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EXCLUSIVE: Look out, here comes the Spider-Man. Leading up to its Dec. 14 release, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will receive an extra $115M promotional boost from an array of global brands, making it one of Sony’s largest in the studio’s history, up there with Spider-Man: Homecoming which counted a $140M value. Sp…

EXCLUSIVE: eBay has removed an item for sale that included the Social Security number of former child actor Justin Cooper, best known for his Liar Liar role as the neglected son of the lawyer played by Jim Carrey. The removal came after inquiries from Deadline. The listing was posted by a mystery seller who goes by…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: A week after the attacks at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo left 12 people dead, Al Qaeda's Yemen branch has formally claimed responsibility. A <a…

Bonnie Hammer, chairman of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, has been appointed an independent director on eBay’s Board of Directors. The move, announced on eBay’s blog, comes after Hammer in September joined the board of Barry Diller’s e-commerce power IAC, reteaming her with her former boss at USA Network. Hammer…

Activist investor Daniel Loeb said in an investor letter that he has sold his shares in Sony, months after his push for a partial spinoff of its entertainment units and improvement in its bottom line led to thousands of layoffs at its entertainment, TV and PC units. Despite Sony’s continued challenges after the…

EBay has halted sales of NECA’s Django Unchained dolls depicting characters from Quentin Tarantino‘s slavery movie as prices on the auction website jumped upwards of $2,000 after complaints from civil rights groups led The Weinstein Company to stop production on the action figures, which were also pulled from retailer…

EXCLUSIVE: After Jeff Skoll made his fortune turning eBay into a juggernaut, he turned to Hollywood as the first financier/producer not looking to make more money and rub elbows with the stars. Skoll formed Participant Media — and hired former Hard Rock Cafe CEO Jim Berk to run it — as part of his mandate to use his…

The Stop Online Piracy Act was wounded by a tweet on Thursday. “Need to find a better solution” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Twitter in response to a question about her position on the bill that would empower the federal government to block overseas sites that traffic in pirated content. Pelosi’s…

UPDATED: The House Judiciary Committee has wrapped up its hearing about the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would enable the government to block overseas websites that traffic in copyright-infringing content. Movie studios support the measure and tech companies oppose it. Representatives from the MPAA, U.S. Library of…