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NBCUniversal veteran Sumithra Barry is leaving the company after almost two decades. For the past three years, she served as SVP, Content and Consumer Insights, Entertainment Networks at NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. Barry's departure is part of a round of layoffs within the NBCUniversal…

EXCLUSIVE: The impact from the double Hollywood strikes continues to be felt. UTA is the latest talent agency to go through staff reductions over the past six months. Sources say due to a small reorganization of some groups at the agency, a small number of agents and employees from other groups are being…

EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks Animation is making cuts and slashing 4% of its staff. We understand that the cuts are due to the downward cyclical turn in the business, rising production costs and the strikes. “DreamWorks Animation reduced its workforce by approximately 70 positions,” a DWA spokesperson told…

Add Anonymous Content to the list of entertainment companies hit by layoffs, as Deadline has confirmed that around 8% of staffers were let go on Friday. Cuts at the company, heretofore home to around 170 people, were attributed by sources to efforts to remain competitive, during a time of reckoning…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris McCumber is departing Blumhouse Television after three years as President. The unit’s President of Production, Jeremy Gold, will step into the top role on an interim basis. A search is underway for a new head of the TV group, which is getting downsized, with several people — believed to…

EXCLUSIVE: There are layoffs happening today across Amazon communications divisions domestically and in several other countries, sources tell Deadline. We hear that more than 5% of the workforce is impacted in the communications divisions of Amazon Studios, Prime Video and Music. Across the entire…

This week, the big story is a presumed return to talks between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the striking Writers Guild of America. May things go well. But last week's still lingering narrative — apart from guild collisions with Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher — is all…

EXCLUSIVE: Just weeks after laying off dozens in its London HQ, DNEG, the company responsible for the VFX on movies such as Dune and Oppenheimer, is asking staff to take up to 25% pay cuts or join a loan scheme, as work slows to a standstill due to the strikes. Insiders believe their contracts will be…

Disney CEO Bob Iger’s bombshell July comments that the linear TV business "may not be core" to the company brought a lot of anxiety for those working at any of the Disney’s linear networks. There was more reason for concern this morning when Disney and Charter announced a new agreement after 10 days…

Roku is laying off around 10% of staff as it “performs a strategic review of [its] content portfolio.” The media company will be hit with a restructuring charge of around $45 million to $65 million following the redundancy process, which will hit around 300 staffers. The redundancies and charges…

Barstool Sports is the latest digital media company to undergo layoffs. Founder Dave Portnoy revealed the news on a video on Barstool's own YouTube channel. "I've been very clear, to anyone who has paid attention, we are going to have layoffs and cuts and it's started and it sucks. People who…

Lucasfilm is closing its Singapore visual effects and animation studio after nearly two decades, potentially leading to around 300 layoffs. Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) VFX and animation studio opened in the nation in 2004 to work on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The team moved into the…