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Jill Goldsmith
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Jill joined Deadline in June 2019 after working as a New York-based contributor. She follows corporate finance, deals and publicly traded companies in media and entertainment, film financing, and New York film and TV production. She was previously contributing editor at Current covering public media, and has worked at Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Dow Jones. She’s reported from New York and Europe and her stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Slate, Reuters and The Art Newspaper.
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News Corp. Defends Murdoch Family’s Super Voting Stock As It Nears Showdown With Activist Investor – Update
UPDATING with News Corp. reaction: News Corp. acknowledged receipt of a letter by shareholder Starboard Value taking issue with so-called super voting stock that allows the Murdoch family to control the company. Starboard wants a vote at the annual meeting to merge the two classes of stock.
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‘¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!’ Rocks Alamo Denver & ‘The Greatest Of All Time’ Latest Indian Breakout – Specialty Box Office
Documentary ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! with Trey Parker and Matt Stone cleaned up on one screen only in Denver and Tamil-language revenge thriller The Greatest Of All Time is the latest Indian film to pop at the North American box office with over $2 million on 530 screens for the three-day weekend and a cume…
Matt Stone & Trey Parker’s ‘¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!’ Leads Doc Heavy Weekend, Tubi’s ‘The Thicket’, Thriller ‘Red Rooms’ – Specialty Preview
Docs are prominent among specialty releases this weekend with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker renovating a massive Mexican restaurant and creative takes on psychics, oysters, Abraham Lincoln and Casablanca bread riots. The Thicket starring Peter Dinklage marks Tubi Films' first…
Warner Bros. Discovery Launches Global Division For Experiences, Theme Parks, Studio Tours, More
Warner Bros. Discovery announced a new global structure for the company's worldwide studio tours, retail destinations, touring exhibitions, and all location-based experiences, bringing together the existing licensed entertainment and owned and operated teams into a single worldwide division called Warner…
Comcast CFO Weighs In On A Great Paris Olympics – “Big Moment For Company” And “Not Without Risk”
Comcast is still crunching numbers on the Summer Olympics in Paris but Chief Financial Officer Jason Armstrong said today "it was a big moment for the company" and "quite frankly, it was one that was not without risk.”
"We’ve had three Olympics in a row that, between time zone and pandemic, had…
Verizon Acquiring Rival Frontier Communications In $20 Billion Cash Deal
Verizon Communications is acquiring Frontier Communications, the largest pure-play fiber internet provider in the U.S., in an in all-cash transaction valued at $20 billion.
The deal shakes up the high-speed landscape by significantly expanding Verizon’s fiber footprint and accelerating its delivery…
AMC Networks & Charter Renew Distribution Deal, Includes AMC+ Streamer
AMC Networks and Charter Communications have agreed to an early renewal of their distribution agreement for AMC Networks' portfolio of linear cable networks for "multiple years to come," the companies said. The deal continues Charter's strategy of including programmer streaming apps in the cable bundle…
Alexa Had Different Responses To Key Query On Kamala Harris And Donald Trump; Amazon Cites Error “Quickly Fixed”
Ask Amazon's Alexa why you should vote for one of the nation's two candidates for president — Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris — and its response for both is a standard, "I cannot provide content that promotes a specific party or a specific candidate." Earlier, however, it was a different…
Cult Zombie Comedy ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ Infectious In 20th Anniversary Re-Release – Specialty Box Office
Edgar Wright's cult classic horror-comedy Shaun of the Dead grossed an estimated $600k for the 3-day weekend and $720k for the four days in Focus Features re-release for the comic zombie-fest's 20th anniversary.
That's a bloody nice showing as fans turned out for the cult film starring Simon Pegg and…
Elon Musk’s X Suspended In Brazil; Internet Service Providers & App Stores Have 5 Days To Remove It
Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes Friday ordered Elon Musk's X suspended in Brazil after the billionaire owner of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter refused to name a legal representative in the country.
Musk in a post on X called him “an evil dictator.”
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Space Thriller ‘Slingshot’, Little League Drama ‘You Gotta Believe’, Docs ‘Merchant Ivory’, ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Topline Indie Weekend – Specialty Preview
A pair of moderate releases with a handful of docs and titles in limited release topline an end-of-summer specialty market. Labor Day weekend can be slow and indie openings are up against few new wide releases (Afraid, Reagan) and holdovers from Deadpool & Wolverine to Inside Out 2. Meanwhile, the Venice…
Content Partners Expands With New Credit Investing Division Led By Banking Veteran Alphonse Lordo
Content Partners, the big independent owner of studio films, TV and related participations has launched Content Partners Capital, a new division headed by entertainment investment banker Alphonse Lordo to offer private capital for entertainment businesses and IP assets.
CPC is targeting IP-heavy…
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