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Moonbug Raises $145 Million To Acquire Kids’ Content

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Children’s entertainment company Moonbug Entertainment has raised $145 million in funding to acquire and broadly distribute children’s programming. The funding round, which is led by The Raine Group, follows the young company’s first acquisition, Little Baby Bum. The YouTube channel created by a husband and wife in the U.K. has amassed 17 million followers with its collection of 3D animated videos of traditional nursery rhymes and original compositions for… Read

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Les Moonves’ Lawyer Fires Opening Salvo In Legal War With CBS; Calls No Severance & Firing Decision “Without Merit”

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“The conclusions of the CBS board were foreordained and are without merit,” says Les Moonves’ attorney in reaction to the decision announced today to give the now fired with cause and much accused former CEO nothing in severance. At the same time Gloria Allred wants the investigation into Moonves’ behavior and the culture at CBS made public and monies to women “who can prove they are victims.” Having resigned in disgrace in September as yet another round of sexual… Read

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Time’s Up Reacts To CBS Decision To Fire Les Moonves Without Severance

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Refresh for updates…CBS announced today that they have fired Les Moonves as CEO with cause and decided to not give him  $120 million in severance he expected after stepping down under allegations of misconduct this fall. Many in Hollywood reacted with Time’s Up leading the charge. “The decision of the CBS board to further proof that no man is too powerful to face the consequences of his actions. We commend the CBS board’s decision to hold Mr. Moonves accountable for his… Read

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David Schwimmer, Nick Mohammed Set For Sky One Comedy Series ‘Intelligence’

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EXCLUSIVE: Sky One has committed to the six-part comedy series Intelligence, which will star David Schwimmer and Nick Mohammed. Schwimmer, who followed Friends with the small screen turn American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson, will be executive producer along with Mohammed. Mohammed is writing it and his credits include The Martian and Christopher Robin. The show is co-produced by Dark Harbor Stories and Expectation. Intelligence will be internationally… Read

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‘Elementary’ To End After 7 Seasons On CBS

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EXCLUSIVE: CBS' modern-day Sherlock Holmes & Watson series Elementary will end its run on CBS with its upcoming 13-episode seventh season. The decision comes as the crime drama procedural, created by Rob Doherty and starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, wrapped production Friday on Season 7 with the final scene in the finale the last one to film. I hear that when the network renewed Elementary for a seventh season in May less than two weeks into its Season 6 run, a… Read

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Oscars’ Foreign Language Film Shortlist: ‘Roma’, ‘Cold War’, ‘Burning’ & More But No ‘Girl’, ‘Border’

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From a field of 87 submissions to the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar category, nine movies have now advanced to the shortlist. Working with one of the strongest years in recent memory, the Phase I Committee and the Executive Committee have settled on such favorites as Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, but left off Golden Globe nominee and Cannes Camera d’Or winner Girl by Belgium’s Lukas Dhont. That film has seen… Read

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Oscars: Academy Releases Nine Category Shortlists; ‘Girl’ Snubbed In Foreign Race Amid Backlash

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has taken the very unusual step of releasing Oscars shortlists in nine categories at once for the first time ever. Previously they send out shortlists separately and at different times.  This is also the first year that Original Score and Best Song have been included in the shortlisting process by eliminating all but 15 contenders in each of those categories going forward. In past years the Academy simply released a list of… Read

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CBS Says No $120M Severance For Les Moonves; Terminated For Cause, Declares Board

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UPDATED with stock movement: Les Moonves, the once-powerful former CEO of CBS, will not be getting a single dime of the $120 million in severance he expected after stepping down under allegations of misconduct this fall, the company’s board has decided today. “The Board of Directors of CBS has completed its investigation of former Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves, CBS News, and cultural issues at CBS,” the company said in a statement Monday. “With regard to Mr. Moonves, we… Read

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Frankie Shaw Investigation Won’t Delay ‘SMILF’ Season 2 Debut On Showtime

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Amidst allegations of misconduct on the set of Showtime's SMILF and potential WGA complaints, the premium cabler has no intention of pulling the plug on the Frankie Shaw-created series' Season 2 premiere next month. "We're 100% completely behind her," an insider at the David Nevins run outlet told Deadline after reports of showrunner and star Shaw being investigated on the apparent mishandling of video of nude scenes on the show emerged Monday. "There's nothing changing… Read

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The Black List 2018 Ranked: Disgruntled Snapchat Employee Story ‘Frat Boy Genius’ Leads; Scripts About Matt Drudge & Young Samuel L. Jackson Round Out Survey

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FINAL ranked with storylines and reps info after noon post: The Black List, Hollywood’s annual rundown of unproduced screenplays, unveiled its titles today in Easter Egg fashion, hiding all 73 screenplay selections in a six minute-42 second second short The Last Days of TJ Staggs which starred Paul Scheer as an agent who pulls a Rip Van Winkle in 1998, wakes up 20 years later, and realizes how the town has changed. The short was directed and co-written by Noga Pnueli (who… Read

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Brad Fischer Named Producer Of 2018 By Capri Hollywood Film Festival

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The Capri Hollywood Film Festival has named Brad Fischer to receive its 2018 Producer of the Year Award. Fischer this year added the Luca Guadagnino-directed Suspiria, the Eli Roth-directed The House With A Clock In Its Walls and the Antoine Fuqua-directed Suge Knight Showtime docu American Dream/American Knightmare to a credit list that includes David Fincher's Zodiac, Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. "There is no one more deserving… Read

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James Comey Condemns Republicans: Too Afraid Of Fox News And “Mean Tweets” To Confront Donald Trump

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Former FBI director James Comey is not any less irked after spending a second full day being grilled behind closed doors by Republicans in the House Judiciary Committee about Hillary Clinton and the Steele Dossier. As he had done two weeks ago, when GOP members of the committee demanded his presence for a last gasp paddling as they prepare to lose the gavel to Dems, Comey again staged a lively pop-up presser in the hallway at conclusion of the grilling to explain how he… Read

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