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02-06-2025
- Business
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CNN Chief Operating Officer Heads Back to Warner Bros. Discovery
After a two-year stint managing CNN's business during a leadership and strategy transition, David Leavy is heading back to his longtime home at parent company Warner Bros. Discovery. The executive had joined as chief operating officer of the cable news network during the short-lived Chris Licht-led era then stepped in to co-lead the brand days later after Licht was fired in June 2023. More from The Hollywood Reporter C-SPAN's Next Big Bet Is a "Radically Different" Sort of Cable News Show: 'CeaseFire' CNN to Air Live Broadcast of George Clooney's 'Good Night and Good Luck' in Broadway First CNN Sending Eva Longoria to France as 'Searching For' Franchise Expands (Exclusive) 'David arrived at CNN in tumultuous times and did a brilliant job stabilizing the company at a difficult moment,' read a note from CNN president Mark Thompson to staff on Wednesday. 'During the transition he led CNN jointly with Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley and Eric Sherling and played a central part helping me into my role as chairman and CEO before, as COO, leading multiple organizations and teams across revenue, promotion, operations and data.' Leavy, who had spent two decades at Discovery prior to parachuting in to CNN during a moment of uncertainty, will return to the Warners corporate fold in an unspecified role. 'David will spend the next month or so ensuring a smooth transition, which should also give everyone who's worked with him a chance to say thank you for his major contribution during his tour of duty here,' Thompson wrote. At the time of his appointment two years ago, CNN was in the middle of an overhaul executed by Licht that involved significantly reworking the channel's programming to combat declining ratings and multiple on-air talent shuffles. Licht, who joined the brand in 2022 after time as a producer at Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, had his tenure cut short after Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav pulled the plug. ('I take full responsibility,' Zaslav said at the time.) Leavy was then tasked with ensuring a steady transition to the next leadership era at CNN, which kicked off months later when former BBC and New York Times executive Mark Thompson was named its new chief. Now just shy of two years at CNN, Thompson is executing a digital pivot that includes pushing for online subscribers, a strategy that proved successful for the Times as the paper amassed 11.7 million paying subs. That includes CNN launching a new standalone streaming service (apart from the pay TV bundle), with pricing to-be-determined, this fall. Thompson noted a slew of org chart reporting changes as Leavy returns to Warners. 'Following his departure, Phil Nelson's international commercial and revenue teams and Emily Kuhn's communications organization will report into me, as will Sam Felix in her role as overall head of partnerships. Paul Crum's Newsource groups will report into Phil. I will continue to work closely and directly with Karen Bronzo and her creative marketing organization. John Davies' Studio and Tech Ops will report into Eric Sherling's programming team,' the CNN chief wrote. Thompson added, 'Jamie Benedict's strategy team and Nick Cavaliere's research group will now all report to Adam Cohn, our CFO, and Christine Yi will also now report into Adam's team. John Courtney's Image + Sound teams will report into Virginia Moseley's Global News organization, and Stacey Wolf's business affairs team will move under Amy Entelis' leadership. Anne Gordon, David's longtime trusted right hand, will stay with him and also transition to WBD.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
18-05-2025
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Warners home unlivable after Saturday afternoon fire
WARNERS, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A single family home is unlivable after a fire earlier today. The Lakeside Fire Department, along with the Moyers Corners Fire Department and Liverpool Fire Department, responded a home on Antonio Way. Firefighters from Lakeside tell Newschannel 9 that the fire took a little over an hour to put out. Two people lived in the home. At the time of the fire, two cars in the home's garage The Investigation into the cause of the fire is being done by the Onondaga county fire investigation team. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
