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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has appointed former Fox executive Patricia Kamitsuji Managing Director of the studio's operating company in the key Brazil market. The position will report to Mauricio Duran, Universal Pictures International's SVP of Latin America. Kamitsuji has had a career spanning more than two…

John Donovan, whose 11-year AT&T tenure was capped with a two-year run as CEO of telecom unit AT&T Communications, plans to retire on October 1. The 58-year-old executive leads AT&T’s biggest division. Communications serves some 100 million mobile, broadband and pay-TV customers in the U.S., as well as millions of…

From too many years in and around the movie business, I've consciously kept exactly one souvenir. It's a smallish chip of concrete, about 3" x 4", with some daubs of red and blue paint. Ray Stark gave it to me not quite thirty years ago. He was just back from the Berlin Film Festival, which in February of 1990 had…

Former Hulu executive Tim Connolly, who headed partnerships and distribution as one of the high-profile executives for Hollywood upstart Quibi, has left the company. A source at the company said Connolly left in good standing and Quibi thanked him for his leadership and contributions. His departure was first reported…

Ann Sarnoff marked her first day as Warner Bros. CEO with a memo to employees calling for innovation but taking note of significant changes at WarnerMedia and elsewhere. The former Viacom and BBC executive surprised most Hollywood handicappers in winning the job, but her many backers extol her calm and determined…

Participant Media said Thursday that it has hired Fox Searchlight executive Anikah McLaren, and she will team with current Participant exec Robert Kessel to be co-heads of the company’s narrative film division. Both will sport the titles EVP Narrative Film at the company, whose pics in this space include Oscar Best…

Mallory Rubin and Sean Fennessy, two of the founding editors of Bill Simmons’ sports and culture site The Ringer, are moving up in the ranks. Rubin has been promoted to editor in chief of The Ringer, effective October 1, as Fennessy hands over editorial reins and becomes Chief Content Officer. Both have been with the…

EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia's Seven Bucks Companies has hired Maya Lasry as its Chief Marketing Officer, a move the brings her over from Universal Pictures, where she spent nearly seven years most recently as Director of Creative Advertising. The move reunites Lasry and Seven Bucks after she spearheaded…

EXCLUSIVE There have been a handful of exits of Netflix executives from different areas related to kids and family programming, I have learned. I hear the layoffs took place over the past two to three weeks. Five people were impacted. The list includes Jenna Boyd, Director, Kids & Family Original Series; Jill Stewart…

EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Graham, who joined CBS News in 2016 as executive director of communications, has been promoted to vice president. Graham has primarily focused on CBS This Morning and CBS This Morning: Saturday. CBS has sought to differentiate its morning show from Today and Good Morning America by emphasizing news…

EXCLUSIVE: Former The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik is reuniting with the studio behind the long-running hit comedy series, signing a multi-faceted deal with Warner Bros. TV Group. It includes an exclusive two-year pod deal for Bialik’s newly launched production company, Sad Clown Productions, and a talent holding…

Nickelodeon has hired a pair of execs to run its studio model business, producing content for longform movie content and SVOD services. Angelique Yen joins as SVP Physical Production, Nickelodeon Movies, and Eddie Gamarra is VP Studio Business Development for Nickelodeon. Yen is charged with overseeing production all…