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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Motion Picture Group has named Michael Viane to the position of Executive Vice President, Worldwide Theatrical Distribution and Operations. The news comes in the wake of Lionsgate Co-President, Worldwide Theatrical Distribution Shaun Barber being named of Head of Domestic Th…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has hired Lionsgate Co-President of Worldwide Theatrical Distribution Shaun Barber as its new Head of Domestic Theatrical Distribution. The news comes in the wake of Josh Goldstine’s arrival to the Melrose Avenue lot as President of Global Marketing and Distribution…

AMC Entertainment has promoted a handful of key executives. Carrie Trotter has been named SVP of Marketing. She segues from Vice President of Loyalty, where she oversaw the key AMC Stubs program, reporting to Dan Ellis, Chief Operations, Development & Marketing Officer. Ellis takes marketing…

Disney has been ‘unnecessarily aggressive and assertive” in carriage talks with YouTube TV, with an “antiquated view” of the economics of pay-TV. That’s the assessment of a YouTube executive involved in the negotiations, who agreed to share perspective from inside the tech giant with Deadline on…

YouTube TV and its parent, Google, want to “eliminate competition” and “devalue the very content that helped them build their service,” top Disney executives charged in a memo to employees Friday. Disney Entertainment co-chairs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman joined with ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro…

Fremantle Changes Polish Boss Julita Brutus is the new Managing Director of Fremantle Poland following the departure of Piotr Radzymiński after nearly 25 years at the helm. Brutus had joined the company a decade ago as Sales & Acquisitions Manager and worked her way up, being promoted to Head of…

Of all the European broadcasters trying to figure out the future for their businesses in the digital and streaming era, few have been on as much of a rollercoaster ride as Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 Media. Battered by the global TV advertising downturn and shareholder squabbles, the company has…

Warner Bros Discovery chief David Zaslav spoke fiercely about the power of storytelling and warned that “when the government controls the news, that is the end of democracy” on Thursday during his speech at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Humanitarian Dinner, where he was being honored for his…

UPDATED with additional layoffs: The cuts at Paramount have also hit the international TV distribution side of the business. Deadline understands that Lisa Kramer, LA-based President, International TV Licensing at Paramount Global Content Distribution will exit. Kramer's division has been…

Like everyone in town, Ken Ziffren knows someone new is going to own Warner Bros Discovery soon, but he won't say who – sort of. "Can’t help but mention the pending acquisition of WBD by a company called Paramount, Paramount Skydance or PSKY," the circumspect grand dean of Tinseltown lawyers…

EXCLUSIVE: The revived Paramount Television Studios is taking shape. Matt Thunell, President of the streaming-focused production unit of the post-merger Paramount Skydance, has assembled his senior executive team. It draws largely from the rosters of Skydance Television and Showtime/MTV Entertainment…

Nexstar Media Group has extended CEO Perry Sook’s contract through March 2029. Sook, who is Nexstar’s third-largest shareholder, founded the company in 1996 and in less than 30 years built it from a single radio station into the No. 1 local TV station owner in the U.S. Among Nexstar’s 40…