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Wrapbook, a financial services startup whose tools are used for production payroll, has released a new mobile app on the heels of raising $100 million in Series B funding. Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo and Michael Ovitz are among the backers of the company. According to data provided to Deadline, the company’s workforce…

Endeavor Group Holdings is close to a deal to sell a majority interest in its content unit to South Korea media company CJ ENM, according to people familiar with the pending transaction. The CJ investment is said to be in the $900 million to $1 billion range. CJ, which gained a wider profile in Hollywood by backing…

TPG Real Estate Partners has acquired the studio campuses of Cinespace Studios in Chicago and Toronto — combined the second largest independent sound stage platform in North America — as the buying, selling and building of sound stages continues at a fast clip. It's the firm's second major deal in the space in as many…

The Gotham Film & Media Institute, formerly IFP, has slated the Gotham Week Project Market for September 19 to 24 in a virtual format. The annual event, held for 43 years under different names, will this year feature 135 fiction and non-fiction features, series and audio projects. Each is looking to move a little more…

UPDATED with latest: The cascade continued Tuesday afternoon as Los Angles Public Health officials announced that they would update the county’s Covid-19 guidance to follow the new, looser CDC strictures released Tuesday morning. California officials also signaled the state would comply. From the Public Health…

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Rosenthal, who joined Paramount Pictures in 1994 and went on to head physical production for more than a decade, has set his exit from the studio. A person familiar with the situation told Deadline that Rosenthal has just notified his colleagues that he will depart this month, capping a 27-year run…

UPDATED with latest: Sources have confirmed to Deadline that the explosion at a Santa Clarita commercial park late Tuesday afternoon involved commercial pyrotechnics. There were 3 people reported rushed to the hospital yesterday. Deadline has confirmed that a fourth person was also injured. All are expected to make a…

An unprecedented surge in coronavirus infections and deaths in Los Angeles County has prompted numerous TV shows to delay their return to production following the holiday hiatus. The studios are responding to an appeal by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which urged the film and TV industry to…

In light of an unprecedented rapid rise in COVID-19 cases across California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a limited stay-at-home order. The order requires "generally that non-essential work, movement and gatherings stop between 10 PM and 5 AM in counties in the purple tier." That means basically every…

As New York City television and film production is assessing the implication of new restrictions around recent clusters of COVID-19 hotspots, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) issued guidance related to what Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls the state’s New Cluster Action Initiative. “Our city is at a crucial…

Fox Corp.’s non-production employees will continue to work remotely at least through year end as COVID-19 cases spike and the company explores more flexible longer-term arrangments, said CEO Lachlan Murdoch. “The rising rates of positive cases in areas where we have a significant presence coupled with evolving…

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish said most employees won’t be returning to offices this year as the company rethinks its plans amid a COVID-19 resurgence and focuses on restarting production, which he called “critical.” Production, he said in a memo to staff on Wednesday, “generally has to be done in person and is the…