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Jill Goldsmith
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Jill joined Deadline in June 2019 after working as a New York-based contributor. She follows corporate finance, deals and publicly traded companies in media and entertainment, film financing, and New York film and TV production. She was previously contributing editor at Current covering public media, and has worked at Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Dow Jones. She’s reported from New York and Europe and her stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Slate, Reuters and The Art Newspaper.
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‘Nosferatu’s Bloody Good Weekend, ‘A Complete Unknown’ Sings – Specialty Box Office
Robert Eggers Nosferatu from Focus Features sank its teeth into the Christmas box office. With James Mangold's A Complete Unknown – Searchlight Pictures' top-grossing film since it was acquired by Disney in 2019 – they ushered in a heady post-Covid moment for indie films at no. 3 and 5 at the domestic box…
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‘Santosh’, ‘2073’ & Comedy Slasher ‘Bloody Axe Wound’ Test Last Weekend Of 2024; Flow’ Passes $2 Million – Specialty Preview
Cannes premiering Santosh from Metrograph Pictures joins Neon's 2073 in limited release with comedy horror Bloody Axe Wound from RLJ Entertainment/Shudder on several hundred screens for the last weekend of the year. Some of the highest profile films from Searchlight Pictures' A Complete Unknown to Focus…
Richard Parsons Dies: Versatile Media Executive And Former Time Warner Chief Was 76
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…
Media Spin Cycle: M&A Outlook For 2025
The media industry closes out 2024 in a landscape very different than a year ago and perhaps looking up as the biggest players begin to manage the confounding decline of linear television. Paramount Global’s sale to Skydance Media, followed by Comcast’s spin-off of its cable networks into a new company…
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‘The Brutalist’ Builds On Awards Buzz With Strong Limited Opening Buoyed By Letterboxd – Specialty Box Office
Brandy Corbet's The Brutalist from A24 hammered its way into theaters this weekend with one of the best limited openings of 2024 (no. 3 after Anora and Kinds of Kindness). It sold out nearly 30 showtimes in New York and Los Angeles for a gross of $266.8k on four screens for a per screen opening of…
‘The Brutalist’, ‘The Room Next Door’ & ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’ Jump Into Pre-Christmas Indie Frame – Specialty Preview
Fewer new openings but important ones for the indie world as the year soon to close welcomes the trio of Brady Corbet's much-nominated The Brutalist with Adrien Brody, Pedro Almodovar's first English outing The Room Next Door starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and a new rendition of revenge…
Top Motion Picture Lobbyist Patrick Kilcur Joins Ballard Partners
Top motion picture lobbyist Patrick Kilcur has joined Ballard Partners, a leading national public affairs firm with close GOP ties, as a partner in Washington, D.C.
Kilcur was most recently Executive Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs at the Motion Picture Association.
“Patrick is a…
New California Coalition To Advocate For Production As Projects Migrate Out Of State
The California Production Coalition, a group of 33 film, television and streaming production businesses and associations, has just launched with the stated mission of bucking up the state's “outdated and underfunded” production tax credit program that's been steadily losing business to rivals.
Tax…
Media Stocks, Markets Plunge On Interest Rate Jitters, Dow Drops 1,100 Points
Stocks were decimated Wednesday with the three major indexes ending broadly lower after the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated it won't cut rates as aggressively next year as markets had expected.
The Fed cut rates today by 25 basis points at its regular meeting, following a 25 basis-point cut in…
Cineverse New AI Tool Aims To Help Indie Content Owners Cash In On AI Training, With ‘Guardrails’
Cineverse, the tech-forward indie studio behind the Terrifier franchise, has launched Matchpoint Reel Visuals AI, a new artificial intelligence rights management service to connect content owners interested in non-exclusive revenue sharing to feed AI training models.
The service aims to help owners…
David Zaslav Latest Media CEO To Unload Shares At Year End, Sells $30 Million-Worth Of Stock For Tax, Estate Planning
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav just sold about $30 million worth of stock, or some 2.6 million shares, in connection with "year-end income tax and gift/estate planning purposes."
He unloaded the shares starting Dec. 16 for an average price of $11.73, according to an SEC filing. Zaslav’s…
Ozy Media Founder Carlos Watson Sentenced To Hefty Prison Term For Defrauding Investors
UPDATED with sentence: Carlos Watson, the founder and former CEO of Ozy Media, was sentenced to 116 months, or nearly ten years, in prison for conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in an unusual case that briefly captivated the media world…
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