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Jill Goldsmith
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Jill joined Deadline in June 2019 after working as a New York-based contributor. She follows corporate finance, deals and publicly traded companies in media and entertainment, film financing, and New York film and TV production. She was previously contributing editor at Current covering public media, and has worked at Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Dow Jones. She’s reported from New York and Europe and her stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Slate, Reuters and The Art Newspaper.
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Not Interested: Netflix Denies Pursuing Lionsgate As M&A Heats Up, Again
Shares of Lionsgate surged 14% Tuesday on merger chatter, then fell after-hours as Netflix shot down speculation that it was eyeing the standalone studio.
"Netflix is not interested and is not pursuing Lionsgate," a spokesperson for the giant streamer said bluntly.
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Content Partners Secures Fresh Capital From Carlyle To Grow Film, TV Investments
Carlyle Global Credit unveiled the successful closing of a new fund for Content Partners, raising fresh capital for the LA-based firm’s film and TV investments.
Existing investors in two previous funds, as well as new investors, have the option to participate in the so-called single-asset…
Jane Fonda Attacks Paramount-WBD Merger At Protest Event – “I Have A Personal Stake In CNN, I Don’t Want To See It Go That Way”
Jane Fonda, who was married to the late CNN founder Ted Turner, urged the audience at a live event in New York City to "sign a petition to tell your state attorneys general to block the Paramount Warner Brothers merger. This is a direct attack on free speech, freedom of expression."
"You’re…
‘The Furious’, ‘Stop! That! Train!’, ‘The Amazing Digital Circus’ Round Out Top 10; Classic Cold War Noir ‘The Third Man’ Rerelease – Specialty Box Office
Lionsgate’s martial arts action film The Furious and RuPaul-starring Stop! That! Train! debuted to nos. 8 and 9 at the domestic box office with the The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act from Fathom rounding out the top ten in week 2.
The Furious from Lionsgate kicked up $2.75 million on 1,251…
Bruce Springsteen Honored At Tribeca Festival, Rocks Out With Bono, Patti Smith In ‘People Have The Power’
Bruce Springsteen brought a taste of his Land of Hopes And Dreams Tour to downtown Manhattan Saturday, hitting the Tribeca Festival to accept the Harry Belafonte Voices For Social Justice Award that he dedicated to "all the citizens of Minneapolis and Los Angeles and Portland who stood against the…
RuPaul In ‘Stop! That! Train!’, BTS, Maria Bakalova & ‘Amores Perros’ 4K Restoration – Specialty Preview
RuPaul is back on the big screen joined by a handful of limited indie openings from Cannes-premiering Promised Sky to award-winning documentary The Gas Station Attendant and O Horizon starring Maria Bakalova.
The weekend is sprinkled with limited release restorations including Alejandro González…
Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire Amid SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk saw his net worth surge as SpaceX hit the public market Friday.
The biggest public offering ever was priced at $135 a share. The shares opened at $150 and jumped some more when they started trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol SPCX.
The stock is up 18% nearing the close at…
David Zaslav 2025 Pay Rejected By WBD Shareholders In Non-Binding Vote
Stockholders expressed deep dissatisfaction with the 2025 compensation package of Warner Bros. Discovery's chief executive David Zaslav in a non-binding vote at the company's annual meeting this week.
In an SEC filing Friday, the company said 84.3% of votes cast in the yearly say-on-pay tally…
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Tribeca Festival 2026 Winners: ‘Cotton Fever’, ‘Labrador – Autopsy Of Silence’, ‘Jail Time Records’ Take Top Awards
Cotton Fever by Daniel Blake Schwartz, Labrador – Autopsy of Silence by Rodrigue Jean, and Dione Roach and Steve Happi's Jail Time Records won the top prizes for U.S. Narrative Feature, International Narrative feature, and documentary, respectively, at Tribeca Festival.
Cotton Fever also took…
Paramount Sells U.S. Movie Theaters To Kinepolis In $30 Million Deal
Belgian-based Kinepolis, a top European theater operator, agreed to acquire 13 Showcase Cinemas in the U.S. from Harbor Lights Entertainment (formerly National Amusements Inc.) in a deal worth $30 million.
National Amusements was the start of the Redstone family media empire, launched by Sumner…
CAA Partners On New Holding For Creator Economy Businesses Amid Boom
CAA and Integrated Media Company, a division of private equity firm TPG, have joined forces to launch a new group called Compound Creative Holdings to acquire, operate and grow a portfolio of businesses in the creator economy space.
CAA and IMC, general partners and sole investors, are launching…
Paramount-WBD Merger Cleared By Australia
Paramount said to today that competition authorities in Australia and New Zealand, as well as Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Serbia and North Macedonia have approved its pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
Foreign direct investment authorities in Germany, Slovenia, Belgium, Czechia, New Zealand…
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