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EXCLUSIVE: Managers Ari Zudkewich and Jared Ceizler are joining Cavalry Media. The pair arrive at Cavalry after spending six years at Magnolia Entertainment. Originally from New Jersey, Zudkewich started his career as an intern at ICM before joining the management company The Syndicate. Zudkewich then worked at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Cavalry Media has optioned the rights to Morgan Housel's recently published International Bestseller, The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness from Harriman House publishers. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field…

Swimming with Sharks will infest the shortform waters. Quibi has ordered a Lionsgate-produced drama series that will be a contemporary update of the 1994 movie. Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First) will write and produce the series, for which production will begin in February. Tucker Gates (Homeland) will direct Sw…

Refresh for updates The late Robert Evans, one of Hollywood’s most important producers and studio executives of the last half century, who shepherded to the screen such cinematic treasures of the 1960s and ’70 as Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, The Godfather, and The Godfather II, among many others, was remembered today…

EXCLUSIVE: Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger’s Cavalry Media has tapped Marco Polo creator John Fusco to write, executive produce and showrun another drama about a famous explorer, Hispaniola, a historical epic series based on the Hans Koning book Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth. Hispaniola, on which…

EXCLUSIVE: Talk about a shocker, and also a great get for Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger and their Cavalry Media. Matt DelPiano, who has been a top agent at CAA and a 26-year veteran of the talent agency, is becoming a partner at Cavalry Media and launching a full-service management company, Cavalry…

EXCLUSIVE: Cavalry Media has hired former Cross Creek Pictures exec Jason Seagraves as VP Development, the latest to join Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger’s growing media company. The news comes after Universal on Monday acquired life rights to the divers and survivors of this past summer's Thailand soccer team…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired the life rights of the divers and survivors of summer’s Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand when 12 boys aged 11-16 and their coach of the Wild Boar soccer team were trapped 1,000 meters below the surface. Michael De Luca will produce for his eponymous production company…

EXCLUSIVE: Cavalry Media, the production company launched earlier this summer by Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger, has hired Legendary Entertainment creative executive Jennifer Preston Bosari and former WME lit agent Erin Conroy as VPs Development. The moves are among the first at Cavalry, which is ramping up…

Alec Baldwin and Fifty Shades producer Dana Brunetti engaged in a heated Twitter war on Wednesday, after Brunetti stated that the actor's new memoir, Nevertheless, contains lies about a co-star's age while they were filming the 2006 film Mini's First Time. Complete with name-calling, threats and insults, the two…

(Updated with statement from Dana Brunetti) EXCLUSIVE: As Relativity teeters on the brink of returning to bankruptcy again, the studio’s former president Adam Fields today slapped company founder Ryan Kavanaugh with a potential multi-million dollar fraud lawsuit. The jury seeking complaint states that Fields “is but…

Relativity said today that it has appointed Brett Dahl as president of production, less than 24 hours after news broke that Dana Brunetti would be exiting his post as Relativity president. The studio confirmed today via a spokesman what Deadline broke late last night: that Brunetti was segueing to a production deal at…