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Brent Lang Executive Editor John Wick continues to be the straw that stirs the drink at Lionsgate. The home entertainment debut of the fourth film of the hit man hit man series and the premiere of its streaming spin-off “The Continental” lifted revenues at Lionsgate to just over $1 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimates.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After more than 16 years, Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist news and opinion website, is shutting down. Originally launched in 2007 by Gawker Media, Jezebel — which carried the tagline “Sex. Celebrity.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Deckert Distribution CEO Liselot Verbrugge is to launch a new company as the German sales agency prepares to wind down its operations in 2024, with founder Heino Deckert moving fully to production. Verbrugge is attending IDFA documentary festival this week, where the Sundance awarded film “Against the Tide,” one of the agency’s bestsellers this year, is playing in the Best of Fest section. Amsterdam-based Verbrugge joined Deckert at the start of 2019 as head of sales and acquisition, starting with the roll out of double Academy Award nominated “Honeyland.” She took over the reins of the company as CEO two years ago.

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel expressed hope that “the strike ends in the next couple days,” referring to the SAG-AFTRA impasse still paralyzing Hollywood.

EXCLUSIVE: Three former Automatik execs are launching a new production company.

New Riyadh-based acquisition and distribution company TwentyOne Entertainment has announced its launch at upcoming the Red Sea International Film Festival, which is due to unfold in the port city of in Jeddah from November 30 to December 9.

With its shares in free fall after a dismal third-quarter earnings report, Dish Network executives faced the music with Wall Street, conceding in an earnings call that they face an array of intensifying challenges.

Paramount Global shares fell nearly 9% midway through the trading day after veteran media analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich delivered a harsh verdict on the stock.

A company that claimed to be raising money to fight knife crime has been hit with a hefty fine for illegally collecting money in Manchester.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Leading Saudi advertising and live events company Alamiya has moved into film production by acquiring start up shingle Lyra Pictures, co-founded by experienced media exec Wesam Kattan, who was part of the Viacom team that launched MTV Arabia. Alamiya was founded in 1976 as the first film and TV studio in the kingdom, but was forced to change its business plan in the early 1980s due to the ban on cinema forced by religious conservatives.

Paramount Global beat Wall Street analysts’ estimates in the third quarter, thanks in large part to streaming flagship Paramount+, which added 2.7 million subscribers to hit 63 million globally.

EXCLUSIVE: Film Bridge International is launching sales at AFM on horror Xelter, whose producers include The De Laurentiis Company (Hannibal) and Head Gear Films (Talk To Me).

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Heather Dietrick, CEO of IAC‘s Daily Beast, is leaving the news and opinion website at the end of 2023, Variety has learned. Dietrick has been hired as chief media officer at Outside Interactive, whose 13 editorial brands include Outside Magazine, Backpacker, Ski, Climbing, Yoga Journal, Velo, Pinkbike and Triathlete. She will remain with the Daily Beast through the end of the year as IAC searches for her replacement.

A company running an 'inadequate' care home where less than £5 a day was spent on food for each resident donated £10,000 to the Conservative Party this year, it was revealed tonight. Burrswood Care Home, in Bury, has now been placed into special measures, having been rated as 'inadequate' by the Care Quality Commission after a visit in every area of its inspection.

Thania Garcia Lizzo’s Big Grrrl touring company is coming to the singer’s defense in a new motion to dismiss the lawsuit accusing her and the company of sexual harassment, discrimination and fat-shaming, among other charges. A total of 18 of Lizzo’s employees have written lengthy declarations in dispute of the claims first filed by a trio of former dancers.

Amy Israel, the former Showtime exec, has officially been installed as President of Television at Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company.

They seemed like a legitimate company. But the criminal empire hiding underneath brought misery to thousands across the North West.

Jaden Thompson Joe Hunting, director of the HBO film “We Met In Virtual Reality,” is starting a production company called Painted Clouds, focusing exclusively on virtual reality filmmaking. The company aims to create original films and series using real time VR, including the popular platform VRChat.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran TV lit agent Barry Kotler is leaving CAA after almost 14 years. According to sources, Kotler plans to launch his own company, which will be focused on media finance.