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‘Practical Magic 2' Sets Early Fall 2026 Release
Warner Bros just announced on social that the Nicole Kidman-Sandra Bullock sequel, Practical Magic 2, is hitting cinemas on Sept. 18, 2026. Note that's not the post Labor Day weekend slot which Warners typically reserves for spooky movies; currently their DC title Clayface is occupying that date, Sept. 11, 2026. More from Deadline Practical Magic 2 will go head-to-head with Sony's Zach Cregger take on Resident Evil on Sept. 18. Warners always had the date on hold for an untitled movie. ADVERTISEMENT Susanne Bier is directing the sequel which is penned by Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks, and Robin Swicord. Bullock, Kidman and Denise DiNovi are producing. The original 1998 movie, which was directed by Griffin Dunne and grossed more than $47 million stateside, followed two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, who are faced with closed-minded prejudice and a curse that threatens to prevent them from finding lasting love. Bier's directed Bullock's big Netflix thriller, Bird Box, which was one of the most watched movies ever on the OTT service with 157.4M global views. It will be interesting to see the fanfare for the sequel. Typically, sequels to long-awaited first installments from the 1980s and 1990s have done gangbusters of late. Disney left money on the table when they were forced during the Bob Chapek era to keep Hocus Pocus 2 on streaming service Disney+ back in the fall of 2022. The original movie 1993 witches movie grossed $39.5M, however, re-releases added another $6.6M to studio coffers raising the title's lifetime to $46.1M. The spell is cast. The date is set. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return. Only In Theaters September 18, 2026. Rewatch the original #PracticalMagic now streaming on MAX. — Warner Bros. (@warnerbros) May 6, 2025 Best of Deadline Sign up for Deadline's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Why Ryan Coogler Deserved That Rich ‘Sinners' Deal
On this week's Screen Talk, co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio dig into Ryan Coogler's $90-million period vampire musical 'Sinners,' starring Michael B. Jordan as twins Smoke and Stack, as well as the boffo box office and the controversial deal. Warners opened the movie to a bigger-than-expected $48 million Easter weekend, and a weak $15 million overseas. The only other horror film to ever earn an A CinemaScore was James Cameron's sequel 'Aliens' in 1986. It's rare and bodes well for a broader audience. Nearly half of the opening-day audience was Black, which increased to 38 percent by the weekend's end. More from IndieWire Jon Hamm Shares Don Draper Commonality That Earned Him 'Mad Men' Role : 'Nobody Knows Who This Guy Is' The Secret Weapon Behind the VFX of 'A Minecraft Movie' Warners has bragging rights over this one and, with 'A Minecraft Movie,' enjoyed two movies grossing over $40 million. It spells some relief for embattled studio heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. The movie is original and unusual, and thoughtful and entertaining enough to warrant success. It's exactly what we have all been clamoring for timid Hollywood to do. Anne commends Michael De Luca for taking this shot. The controversy is how so many media analysts, including The New York Times, gauged these grosses and the film's chances of success. There was undue skepticism, which people like the Russos and Ben Stiller called out for their framing of the film's success after opening weekend. Remember, we have PVOD coming down the pike, where Warners can take a huge chunk of the at-home gross. Plus, there's a landmark deal at play with Coogler taking ownership rights of the film after 25 years, and not the studio. It's seeing an uptick in grosses throughout weekdays which is rare for a horror movie, these often take a sharp fall. Plus, 70mm screenings on weekdays at the AMC Lincoln Center are regularly sold out; it's become the hardest ticket in town. The movie scored rave reviews, as most of Coogler's movies have done. All of his directed films are in the 80s on Metacritic, except for the 'Black Panther' sequel. And 'Black Panther' was the only Marvel film to be nominated for Best Picture. He elevated the 'Creed' franchise. He deserved the unusual deal he got from Warner Bros. to take rights ownership after 25 years. Meanwhile, we have some new entries at Cannes. As we expected, they added Lynne Ramsay's Jennfier Lawrence and Robert Pattinson vehicle 'Die, My