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UPDATED with closing price. Shares in Charter Communications dropped 16.5% Friday after the company reported disappointing fourth-quarter earnings and a surprising loss of broadband subscribers. Charter said it lost 61,000 internet customers in the quarter ending December 31, compared with Wall…

EXCLUSIVE: Echo Lake Entertainment has promoted longtime lit managers Amy Schiffman and Adam Riback to partners in the company’s management division. The pair joins current partners Zadoc Angell, Dave Brown, Iris Grossman, Peter McGrath and Amotz Zakai. Schiffman joined Echo Lake in 2018, after…

China's Wanda Film has appointed actress-turned-film executive Chen Xi as board director and chair.  According to local reports, Chen (who also goes by Yedda Zhixi Chen) additionally will serve as the legal representative of Shenzhen-listed Wanda Film, which is the country's largest cinema operator…

The Walt Disney Co. has come out in defense of its “highly qualified board and clear strategy” for growth and share price gains as activist investment firm Trian Capital issued its latest attacks on the company. The company also disclosed the date of its annual shareholder meeting, which could see…

With Apple and Amazon Studios embracing theatrical distribution to enhance their content on streaming, is Netflix far behind? Despite the streamer dipping its toes in the water with a $15 million-grossing limited release of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery during Thanksgiving 2022, and a hot title…

News of Byron Allen’s $30 billion offer (including debt) for Paramount Global has restarted Hollywood’s most active parlor game: Whither Paramount and assets like its 112-year-old film studio and iconic Melrose lot? Paramount is taking Allen’s bid seriously enough, as Deadline understands it, to form…

Google execs are actively considering an international expansion of pay-TV service YouTube TV, Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. “It is something we are closely looking at,” Schindler said. “There’s nothing specific I have to add at this…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Emmer has joined the indie production company Riverside Entertainment, based out of L.A. and Nashville, as Development Executive, with Amanda Abicalaffe elevating to Director of Development. Based in Los Angeles, Emmer will now oversee all aspects of development across Riverside’s…

WWE is continuing to deal with fallout from sexual-abuse allegations facing its former longtime chief Vince McMahon, with shares in parent TKO Group Holdings slipping Monday as investors weigh the potential downside. Shares in TKO fell 4.4% today on nearly twice their normal trading volume, closing…

EXCLUSIVE: The boss of U.S. marketing giant Trailer Park Group is stepping down after two stints running the company over the past 16 years. Rick Eiserman is exiting and will be replaced temporarily by former Activision Blizzard Chief Marketing Officer David Messinger, who has been elected Chairman…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Boat Rocker Media exec Nancy Eagle has joined Byron Allen's Allen Media Group as Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs, with a focus on scripted content and production deals. In her role, Eagle will be charged with business and legal affairs related to the development…

Rob Mills touched on a variety of issues related to the unscripted world and late-night in a wide-ranging interview that went everywhere from Howard Stern to AI Bachelors. Mills, EVP, Unscripted & Alternative Entertainment at Walt Disney Television, also talked about the future of the Live in Front of…