The uncertainties swirling around baseball, from the Houston Astros’ widening cheating scandal to significant potential changes to the playoff format, are likely to affect the sport’s TV value in the months ahead as two significant rights deals are set to be negotiated before they expire in 2021.
Prosecutors in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial on Tuesday slammed an op-ed piece written for Newsweek by the ex-mogul’s defense attorney Donna Rotunno, calling the article an attempt at “jury tampering.”
Rotunno’s article, published yesterday, was written as a direct plea to the jury to “do what they know is right”…
Endeavor Content has struck a partnership deal with The Night Manager and Fighting With My Family producer The Ink Factory that includes the content financing arm of Endeavor taking a minority stake in the business.
The deal also includes a development fund for The Ink Factory, which also produced Little Drummer Girl…
Starz said Tuesday that Season 3 of its original series Vida will premiere on April 26 at 9 PM. Six episodes of the East L.A.-set drama will air week-to-week on Starz in the U.S. and Canada and on StarzPlay across Europe and Latin America.
The show created by Tanya Saracho had been renewed for a third season less than…
The next Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday will include Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor who has already spent hundreds of millions on the race.
He met the threshold for qualification with the release of a new poll from NPR and PBS NewsHour showed that Bloomberg received 19% of support.
Bloomberg…
The White House Correspondents’ Association is returning to a lineup of comedians for its annual dinner: Kenan Thompson will host and Hasan Minhaj will be the featured entertainer.
The annual D.C. event, to be held on April 25, also has partnered with Bob Bain Productions, which has produced events such as the Critics'…
The Berlin Film Festival has opted to rebrand its Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for this year following allegations of Nazi collaboration made against its namesake.
German newspaper Die Zeit published a story last month alleging that Bauer held a previously unknown "high-ranking position in the Nazi film bureaucracy.”…
Sony Pictures Television has finalized a deal to take a minority stake in The Whisper Group, a sports production company that makes live coverage of Formula 1 racing for British broadcaster Channel 4.
Sony will effectively replace Channel 4 as Whisper’s minority investor after the broadcaster first backed the company…
EXCLUSIVE: Real estate mogul and indie film distributor Charles S. Cohen, who bought the Landmark Theatre chain 14 months ago, made more waves in the exhibition space late last year when he acquired flagship UK arthouse exhibitor and distributor Curzon.
In one of his first interviews since the acquisition, we spoke…
Rifkin's Festival, the latest movie from Woody Allen, is headed to the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin with producer Mediapro handling rights.
The movie shot in San Sebastián last summer and stars Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López, Wally Shawn and Christoph Waltz.
It tells the story of a…
EXCLUSIVE: London-based Film Constellation has boarded world sales on doc He Dreams Of Giants, the behind-the-scenes look at Terry Gilliam’s passion project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce.
The film heralds from directors Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe and BAFTA-nominated producer…
EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal is coming to EFM with shark attack thriller Something In The Water, which is being produced with Noel Clarke (Bulletproof) and Jason Maza’s (Bulletproof) production company Unstoppable.
The UK project will follow five female friends who come together to celebrate a wedding in a beautiful, remote…
