Film Reporter covering the biz • trey.williams@thewrap.com • Twitter: @trey3williams
Experience:
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Disney CEO Bob Iger Pay Rises 80 Percent to $65.6 Million
Disney is expected to close deal for Fox assets in early 2019
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STX Entertainment Inks Partnership With Alibaba to Produce, Finance More ‘UglyDolls’
The deal includes an animated feature film, TV series, music and merchandise
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Warner Bros Taps Peter Sollett to Direct ‘Minecraft’ Movie
Film is based on the wildly popular global video game
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Imagine Entertainment Launches Kids and Family Division, Stephanie Sperber to Lead
Division will develop and produce animated and live-action feature films, television series and short-form content
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Lionsgate Lays Off About 25 in Restructure, Ends Codeblack Partnership
Studio will consolidate its marketing and distribution units
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Layoffs Hit Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter After Restructuring at Parent Company
Editorial staffs at the two publications were not affected
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Michael Jackson Documentary ‘Leaving Neverland’ Will Air on HBO This Spring
Film follows two men recounting experiences in which they say they were sexually abused by pop singer as boys
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Aretha Franklin Biopic ‘Respect’ at MGM Taps Liesl Tommy to Direct
Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson will star in the film penned by fellow Oscar-winner Callie Khouri
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Why a CBS and Viacom Merger Is Looking Likely in Early 2019
Viacom CEO Bob Bakish would make the most sense to lead the combined company, according to BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield
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DreamWorks Animation Combines Film, TV Operations, Names Margie Cohn as President
Chris deFaria will exit as DreamWorks feature animation president
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Netflix Hires Production Exec Sheroum Kim From STX as Director of Independent Films
She worked on STX films including “The Edge Of Seventeen” and Amy Schumer’s “I Feel Pretty”
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‘Prisoners’ Producer Adam Kolbrenner Launches New Production Company Lit Entertainment Group
Kolbrenner served as executive producer on last year’s Netflix original film “The Christmas Chronicles”
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‘Beautiful Boy’ Cast on How the Actors and Filmmakers Created a Family on Set (Exclusive Video)
“I get a definite sense of commitment to everybody to the story and to the real-life people,” star Steve Carell says of real-life family addiction story
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Awkwafina Nears Deal to Join Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart in ‘Jumanji’ Sequel
Karen Gillan and Jack Black return as well for the sequel to “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
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Warner Bros Wins Rights to $300 Million RatPac-Dune Film Library
The RatPac-Dune library includes minority stakes in popular films such as “Dunkirk,” “Wonder Woman,” “Paddington 2” and “It”
