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EXCLUSIVE: Mars Media's Ruben Dishdishyan and Amedia Production's Len Blavatnik, two of the most significant figures in the Russian biz, have entered into a five-year agreement to co-produce and co-finance feature films. The deal is a formalization of an existing partnership that to date has seen the companies team on…

Anger is building following reports of a breakaway European Super League, featuring around 16 top soccer clubs. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are reportedly part of the group. As are La Liga’s Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid and Serie A’s AC Milan, Inter Milan…

Kevin Mayer, who spearheaded Disney’s pivot to direct-to-consumer streaming and briefly served as TikTok’s CEO, has joined billionaire Len Blavatnik’s investment company Access Industries as a senior media adviser. Blavatnik has stakes in Warner Music Group, which recently had a successful IPO, as well as sports…

Comcast’s Sky Deutschland has lost the rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League in Germany for the first time in 20 years after being outbid by streaming service DAZN. Sky confirmed on Thursday morning that it had missed out on access to the European soccer competition, meaning it will no longer show matches once…

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is under fire from a Democratic congresswoman who raised conflict of interest allegations in his sale of his stake in the RatPac-Dune Entertainment company, which held minority interests in such movies as Wonder Woman, Gravity, Batman v Superman, The Lego Movie and Creed. Rep. Jackie…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has just swooped in and exercised its right to match the winning bid. It has bought the RatPac Dune Library that consists of 15-25% of 76 big ticket films that the studio co-financed with the help of RatPac Dune through its slate deal, sources confirm. Deadline revealed late last year that Vine A…

EXCLUSIVE: A quiet tug of war is taking place right now over the RatPac Dune library, a package of 76 films that includes minority ownership stakes in Gravity, Wonder Woman, Batman V Superman, The LEGO Movie, Creed, Annabelle, Godzilla, American Sniper, Mad Max: Fury Road, It and Dunkirk. The whole library is being…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the engaging first English-language trailer for Russian WWII action movie T-34, which is produced by billionaire film financier Len Blavatnik, exec producer on Hacksaw Ridge, Silence and I, Tonya. The $10M project, directed by Alexey Sidorov (Boys S Tenu), charts the true story of a group of Russian…

Len Blavatnik's Access Entertainment has bought one of London's oldest theaters. The billionaire's company, which is run by former BBC television chief Danny Cohen, has acquired the Theatre Royal Haymarket to boost both "much-loved" and "emerging" talent. It was previously owned by Louis I Michaels and Enid Chanelle…

BBC Worldwide is teaming with Len Blavatnik's Access Entertainment and Lookout Point to launch Benchmark Television, a new indie commissioning entity that will be able to greelight scripted TV series without backing from a network or platform. The partners said the new venture will be able to offer top writing and…

Len Blavatnik's AI Film has come aboard to fully-finance Craig Gillespie's upcoming Tonya Harding comedy I, Tonya. Margot Robbie is in negotiations to star as the American figure skater as well as produce the title with Bryan Unkeless for Clubhouse Pictures. Tom Ackerley for LuckyChap Entertainment and Steven Rogers…

Former BBC Director of Television Danny Cohen is back in business. The exec has been set as president of Access Entertainment, a newly formed division of Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries. The company, which says it’s prepared to invest several hundred million dollars in an initial phase, will focus those investments…