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EXCLUSIVE: The SpringHill Company, which recently received a minority investment valuing it at $725 million, has announced a key promotion and two senior exec hires as part of an ongoing expansion.
Devin Johnson, who has been SpringHill’s chief operating officer, has been promoted to president. Elise Ben-Yair, who has held exec positions at BuzzFeed and Yahoo, has been appointed Chief People & Culture Officer. Endi Pier, an alum of BuzzFeed, Complex and TV One, has been named General Counsel. Ben-Yair and Pier began working this month.
Johnson previously was president of Uninterrupted, the SpringHill entity focused on athlete empowerment. His new purview encompasses P&L responsibility, steering the Uninterrupted and SpringHill brands and overseeing the parent company’s international expansion. Prior to his run at Uninterrupted, he held senior digital exec posts at Tribune Media and NBCUniversal.
All three execs report to Carter, the company’s CEO.
Last October, the company sold what it described as a “significant” minority stake to a consortium of investors including RedBird Capital, Fenway Sports, Nike and Epic Games. Boosting the company’s staff was among the objectives of that fundraising.
While James has encountered challenges on the court this NBA season with the LA Lakers, SpringHill has been a hive of activity and continued to grow. Since a 2020 move to unite Uninterrupted, production entity SpringHill Entertainment and advertising outfit Robot Co. under one corporate umbrella, the company has increased its headcount to 160 from 90. Feature films and scripted projects produced by the company’s entertainment arm include Top Boy Season 2, which just premiered on Netflix. Hustle will debut on Netflix on June 10 and House
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Selome Hailu The year was 2010, and scarves were in. “Very European,” says EJ Johnson, the son of Magic Johnson, as he recalls when he came out as gay to his father. “Even in the summer, you had your linen scarves.
LGBTQ+ groups are furious over reports that the UK government is planning to only ban conversion therapy for cisgender gay, lesbian and bi people and exclude those who are transgender.
J. Kim Murphy The year’s achievements in film will have to wait one more day for the Academy Awards, but the medium’s lows were dishonored on Saturday morning at the 42nd Golden Raspberry awards.Netflix’s “Diana the Musical,” a filmed performance of the much-derided new Broadway musical based on the life of Princess Diana, had a clean sweep across all of its four nominations, winning in the categories of worst picture, worst director for Christopher Ashley, worst actress for Jeanna de Waal and worst supporting actress for Judy Kaye.Warner Bros.’ “Space Jam: A New Legacy” was the runner-up, earning three wins in worst prequel, remake, rip-off or sequel; worst screen combo; and worst actor for LeBron James.
The complete list of “winners” has been announced for the 2022 Razzie Awards, which honors the worst movies of the year.
42nd Razzie Awards are in — and if you had anything to do with “Diana: The Musical,” you might want to go back to bed.The big, fat Broadway bomb about the Princess of Wales beamed into your living room courtesy of Netflix was this year’s big Razzie “winner,” taking home five of what the group calls its “un-coveted … tacky, gold-spray-painted statuettes.” The streaming version of the stage musical bagged Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Jeanna deWaal), Worst Supporting Actress (Judy Kaye, who actually played two roles), Worst Director (Christopher Ashley) and Worst Screenplay (Script by Joe DiPietro, Music and Lyrics by DiPietro and David Bryan). The group pointed out how richly the “Diana” script deserved the honor, for “featuring some of the year’s most ridiculed dialogue and lyrics — Including rhyming ‘Camilla’ with both ‘Manilla’ and ‘Godzilla.'”Faring almost as miserably was “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” with slam dunks for Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel; Worst Actor (LeBron James); and Worst Screen Couple (James and “Any Warner Cartoon Character or WarnerMedia Product He Dribbles On).” Sadly, that last “Space Jam” triumph meant Jared Leto failed to sweep the two categories in which he was nominated for his Fredo-Corleone-by-way-of-Super-Mario “House of Gucci” performance.
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UPDATE: LeBron James is now the No. 2 all-time scorer in NBA history, passing former Laker Karl Malone. Ahead lies another former Laker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Manchester United duo Edinson Cavani and Facundo Pellistri have been named in the Uruguay squad for their upcoming 2022 World Cup qualifiers against Peru and Chile.
By If you were disappointed by the lack of actual sex on , there's a new HBO Max series that has you covered (and then some): Enter Minx, a fast-paced, thought-inducing, feminist, erotic comedy that stars Ophelia Lovibond opposite .Over the course of 10 episodes—two of which are available today, March 17—you'll dive into the polyester-clad world of the 1970s where Joyce (Lovibond) is determined to create a women's magazine that isn't about pleasing a man or losing five pounds. She struggles to get it off the ground, until an interesting meet-cute with low-rent porn magazine publisher Doug (Johnson).
HBO Max, “Minx” is a period-piece comedy set in the early 1970s. It follows Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), an earnest Vassar-educated feminist who’s trying to launch a women’s magazine called “The Matriarchy Awakens,” which has more substance than the typical beauty and housekeeping tips.
Sydney Sweeney is headed from into the Spider-Verse!ET can confirm that the actress will be joining Dakota Johnson in the upcoming spin-off, It was announced last month that Johnson is set to play the film's titular character, making her the first female-headlining hero in the Sony-Marvel cinematic universe. S.J. Clarkson is directing the film, after previously helming episodes of some of the Marvel-Netflix series like and with a screenplay from Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.In the comic canon, Madame Web is a clairvoyant mutant, who has served as a mentor to Peter Parker's Spider-Man, as well as several heroes calling themselves Spider-Woman.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSydney Sweeney, of “Euphoria” and “White Lotus” fame, has joined “Madame Web,” a comic book tentpole set in Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters.Sweeney’s role has not been announced. As previously reported, Dakota Johnson has been cast as the title character, a blind, paralyzed elderly woman who has myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder requiring her to connect to a life support system resembling a spiderweb.S.J.
Liz Truss has been accused of double standards over the Prime Minister's trip to Saudi Arabia amid the global fuel crisis.
Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of “going cap in hand from dictator to dictator,” as the Prime Minister flew to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to seek alternatives to Russian oil supplies.