Sony’s Silvergate Media Hires Joe D’Ambrosia as General Manager, Founder Waheed Alli to Step Down as CEO

Steve Jobs left a legacy that will live on forever, founding one of the most successful and well known companies in the world: Apple. With such big shoes to fill, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that his child wants to do something completely different with her life: modeling.The 23-year-old daughter of the late visionary, Eve Jobs, posted to Instagram on Monday, March 7 to reveal she signed with DNA Models.

New Metric Media, the Canadian production company behind Hulu’s Letterkenny, is staffing up.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterTech-centric holding company Ballantyne Strong has launched Strong Studios to create content under the company’s Strong Entertainment division. David Ozer, formerly CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s Landmark Studio Group, will serve as president of the new studio.Based in New York, Strong Studios will develop and produce original feature films and television series, as well as acquire third party rights to content for global multiplatform distribution.

EXCLUSIVE: LA management and production firm Grandview has brought on Laila Alsabah and Quinn Crum as Talent Managers. The pair were most recently Talent Coordinators at ICM.

EXCLUSIVE: Police officer turned video game writer and technical director Morley Nelson (MIB: Alien Crisis, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct) is currently in production in Minnesota on Uncontained, a horror-thriller that he is directing from his original screenplay.

GBH in Boston said Jonathan Abbott will step down after 15 years as CEO, and more than two decades at the flagship public media group.

Sony Pictures Television has named kids programming vet Joe D’Ambrosia has been named EVP & General Manager of its Silvergate Media subsidiary.

Cynthia Nixon is not backing down when it comes to her support of the HBO Max reboot . The first season of the series has now aired in its entirety, with Nixon's character, Miranda Hobbes, receiving the majority of the online criticism for her decision to divorce her husband, Steve Brady (David Eigenberg), and to start a romance with non-binary comedian Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez). And though she stands by her character's actions, Nixon does have one regret in regard to the series. “If I could do anything differently, I would have made sure we said to people in letters 10 feet tall: This is not Sex and the City.

A cyclist had to grab a knife blade with both hands to avoid being stabbed by an attacker who pounced on him on a Scots bridge.

Are you ready for some football? America is waiting with bated breath: Super Bowl LVI will capture the nation’s attention on Feb. 13, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. (Eastern).

Manchester United fans have pinpointed Luke Shaw as the problem in the build-up to Southampton's equaliser.

A masterplan for a Tameside neighbourhood which could create nearly 2,000 new jobs has been unveiled.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCannes’ Marché du Film, the world’s biggest film market, is set to change leadership in 2023 with its long-time, charismatic executive director Jerome Paillard due to exit after this year’s edition. Guillaume Esmiol has been named co-executive director for this edition and will fully take over in 2023. Esmiol joined the Marché du Film in 2020 to spearhead the development.

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas were invited to the White House by "long-time fan" President Joe Biden on Tuesday (09. 02. 22).

Billie Eilish and Finneas have met with President Joe Biden in The White House.The musician siblings were invited, along with their parents Maggie and Patrick, to meet the US President following their support for Biden during the 2020 US election.Sharing a picture of the president with Eilish and Finneas, Biden’s official POTUS Instagram account wrote: “When I heard my friends @billieeilish and @finneas were in town for a show, I knew I had to invite them over to the White House.“Great to see you and your family — and I’m glad you got to meet Commander [the Biden family’s new dog].”A post shared by President Joe Biden (@potus)White House Assistant Press Secretary Kevin Munoz told Bloomberg that the Biden family “have been long time fans” of Eilish and her brother.Eilish was in Washington D.C. yesterday (February 9) as part of her ‘Happier Than Ever’ world tour, with the singer performing at the Capital One Arena in the US capital.The singer previously performed in support of Biden at the Democratic National Committee’s virtual 2020 convention, where she delivered her first public performance of her song ‘My Future’.

As Billie Eilish, 20, continues her Happier Than Ever world tour, she and her brother Finneas decided to make a brief pit stop at the White House — to visit President Joe Biden of course! The newly Oscar nominated singer and her sibling posed with the 46th president as he shared the moment to social media. “When I heard my friends @billieeilish and @finneas were in town for a show, I knew I had to invite them over to the White House,” he captioned the post. “Great to see you and your family — and I’m glad you got to meet Commander,” he wrote, speaking of the family’s new German Shepard puppy.

Manori Ravindran International EditorSky executive Jane Millichip, a distribution leader and a driving force behind the company’s sustainability drive, is leaving the company after almost 10 years.News of the executive’s departure was revealed to staff in a memo from Sky Studios CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz on Tuesday morning. Millichip, who currently serves as chief content officer for Sky Studios, is leaving the company after nine years.

Utopia has taken U.S. rights to writer-director-producer Lena Dunham’s latest directorial Sharp Stick which made its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. A theatrical release is planned for later this year.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterLongtime ICM Partners agent Jeff Barry has joined Range Media Partners, where he will head up the company’s international TV department.He arrives at the management company — founded by a trove of top representatives who defected from the legacy agencies over the past two years — as a partner. He will be tasked with building out numerous Range verticals including literary and scripted studio divisions.Barry had been with ICM since 2008, where he specialized in helping international writers, directors and actors crossover into Hollywood.