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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…

Addressing a hot-button issue for Hollywood and other creative industries, Google CEO Sundar Pichai predicted creators will soon be directly compensated for their contributions to artificial intelligence. “I do think people will develop [economic] models around it,” Pichai said Wednesday at the New…

With a big question looming over HBO distribution in the UK, Germany and Italy as Warner Bros. Discovery rolls out Max globally, WBD’s JB Perrette floated a potential new partner in the territories: Amazon. HBO’s longtime distributor, Sky, could well stay in business with WBD, Perrette said during an…

Max subscribers, take note: Warner Bros Discovery has its eye on password sharers. JB Perrette, WBD’s CEO and President of Global Streaming and Games, said Tuesday that the service will begin sending little reminders to its subs next week about lending their login info to outsiders. Speaking at the…

Releases in China of blockbusters Wicked and Gladiator II suggest the potent market’s appetite for Hollywood fare is steadily returning, in the view of Imax CFO Natasha Fernandes. “We continue to see more positive signs,” she said Tuesday at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit, with “even the censorship…

EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s Serial Maven Studios has hired former Keshet International exec Fleur Wheatley for a new UK-based role. Wheatley has been named Principal Sales Executive, UK, Nordics and Benelux at Serial Maven, effective immediately. This reunites her with Serial Maven bosses Solange Attwood and…

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s Goalpost Pictures had laid out a new formation in its management ranks. Founding partners Rosemary Blight and Kylie du Fresne have assumed joint CEO roles, as the company gears up to launch Season 2 of Stan and Sundance Now drama Black Snow. Under the new structure…

Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts just sold $20.4 million worth of stock in the media giant. The circa 469.5 million Class A common shares were divested Tuesday, according to an SEC filing. It’s not a significant part of his holdings, and Deadline hears the sale is for year-end planning…

Megha Tolia, President and COO of Shondaland, is leaving the Netflix-based company after three years as her contract is coming to an end. She will be succeeded by Sandie Bailey and Chris DiIorio who have been named Co-Presidents while also continuing their responsibilities as Chief Innovation and Design…

Warner Bros Discovery has a new content chief in the Nordics — a move that’s likely to see the U.S. giant returning to scripted originals in the region. Former MultiChoice and Viacom exec Allan Sperling has been named Group Vice President, Programming, Networks and Streaming for the Nordic region…

Bob Iger, who is in the home stretch of his two-chapter run as CEO of the Walt Disney Co., is selling $42.7 million in stock. The move, disclosed in an SEC filing on Friday, makes good on a plan detailed by the company earlier this month for Iger to exercise an option to sell…

EXCLUSIVE: Laine Kline, Head of International Production at Amazon MGM Studios, is stepping down from his position at the end of this year, we can reveal. For the past 3½ years, the Los Angeles-based Kline has had management and oversight of the production of all international movies and…