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Entertainment Oner has finalized Mark Gordon’s exit as president and his transition to a multi-year producing deal with the independent studio. Steve Bertram, eOne's President of Film & Television, will continue to lead the Film & Television business, overseeing day-to-day management of the entire division, working…

Mark Gordon is settling out and will be leaving his position as president of Entertainment One, Deadline has confirmed. It appears to be a case of a bad marriage between the Canadian company and a prolific hit maker who sold his Mark Gordon Co for hundreds of millions of dollars. EOne said: "While we don't comment on…

UTA has hired Mark Gordon as part of its plans to expand its comedy touring department. Gordon’s primary focus will be booking clients in the college space, as well as across other major territories in the US. He will be based in UTA’s Los Angeles office until March 2019 when he permanently relocates to the New York…

"Kneeling is a stunt for me," 47-year-old Nathan Fillion told TV critics at TCA of the rigors of starring in ABC's new cop drama The Rookie. Written by former Castle executive producer/co-showrunner Alexi Hawley, The Rookie stars Fillion as John Nolan, a guy who leaved his comfy small-town life after a divorce and…

Entertainment One has broadened its film operation through acquisition for a second time this year. eOne has acquired the remaining stake in Sierra/Affinity and named its principals, Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg, to film president and exec veep film/global operations, respectively. eOne president/CEO Darren Throop…

EXCLUSIVE: John Woo and Universal Pictures are teaming on a new version of his 1989 Hong King crime classic The Killer. It is intended as a star vehicle for Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o. She is negotiating to play the assassin, a role originated by Chow Yun-fat. The studio has the film on a fast track, with Woo…

Entertainment One/Mark Gordon has closed a deal to develop, produce and finance a TV series adaptation of the popular Street Fighter global video game franchise, with Joey Ansah, Jacqueline Quella and Mark Wooding, the team behind the live-action web series Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, set to executive…

UPDATED 10:34 AM: The Mark Gordon Co. dismissed its petition for a restraining order against a man for alleged threats against staff over the Aaron Hernandez movie project. The judge formalized the Feb. 27 dismissal this morning in a Santa Monica courtroom where the accused Todd Guzze attended, clad in a suit and tie…

Firefly star Nathan Fillion wants his new TV series The Rookie to reach the same "high bar" as Joss Whedon's fan favorite as he embarks on his debut exec producer role. Fillion, who also starred in ABC procedural Castle, tells Deadline that he is "certainly more invested" in the Mark Gordon Company and ABC…

Three years after Entertainment One took a 51% stake in Mark Gordon‘s production company for $133 million, partnering with the prolific producer to create an independent studio, eOne has acquired the remaining 49% of the Mark Gordon Co. for $209 million. Gordon will become eOne’s President and Chief Content Officer…

The Mark Gordon Company, which is behind Aaron Sorkin’s awards-season pic Molly’s Game based on Molly Bloom’s memoir, has just acquired feature film rights to All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderer's Row. The upcoming book, to be published next January by…

Just in time for the holidays, Disney has dropped a teaser trailer for The Nutcracker And The Four Realms, the studio’s live-action retelling of E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 story The Nutcracker And The Mouse King. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom and produced by Mark Gordon, the fairy tale stars Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, M…