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Exclusive: Effective immediately, Walt Disney’s President of Motion Picture Studios Sean Bailey, who turned the company’s animation vault into a multibillion-dollar live-action movie business, is departing after 15 years on the lot. Searchlight co-president David Greenbaum will take on a newly created role. He’ll be president of Disney Live action and president of 20th Century Studios.

Greenbaum’s new title will be President, Disney Live Action and 20th Century Studios. He’ll report to Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman. Steve Asbell will continue to serve as President, 20th Century Studios, a role he’s had since March 2020. He will report to Greenbaum.

This splits up the Searchlight Pictures executive team of Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield, two of the most highly regarded execs in the prestige film space who right now have Poor Things squarely in the Best Picture race and other Oscar categories. That duo succeeded longtime leaders Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley,...

Actor Ben Affleck's cancelled TV show Push, Nevada has still managed to put a smile on someone's face - a clever viewer has just won $1 million. TV network ABC has announced that 24-year-old Mark Nakamoto, an assistant editor for a Manhattan, New York, publisher has won the cash from the defunct show after solving the clues that led to the prize. New Jersey resident was the first to call in on October 28 within two minutes after the final clue was revealed. The game, which required routine viewing of the series and online participation, drew an estimated 600,000 players, says ABC.

Has ABC finally turned the corner? Three weeks into the new season, the Walt Disney Co.-owned network has hardly repaired all the damage from the implosion of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and the resulting double-digit declines last season. Indeed, NBC won the crucial 18-49 demo and CBS took the prize for total viewers for the week ending Oct. 13, according to figures from Nielsen Media Research. ABC was actually off 3% in 18-49, compared with the same period last year. Still, there's no denying that the alphabet net has been spelling comeback lately. Virtually shut out of the top 20 during last year's doldrums, ABC now has several contenders there. Perhaps most notably, the mating call of The Bachelor drowned out NBC's The West Wing by 3 share points last week. The family sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, meanwhile, is building again after the typical post-premiere drop-off; last week's fourth episode was up 9% from the third. Even The Practice, which wobbled last season, looks like a solid winner in its Sunday slot. Of course, the net still has some major holes, having axed the low-rated new dramas Push, Nevada and That Was Then. Thursday nights in particular are likely to remain problematic for some time. But ABC now stands a good chance of remaining flat in the November sweep, which few thought likely even a few weeks ago.