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Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner told investors Thursday that the company’s $4 billion acquisition of Peppa Pig owner Entertainment One will only augment a long-cultivated relationship with Paramount Pictures. Goldner has steered the toymaker and licensing giant through a strategic shift toward Hollywood that has yielded…

Hasbro and Entertainment One have made a deal to for the toy giant to acquire the independent studio in an all-cash transaction valued at $4 billion. The combination will blend eOne preschool brands like Peppa Pig and PJ Masks with Hasbro’s TV and film expertise, which has taken a leap over the past decade through…

Entertainment Oner has finalized Mark Gordon’s exit as president and his transition to a multi-year producing deal with the independent studio. Steve Bertram, eOne's President of Film & Television, will continue to lead the Film & Television business, overseeing day-to-day management of the entire division, working…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One (eOne) and British production company Mam Tor Productions are developing a TV adaptation of Helen Monks Takhar's upcoming novel Precious You. The book, which is a generation gap thriller, is being adapted by Monks Takhar herself and her husband Danny Takhar, who is a former Sky drama…

EXCLUSIVE: After almost a decade and a half at NBCUniversal, Doug Liman, Dave Bartis and Gene Klein's Hypnotic is leaving the company for a multi-year, exclusive deal with indie studio Entertainment One. The pact covers scripted and unscripted television and select new media programming. eOne will serve as the studio…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has promoted veteran executive Mark Herwick to EVP, Unscripted Programming. In his new role, Herwick will oversee day-to-day on eOne's growing slate of unscripted television which includes the Growing Up Hip Hop franchise and the recently premiered Ladies' Night. Based in Los Angeles…

In a return to television, Avengers: Endgame‘s Evangeline Lilly is set to star in and executive produce Albedo, an eight-episode mystery drama series from Entertainment One, Rampage helmer Brad Peyton and Bell Media in Canada. Peyton is set to direct and executive produce with Jeff Fierson the straight-to-series…

Entertainment One (eOne) has paid $215M to acquire Audio Network, a British firm that handles music for use in film and TV. The Designated Survivor studio, which owns the rights to the Death Row Records catalogue, has bought 100% of the UK-based firm. The deal was announced by eOne's President and CEO Darren Throop…

Entertainment One (eOne) and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) have inked a multi-year, multi-territory distribution agreement whereby Universal will serve as the home entertainment distributor of eOne's diverse offerings across both transactional physical and digital formats. The news was announced today…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has signed a multi-year first-look deal for scripted and unscripted TV programming with MGMT.Entertainment. Under the pact, eOne will serve as the studio on all projects, in addition to managing the worldwide rights. "I've known MGMT’s David Schiff for 30 plus years and I've always been…

Fresh off his Oscar win for Green Book, Mahershala Ali is diving into the sci-fi world in the upcoming Entertainment One film Sovereign. Details about the plot are being kept under wraps, but it will be directed by Marc Munden (Utopia) and produced by eOne along with 21 Laps Entertainment's Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and D…

Entertainment One has come on board to co-finance comedy Lexi with CBS Films. Sierra/Affinity is launching international sales at the 2019 European Film Market in Berlin. The film stars Adam DeVine, Alexandra Shipp, Ron Funches, Charlyne Yi, Justin Hartley, Wanda Sykes, Michael Peña and Rose Byrne, and has been…