Jeff Skoll
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‘Game of Thrones’ Star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to Lead Thriller ‘Shot Caller’
Roman Waugh will direct gangster film, which Relativity in talks to acquire
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Participant’s Jeff Skoll Faces Digital, TV Hurdles as CEO Jim Berk Departs
Philanthropist and billionaire “rolling up his sleeves” to fix socially conscious media company
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Jim Berk Resigns as CEO of Participant Media in Midst of Strategic Review
Jeff Skoll will take over as interim CEO while the company searches for a replacement
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Fox Searchlight Acquires Davis Guggenheim’s Malala Yousafzai Documentary, ‘He Named Me Malala’
Studiocanal will distribute the film about the world’s youngest Nobel Prize winner in France
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Netflix Outbids Hollywood Studios for Idris Elba Drama ‘Beasts of No Nation’
Cary Fukunaga directed the child soldier movie after wrapping the first season of HBO’s “True Detective”
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GKIDS to Release Salma Hayek-Produced ‘Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet’
Hayek, Liam Neeson and John Krasinski all lend their voices to the animated feature
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HBO Acquires Sundance Documentary ‘3 1/2 Minutes’ From Participant Media
The documentary tells story of the shooting death of black teenager Jordan Davis and subsequent trial of his killer, Michael Dunn
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‘Selma’s’ Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo Reuniting for Hurricane Katrina Drama
It will be the director and actor’s third film together since “Middle of Nowhere”
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Veteran Marketing Exec Gillian Sheldon Named SVP for Participant Media’s TakePart
Sheldon most recently spearheaded marketing for canceled talker “Queen Latifah Show” at Sony Pictures Television and helped launch TMZ with Harvey Levin
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Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment to Receive Producers Guild’s Visionary Award
Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will receive honor at the Producers Guild Awards in January
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Participant Media Founder Jeff Skoll Launches Center for Social Impact at UCLA
The project was made possible by a $10 million gift from the entrepreneur
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Kent Rees Named Pivot General Manager as President Evan Shapiro Exits
Rees will assume overall responsibility for the Participant Media-owned network
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Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain Try to Survive ‘A Most Violent Year’ in New Trailer (Video)
The JC Chandor drama set in a crime-ridden New York City circa 1981 will be released on Dec. 31
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‘A Most Violent Year’ With Jessica Chastain Gets December Release, Trailer (Video)
J.C. Chandor’s film opens in New York and Los Angeles before going wide in January 2015
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Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman Movie ‘Out of the Dark’ Lands U.S. Distribution
Vertical Entertainment is planning to release the supernatural thriller in theaters early next year
