Aaron LaBerge, who helped oversee Disney‘s expansion into streaming during two stints totaling 20 years, is exiting the company. On July 1, the exec will become Chief Technology Officer at Penn Entertainment, holding the same title he did at the end of his Disney run. Penn is largely known for …
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Lee Je-Hoon is a 39-year-old South Korean actor who is all set to appear in the new K-drama, Chief Detective 1958. Starting his career through short films, the star has appeared in various popular K-dramas and movies, including Taxi Driver and The Front Line. When Je-Hoon was pursuing a biotechnology …
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The XRP lawsuit between Ripple Labs and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the status of XRP as a security is poised to escalate to the US Supreme Court. This anticipation has been reinforced by a recent ruling in the Coinbase case, which favored the SEC, as presided …
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Michael O’Leary took the stage at CinemaCon for the first time as president-CEO of the National Association of Theater Owners and his message was clear: strained theater circuits need assistance, as they are still dealing with the lingering impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the dramatic slowdown in movies due …
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Vice Television is going through a shuffle at the top, with head exec Morgan Hertzan set to exit next week and Pete Gaffney replacing him on an interim basis. The move was just announced internally by Vice Media Group CEO Bruce Dixon in a memo to employees. (Read it in …
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The Europe’s Margrethe Vestager, one of the world’s most powerful and proactive regulators, has made Europe a first mover in checking big tech for the public good and in the interest of competition. The head of the EU’s Competition Commission has developed key digital privacy laws, rules on hate speech …
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Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, has announced a maximum legal donation of $3,300 to John Deaton, a lawyer and crypto advocate, who is running for the United States Senate. Hoskinson’s support is aimed at Deaton’s campaign against incumbent Senator Elizabeth Warren in the US state Massachusetts. This financial backing …
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EXCLUSIVE: Few people embody the act of balancing legacy media with the digital frontier quite like Bill Owens. As the executive producer of 60 Minutes, he is the caretaker of a broadcast TV franchise well into its sixth decade, one of the few pieces of programming outside of NFL football …
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Days after Paramount’s Bob Marley: One Love overperformed in its opening weekend at the box office, Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman stole a bit of the spotlight Feb. 20 in unveiling not one but four intersecting feature films from Sam Mendes about The Beatles, each focusing on one member of the …
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EXCLUSIVE: Black Boy Writes Media, founded by Writer Mike Gauyo (Insecure, Ginny and Georgia) announces Heather Daughtry as the new chief of programming for The Black Boy Writes & Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative. Also joining the team are three additional mentors; Jackie Penn (4400), Andre Ferguson (Power Book II: …
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Indhu Rubasingham, an acclaimed theater practitioner, has broken the decades-long white male hold on the reins of power at the National Theatre by being appointed its artistic director, it was being revealed Wednesday in London. She succeeds current director and chief executive Rufus Norris, who, by the time he departs …
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“The work that exhibitors have done in this market is nothing short of exceptional,” Luke Vetere, Managing Director of Majid Al Futtaim Distribution, one of the largest theatrical distributors in the MENA region, told a crowd of industry figures this morning at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival. Vetere was among …
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