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EXCLUSIVE: Preeminent management and production company Sugar23 has hired James Crane as Director of Business Development.  “The addition of James Crane reemphasizes Sugar23’s mission to foster deep relationships with brands and support their goals of creating meaningful, original content for…

EXCLUSIVE: Independent studio SK Global has hired Elizabeth Haggard for the role of Senior Vice President of Feature Film, which will have her help lead the company’s film slate through development, production, and post-production, reporting to Head of Features, Mark O’Connor. Haggard joins from…

Daniel Battsek, the veteran producer and executive known for high-level stints at Film4, Miramax, Disney and National Geographic, has been named President of Film at Lincoln Center. The non-profit organization behind the New York Film Festival and many other year-round events, had conducted a…

UPDATE, 1.45am P.T: Just as soon as his exit from MBC was announced, Sam Barnett’s new role has emerged. He will lead Central European Media Enterprises (CME) as CEO from May 1. Barnett will succeed Didier Stoessel, current CEO and Chief Investment Officer of its media investor parent PFF, with…

EXCLUSIVE: Pam Levine, who recently exited Disney Branded Television and National Geographic as Head of Marketing, is going to Netflix as VP, UCAN Marketing & Publicity. This executive move, I understand, was always in the works for a while. At Netflix, Levine will oversee all publicity and…

Media giant Comcast has named Jon Gieselman, formerly of Apple, Expedia and DirecTV, to the new position of chief growth officer for the residential domestic businesses of its Connectivity & Platforms segment. That includes cable, broadband and wireless services reaching more than 64 million homes…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has appointed Jay Levine as EVP, Chief Strategy Officer and Business Operations. Levine most recently spent a year as CEO of Kevin Hart’s media company Hartbeat. Prior to that, he held various executive posts over 11 years at Warner Bros before being named Chief…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie producer Pressman Film has expanded the role of chief operating officer Paula Paizes to include oversight of all production. The company behind Wall Street. American Psycho, Badlands, Thank You for Smoking and The Crow, founded by the late legendary producer Edward Pressman and…

EXCLUSIVE: Antigravity Academy, the production company behind Focus Features’ award-winner Dìdi, has appointed Adina Luo as its new Chief Operating Officer. Luo joins from the shuttered Participant, where she spent four years as Director, Strategy & Business Development. During her time there…

Former Paramount Global and ITV Studios exec Maria Kyriacou has been nominated as chair of ProSiebenSat.1 Media, which is currently subject to a takeover bid from its largest shareholder. Kyriacou, who exited her role as Paramount’s President of Broadcast & Studios for International Markets last…

Rahwa Ghebre-Ab has been promoted to EVP and Chief Human Resources Officer of Lionsgate effective May 1. Ghebre-Ab will oversee the company’s worldwide human resource ops in the U.S., Canada, the UK and India, and she will serve on Lionsgate’s Executive Management and Operating Committees…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Day has landed an expanded international role at Prime Video following the exit of Jennifer Salke last week. Deadline has seen an internal note sent from Prime Video boss Mike Hopkins in the past hour that confirms the well-liked Day will take on Amazon’s international…