CEO: Last News

Pep Guardiola is 'happy' the hearing for the 115 charges hanging over Manchester City will start soon.

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Blink Twice,” in theaters now. In Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, paradise is not quite what it seems. At the beginning of “Blink Twice,” roommates and cocktail waitresses Frida (Naomi Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat) find themselves working at a party for Slater King, a charming, handsome, vaping billionaire tech CEO played by Channing Tatum. Frida is enchanted by Slater, and, by the end of the night, she gets herself and Jess invited to vacation on his private island.

TNT has greenlighted four-hour miniseries Debriefing the President (working title), about the 2003 interrogation of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, to air in 2025. This marks the cable network’s first original scripted order since the 2022 Warner Bros.-Discovery merger. The news comes two weeks after WBD took a $9.1 billion write-down on its cable assets and a week after the company announced that Kathleen Finch will be retiring as chairman and CEO of U.S. Networks, with Channing Dungey, Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman and CEO, adding the linear networks to her purview.

Household budgets will be squeezed yet further this winter after it was announced energy prices are back on the rise. Regulator Ofgem has today said the price cap for the typical household in England, Scotland and Wales will increase by 10 per cent from October 1.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor In the latest twist in the Paramount Global M&A saga, Skydance Media is alleging the media company breached the terms of their merger agreement by engaging with a rival bid from investors led by billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr. Lawyers for David Ellison’s Skydance sent a letter Thursday to the special committee established by Paramount to evaluate M&A offers, accusing the committee of breaking the terms of their deal by extending the negotiating window to consider Bronfman’s proffer — and threating to withdraw its own $8 billion-plus offer, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Prolific author Neal Stephenson’s digital content platform Lamina1 and “The Lord of the Rings” film franchise VFX company Wētā Workshop are set to collaborate on a “participatory worldbuilding” experience titled “Artefact.” The experience is expected to offer “a new blueprint for IP expansion through immersive experiences that incorporate fan action and input.” Per Lamina1’s description for the project, “Stephenson and the Wētā team will begin engaging a global community of creators and fans on the Lamina1 platform this fall, inviting them to unravel the lore behind a mysterious set of ‘Artefacts’ that will build upon the themes and lore from Stephenson’s critically-acclaimed catalog of work. Next, the superfan will take on the new role of creator, utilizing their discoveries to contribute directly to the expansion of the universe.” “Artefact” will serve as the flagship project in the Lamina1-Wētā partnership and first major multimedia property launching on Lamina1’s blockchain infrastructure and tooling.

Sky Studios CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz has said there is “no scenario” in which its pay-TV customers will not have access to content from Warner Bros. Discovery streamer Max when it launches in the UK.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief China-based video streaming company iQiyi recorded a 5% decrease in revenue in the second quarter and an 80% plunge in net profits. The firm said Thursday that revenues in the April to June period came in at RMB7.45 billion ($1.04 billion at current rates of exchange), down year-on-year and also 6% lower than the first quarter.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Paramount Global‘s board has extended the go-shop window under its Skydance Media deal for 15 days as it engages with an investor group led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., which on Wednesday proffered $6 billion to take control of the media conglomerate — up from $4.3 billion previously. Bronfman and his backers on Wednesday made the higher bid to acquire National Amusements Inc., Paramount’s controlling shareholder, and added a deal sweetener — offering a pool of $1.7 billion to give Paramount nonvoting shareholders a $16/share buyout premium for a portion of their stock, sources confirmed to Variety. The Bronfman-led group originally offered $4.3 billion and had not offered to acquire any of Paramount Global’s nonvoting stock.

As expected, Disney’s board has named director James P. Gorman to chair its Succession Planning Committee as the search for an executive to follow Bob Iger as CEO starts to heat up.

Radiohead albums ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ will serve as the score for upcoming screenings of 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu. Watch the trailer for the engagement below.Silents Synced, an initiative by US independent cinema Blue Starlite, will premiere the cinematic pairing in Los Angeles at the Los Feliz Theatre on September 21st – all before a nationwide release on October 5.

The It Ends With Us movie drama has captured the attention of the internet. Blake Lively and her co-star and director Justin Baldoni, who seem to have gotten into some massive feud on the set of the film, causing pretty much the entire cast to avoid the director amid the press tour and premiere.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Disney‘s board named director James Gorman, executive chairman of Morgan Stanley, as chair of its succession planning committee to identify a CEO replacement to take the reins from Bob Iger. Gorman, who joined the Disney board earlier this year, oversaw the recent succession process at Morgan Stanley, where he had previously served as the firm’s CEO.

Jack Dunn Former 20th Century Fox and Aspect executive Dougal Strachan has been named EVP, managing director at creative marketing agency Think Jam. Strachan will be based in Los Angeles and work directly under CEO Daniel Robey.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Every producer in Hollywood has felt the squeeze over the past year. TV and film buying activity has dropped significantly as the industry resets the bar for content volume and profitability while studios slash, burn and reorganize themselves for a different era.

, a digital platform focused on highlighting Black and Brown women at the intersection of media and fashion. I immediately followed, and I have been a supporter ever since.“I started EveryStylishGirl because I wanted to be a voice for the voiceless," EveryStylishGirl's CEO and Founder, Nana Agyemang, tells me. "I felt like when it comes to Black and Brown women in non-traditional career paths, we're often silenced or not recognized.

It was “a mistake” to tell CNBC in an interview last year that linear TV assets “may not be core” to the company, Disney CEO Bob Iger said in a new podcast interview.

William Earl “Joker” and “Joker: Folie à Deux” cinematographer Lawrence Sher will deliver a keynote address at the SMPTE Media Technology Summit, set to take place in October in Hollywood. Sher has served as the d.p. on more than 35 feature films, and he is the founder and CEO of ShotDeck, a digital image library widely used for research by industry pros.

Lit agent Clare Lundberg came to the defense of the U.S. studios during a debate on the books-to-TV business here in Edinburgh this morning.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle” has received a release date for Xbox with plans to launch on PlayStation 5 next year. Xbox announced out of video game convention gamescom on Tuesday that the Bethesda Game Studios-produced game will drop Dec.

Thania Garcia HarbourView Equity Partners (HarbourView) has purchased the publishing catalog of Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and producer James Fauntleroy. Fauntleroy has collaborated with global artists including Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Drake and Mariah Carey, among many others. Only a select number of Fauntleroy’s credits as a songwriter were purchased, while the complete terms of the transaction were not disclosed.