Grey’s Anatomy producer Mark Gordon (left) has become Entertainment One’s president and chief content officer following a US$209 million deal, with John Morayniss exiting. eOne has bought the 49% of Gordon’s prodco, The Mark Gordon Company, that it didn’t already own and installed the exec at the top of its creative division. Gordon is now […]
John Morayniss tells Jesse Whittock how North American distributor Entertainment One is evolving, while the company’s new Asia sales chief, Joyce Yeung, outlines the local opportunities John Morayniss is convinced Entertainment One has created a model other companies could, and probably should, follow. The Toronto-listed firm recently did away with the divisions between its film […]
Entertainment One has placed John Morayniss and Steve Bertram at the top of a newly unified business structure. The pair have been appointed co-presidents of the consolidated eOne structure, which means film and TV production and distribution are under one roof. Morayniss was previously CEO of Entertainment One Television, while Bertram ran the film arm, […]
Entertainment One has posted revenues of more than £1 billion (US$1.4 billion) as it revealed plans to merge its television and film assets into a single studio operation. With eOne attempting to double in size in the five years between 2015 and 2020, the firm is planning on bringing the film and TV divisions together. […]
Entertainment One Family is to once again expand its cash cow children’s property Peppa Pig. The company is lining up 117 new episodes of the Astley Baker Davies-created preschool series, taking the overall number to 381 by 2023. New episodes from season seven will roll out to the end of 2018, before the 117 in […]
Transatlantic producer-distributor Entertainment One and Comcast-owned Universal have put their weight behind a new content creation company from New Regency CEO Brad Weston. Culver City-based Makeready will aim at developing and producing original films and TV series for premium cable, OTT and emerging platforms worldwide. eOne, which has an option to acquire 100% of the […]
Joe Sparacio has been named the CFO of Entertainment One. He has been filling the finance role on an interim basis at the independent film and TV studio since last November and now takes the position on a full-time basis. Sparacio has several decades of experience in the media sector, largely on the film side […]
Steven Spielberg’s new US content company, Amblin Partners, has extended CEO Michael Wright’s contract “for multiple years into the future”. This comes after Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios, Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment and Entertainment One united to create film- and TV-focused Amblin Partners in December last year. Wright was at that time named CEO, having joined DreamWorks […]
Steven Spielberg, Entertainment One, Participant Media and Reliance Group have come together to create a content group, Amblin Partners. The new company will use director Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios, Amblin Television and Participant brands to create content for a wide range of audiences in TV and film. Under the Dome producer Amblin Television will become a […]
Entertainment One has issued a statement saying it is on track to deliver its full-year financial targets in the wake of a sharp fall in its share price yesterday. The UK-listed company has recently issued new bonds as part of a refinancing, and in a statement to the London Stock Exchange said that process has […]
