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The Chernin Group along with Mark Cuban, sports greats Kevin Durant, Dwyane Wade, and Deshaun Watson, Bill Simmons and others have invested about $40 million of growth financing in Goldin Auctions, a leading marketplace for collectibles and trading cards. Chernin's investment arm TCG led the round. Investor and Shark T…

The never-ending search for original intellectual properties that can make the next franchises for film and television has led Chernin Entertainment chairman Peter Chernin and president Jenno Topping to make a deal with Spotify's chief content exec Dawn Ostroff. They’ve formed a multi-year partnership to mine…

EXCLUSIVE: And here we thought this was the summer of fear. Turns out, it’s a year away. Sources tell Deadline that Netflix just closed a deal with Disney to acquire a trilogy of interconnected Fear Street films adapted from R.L. Stine’s bestselling book series. Director Leigh Janiak has wrapped all three films, and…

BREAKING: Peter Chernin has staked his Chernin Entertainment banner to a non-exclusive first look feature film producing deal with Netflix. It brings another prolific producer to the streamer-focused company. Chernin Entertainment is coming off the Best Picture nominated James Mangold-directed hit Ford V Ferrari. In…

Peter Chernin’s investment firm The Chernin Group has boosted its investment in interactive entertainment company Scopely, which announced that TPC and media giant Advance have just injected $200 million to help it grow its business. Scopley said that brings its latest round of funding – Series D – to $400 million…

First “Fox” got the ax from Disney’s rebranded assets 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures. Now one of Fox’s most prominent film producers is ending its run, with Deadline confirming Friday that Chernin Entertainment is parting ways with the now Disney-run studio after eight years. Chernin via its deal made…

Peter Chernin has closed a deal for a $700 million-plus fund for a new investment company to be called TCG, marking a departure from The Chernin Group's holding company structure. The news was announced in a letter from founders and principals Chernin, Jesse Jacobs and Mike Kerns. The letter was published Wednesday on…

Hollywood is clearly up in arms over the “fetal heartbeat” bill signed into law last month by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Should the town use the threat of a mass exodus from the film and TV location-friendly state that would decimate Georgia’s thriving production industry, or put Hollywood muscle and money into funding…

Hollywood has been hand-wringing over the recent spate of draconian anti-abortion laws being passed on the state level — most notably in incentives-rich Georgia — and now Peter Chernin is taking the fight to a new level. The veteran producer has sent an email to many of the town’s top brass that asks for donations to…

Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping are the latest industry figures to address their film and TV production in Georgia in the wake of the state’s new “fetal heartbeat” law. The Chernin Entertainment brass said today that they will continue to film their Fear Street movies and the upcoming Starz drama P-Valley in Atlanta…

Media mogul Peter Chernin is planning to raise a new media fund of more than $500 million, opening a new chapter for the digitally savvy executive who has been one of Hollywood’s technology innovators. The tech news site The Information’s report tonight of Chernin raising a fund comes on the heels of a story last week…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Apple has landed the hot TV package See with a straight-to-series order. An epic, world-building drama set in the future, the project is written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and directed by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2)…