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Ronan Keating and his wife, Storm, have revealed they are in a dispute with a window company.TV producer Storm, who married the Boyzone star in 2015, called out the glazing business as she accused them of "trying to wriggle out of replacing" a sheet of glass that shattered at their home in the middle of the night. Accusing the company of 'appalling behaviour,' the mum-of-two shared a picture of her children, Cooper and Coco Knox, drawing on a huge steamed-up window at their home.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Three major music publishers, Universal, Concord and ABKCO, filed a complaint against the new AI company Anthropic for copyright violations, according to legal documents obtained Wednesday by Variety. The legal issues stem from Anthropic’s series of AI models referred to as Claude, and is the latest move in the music industry’s efforts to stave off what it perceives as a massive copyright threat from AI developers. “Publishers bring this action to address the systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics by the artificial intelligence (“AI”) company Anthropic,” the complaint reads.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Unveiling a raft of international shows at Mipcom, Newen Connect‘s managing director Rodolphe Buet said the distribution arm of the TF1-owned company is seeing its business model go through “drastic changes” as it now plays a more central role in financing content. In the next two years, Buet said roughly 70% of Newen Connect’s revenues will stem from content it pre-finances and/or co-produces, rather than licensing deals.

Suzanne Somers has died at 76 years old.

Three's Company and Step by Step star “passed away peacefully” following a years-long battle with breast cancer—just one day ahead of what would have been her 77th birthday on October 16.“Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years,” Somers’ publicist R. Couri Hay wrote in a statement to .

Suzanne Somers has sadly died.

After nine months of negotiations, Sir Jim Ratcliffe is on the brink of becoming a minority shareholder at Manchester United.

The Giudice girls don’t care what anyone has to say about their latest partnership!

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Schaefer, President of Motion Picture and Television of New Regency Productions, is exiting his post after seven years. We’re hearing this is an amicable decision between both parties and has been in the works for some time, coordinated with New Regency chairman and CEO Yariv Milchan. Schaefer will explore new opportunities as a producer across film and television.

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood vet Gianni Nunnari, producer on movies including the 300 franchise, Immortals, and From Dusk Til Dawn, is teaming with producer Simon Horsman (Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers, Magazine Dreams) to launch Euro Gang Entertainment.

MAMAMOO’s Wheein has shared her first full-length album ‘In The Mood’ and the liberating video for its title track.The singer has previously released solo singles, OST tracks and two EPs – 2021’s ‘Redd’ and 2022’s ‘WHEE’.‘In The Mood’ marks her debut full-length album and contains 11 tracks. Her MAMAMOO bandmate Hwasa appeared on ’17’, while rapper Haon features on ‘Bite Me’. Notably, Wheein wrote the lyrics for the closing track ‘Here I Am’.In the video for the title track, Wheein is at a party but only starts dancing after she’s shut herself in her room and put her song on her headphones.

OK, hopefully, you’ve just read our article on Marvel’s “Daredevil: Born Again,” which is going through a massive creative reboot/rethink/overhaul, etc., because Kevin Feige and the Marvel powers that be have decided the show—which was supposed to be a whopping 18 episodes long—wasn’t working. READ MORE: Marvel’s Plans ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Creative Reboot & Massive Overhaul Of Half-Finished Season One of the biggest takeaways from the original article, however, the bigger picture is Marvel’s ego.

Disney was desperate to find a way to make “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,”the first feature-length animated movie ever made, actually feel like a feature-length movie. He’d been doing his best to ignore the naysayers who christened the very idea of the film as “Disney’s folly.” But they did trigger a nagging concern for the 35-year-old studio chief: Audiences might reject an animated movie if it remained stuck in the realm of the flat, two-dimensional shorts that had propelled Mickey Mouse to worldwide celebrity.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Jellysmack has acquired Law&Crime Network, the legal and true-crime video network and production company headed by Dan Abrams. Terms of the deal were not disclosed; Jellysmack said Law&Crime Network is the company’s largest acquisition to date. Recent deals include Jellysmack’s investment in creator commerce platform Fourthwall; its deal to buy creator-development community Network Media; and its acquisition of AI video editing company Kamua.

Angelique Jackson When Lynnette Ramirez, head of development for Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance’s eponymous production company, logs onto Zoom to discuss the release of “Heist 88,” the company’s first feature, with Variety, her virtual background catches the eye.

The Walt Disney Company has upped studio vet Lylle Breier to EVP, Marketing Partnerships and Special Events. Breier began her career at Walt Disney Studios as an undergraduate intern at Buena Vista Pictures while at UCLA. Most recently, Breier served as SVP, Global Marketing Partnerships, Promotions, Synergy and Special Events.