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CNN announced today that it has acquired the assets and hired the development team of Canopy, a Brooklyn and Boston based private firm that will help speed the development of NewsCo, a new upcoming news and information platfom.
Financial terms of the deal were’t disclosed.
CNNs said NewsCo is meant to connect users to…
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham is leaving her role and is joining the East Wing to serve as chief of staff and spokesperson First Lady Melania Trump.
The move comes after Mark Meadows took over duties as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff.
Grisham served just over one year in the role, but never…
Comcast-owned Sky has commissioned Last Week Tonight With John Oliver producer Avalon to make a quick-turnaround coronavirus show hosted by British comedian Russell Howard.
Howard usually fronts Sky One show The Russell Howard Hour and had been on his third world tour before it was interrupted by the COVID-19…
The San Sebastian Festival, one of Europe's most prestigious film events, is pulling out of Films in Progress, the twice-yearly event that was launched in 2002 to back the production of Latin American cinema.
The event has welcomed directors including Pablo Larrain, Ciro Guerra, Sebastian Lelio and Amat Escalante in…
China’s Starlight Media, which has previously backed Hollywood directors including Sylvester Stallone, Robert Zemeckis and James Wan, has formed a multi-year, multi-project joint venture with David Steward II's Lion Forge Animation.
The two companies say they will co-finance and co-produce a slate of original animated…
WarnerMedia parent A&T said Tuesday it's set up a new $5.5 billion loan agreement at competitive rates with 12 banks to provide additional financial flexibility to its “already strong cash position.” The loans are pre-payable without penalty, it said as it seeks to reassure the markets and employees that it’s on solid…
Update 04/07/2020 5:10AM: UK PM Boris Johnson is in a “stable condition” after a night spent in intensive care as he battles coronavirus symptoms, a spokesperson for Number 10 told the BBC.
Johnson is receiving oxygen treatment but is breathing without assistance and remains conscious and in good spirts. He has not…
Here's the debut trailer for Netflix thriller Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth as a black-market mercenary who is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
Sam Hargrave, stunt coordinator on Captain America: Civil War, is directing the movie. Joe Russo, of Marvel fame, wrote the…
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi launched yesterday amid as much fanfare as can be expected during a global pandemic.
The decision to launch amid the headwinds of COVID-19 wasn’t a straightforward one, Katzenberg admitted during an interview for podcast Recode Media yesterday.
When asked whether he and CEO Meg Whitman…
The BBC has announced plans to host a coronavirus telethon on April 23, bringing together its two charity partners, Comic Relief and Children In Need, for the first time.
Produced by BBC Studios, The Big Night In will go live for three hours on BBC One and aims to cheer up the nation by spotlighting stories of…
The Edinburgh TV Festival is the latest casualty of the coronavirus pandemic after organizers announced that the event will move online.
The Edinburgh TV Festival was due to take place on August 26-28, but the physical conference will be “reimagined” as a digital event for the industry, with key sessions taking place…
