MORE NEWS 🏷️ Paramount Advertising President John Halley will segue to a consulting role before departing the company in March, Deadline has confirmed, in the wake of the company's recent hiring of a chief revenue officer. Halley started at Viacom in 2007. 👋 Steve Spira, Warner Bros' President of Business Affairs, will be leaving at the end of the year, we have learned. Spira reported directly into Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Motion Picture Chairpeople Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. 🧹 Author Gregory Maguire, whose 1995 novel inspired the Broadway phenomenon-turned-Universal blockbuster Wicked, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, is returning to the land of Oz with a prequel novel exploring the beginnings of the Good Witch. The tome will be titled Galinda: A Charmed Childhood. 🎬 First Lady Melania Trump said Friday that she has launched a production company, Muse Films, news that comes ahead of the release of an Amazon MGM Studios feature documentary about her. 👀 Claudia Black, who played Nightsister Klothow in Season 1 of Ahsoka on Disney+, is not returning to the show after she revealed that she “had to bow out” for the sophomore season of the Dave Filoni series, explaining that the pay was not enough for her to be away from home for filming. |