What a difference a year makes. Last year at the start of CinemaCon, we were questioning the existence of theatrical after a dead first quarter, that had the domestic box office dragging -11% behind 2024 (this is all before A Minecraft Movie turned the entire marketplace around, literally spiking its advance tickets as the industry […] More
Ahead of CinemaCon, Paramount Pictures has picked up all U.S. rights to the Elegance Bratton-directed crime thriller By Any Means, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Mark Wahlberg. The pic will open on September 4, 2026, Labor Day weekend. WME Independent and CAA Media Finance handled the sale of the film, while north.five.six is handling international sales. Set against […] More
Leading proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Service recommended Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders support the company’s sale to Paramount Skydance but to reject CEO David Zaslav’s potential $886 million merger-related golden parachute — calling it “extraordinary,” not in a good way. WBD stockholders will vote April 23 on both the deal and the payment at a […] More
Jeff Shell is unlikely to be directly replaced as president of Paramount, numerous insiders and people who do business with the company tell Deadline. Despite weeks of speculation about Shell’s future amid allegations that he leaked privileged information and possibly violated SEC rules, the news that he was out at Paramount still delivered a jolt […] More
Paramount says its board of directors followed “standard practice” in evaluating the conduct of President Jeff Shell before his exit from the company. In a statement Wednesday, Paramount expressed thanks to Shell for serving as a “valued advisor” to the company. He joined RedBird Capital, a key backer of Skydance, in 2023 before the production […] More
EXCLUSIVE: For the second time in three years, Jeff Shell has been ousted from a top corporate perch. Back in April 2023, the exec lost his job as NBCUniversal CEO amidst allegations of inappropriate conduct with a female CNBC reporter. Today, after weeks of claims about indiscretion and a multimillion-dollar legal back and forth, Shell […] More
Paramount‘s beleaguered stock jumped nearly 11% Tuesday after news of deep-pocketed Middle East backers joining its Warner Bros. Discovery takeover. The shares, which had fallen 20% in 2026 heading into Tuesday’s trading, finished at $10.90 on more than three times their normal trading volume. Several regulatory agencies have approved Paramount’s pending $110 billion deal for […] More
Paramount Skydance seems to be nearing a deal to secure funding from three Gulf nation sovereign wealth funds to back its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a Sunday report in the Wall Street Journal. Per the outlet, the corporation is seeking signed equity commitments of close to $24 billion, for which Saudi […] More
EXCLUSIVE: Nine days before Cinema United looks Paramount executives eye to eye at their Las Vegas confab, CinemaCon, the movie theater lobbyist org’s boss Michael O’Leary has fired off some letters this week. He wrote to the National Association of Attorneys General, the Democratic Attorneys General Association and the Republican Attorneys General Association about the […] More
An investigation into accusations of corporate indiscretion by Jeff Shell will make or break the future of the Paramount executive. As a probe by the law firm Gibson Dunn winds down, discussion are underway on the Melrose lot and elsewhere as to what role, if any, Shell will continue to play at the David Ellison-run […] More
Paramount+ is continuing to march into the reality world. The streamer has ordered Team Moms, exec produced by Kim Kardashian. The series will follow the world of nationally competitive youth baseball through the Legendary Prep Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. The series follows the coaches, founders and a group of families and their respective teen sons […] More
EXCLUSIVE: The mystery from the hit Showtime series Dexter: Resurrection‘s first season has been solved, and the key is Brian Cox (Succession, Nuremberg). The Emmy winner has joined the Season 2 cast in the series regular role of The New York Ripper, a serial killer who terrorized the City years ago. Though no longer active as a […] More
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