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Lionsgate has named longtime media executive, investor and successful SPAC specialist Harry Sloan to its board of directors effective immediately. It said Sloan qualifies as an "independent" director of the company under the New York Stock Exchange listing standards. He has not yet been appointed to serve as a member…

UPDATED with corrected information: Vanna Krantz, former chief financial officer of Disney Streaming Services, will be named to the board of Skillz, the mobile e-sports platform that’s completing its merger with Harry Sloan's Flying Eagle Acquisition Corp. SPAC to become a public company. Krantz, who was also…

Jeff Sagansky and former MGM boss Harry Sloan are launching Flying Eagle Acquisition Corp, the pair’s sixth special-purpose acquisition company. The new entity’s IPO, launching Friday, has been priced at $10 per unit for 60,000,000 units, which each consisting of one share of Class A common stock and one-fourth of one…

Sports betting giant DraftKings will go public as part of a $3.3 billion, three-way merger with SBTech and Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp., a firm founded by Hollywood veterans Harry Sloan and Jeff Sagansky. With legal restrictions around sports wagering beginning to ease across the country, DraftKings has been a…

Harry Sloan, known in Hollywood for, among other things, leading MGM in the 2000s, and former CBS executive Jeff Sagansky, have priced the initial public offering of their fifth public acquisition vehicle. Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp., to be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, will aim to raise $400 million, with…

Industry executives Jeff Sagansky and Harry Sloan have teamed to launch their fourth investment fund Platinum Eagle with a $325 million initial public offering. Sagansky (Sony, CBS, Scripps Networks board member) and Sloan (MGM, SBS Broadcasting and Lionsgate board member) have dubbed Platinum Eagle (Nasdaq: EAGLU) as…

The feathers are flying today at Global Eagle Entertainment, the airline entertainment and internet company founded by former CBS and Sony exec Jeff Sagansky and former MGM chief Harry Sloan. Its share price is down more than 29% in mid-day trading after it announced that CEO Dave Davis and CFO Tom Severson — who took…

They won’t be able to hold extravagant parties at the Playboy Mansion. But longtime entertainment execs Jeff Sagansky and Harry Sloan soon might own what’s left of the Playboy Enterprises empire that Hugh Hefner created. They’re in advanced talks with Rizvi Traverse about a deal that would include Playboy and possibly…

Jeff Sagansky and Harry Sloan are launching yet another special purpose acquisition company and this time are looking for something in the digital space for possible business deals. Dubbed Double Eagle, the company announced an initial public offering priced at $500M. This follows on the heels of what the businessmen…

India's fastest-growing direct-to-home pay-TV provider, Videocon d2h Limited, has completed its initial listing on the NASDAQ through a transaction with Silver Eagle Acquisition Corp, the acquisition vehicle formed by media executives Harry Sloan and Jeff Sagansky. Silver Eagle contributed about $273.3M to Videocon in…

To refresh everyone’s memory: Global Eagle is the airline entertainment and Internet company founded by former CBS and Sony exec Jeff Sagansky and former MGM chief Harry Sloan. They, along with others on the board, just gave the company’s pilot wings to Dave Davis, who was CFO and COO after serving for years as CFO of…

Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney The hedge fund which bought Australia's Nine Network and magazine group from James Packer for $A5.5 billion in 2007 and has since struggled to pay down the debt may have find a lifeline- although it may be forced to take a sizable haircut.  Hollywood mogul Harry Sloa…