Donald Trump could have done a lot worse than inviting Ben Affleck to his AI lunch with tech CEOs this week at the White House. Unlike the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and more, the Oscar winner and InterPositive founder isn’t playing defense or doom and gloom when it comes to the quickly…

An annoying thing happened to David Ellison and Paramount today on the way to taking over Warner Bros Discovery — he got sued for $1.5 billion over a beef a self-declared confidant of Jeff Shell’s has with the Paramount president. As exclusively reported by Deadline on March 16, the wide…

The temperature is rising in the Warner Bros Discovery chase, with key figures at Netflix and Paramount ridiculing the other companies’ merger proposals. Netflix, running what might be termed Operation Reassure Wall Street, has recently made Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters available to…

If the BBC thought it had placated Donald Trump and threats of a billion dollar lawsuit with an apology over its misleading documentary edit, POTUS made it clear tonight, that’s not happening Despite getting the atonement he requested from the UK public broadcaster over a spliced clip that ran…

Paramount CEO David Ellison offered a mantra Thursday that applies to many of its businesses, but especially streaming: “We’re not going to be afraid of technology; we’re going to embrace it.” He and other top execs emphasized the company’s tech-forward stance throughout a press conference held…

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and RedBird Capital Gerry Cardinale’s independent artist-led studio, Artists Equity, has signed an overall three-year theatrical feature film agreement with Sony Pictures. The deal calls for Sony handling the global release of Artists Equity productions. The Culver City…

Paramount’s George Cheeks and NBC’s Jon Miller aren’t having sleepless nights over Venu Sports. The pair addressed the topic of the Disney-, Fox- and Warner Bros. Discovery-backed sports streamer, whose launch has been delayed by a legal challenge, at the IMG-RedBird Summit in the UK yesterday…

Ari Emanuel has given Kamala Harris top marks for her performance at last night’s Presidential debate, but says the election’s outcome is still “50-50.” “She did what she had to do — she had to act like a commander in chief,” said the CEO of Endeavor of the Democrat hopeful. “The hardest thing…

Skydance CEO David Ellison said Tom Cruise of Paramount's Mission Impossible and Top Gun franchises "is supportive of the planned merger and that the "outreach that we have received from the entertainment community has been pretty remarkable and humbling." "I think there’s a great opportunity…

Jeff Zucker and Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird IMI has emerged as the new frontrunner in the race to buy Squid Game: The Challenge maker All3Media. According to the FT, the private equity group is in advanced talks with All3-owners Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Liberty Global in a deal worth…

Ben Affleck says his newly minted studio Artists Equity, in partnership with Matt Damon, is going for films that are commercial but smart, that acknowledge popular tastes, but that "people remember 20 years later." He thinks/hopes his latest project due out next year fits the bill. Affleck…

As Deadline’s Mike Fleming reported back in June of this year, RedBird Capital Partners has today confirmed details in that story. Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Gerry Cardinale are launching an artist-led studio that partners with filmmakers to empower creative vision and broaden access to profit…