and short supply” and that’s good for Endeavor.In Endeavor’s first earnings call since the company went public, Emanuel joined Endeavor president Mark Shapiro and CFO Jason Lublin in trumpeting what he called Endeavor’s ideal positioning to provide sports, live event and media

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel sees the wave of M&A transforming the media business is “further proof that content is in high demand and short supply.”

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorEndeavor is well positioned for future growth even in a fast-consolidating marketplace because it has a foothold in most of the major entertainment sectors that are roaring back to life, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel told investors Wednesday in his first earnings call as the head of publicly traded company.Emanuel, Endeavor president Mark Shapiro and CFO Jason Lublin fielded questions from top Wall Street media analysts for an hour as the company began the quarterly

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorEndeavor Group Holdings is closing out its first month as a publicly traded company with a stock that is up 24% from its IPO price of $24.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterOtoy, a technology company specializing in cloud graphics, has added digital artist Beeple to its advisory board.In enlisting Beeple, Otoy — which already counts director J.J. Abrams, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and JavaScript creator Brendan Eich as board members — hopes to pave the future of digital content, including NFTs.Few understand the confounding world as well as Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorEndeavor has taken a bold step into the public equities markets. Now what?Endeavor president Mark Shapiro enthused on Thursday that the IPO, which launched the stock at $24, marks the beginning of a new chapter for the company that has been through a fair amount of turmoil and transition over the past few years.

Endeavor will go public on Thursday, capping a two-year journey that will finally see the parent company of WME, IMG and UFC trade on the public markets. In a securities filing Wednesday afternoon, the company officially priced its IPO at $24 per share, which would give it an enterprise value of about $10 billion.

Ari Emanuel is back to testing the waters for an initial public offering. A year and a half after Endeavor withdrew its plans to go public, the Beverly Hills-based entertainment and sports powerhouse declared its intention to try again, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel’s 2020 pay package totaled $14.38 million, the company revealed in an SEC filing registering for an IPO fresh off a deal with writers and as its business slowly returns to normal after a real punishing by Covid.

Cut to Endeavor IPO, Part 2: The Reimagining.

Fresh off the WGA’s historic victory over the talent agencies, WGA West president David A. Goodman opened his remarks tonight at the 73rd annual Writers Guild Awards with a good-natured poke at Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Endeavor, the parent company of WME, which was the last to sign the guild’s franchise agreement.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterIn 2019, Ari Emanuel tried to play peacemaker between producer Joel Silver and Silver’s financial backer, Daryl Katz.It did not work, and now Emanuel finds himself dragged into the bitter feud between the ex-partners.Silver, producer of “The Matrix” and “Lethal Weapon,” went into business with Katz, the pharmaceutical billionaire who owns the Edmonton Oilers, in 2015.

What do WME's Ari Emanuel, CAA'sRichard Lovett, Universal's Donna Langley, Netflix's Bela Bajaria and Rideback's Dan Lin have in common? They have all appeared in The Hollywood Reporter's annual Next Generation issue, our definitive list of the year's 35 best and brightest leaders age 35 and under. THR is now accepting online submissions for the 27th edition of the Next Gen list, which is slated to publish Oct.

WME and Endeavor Content are implementing a series of more than 30 actions based on the launch of a new initiative led by Michael B. Jordan and Color of Change, called #ChangeHollywood.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: It has been a hard pandemic year at the agencies, particularly for new employees just trying to gain a foothold. WME and Endeavor Content today outlined relief initiatives for Assistants and Coordinators.

In early 2016, Innocence Project founders Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck received a call from an unusual source: Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, who was reaching out about a possible series. At the time, true-crime docuseries like Making a Murderer were finding a rabid audience on Netflix.

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Endeavor has officially begun rolling out pay cuts as it grapples with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic across the industry. Endeavor heads Ari Emanuel and chairman Patrick Whitesell are forgoing their salaries, with president Mark Shapiro cutting his in half.

Endeavor has laid off roughly 250 staffers across its portfolio of businesses, sources told Variety, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to paralyze Hollywood. Pay cuts are imminent for all remaining employees, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel said in a Wednesday memo.

By Mike Fleming Jr