Lionsgate Studios — the TV studio, motion picture group and film and television libraries — will merge with Screaming Eagle Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company led by CEO Eli Baker, in a long-anticipated move to split from Starz that’s expected to close this spring. Lionsgate Studios will then …
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This is something we don’t see often — repeats of a current broadcast series airing concurrently on another broadcast network in primetime. In a deal with Lionsgate, the CW has acquired the five existing seasons of ABC’s comedy series The Conners. Back-to-back reruns of the Roseanne spinoff will air Thursdays …
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The collaboration not only supports traditional fundraising methods but also aligns with the changing digital ecosystem, challenges with governance, and the evolving nature of fundraising in the non-profit sector. Just in time for the giving season, Crypto.com, a Singapore-based digital assets trading platform, that recently secured regulatory approval in the …
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Hollywood’s long strike season is over and the town can finally get back to work without the specter of any more labor action, for now. Actors were on strike for 118 days, but after ratifying the deal between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP, with a very healthy 78.33% of the votes, …
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Many predicted that Binance would never embrace regulation — it would only pretend to comply in jurisdictions like the United States. No more. Binance pleading guilty to money laundering and other federal charges on Nov. 21 means it’s giving up its free-booting ways. It will also pay a $4.3 billion …
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Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. If you’ve been on TikTok in the past year, there’s a good chance you’ve seen the Ninja Creami. It seems like everyone from celebrity chefs, to influencers, to people like Us are giving …
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Matthew Modine voted against SAG-AFTRA’s tentative agreement with the studios once, and he’s damn sure going to vote against it again. “Consent, in the context of this agreement, is tyranny,” says the National Board member in a lengthy pre-Thanksgiving statement decrying the deal, especially its AI provisions. “It is submission.” …
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EXCLUSIVE: The shape of Blue Ant Media‘s combined studios and rights business is coming together. Following the Canada’s Drag Race producer’s acquisition of Canadian compatriot MarbleMedia in August, the as-yet-unnamed production and distribution business has set out its leadership teams under Co-Presidents Mark Bishop and Matthew Hornburg, we can reveal. …
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Officials with the United States Department of Justice announced that Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao will plead guilty to one felony charge as part of a settlement over criminal and civil cases with the exchange. “In a Nov. 21 press conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that CZ entered his plea in person …
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EXCLUSIVE: , the podcast company behind series such as To Live and Die in LA and Up and Vanished, and Campside Media, the company behind the Chameleon podcast franchise, have closed a multi-show deal and announced their first slate. Their first two series, Radical and Cop City, are focused on stories from Atlanta, GA, and intersect …
Read More »Pop star Shakira agreed to a deal with Spanish authorities on the first day of a tax fraud trial in Barcelona on Monday, avoiding the risk of a prison sentence. Shakira told the presiding magistrate, José Manuel del Amo, that she accepted the agreement reached with prosecutors. She answered “yes” …
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Fran Drescher may have injected some Buddhism into SAG-AFTRA’s online meeting today on the new tentative agreement with the studios, but there was almost nothing monastic about the guild president’s opinion of critics of the November 8th deal. “I just want you to know that nobody was thrown under …
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