by Michael Schneider | Variety Byron Allen got his first big break at age 18 in 1979 as a standup comedian on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” More than 45 years later, Allen is now a media mogul: But he’s still got his eyes on a late night prize....
By Anthony D'Alessandro, Jill Goldsmith, Dade Hayes | Deadline Deadline has confirmed that Byron Allen is taking another run at BET Media Group in a $3.5 billion bid sent to Paramount Global for BET and VH1. The offer followed a report that Paramount is in talks to...
By Anthony D'Alessandro | Deadline Entertainment Studios CEO, chairman and founder Byron Allen touched several topics in his CinemaCon breakfast session today, from his beginnings as a kid hanging around the Universal and NBC lots where his mother worked to breaking...
by Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Hollywood Today, Entertainment Studios has broadened its awards season release of Hostiles, the Scott Cooper-directed Western that stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi. It is the biggest prestige film play so far for...
Barry Cooper | All Digitocracy Allen — who this summer purchased TheGrio — and the National Association of African-American Owned Media say Charter conspired to keep black-owned media off cable TV. Entrepreneur Byron Allen, who purchased TheGrio in June, is filing...