Ann Sarnoff marked her first day as Warner Bros. CEO with a memo to employees calling for innovation but taking note of significant changes at WarnerMedia and elsewhere. The former Viacom and BBC executive surprised most Hollywood handicappers in winning the job, but her many backers extol her calm and determined…

Marking the fourth and final season of NBC comedy The Good Place, the network and The Paley Center for Media will team for an hourlong special about the series next month. With clips, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, The Paley Center Salutes The Good Place will air Thursday, Sept. 19, 8 p.m. ET/PT, one week…

Top exhibitor AMC Entertainment, following through on previously announced cost-cutting plans, has laid off 35 office staffers and will not fill 15 more positions. In a statement furnished to Deadline, AMC acknowledged the “difficult but necessary organizational changes” at its headquarters in Leawood, KS. The company…

Hasbro and Entertainment One have made a deal to for the toy giant to acquire the independent studio in an all-cash transaction valued at $4 billion. The combination will blend eOne preschool brands like Peppa Pig and PJ Masks with Hasbro’s TV and film expertise, which has taken a leap over the past decade through…

Participant Media said Thursday that it has hired Fox Searchlight executive Anikah McLaren, and she will team with current Participant exec Robert Kessel to be co-heads of the company’s narrative film division. Both will sport the titles EVP Narrative Film at the company, whose pics in this space include Oscar Best…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Dan Trachtenberg has exited Uncharted, the Sony Pictures film adaptation of the massive selling PlayStation game. Tom Holland remains attached to star, and sources said the studio is moving quickly to lock Trachtenberg’s replacement — meetings are underway now — and that a new filmmaker should be…

Aaliyah Williams’ production company Just A Rebel has set its inaugural project. They will adapt Marita Golden’s 2017 critically acclaimed novel The Wide Circumference of Love: A Novel into a television series. The Wide Circumference of Love follows Diane Tate, a respected family court judge in Washington, D.C., who…

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ringer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar is eying a return to primetime. Gellar has reteamed with Ringer creators Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder for dramedy Other People’s Houses, which has been set at Fox for development. Gellar will star and executive produce the project, based on the book…

EXCLUSIVE: Carter MacIntyre (Benched), Adam J. Harrington (Dirty John) and Terrence Terrell (Giants) are set for a recurring roles on the upcoming sixth season of Amazon's Bosch. Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, Bosch stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar…

Slava’s Snowshow, the surreal, international theatrical presentation of clowns in winter that became a two-year Off Broadway hit in 2004 before playing a limited Broadway run four years later, will return to Broadway for a holiday season engagement. The announcement was made today by producers David Carpenter, John…