Ryan Spoon has left his post as Senior Vice President of Social & Digital Content at ESPN to take the COO position at BetMGM, a sports betting joint venture between MGM Resorts International and GVC Holdings
At ESPN, Spoon had also headed up Digital Product and Design, helping build, operate and grow many of the…
EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Boyd, Netflix’s former director of kids and family series, has launched her own production company and partnered with The Cartel, the production, finance and management outfit behind AMC's Creepshow.
Boyd has established Field Day Entertainment and will work with The Cartel — where she will also serve…
One in five industry women who responded to the Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission's survey on sexual harassment said they'd been sexually assaulted at work over the course of their careers. And 1 in 20 said that they were sexually assaulted on the job in just the 12 months prior to taking the groundbreaking survey…
German chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to unveil increased lockdown measures as the country struggles to contain its rapidly growing COVID-19 numbers, and the nation’s cinema owners are fearful of what this could mean for their businesses.
Countries across Europe are racing to contain growing infection rates and…
Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick have found their young man.
Jaden Michael will portray the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback as a teenager in the limited series Colin in Black & White. The past NFL star and social justice activist will executive produce the six-episode Netflix project with Emmy-nominated When Th…
Sesame Workshop Tuesday named chief operating officer Steven Youngwood as its next CEO, effective Jan. 1. Current chief executive Jeff Dunn will take on the new position of Executive Chairman, Sesame Workshop.
The nonprofit educational and media organization that produces Sesame Street and other shows said the move…
Johnny Depp will head to Poland next month to pick up a special acting award at the 28th edition of the Camerimage festival.
The event, running November 14-21 in the city of Torun, will close with a screening of Andrew Levitas' Depp-starring drama Minamata, which features the actor as celebrated photographer W. Eugene…
Emma Thompson is set to star in comedy feature Good Luck To You, Leo Grande from filmmaker Sophie Hyde (Animals).
The film will follow Nancy Stokes (Thompson), a 55 year-old widow “who is yearning for some adventure, some human connection, and some sex. Good sex. For the first time in her life. Whilst her husband…
American Gods, old and new, are coming back to life in the new year, at least on the small screen. It's timely too, because "the struggles of the gods and the people in Season 3 of American Gods are the struggles of America," according to author Neil Gaiman.
The series starring Ricky Whittle and Ian McShane, based on…
EXCLUSIVE:Studio71, a Red Arrow Studios company, has teamed with Snarled Entertainment (Something Scary) on The Shadow Diaries, its first serialized scripted podcast, starring Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale) and Kara Hayward (Moonrise Kingdom).
Directed by K. Asher Levin and co-written by Levin and Zack Imbrogno, the…
A federal judge has rejected a Justice Department effort to intervene in a defamation lawsuit brought against Donald Trump, concluding that the president’s actions at issue were outside of his official duties.
Writer E. Jean Carroll wrote in a book excerpt in 2019 that Trump raped her during an encounter at a New York…
Netflix is looking to build an Assassin’s Creed TV universe. The streamer has entered into a content agreement with Ubisoft to develop live-action, animated, and anime series based on the international best-selling video game franchise.
The first series in development is as an epic, genre-bending live-action…
