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UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM STX CHAIRMAN-CEO ROBERT SIMONDS: Oren Aviv is leaving STX. The news comes in the wake of STX’s first animated feature UglyDolls, which cost $100M in combined production cost and P&A. It was one of the films under Aviv’s watch at the studio. The former 20th Century Fox marketing vet was one…

Cathy Schulman, who has overseen Mandalay Entertainment’s production slate for eight years, has exited her post and will be named as the top production exec at upstart studio STX Entertainment, effective immediately. She is expected to oversee production of the 12 to 15 films planned for the STX slate as well as its…

Jack Pan, for the past six years the EVP Marketing at Summit Entertainment, has been hired at Robert Simonds' film and TV studio as President of Motion Picture Marketing. The hire was announced just now by Oren Aviv, the movie studio’s recently tapped President and Chief Content Officer. The move reunites the pair…

UPDATED, 11:15 AM: The mini studio making big moves today confirmed that former Fox and Disney exec Oren Aviv will serve as President and Chief Content Officer, which we told you about first last month. Aviv will oversee motion picture development, production, and marketing at the new film and TV studio, reporting…

EXCLUSIVE: New movie studio STX is quickly ramping up its operations. Rich Sullivan, who has long served in finance under Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks Animation, is expected to join STX as chief financial officer, Deadline has learned. Sullivan, who had been with DreamWorks since 2005, is said to be in advanced…

Catch up with the top film stories you missed this week: OSCARS: Why Michael Fassbender's Refusal To Campaign Likely Won't Matter By Pete Hammond – Campaign or no campaign, in Fassbender's case it may not matter. He's very likely going to get nominated — and could win — for Best Supporting Actor and I think that's a…

UPDATE: Both trades have picked up Deadline’s exclusive on the probable exit of Tony Sella. While they have pronounced it as definitive, I am sticking to my original report that sparked theirs. The final decision won’t happen until Monday, when Sella is likely to be a former employee of 20th Century Fox. At the…

BREAKING: 20th Century Fox Film has restructured its marketing operations into a worldwide unit, promoting Paul Hanneman and Tomas Jegeus to co-Presidents of Worldwide Theatrical Marketing & Distribution. Under the new structure, both the domestic and international marketing and distribution teams will report to…

Related: Fox Ups Paul Hanneman, Tomas Jegeus To Run Global Marketing & Distribution EXCLUSIVE: There’s yet another shake-up inside a major Hollywood studio. I’ve learned that Thursday will be the last day for Chief Marketing Officer Oren Aviv at Twentieth Century Fox even though his contract had another 18 months to…

BREAKING… Former Warner Bros and CBS Films executive Debbie Miller will join Twentieth Century Fox on April 23rd as EVP of marketing. The announcement was made today by Fox chief creative officer Tony Sella and chief marketing officer Oren Aviv, to whom Miller will report. Miller previously worked with Sella at Fox as…

Bumble Ward Buzzing Into Fox RP Post LOS ANGELES (August 29, 2011) — Bumble Ward has been named Executive Vice President of Publicity in Twentieth Century Fox's Domestic Theatrical Marketing Department, it was announced today by Oren Aviv, the studio's President of Domestic Theatrical Marketing and Chief Marketing…

LOS ANGELES (August 4, 2011) __ Twentieth Century Fox (TCF) has named former Sony Pictures marketing executive Zachary Eller as Senior Vice President, Partnership Marketing and Promotions, it was announced today by Chief Marketing Officer, Oren Aviv, and Chief Creative Officer, Tony Sella, to whom Eller will…