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More change is afoot for the board of directors of Warner Bros. Discovery, as Li Haslett Chen has announced her plan to resign her board seat on January 31. A brief SEC filing Monday revealed the move by Chen, who is founder and CEO of tech platform Howl. She had been one of the original board…

Salutes and remembrances have continued for Charles Dolan, a media pioneer who founded HBO and Cablevision, after his death on Saturday. Dolan, the patriarch of a billionaire media family with considerable holdings in the greater New York area, died at age 98 of natural causes. During his…

EXCLUSIVE: This is one of those “end of an era” executive departures. Andrew Singer is leaving Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video after more than 21 years. He most recently has served as President of Film & Television and Head of West Coast Operations, overseeing the company’s staff, development slate, and…

Richard Parsons, who presided over Time Warner as CEO from 2002-2007 as the media conglomerate was recovering from the epic fail of the AOL merger and who later became interim chairman of CBS to right its ship following the resignation of Leslie Moonves, died Thursday in Manhattan after a long illness. He…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran creative executive Kevin Plunkett has joined Wolf Entertainment as EVP Development. Reporting to the company’s COO Peter Jankowski, he will oversee scripted development, working closely with the executive teams at Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, where the company is based…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is hatching big plans to match its international originals with major brands after handing new roles to Ludovic Attal and Ned Mitchell. Prime Video’s Head of International Originals James Farrell outlined the move in a note to staff seen by Deadline, with Attal taking on…

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Saunders and his Footprint Features have brought on Kyle Fong as the company’s Director of Development. Fong joins from Blue Marble Pictures, where he served as Director, Content Development & Strategy, working on the Peabody Award-winning Apple TV+ drama series Pachinko, based on…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime executive Nate Moore will depart Marvel Studios and transition to producing [outside of Marvel] in early 2025. “Nate is a fantastic executive and colleague as well as a wonderful friend to all of us here at Marvel Studios,” Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige and Louis D’Esposito said…

Hugh Marks has been named as Managing Director of the ABC in Australia. The seasoned executive has been unanimously appointed to the role by the ABC board following an “extensive and international search.” This also makes him Editor-in-Chief, ultimately responsible for the broadcaster’s…

Earlier this year, Ted Sarandos backed a winner in new Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, and now the Netflix co-CEO is heading to Florida to make friends in even higher places. One day after Donald Trump bragged in a Mar-a-Lago press conference that “everybody wants to be my…

EXCLUSIVE: The Network has brought on veteran producer Hilary Shor as Head of Production at the streaming platform. Shor, who has worked on numerous acclaimed films, including most recently Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance and The United States vs. Billie Holiday, with “her deep relationships with…

EXCLUSIVE: AI film and animation studio Asteria has added filmmaker Paul Trillo as a strategic partner. In the post, he will lead Asteria’s artist-focused approach to incorporating AI into the creative process. Asteria owns documentary outfit XTR and FAST channel Documentary+. It recently…