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A year and a half into its existence, Haim Saban's distribution company Saban Films has brought an indie film veteran on board to head its Business and Legal Affairs department. Coming from his in-house counsel role at Alchemy, David Wardle has taken up the VP Business and Legal Affairs role. "It's an honor to welcome…

UPDATED from 2:23 PM with Univision statement: He said last week that he would go after them in the courts and today the GOP Presidential candidate did just that. Donald Trump slammed Univision Tuesday with an over $500 million lawsuit over the Spanish-language network ending their plans on June 25 to show the July 12…

UPDATE, 7:30 PM: With Israeli food on offer and a backroom for big shots, Hillary Clinton pulled in nearly $2 million tonight in a 2016 presidential campaign fundraiser at Haim Saban’s house in Beverly Hills. That payout is almost the same as the record-breaking haul the former Secretary of State landed last fall in a…

2ND UPDATE: 8:53 AM: Organizers of the May 7 Hillary Clinton fundraiser to be held at Haim and Cheryl Saban’s home are now telling Deadline that Jeffrey Katzenberg is not involved in an official capacity. Deadline was told last night by reliable sources that Katzenberg would be co-hosting the event, but that got some…

EXCLUSIVE: The Power Rangers fan film dispute has been settled. Following an agreement late Friday, the fan video is back on YouTube and Vimeo after a legal chest bumping between lawyers for franchise copyright holder Haim Saban and film fan producer Adi Shankar. Both hosting sites had pulled the video due to…

A 14-minute Power Rangers fan video starring James Van der Beek and Katee Sackhoff that received more than 12 million YouTube views in two days has been yanked off the site after a copyright challenge by owner Saban Brands. The short film's producer is now vowing to put up a legal fight. The Power/Rangers video was…

A legal battle is brewing over the rights of filmmakers to make fan videos based on the copyrighted works of others. Music video director Joseph Kahn, who posted a 14-minute Power Rangers take-off last night that quickly went viral, says he's being "harassed" by Haim Saban, who owns rights to the franchise and is…

Since Univision is privately held, it doesn’t have to disclose much about the terms. But the Spanish language broadcaster says that CEO Randy Falco now will stay at least through January 2018. He joined in 2011 after running AOL, and a 31-year career at NBC. Falco has “successfully guided Univision through a period of…

The 'toon world just got a little bit more crowded. The man who made billions of dollars from the network that brought Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to the United States, and the man who directed or produced three Harry Potter pics have joined with a producer of The Help and a children's programming entrepreneur to…

EXCLUSIVE: Roberto Orci has dropped out of Power Rangers because his Star Trek 3 directing obligation has created a scheduling conflict. He’ll no longer be exec producer of the film. It doesn’t change Lionsgate and Haim Saban’s intention to release Power Rangers worldwide on July 22, 2016. Ashley Miller and Zack…

Lionsgate has set a July 22, 2016, release date for Power Rangers, a reboot of the ’90s-spawned action franchise. The Saban Brands pic, which is ditching the “Mighty Morphin” tag of yore, follows a group of ordinary high school kids who find themselves infused with extraterrestrial powers and must harness those powers…

Power Rangers billionaire Haim Saban today announced the launch of Saban Films, a distribution venture that will acquire 8 to 10 feature films annually for North American distribution. The distro arm of Saban’s media and entertainment private investment firm Saban Capital Group is in discussions with a major-studio…