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Deadline has confirmed that Hellboy filmmaker Neil Marshall has been dropped by Verve. He signed with the agency last November. The director, who recently made the period horror film The Reckoning with his  fiancé Charlotte Kirk, has been in the crosshairs of a recent scandal involving the actress, and former NBC…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Neil Marshall has provided Deadline with a statement which he made today, refuting and smashing the alleged reports out there that he was involved in attempting to extort NBC Universal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer on behalf of fiancée, Charlotte Kirk, whom the executive had a reported consensual affair…

Leading genre festival Fantasia has pulled a Q&A with director Neil Marshall and actress Charlotte Kirk amid intense media scrutiny concerning their alleged involvement in Ron Meyer’s sudden exit from Universal. The zoom Q&A for the Canadian festival’s opening film The Reckoning was due to take place tonight but the…

Ending a tumultuous Tuesday for NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer, the executive is exiting his role as the chair of the Film Academy Museum’s board, a post he’s held since 2017. Netflix co-CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, the museum’s vice-chair of the board, will step in as acting chair. The next board…

Ron Meyer's departure from Universal amid rumors of scandal has stirred a strong emotional response in Hollywood, perhaps more than any other executive exit within memory. Few had a wider circle of friendships than the 75-year-old ex-agent, some entailing deep trust and loyalty among the top stars and power…

Deadline has confirmed from two sources with knowledge of Ron Meyer’s departure today that the woman who the now-former NBCUniversal vice chairman had a consensual affair with was actress Charlotte Kirk. She was also involved with Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara; that affair leading to his departure from the studio…

UPDATED with more details: The town is absorbing the shocking news about the abrupt exit of NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer because of an admitted extramarital affair, a settlement and a disclosure to higher-ups that an alleged extortion attempt was made. Meyer had always been considered a “mensch,” a former…

As the Academy Museum continues ramping up for its eventual opening, now slated for next year after numerous delays, its leadership is getting added strength from many different areas, both inside and outside of the motion picture industry. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced the addition of six new…

There's a perfectly good reason why Jeffrey Katzenberg refuses to take no for an answer. "I didn't know this about myself growing up as a kid, but I'm dyslexic," says the former DreamWorks CEO. "And when I learned that about myself, it answered a question that I had wondered about a good deal of my life. For most…

EXCLUSIVE: Ending a three decade run at Sony Pictures, Amy Pascal is moving her Pascal Pictures into a first look deal with Universal Pictures. Deal comes at the end of the four-year producing pact Pascal made at Sony in June, 2015, when she stepped down as chairman of the SPE Motion Picture Group after 20 years at…

Lore in my wife’s family says that her mother, a beautiful Jewish immigrant fleeing grief in the Ukraine about a century ago, ran into someone named Carl Laemmle on a ship crossing the Atlantic. As the story goes, Laemmle asked her to check in with his still-young Universal film company, as she might have a future in…

This week's whirl of parties celebrating awards season constitutes "an over-caffeinated exercise in suppressed schadenfreude," an analyst friend confided to me. In coming days scores of runners-up will be called upon to celebrate the triumphs of a tiny group of winners. The reality: Most of us will take greatest…