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Byron Allen Reaches Settlement With McDonald’s In Lawsuit Claiming Racial Bias In Advertising
Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios and The Weather Group have reached a settlement with McDonald’s in a lawsuit over the fast food giant’s alleged lack of support for Black-owned media companies.
McDonald’s defeated the complaint in 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of…
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HBO Family Among Cable Networks Being Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting down cable networks HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax and OuterMax.
The move, reported earlier this week by Cord Cutters News, was confirmed to Deadline by a person familiar with the decision.
Charter Spectrum systems informed their customers of the…
Tubi And Kickstarter Launch FilmStream Collective, Aiming To Give Indie Films Funding & Distribution Support
Tubi and Kickstarter have launched FilmStream Collective, an initiative designed to help offer indie filmmakers funding and distribution support.
The Fox-owned free streamer and the long-established crowdfunding platform are coming together at a time of seismic change for the specialty film…
Paramount Says Abrupt Dismissal Of Longtime Media Agencies WPP Media And Horizon Was Driven In Part By Push For “Greater Efficiency” – Update
UPDATED with company statement. Paramount Global has confirmed that it has swapped out its media agencies, parting ways with WPP after more than 20 years, in a confirmation of news first reported last week by Deadline.
Publicis is replacing WPP Media (formerly GroupM) as the lead media agency…
Pay-TV Falls To 1987 Levels, But Wall Street Analyst Thinks It Could Be “Finding The Long-Imagined Bottom”
Cord-cutting is continuing to drive significant declines in pay-TV subscribers, but traditional pay-TV operators appear to be showing signs of being able to stop the bleeding.
That’s one of the main takeaways in MoffettNathanson’s quarterly “Cord-Cutting Monitor” report, which the Wall Street…
Free Streaming Service Zone-ify Offers Video Games Via TV Remote In An AVOD First
EXCLUSIVE: After staging a tariff-inspired U.S.-vs.-Canada wrestling event last month, free streaming platform Zone-ify is rolling out a feature enabling viewers to play video games via their TV remote.
The Toronto-based company says it is the first native gaming offering by an AVOD service…
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Major League Baseball Acquires Stake In Jomboy Media, Will Integrate Its Content Across Digital Platforms
Major League Baseball is acquiring a stake in Jomboy Media via a strategic partnership that will see the digital brand’s content circulate throughout the league’s digital ecosystem.
The team-up will see Jomboy have a presence during major MLB tentpole events like the All-Star Game and Home Run…
Paramount Cutting Another 3.5% Of Its Domestic Workforce, Citing Linear TV Declines And Broader Economy
Paramount Global, which last year shed 15% of its U.S. workforce, said Tuesday it will reduce it by another 3.5%.
The cuts will take effect Tuesday, according to a memo from Co-CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins that was obtained by Deadline.
“As we navigate the continued…
Warner Bros. Discovery Breakup Cues Hollywood’s Latest Succession Drama As Two New Companies Take Shape
Monday’s news that Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two companies – one consisting of studios and streaming, the other linear TV networks – has cued up Hollywood’s latest succession drama.
David Zaslav, having steered WBD as CEO since the 2022 close of the $43 billion merger of Discovery…
Decades After Its Joint-Venture Journey Began, Hulu’s Sole Ownership By Disney “Finally Resolved” With $439M Payment To NBCU, Bob Iger Exults
The long and winding road of Hulu, which started in the pre-smartphone era as a streaming joint venture involving NBC and Fox, has concluded with the finalizing of Disney’s buy-out of Comcast.
Disney is paying an extra $438.7 million to Comcast’s NBCUniversal, on top of the $8.6 billion it…
Deadline’s Tony Awards Live Blog
With quite a bit of critical consensus on who and what should win the prizes at the 78th annual Tony Awards at Radio City, Sunday’s show had the potential for being either a get-in-line and hand-out-the-trophies we all expect, or a blow-my-mind-who-could-have-seen-that-coming evening.
The former…
Sarah Snook Doesn’t Know How Cate Blanchett Would Turn “Picture Of Dorian Gray” Into A Film, But Would Love To Help Her Try – Tony Awards
Sarah Snook, who won a Tony Award for Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Play for The Picture of Dorian Gray, is stumped about how it would ever be turned into a film.
That’s the aim of Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Pictures, as Deadline was the first to report in 2024. The vision of the…