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Shamrock Capital continues to invest in its content library and catalog. The Los Angeles-based investment firm, which focuses on media, entertainment and communications, has had no trouble attracting investors for its fourth fund for content acquisitions since 2015. This was the year that Shamrock first sought to capture and manage content-related cash flow for individual rights holders. Shamrock disclosed Tuesday that its plan to raise $700 million for Shamrock Capital Content Fund IV, LP was oversubscribed by $813 million. Through its three previous funds, Shamrock currently manages $3.3 billion in assets across equity and fixed income products through its Content…
Brad Pitt was all smiles during a date night with girlfriend Ines de Ramon after his daughter Zahara’s recent snub. The couple attended the Mercedes-AMG world premiere on the Sixth Street Bridge in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The two posed hand in hand on the red carpet. Brad Pitt went on a date night with girlfriend Ines de Ramon following daughter Zahara’s recent fling. WWD (via Getty Images) The couple attended the Mercedes-AMG world premiere on the Sixth Street Bridge in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. WWD (via Getty Images) Pitt, 62, wore a suitable suit for the occasion,…
Budapest-based production company Hero Squared is recruiting partners at Cannes Market for Love Cubed, a service label focused on commercials, music videos and independently financed feature films. Love Cubed is led by Jonathan Halperyn, a former executive at Focus features, and Daniel Kresmery, a former executive at Korda Studios. The pair have also partnered with veteran producer and director Vandad Kashefi, who Krezmery said of his former colleague at Korda Studio: “Vandad is the perfect partner to work with agencies and creatives and dig deep into the creative concept of a project.” The company is currently preparing the Canadian-Hungarian co-production…
Shawn Johnson has opened up about experiencing postpartum depression and feeling “estranged” from her husband Andrew East after giving birth to her third child in 2023. “Our third baby was the greatest blessing, he’s amazing, but he was completely different from the other two,” the Olympic gymnast said on an upcoming episode of the Mind If We Talk podcast, according to E! news. Of her 2-year-old son, Barrett, she says: “He wasn’t eating, he wasn’t sleeping, he was a crying baby at night. It was a lot of things I had never dealt with before…I was losing control.” Shawn Johnson…
Apple’s Eddy Cue is set to win the festival’s Entertainment of the Year award at Cannes Lions next month. The agreement came in recognition of Cue’s role at the helm of the tech giant’s entertainment and services division and the rapid rise of the Apple TV platform since 2019. Qiu, Apple’s senior vice president of services and health, will give the keynote speech on the first day of the event, which will be held from June 22 to 26 in the seaside resort town on the Cote d’Azur. Cue will be speaking with Hollywood veteran Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced last…
Brooks Nader is taking his look to the next level. This model has had a significant year. After appearing on “Dancing with the Stars,” she and her sisters appeared on Hulu’s reality show “Love Ty Nader,” and are getting serious about acting with a role in the upcoming “Baywatch” reboot. In between, Nader makes headlines almost daily for her busy love life and frequent wardrobe malfunctions, the latter of which is known for her cheeky rants to her over 1 million Instagram followers. And now, the blonde bombshell is enhancing her signature risqué style with the help of Hollywood stylist…
Shamrock Capital continues to invest in its content library and catalog. The Los Angeles-based investment firm, which focuses on media, entertainment and communications, has had no trouble attracting investors for its fourth fund for content acquisitions since 2015. This was the year that Shamrock first sought to capture and manage content-related cash flow for individual rights holders. Shamrock disclosed Tuesday that its plan to raise $700 million for Shamrock Capital Content Fund IV, LP was oversubscribed by $813 million. Through its three previous funds, Shamrock currently manages $3.3 billion in assets across equity and fixed income products through its Content…
Matthew Perry’s mother, Suzanne Perry, has criticized the behavior of her late son’s assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, at his funeral. On Wednesday, the 82-year-old wrote and read an emotional victim impact statement as Iwamasa was sentenced for helping supply the ketamine that ultimately killed Matthew in October 2023. “He insisted on speaking at Matthew’s funeral,” the letter, included in court documents obtained by Page Six, said. “He was clinging to me and my family like he was a good person trying to save Matthew.” Suzanne added that she “kept a keen eye” on Iwamasa even after he “murdered” her son. Matthew…
A video game based on author Frank Bedder’s best-selling novel “The Looking Glass Wars” is set to launch this summer in the first push of plans to further expand the series across mediums. The deck-building game, titled “The Looking Glass Wars: House of Cards,” is being released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Vedder trilogy, which reimagines Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” as a repressed history of Princess Alice’s Heart of Wonderland. According to the new game’s description, “In a departure from the traditional Alice in Wonderland whimsy, The Looking Glass Wars: House of Cards transports players…
I’m booked and busy. Blake Lively was all smiles at a star-studded Fendi event after settling a lawsuit with her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni. On Tuesday, the “Gossip Girl” actress was present in person to celebrate the luxury fashion house’s Baguette® 26424 reissue at its Madison Avenue flagship store in New York City. She arrived at the event and was all smiles as she posed for photographers. Blake Lively attended a star-studded Fendi event on Tuesday (see above). GC images The “Gossip Girl” alum celebrated the fashion house’s Baguette® 26424 reissue at New York’s Madison Avenue flagship…