Entertainment
Entertainment Industry Mergers and Deals
Several major deals were announced in the entertainment industry. Alloy Entertainment hired Deanna Harris as VP of Television, while Toluca Pictures extended its deal with Amazon MGM Studios. Fox Entertainment struck a microdrama deal with Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat.
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Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Stark has extended and expanded his relationship with Amazon MGM Studios and its MGM Television division. His production company Toluca Pictures has signed a multi-year extension of its exclusive overall deal with MGM Television. Once again, it will include a first-look deal with Am
2026-10-13 16:30 UTC
Deadline
Fox Entertainment and Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat are getting into business on microdrama. Fox Entertainment Studios will have a first look at feature film and television series projects developed from vertical series released under a trio of Hartbeat brands, while distributor Fox Entertainment Glob
2026-10-13 16:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Alloy Entertainment, the company behind Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries, has hired Deanna Harris as Vice President of Television. Harris joins the company, which is owned by Skydance’s Warner Bros. Television Group, from DiVide Pictures, Milo Ventimiglia’s production company where she
2026-10-13 16:37 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Untitled Entertainment has acquired Emily Gerson Saines’ Brookside Artist Management, the company Gerson Saines founded in 1998 and has run ever since. Brookside, a rare all-women representation firm, will be fully integrated into Untitled, with Gerson Saines joining as a partner in the N
2026-06-16 16:30 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come) and Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks) have inked deals to star in Thud, a supernatural romance from director Mali Elfman (Next Exit), where they’ll respectively play the juicy roles of the Grim Reaper and the Devil. Based on an o
2026-06-16 16:30 UTC
Variety
Alejandro Monteverde, director of the box office breakout “Sound of Freedom,” is set to write and direct a large-scale feature biopic about Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect who transformed Barcelona’s skyline and became one of Spain’s most recognizable cultural figures. The film is being produced
2026-06-16 16:32 UTC