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Asked during this morning’s AT&T quarterly earnings call about his current view of movie release strategy, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar declared, “The motion picture format absolutely matters.” The entertainment unit posted strong second-quarter numbers, with revenue rising 31%, helping the parent company easily beat Wa…

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, whose position was destabilized last week after Discovery and AT&T announced plans for a merger, says he will remain as CEO for the next 12 months. "My plan and my focus is to remain here in my CEO role at WarnerMedia. I am not thinking right now about post-merger,” he said during a town…

Unshackling itself from years of streaming and premium cable restraints, WarnerMedia offered a comprehensive upfront pitch commingling HBO and Warner Bros with the company’s linear TV networks. From beginning to end, the hour-and-10-minute affair had a much different feel than previous, Turner-centric WarnerMedia…

Whatever the future hold for Jason Kilar, the current WarnerMedia CEO wasn't about to let what is surely his last Upfronts pass him by. Kicking off the pre-recorded virtual hootenanny with Leslie Odam Jr. Issa Rae, sports, CNN and even a talk show team-up of Bill Maher, Elmo and Samantha Bee, Kilar appeared on-camera…

As the news sank in about AT&T winding down its Hollywood foray via a $43 billion merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, one word summed up the film industry’s prevailing reaction. Relief. Not only does the deal end the three-year shadow cast by AT&T, numerous sources told Deadline, but it averts another scenario — a…

Jason Kilar expressed his "pride, passion and affection" for the WarnerMedia staff in a memo Monday and stressed "how important I believe it is in this moment for us to continue to keep our focus and to live up to our potential as a team." As that message was being received, though, a report circulated that he has…

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar said the company’s day-and-date movie release strategy has boosted the fortunes of HBO Max but also helped movie theaters eager for new titles during their emergence from Covid-19. “I’d argue we’ve done more for theaters in 2021 than anyone else in Hollywood, by far,” Kilar declared during…

Influential proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is recommending stockholders vote against AT&T's executive compensation plan at its April 20 annual meeting after the company granted WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar a stock award valued at $48 million. Kilar’s base salary, at $2.5 million, was above that…

WarnerMedia chief Jason Kilar offered some fresh thoughts and a sprinkling of numbers about HBO Max’s progress and outlook, emphasizing the lift it expects to get from adding a cheaper, ad-supported tier. “We have worked hard to earn more of consumers’ precious time, and it’s working,” Kilar said. The service, which…

Jason Kilar, the CEO of WarnerMedia, earned a total of more than $52 million in 2020 according to an SEC proxy filing Thursday by parent AT&T. Kilar’s package was swelled by a large stock award worth over $49.2 million. His base salary was $1.6 million. Kilar joined WarnerMedia in 2020 as the company launched HBO Max…

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar expects the upcoming launch of the cheaper, ad-supported version of streaming service HBO Max to unlock new value and boost subscriptions. “It turns out that most people on this planet are not wealthy,” Kilar said during a virtual appearance at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media & Telecom…

Editors Note: As chairman/CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment in the era of Titanic, X-Men, Independence Day and Braveheart, and producer of the Oscars and Oscar-nominated films like Hacksaw Ridge and Coraline, Bill Mechanic has been part of the fabric of the film industry his whole career. He thought he had seen every…