Love' in competition. And Kristen Stewart's directorial debut 'Chronology of Water, an Un Certain Regard entry, will compete for the Camera d'Or. Ethan Coen's 'Honey, Don't' starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, and Chris Evans is a Midnight movie, whatever that means. Of course on the TV side with 'The White Lotus,' 'The Pitt,' '1923' and 'Landman' in the rear view, we're now reveling in Craig Mazin's 'The Last of Us' Season 2, which broke our hearts and many others' last week, as well as Season 2 of Tony Gilroy's 'Star Wars' TV prequel 'Andor,' the best 'Star Wars' pinoff since 'Mandalorian,' starring the fabulous Diego Luna and Stellan Skarsgård. We will dig into that next week. Anne caught up with 'The Accountant 2' from producer-star Ben Affleck and director Gavin O'Connor, who is a strong director of actors and action. It follows up on the first 2016 film, reuniting the autistic accountant (Affleck) with his brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal), who is now a lethal assassin. So is the accountant when he wants to be. The movie veers from character study and brother bonding to an action nail-biter. Cynthia Addai-Robinson returns as agent Marybeth Medina, horrified by the ways the brothers extract their info. Neither of us loved Daniel Minahan's 'On Swift Horses,' starring Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Will Poulter in a clunky period melodrama. We root for Edgar-Jones to get together with Elordi's footloose veteran turned gambler, whose performance is modeled after early Montgomery Clift, rather than his romance with Diego Calva. It's a sad film where nobody gets what they want, and the characters are lost in their own suffering. Last up, we ask what took the Academy so long to demand that members watch every film in every category in order to vote for them? See all the Academy's new rules of IndieWire Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 64 Films the Director Wants You to See Nightmare Film Shoots: The 36 Most Grueling Films Ever Made, from 'Deliverance' to 'The Wages of Fear' The 24 Best Vampire Movies Ever Made, from 'Nosferatu' to 'Sinners'
Yahoo
20-04-2025
- Entertainment
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‘Sinners' Lands First ‘A' CinemaScore Ever For Horror Movie
Warner Bros' Sinners is in rare air becoming the first horror movie ever to earn an A CinemaScore from audiences in the exit poll org's 47-year existence. Typically, CinemaScore audiences are hard on horror film: If you get anything in the B-range, that's amazing (the first A Quiet Place earned a B+). If you're a C, you're even safe. Outside of that the anomaly A- grades went to Five Nights at Freddies, Get Out, The Lost Boys, The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, A Quiet Place Part II, Child's Play 2. However, no other film but Ryan Coogler's Sinners has notched an A. More from Deadline 'Sinners' Finds Salvation At Easter Box Office With $45M+ No. 1 Opening Win - Sunday Update Everything We Know About Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners': From The Themes To How It Was Shot Does 'Sinners' Have A Prayer At Easter Weekend Box Office? - Preview Sinners went into overdrive. Tracking in recent weeks was spotting in the mid $30Ms for the $90M+ Michael B. Jordan starring movie. Then projections went into overdrive indicating $40M+. This is all due to exhibition pushing the movie out to moviegoers after a dry spell at the box office in Q1 and Warner Bros. pushing digital ads in specific zip codes to spike ticket sales; a final marketing lap that they've executed on movies such as A Minecraft Movie, The Meg, and Crazy Rich Asians to name a few to deliver at the weekend box office. On Friday and Saturday AM, many saw Sinners at No. 2. It's the clear No. 1 movie over the Easter weekend with $45.6M; don't be surprised if it's well north of $46M tomorrow. For the first time in over a decade, one studio–Warner Bros–has two movies earning north of $40M a piece. It's the second time that Warners has owned the Easter weekend with the top two movies, the last being 2019 with the opening of The Curse of La Llorona and the third weekend of Shazam!. Sinners reps the eighth time since 2000 that Warners has lorded over the Easter weekend with an event title. Best of Deadline 'Ransom Canyon' Book Vs. Show Differences: From Quinn & Staten's Love Story To Yancy Grey's Plot Everything We Know About Netflix's 'Ransom Canyon' So Far 'Ransom Canyon' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The New Netflix Western Romance Series
