The new Paramount owned by Skydance has made it official that Stranger Things architects, the Duffer brothers and their Upside Down Pictures label, are officially coming over to the Melrose Ave lot in a wide-ranging four-year, exclusive deal for feature films, television, and streaming projects. We told you about the new big deal for the David Ellison led Paramount last …
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The dust has settled from the formal announcement of the blockbuster deal between ESPN and the NFL, with the league swapping NFL Network, linear rights to RedZone, NFL Fantasy and other content assets to ESPN for a 10% equity stake in the network. This isn’t a traditional sports “trade,” in which teams exchange star talents or draft picks, but it …
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