Exec Shuffle For 11/14/14: Hasbro Creates Chief Content Officer Position, DHX...
Company Launches NYC-based The Door Marketing Group recently opened a Los Angeles office, bringing on Food & Wine publicist Erika Gable as senior vice president. The new branch’s clients include...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 11/21/14: Disney Animation Execs Andrew & Jim Morris Upped,...
Company Launches Comedy writer/director/producer John Hamburg (Meet The Parents) is launching Particular Pictures. The company will develop TV and film projects, and has signed a two-year overall deal...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 12/5/14: Jasmine Madatian to DreamWorks, Kevan Turen to...
Studios, Networks, Conglomerates Universal Pictures has tapped Michael Wise as SVP and Chief Technology Officer. Wise will oversee tech strategies and operations for the studio, working with SVP-CIO...
View ArticleExec Shuffle For 12/12/14: IM Global Ventures into Music, Fox 21, WB,...
COMPANY LAUNCHES IM Global Music: IM Global’s founder and CEO, Stuart Ford announced that leading independent feature-film and television financing, production and sales studio IM Global, a subsidiary...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 12/19/2014: Endemol Shine Group Launched, Campbell McInnes...
Company Launches 21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management have merged Endemol, Shine Group and CORE Media. The newly created joint venture will at first operate under the name Endemol Shine Group,...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 12/9/15: Mark Gordon Splits With ABC Studios, Charles King Forms...
Company Launches TV software services company SeaChange International bought Timeline Labs for $22 million in cash and shares, with an additional $2.5 million in possible additional stock payouts based...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 12/16/15: Shana Eddy-Grouf to Studiocanal, Jocelyn Diaz named...
Company Launches Discover Communications founder John Hendricks, who retired in May, will launch a new project called CuriosityStream. It sounds like an online platform for nature and science lovers....
View ArticleExec Shuffle For 1/23/15: FremantleMedia Launches BuzzrTV, Andie Beckerman...
Company Launches Independent music marketing, talent management, and music publishing house Primary Wave has merged its talent division with Intellectual Artists Management to form a new multiplatform...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 1/30/15: Thinkfactory Media Launches Incufactory, Kristine...
Company Launches Literary managers Britton Rizzio, Noah Rosen and Greg Shephard have left Circle of Confusion to create their own management and production firm, Writ Large. The production company...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 2/6/15: Amy Pascal Steps Down at Sony, Thomas O. Staggs New COO...
Studios, Networks, Conglomerates Sony Pictures confirmed that longtime studio chief Amy Pascal will be stepping down from her post. Pascal, who has been at Sony since 1988, will launch a major new...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 2/13/15: UTA Launches Fine Arts Division, Bold Films Expands...
Company Launches Omnia Media has launched GlamboothTV, a new division that’s focused on women’s lifestyle content. The company has hired Carmen Wong as head of partnerships and strategy for...
View ArticleExec Shuffle For 2/20/15: Neil Marshall Launches Applebox Ent, Paradigm...
Company Launches Producers Jonathan Roberts and Adam Trahan have teamed to form new talent management company Silver Fox Entertainment (SFE). Roberts will serve as CEO while Trahan will serve as...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 2/27/15: New Hires at Sony, Gail Berman’s Jackal Group, Endemol...
Company Launches Eros International has set up an in-house production company. Called Trinity Pictures, the unit will invest in and develop the company’s own intellectual property, with a focus on...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 3/6/15: Republic Records & IM Global’s New Film Venture, Johnny...
Company Launches Republic Records and IM Global launched a multiple picture co-financing and co-production deal for music-driven feature films. The first movie will be comedy Rollin’ Thunder, directed...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 3/13/15: Jim Burke’s Deal Finalized at Focus, Michael Rothstein...
Company Launches John Ferriter is exiting Octagon Entertainment to start a management and production company called The Alternative. Ferriter’s clients include Piers Morgan, Nancy O’Dell and Drew...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 3/20/15: Marc Evans Named President of Paramount, New VP at...
Company Launches British TV execs Pat Younge, Narinder Minhas, and Lucy Pilkington have launched the media company Sugar Films. The new venture will “create programming for young, mainstream and...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 3/27/15: Amy Beecroft To Run Verve Ventures, Adam Keen To Broad...
Company Launches Literary agency Verve has launched Verve Ventures, an internal global business development arm. International sales veteran Amy Beecroft will run the new venture. Beecroft comes from...
View ArticleExec Shuffle 4/3/15: The CAA-UTA Shakeup, De Luca Leaving Sony, Anne Sweeney...
Company Launches Former National Geographic Channels president Howard T. Owens is heading back to independent TV production by launching Propagate Content, a company that will create, develop, produce...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 4/10/15: The CAA/UTA Shake-Up, IM360 to Produce VR Content &...
Company Launches STX Entertainment, co-founded by Robert Simonds and TPG Capital is slated to distribute as many as 15 movies a year beginning in 2016 and signed a new deal with Universal Pictures Home...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 4/17/15: AfterShock Comics Launched, Rachel O’Connor to Head...
Company Launches & Partnerships Gulfstream Pictures is launching Gulfstream TV as part of a two-year overall deal with Warner Bros. TV to develop and produce TV projects for network, cable and...
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