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Back as an in-person gathering in the Canadian Rockies after a pandemic induced absence of two years, the Banff World Media Festival is bringing in some heavy hitters this summer. Netflix's head of Global TV Bela Bajaria and Participant CEO David Linde have been set as Summit Series keynote speakers at the June 12-15…

Tonight at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Black Widow‘s Scarlett Johansson became the 35th recipient of the American Cinematheque Award. Among those in attendance to pay tribute to the two-time Oscar nominee was Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, who praised her for her “talent,” “vision”, intelligence and savvy, both…

Later today, the first Tuesday in August, the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will meet to install newly elected governors and reorganize its officers, pretty much as usual. As usual, the governors will almost certainly elect casting director David Rubin, the Academy's current president, to…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant has boarded Abacus, the drama that Justin Lin will direct based on a script by Kenneth Lin (Star Trek: Discovery, House of Cards) and James Schamus (Indignation, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Participant joins as financier, and producer alongside Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment. Lin is…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant and Bron Creative have come on board as co-financiers with Warner Bros Pictures and Macro on the recently completed and untitled drama that tells the powerful story of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and William O'Neal, the undercover FBI informant who helped bring him down…

Participant said Thursday that is has extended David Linde's contract as chief executive officer, inking a multi-year deal. Linde joined the company in 2015 and has overseen a film slate that has won 10 Oscars including Best Pictures Green Book and Spotlight while realigning its core content around social impact…

EXCLUSIVE: After finishing a year in which it backed awards bait films Roma, Green Book, RBG and America To Me, and starting 2019 with American Factory and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind premiering here at Sundance, Participant Media has elevated three of its key executives. Christina Kounelias has been elevated to…

Jeff Skoll-owned Participant Media has named Jonathan King as President of Narrative Film & Television, and Diane Weyermann as President of Documentary Film & Television. Both have been with Participant for over a decade and will take on newly established roles in key divisions of the company’s expanded content…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its new Board of Governors today, and 10 of them are first-timers including Oscar winner and The View mainstay Whoopi Goldberg in the Actors branch and Participant Media CEO David Linde in the Executives branch. Here is the list of newcomers and incumbents…

UPDATE, 8:45 AM: In a keynote speech at Mipcom this evening, Participant Media CEO David Linde said that the company is creating a scripted series with the team from Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight. Without divulging many details, he said the untitled series will look at journalists breaking important stories…

Digging deeper into the do-good business, Jeff Skoll's Participant Media, a socially conscious entertainment company, is buying Rainn Wilson's SoulPancake, a similarly oriented digital enterprise known for uplifting web fare like the online series The Science Of Happiness, the companies said Thursday. "They're…

Participant Media has named the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ chief marketing officer Christina Kounelias as it new EVP Worldwide Marketing and Communications. It’s a newly created position and the latest move there since the arrival of new CEO David Linde. She will report to him and begins the new gig…