MoviePass Taps Former Viacom & Spotify Vet Mike Berkley As Chief Product Officer MoviePass has hired Mike Berkley, a former product leader at Spotify, Viacom and Comcast, as Chief Product Officer beginning this week. Related Nickelodeon's Broadway Upfront Makes Pitch For TV&#03..

Nicolas Cage’s Sundance Movie ‘Mandy’ Scores RLJ Films Deal RLJE Films has acquired U.S. rights to Mandy, the action thriller starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roach that bowed at the Sundance Film Festival. A summer theatrical release is planned. Related 'RBG..

Atom Tickets’ $60M Series C Round Has Lionsgate, Disney And Fox Back On Board Digital movie ticketing startup Atom Tickets has raised more than $60 million in a Series C round led by new backer Fidelity Investments, with Lionsgate, Disney and 21st Century Fox all reinvesting in the company. ..

Channel 4 Set To Relocate A Quarter Of Workforce Outside London, Boost Regional Spending Channel 4, the UK broadcaster behind series such as Catastrophe and Electric Dreams, is set to move around a quarter of its workforce outside of London and increase the amount it spends on programmes produce..

ITV Boss Carolyn McCall Urges British Broadcasters To Work Closer Together To Fight Digital Rivals ITV Chief Executive Carolyn McCall believes that there will be more collaboration between British broadcasters as they look to compete with well-funded SVOD rivals such as Netflix, Amazon and Apple..

iPic Luxury Dine-In Exhibition Chain Sets MOU For Cinemas In Saudi Arabia Boca Raton, Florida-based exhibitor and dine-in luxury chain iPic Entertainment looks set to be the next group moving into the opening Saudi Arabian market. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding to develop i..

Long-Lost Leonard Cohen Doc ‘Bird On A Wire’ & Banned Peter Sellers Film Find U.S. Distribution EXCLUSIVE: Long-lost Leonard Cohen documentary Bird on a Wire and The World of Peter Sellers, which was banned by the BBC in 1971, are set to see the light of day in the U.S. after North American dist..

Sky To Close In-House Production Division; Danny Tipping To Join Sky-Backed Znak & Co Sky is to close its in-house production division and its programming boss Danny Tipping will join Sky-backed U.S./UK producer Znak & Co. to become its factual chief. Related Sky To Bundle Netflix I..

Mark Cuban On Resurfaced Sexual Assault Claim: “It Didn’t Happen”; NBA Investigating – Update Shark Tank star and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is denying a 2011 sexual assault allegation detailed this week in an Oregon newspaper. “It didn’t happen,” Cuban said in a terse email to the Associ..