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Paul Bales of genre production group The Asylum (Sharknado, Blind Waters) has been elected the new chair of the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA). He succeeds outgoing chair Clay Epstein of Film Mode Entertainment, who served two consecutive two-year terms. Bales has been a partner and chief operating officer at The Asylum since 2006.

As Paramount Skydance undertakes a major round of layoffs affecting 1,000 employees, one of the company’s two TV studios is also reorganizing its executive team. Paramount Television Studios head Matt Thunell announced a number of changes to the studio’s leadership in a memo to staff on Thursday (read it in full, below). The recently revived

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters in Washington on Feb. 2. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new guidance that threatens ongoing state efforts to keep that debt off consumers’ credit reports. More than a dozen states, including Washington, Oregon

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