Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer Extends Contract Further Into 2023, With Board Option For Re-Up Through 2025

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe top two Lionsgate executives have told shareholders that the media conglomerate is poised to thrive amid the post-pandemic environment.“We had a strong and successful year moving our company forward in fiscal 2020 despite the extraordinary challenges of the global pandemic, creating lasting and incremental value across our film, television and Starz businesses,” said chief executive officer Jon Feltheimer and vice chairman Michael Burns in their letter to

Satellite radio giant SiriusXM said Tuesday that CEO James Meyer will step down as CEO on Dec. 31 and become vice chairman.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorIn a lively morning of executive shuffles, AMC Networks said Sean Sullivan, chief financial officer, will be jumping to SirusXM in mid-October, as the satellite broadcaster announced that its CEO Jim Meyer and its CFO David Frear are both stepping down. AMC Networks said it will appoint an interim CFO or successor prior to Sullivan’s departure.SiriusXM said Meyer will retire on December 31 and Jennifer Witz, president, Sales, Marketing and Operations, will take

Jet2 has ramped up its trips to other areas. The airline has just announced that it has added even more flights and holidays to Turkey for Summer 2020.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorSiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer said he’s “optimistic” about striking a new deal with the company’s star property Howard Stern, whose contract expires at year end. The renewal has been a focus of Wall Street and the press for months as the deadline approaches.“I am personally deeply engaged in conversations with Howard’s team.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn Sept. 13, Carl Cox, Pete Tong and Roger Sanchez are just three of the legendary DJs who will take part in “For Beirut,” a 12-hour-long livestream event presented by Electronic Labor Day and Beatport ReConnect to raise funds to support Lebanon and its people in the wake of the August 4 explosion that killed more than 200 people and leveled a large area of the city.

toddler has celebrated her third birthday wearing a special dress in tribute to her sister who died of rare condition when she was the same age.Summer Pipe turned three on Sunday and wore a specially-crafted dress which was printed with one of the only pictures every taken of her with her big sister Meadow, who passed away in 2018.Meadow battled for life for three-and-a-half years after being born with an incurable blood disease and Microcephaly disorder - a rare condition which causes

Lionsgate and CEO Jon Feltheimer has extended his long-term employment agreement, keeping him at the Hollywood studio potentially to August 2025. On Wednesday, Lionsgate in an SEC filing said his contract will now run to Aug.

Dave McNary Film ReporterLionsgate has extended the contract of longtime chief executive officer Jon Feltheimer three months, now expiring on Aug. 21, 2023, with options to push it into 2024 or 2025.Feltheimer has been CEO of the entertainment conglomerate since 2000, teaming with vice chairman Michael Burns during the subsequent two decades.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLebanese-British singer-songwriter Mika will stage a livestreamed concert to raise funds and awareness for relief in the wake of the explosion in Beirut last month that killed more than 200 people and devastated a large area in the country’s capital.His “I Love Beirut” benefit concert will take place on Saturday 19 September and will be live-streamed across four time zones via YouTube.

It's the news that has been more than a decade in the making - Turkey Twizzlers are back!School children of the past will remember the treat which was iconic amongst kids and families of the nineties and early noughties.So finally after 15 years, Bernard Matthews, the firm behind the carefully crafted household favourite, has announced the 'comeback of the century'.People will remember that the product was controversial axed from school dinner menus and from supermarket shelves in 2005 after

RZA has written a new jingle for ice cream manufacturer Good Humor.The rapper’s new jingle was specifically commissioned by the Minneapolis-based company in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests that began after the killing of George Floyd in the city.The new jingle replaces Good Humor’s original song, ‘Turkey In The Straw’, a song that dates back to the early 19th century, and was used in blackface shows and sometimes accompanied by racist lyrics.For the new song, RZA “drew inspiration from