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Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier will give a keynote speech at Mipcom in October, as the event prepares to welcome back several U.S. and UK studios following pandemic-triggered absences. The event, which has been quietly rebranded as Mipcom Cannes in recent weeks, runs from October 17-20 at the Palais des…

Like the time-traveler hero in NBC’s new drama Quantum Leap, we were transported to two different times with the two presentations on the first day of the upfronts. NBC took us back to pre-Covid 2019, pulling out all the stops with an elaborate production at Radio City Music Hall, including an energetic, elaborately…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment has acquired MarVista Entertainment, the prolific independent studio which produces and distributes original movies for traditional and streaming networks worldwide. No one would comment but sources pegged the value of the deal at over $100 million. The acquisition, spearheaded by Fox…

Fox has given a formal series order to an animated comedy from Emmy-winning creator Dan Harmon (Rick & Morty, Community) and Fox-owned animation studio Bento Box Entertainment, to premiere in 2022. Set in mythical ancient Greece, the series, which is currently casting, centers on a flawed family of humans, gods and…

On March 16, the 2020 IHeartRadio Music Awards were postponed just two weeks before they were set to air on Fox from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Like virtually all large venues, the Shrine was closed for all events to help slow the spread of the coronavirus by eliminating big crowds. After the decision to…

The Walking Dead trial over potentially millions in unpaid profits has seen executive producers and heavyweight Hollywood lawyers take the stand the past week, but today the storm over who is owed what by whom went straight into the eye of the hurricane. Long referenced in the nearly three-year-old suit filed by EPs Ro…

For a trial probing potentially millions in profits denied Robert Kirkman and other executive producers of The Walking Dead, some real star power showed up Friday on this battlefield of the zombie apocalypse blockbuster series. "The representation to me was we would be treated the same as if it was made by Lionsgate…

In an era of diminishing backend amidst the proliferation of streaming, Fox Entertainment, a rare company built solely around a linear broadcast network, is looking to use the advantages of the traditional broadcast model to attract high-level talent without an affiliated studio. “I really want to share what we think…

With the end of Fox’s series Empire, a hit show with African American audiences, network CEO Charlie Collier was asked about future plans to greenlight shows that speak to underrepresented audiences. “It's remarkable when you look at Fox and go back to the early days of In Living Color, as you know what is going to be…

Empire may be launching its sixth and final season this fall, but Fox's CEO says the hip-hop saga may not truly be over. "We're in the Lee Daniels and Danny Strong business — if there is more story to tell we want to hear it," Charlie Collier told TCA this morning on the possibility of spinoffs from the Empire…

In his TCA executive session Wednesday, Fox entertainment chief Charlie Collier stressed that the newly constituted, slimmed-down Fox Corp. enjoys competitive advantages in a landscape of consolidation. “We’re building something different at Fox,” he said during opening remarks in the session. The company’s central…

Fox executives amplified their recent pitch about the new iteration of the company being a “stand-up” with its own “Day One” opening up new business opportunities during a 90-minute upfront presentation at New York’s Beacon Theatre. Charlie Collier, the longtime former AMC exec who took the helm of Fox’s entertainment…