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Deadline Hollywood's 2nd annual event THE CONTENDERS about the movie awards season was held November 10th at LA's Landmark Theatre for invited Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Guild voters. Watch the video of its marquee event: The 'Deadline Moguls Panel' composed of Warner Bros' Jeff Robinov, 20th…

2ND UPDATE: Lee Rich, the powerful TV mogul responsible for some of the medium’s most popular programming like The Waltons, Dallas, and Eight Is Enough, died on Thursday. He was 93, according to Warner Bros. (Even though the birthdate on his official biography would make him only 85). Recognized inside and outside the…

BREAKING… SHOCKER! RICH ROSS OUT AT DISNEY “It was a very difficult decision. Very. But his team lost faith in him. The town, as you know, never wanted him to succeed. And it was just the wrong fit,” a Disney insider tells me, explaining Walt Disney President/CEO Bob Iger’s decision announced today to fire Disney Studi…

Related: Why Rich Ross Was Fired At Disney: But Does This Say More About Bob Iger's Leadership? BREAKING… Below is what fired Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross just sent to his staff, followed by a statement from Disney Chairman Bob Iger. But make no mistake about it: Ross did not simply decide to step down – he…

This mean-mail from Arnon Milchan to his New Regency staff was all over the Twentieth Century Fox lot 2 weeks ago. (I received it, thought it was ridiculous, and can’t believe others are touting it — so here it is…) Fox film execs at the time explained it to me thusly: “When things tend to slow down at his company…

EXCLUSIVE: Internet sites on their SOPA-Strike may be conducting a blackout but Hollywood studios are conducting a boycott. I’ve learned that Hollywood studio chiefs individually and as a group are drawing a line in the sand on the piracy issue with the Obama re-election campaign and refusing to give any more…

EXCLUSIVE: There won’t be any formal announcement but I’ve learned that Brad Grey re-upped as Chairman/CEO of Paramount Pictures Corp a few weeks ago. It coincides with Paramount placing No. 1 in market share among the Hollywood studios and perhaps even keeping that crown for 2011. Right now the studio is about $100…

It’s sad enough that Sharon Waxman’s failing entertainment & media website can’t get any traction. But her desperation knows no bounds. A group of six Hollywood moguls are furious that she took their names without their knowledge or permission, put them on a bogus “Advisory Board” for her website’s undersubscribed…