Steve Mensch, President and Manager of General Operations for Tyler Perry Studios, was killed in a plane crash Friday night. He was 62. According to TMZ, Mensch was the pilot of a single-seat plane that crashed on a road in Homosassa, FL shortly before 7 PM. The Citrus Country Sheriff's Office…

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Louie Provost, Disney’s longtime Executive Vice President of Motion Picture Production, is set to exit his role at end of year, Deadline has learned. Provost has been with Disney since 2007. Sources said that his contract was simply up and not renewed. No next destination was…

EXCLUSIVE: Rideback Rise, the non-profit accelerator seeking to advance racial equity through mainstream entertainment from POC creators, has announced its 2025 Fellowship cohort of 15 mid-career writers, filmmakers and creators who will be financially and creatively supported as they develop market-ready…

UPDATED with closing price. Shares of top movie theater operator AMC Entertainment fell 9% to close at $4.72 on above-normal trading volume after the company revealed a plan to sell up to 50 million shares of stock. In an SEC filing, the company said it would use proceeds from the share sale “to…

Amazon says its internal data points to a 10% uptick in customer engagement with interactive ads on this year’s Black Friday NFL game compared with last year’s debut edition. The inventory was certainly there, with a 30% year-over-year increase in interactive ads. About 40% of the brands with a…

UPDATED, with comment from the company: TikTok will have to divest itself from its Chinese ownership by Jan. 19 or face being unavailable in the United States, after a federal appeals court rejected the social media giant’s efforts to sideline a federal law. Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation…

Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times for nearly 25 years, is retiring at the end of this year. “Time and again, he took on the big fights, grappled with policy deeply and seriously, held the powerful to account and spoke hard truths — sometimes as a lonely voice arguing unfashionable…

The U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in November, as employment bounced back from a lackluster previous month. The unemployment rate was largely unchanged at 4.2%. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the government agency that compiles the figures, also revised upward job gains in the two previous months…

Donald Trump has named David Sacks, podcast host and former COO of Pay Pal, as the new White House “AI and crypto czar.” “In this important role, David will guide policy for the Administration in Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency, two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness…

EXCLUSIVE: Another longtime Los Angeles-based TV production is leaving California. CBS Media Ventures’ syndicated court show Hot Bench, currently in its 11th season, will move to Connecticut next season. The Judith Sheindlin-created program, which is in Year 1 of a two-season pickup, recently…