Warning to those who get involved with Kristin Cavallari anytime soon…
16.02.2023 - 00:49 / deadline.com
The fate of AMC Networks has always been determined by its controlling shareholders, the Dolan family, and now Kristin Dolan will get a chance to get the ailing programmer back on track.
The wife of Executive Chairman James Dolan, who has gained experience over three decades as a media and entertainment exec, will take the reins of the company on February 27. She will succeed Christina Spade, who lasted just three months into her tenure last year before parting ways with the company. James Dolan, who took a more hands-on role and, in steering it through the post-Spade era, presided over the layoffs of 20% of the company workforce and a number of programming pullbacks.
Like a lot of its peers, AMC Networks has faced intensifying pressure from cord-cutting as it looked to build its presence in streaming with a portfolio of niche services. While the company prospered in many years after being spun off from Cablevision in 2011, on the backs of original hits like The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Mad Men, it has struggled making the leap to streaming. A Wall Street Journal report earlier today said the company rebuffed takeover overtures by Roku, Lionsgate and several private equity firms as its valuation dipped below $1 billion.
AMC Networks is scheduled to report quarterly earnings on Friday morning.
Kristin Dolan most recently had been serving as CEO of 605, the audience measurement and data analytics firm she founded in 2016. Before 605, she spent 16 years in various operating roles at Cablevision, including as Chief Operating Officer. The company was later sold in 2016 to French telecom firm Altice for $17.7 billion.Prior to Cablevision, Dolan held various marketing roles at AMC Networks (then known as Rainbow Media
Warning to those who get involved with Kristin Cavallari anytime soon…
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor AMC Networks’ Sentai Filmworks unit reached an agreement with Japan’s Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) that provides exclusive rights for AMC’s anime-focused HIDIVE streaming service to distribute part of MBS’s future programming lineup in all global markets outside of Asia. The pact is Sentai’s biggest-ever deal for anime content, according to the company. The output deal encompasses MBS’s programming slate based on a collection of popular manga and light novel titles. All of the shows will be available exclusively on HIDIVE outside of Asia. Among the shows covered in the Sentai-MBS output is “The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior” (pictured above). The new show, scheduled to premiere in July 2023, is a 12-episode series based on hit fantasy light novel by Tenichi and published by Ichijinsha. The series is being directed by Norio Nitta and written by Deko Akao with animation by OLM.
Kristin Cavallari admitted this week she’s broken up with guys over texts. "I know that’s horrible," she told co-host Stephen Colletti on their podcast "Back to the Beach" Tuesday.
Kristen Bell has lined up her next project.
Netflix has greenlit a new comedy series starring Kristen Bell with Erin Foster attached to create and executive produce.Bell will play one of the two leads in the untitled series, which follows a budding relationship between two people on either end of the religious spectrum, highlighting that sometimes opposites do attract.The official logline is as follows: “A comedy centered on the unlikely relationship between an irreverent, outspoken, agnostic woman and an unconventional rabbi.”The series is created by Erin Foster, who also serves as an executive producer alongside Steven Levitan, Craig DiGregorio, Kristen Bell, Sara Foster and Danielle Stokdyk.
Kristin Cavallari is getting honest about her dating faux pas. On Tuesday's episode of the former reality star's podcast, which she co-hosts with her ex-boyfriend, Stephen Colletti, the 36-year-old admitted that she has previously broken up with men via text.«I've ended things over text with guys before. I know that's horrible,» the mother of three admitted.
When it was announced that AMC Theatres was going to adopt a new ticketing structure, dubbed Sightline, reactions were largely negative. (I might have ranted a bit myself.) Basically, the plan feels like a new way for AMC Theatres to punish its frequent customers by raising the prices on the “best” seats while offering a discount on what are clearly terrible seats that probably shouldn’t exist in the first place.
with a bang.On February 25, the 32-year-old Berlinale jury president arrived on the red carpet for the festival's closing ceremony wearing a sheer gown with knitted black accents, including strategically. placed pockets.
Kristen Stewart has served one look after another while acting as the jury president at the Berlinale International Film Festival, and her latest look is perhaps her most daring yet.
Kristen Stewart is standing up for a second silent demonstration during the 2023 Berlinale Film Festival.
Kristin Chenoweth has her eyes set on a Broadway return!
EXCLUSIVE: A new musical based on the award-winning 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles and the life of beauty queen, socialite and TV personality Jacqueline “Jackie” Siegel is in development, with Kristin Chenoweth attached to star and produce.
Kristin Cavallari is an open book. The 36-year-old reality star and jewelry designer got candid on the podcast, .It's been more than three years since the mother of three split from her ex-husband, Jay Cutler, and while she's had several romantic connections since then, Cavallari is now happily single.«I sit here and I think I want a relationship, but really I’m like, ‘I don’t have the time,’» Cavallari explained.
Leave it to Jana Kramer to get involved in some super-juicy dating drama!
Angelique Jackson Essence is celebrating its 16th annual Black Women in Hollywood awards luncheon with another all-star lineup of honorees. The five awardees are Freeform and Onyx Collective president Tara Duncan, director Gina Prince-Bythewood (“The Woman King”) and a trio of critically-acclaimed actors Danielle Deadwyler (SAG, BAFTA, Critics Choice and NAACP-nominee for “Till”), Dominique Thorne (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) and Sheryl Lee Ralph (Emmy-winner for “Abbott Elementary”). Presented annually as a celebration of “Black women who are making their undeniable mark in film and television and forging forward their own definition of what it means to be a Black woman in Hollywood,” the Essence Black Women in Hollywood awards is not only an intimate gathering of about 400 guests, but also a key date on the awards season calendar.
Keeping it friendly! Kristin Cavallari spent some time with Austen Kroll after rumors circulated that she was in a love triangle with him and Craig Conover.
fourth quarter earnings call Friday. “I don’t see anybody who has the answer to this yet.
James Dolan, interim executive chairman of AMC Networks, made a rare appearance on the company’s quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts, addressing a major exec change and the strategy for facing a complicated operating environment.
AMC Networks posted strong fourth-quarter results, with total revenue rising 20% over the prior-year quarter to $964.5 million, while earnings per share jumped almost fivefold to $2.52.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer AMC Networks reported its fourth-quarter 2022 earnings Friday, two days after naming Kristin Dolan, wife of the company’s owner, James Dolan, its new CEO. The company says it ended 2022 with 11.8 million paid streaming subscribers across all of its targeted streamers: AMC+, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK and HIDIVE. Those digital offerings are in addition to the company’s linear channels AMC, BBC America (a joint venture with BBC Studios), IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv and IFC Films. That’s a slight increase of 700,000 customers from the end of Q3, when AMC Networks reported it had reached 11.1 million subs. Meanwhile, U.S. ad sales fell 12% in the quarter.