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Elevate Entertainment Group has announced several changes to its leadership team. Effective immediately, Steve Zuehlke joins as the new Chief Operating Officer, while Louis Maldonado steps into the position of Vice President of Food & Beverage and Jeff Mann transitions to the company's first Vice…

Gardner Reed, whose recent credits include Netflix's King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, has been promoted at Wheelhouse Entertainment. He is now SVP, Development. Reed has worked for Wheelhouse founder Brent Montgomery for over ten years at various companies including Sirens Media, Leftfield…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix drama exec Roberto Stopello has exited his Mexico City-based role with the company, but will continue to collaborate with the streamer on scripted fare, Deadline has learned. Stopello was VP of Series in Latin America at Netflix. He has now left and Deadline understands he plans to…

Marie Donoghue, the VP of global sports video at Amazon's Prime Video, is leaving the company. Donoghue informed her staff on Thursday with a farewell email. Prime Video just concluded its second season as the home of the NFL's Thursday Night Football package. Donoghue reported to Jay Marine…

Veteran entertainment exec Peter Liguori has taken the reins of ad tech firm VideoAmp as executive chairman amid the layoffs of 20% of its workforce in a restructuring. Liguori, who had already been serving as a board member at VideoAmp, was previously CEO of Tribune Media and also held senior exec…

EXCLUSIVE: Straight to Cards, the production company set up 18 months ago by Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel, has upped Justin McGriff. McGriff, who was a creative executive at the company, which has an overall deal with Universal Television, has been promoted to Vice…

Jeremy Helfand, who spent the past five years as a streaming executive at Disney and Hulu, has joined Amazon to lead Prime Video Advertising. Starting later this year, scripted film and TV titles on Prime will feature ads, making the subscription platform the latest player to accept brand messages on…

“By 2022, many people in management were aware of Gonzales's egregious conduct and what he did to Plaintiff,” alleges a sexual assault suit filed yesterday by a current Disney employee against the Mouse House, its ex-VP Distribution Nolan Gonzales and various former Fox assets. “Plaintiff overheard a…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks has kicked off the new year with a slew of scripted promotions. The company has upped seven executives across its scripted programming group, which is responsible for shows including The Walking Dead universe, the Anne Rice Immortal universe and Dark Winds. Ben Haigh and…

Veteran producer Dylan Massin (The West Wing) has been named EVP of Production for Sony Pictures Television Studios. Massin, who reports to SPTS President Katherine Pope, assumes the Head of Production role from Ed Lammi, who retired in December after a 36-year career at the studio. Massin will oversee…

James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley and soon to be a member of Disney’s board of directors, is not fazed by the possibility of the media giant going through a proxy fight. During a lengthy sit-down with CNBC, the exec acknowledged that a battle is brewing with activist investor Nelson Peltz, whose…

Old habits die hard. So Warner Bros. Discovery's CEO David Zaslav just sat down with Paramount Global chief executive Bob Bakish to talk about merging, and the media business yet again confronted the possibility of a spasm of mega-deals reshaping the landscape. Happy…