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...They face a similarly bleak future, scrambling under the weight of costly pre-pandemic productions with nowhere to go except the streaming stratosphere....
...Another notable made-for-Chinese-audience film to disappoint was The Great Wall, a co-production last year financed partly by Dalian Wanda — whose chairman, Wang Jianlin, said the film had not lived up to...
...In late December, the Ministry of Commerce said it was monitoring closely all cross-border deals involving the purchase of land, hotels, film production and entertainment assets....
...Initiative industry group....
...Peer Tencent, too, is tied to Legendary Pictures through its movie-production unit: the two are partnered for Warcraft....
...Tom Rothman, chairman of Sony Pictures’ motion picture group, said as much in a recent interview with Variety....
...WPP has also funded the production of television programmes through GroupM Entertainment, such as a series on Cilla Black’s rise to fame on ITV last year....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...Five years ago, Viacom paid $60m to two little-known media companies, the Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment, for the rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the comic book series that had already been...
...“They are made by a group of people that have an international complexion.”...
...Last month it celebrated the sale of its 25 billionth song, just one of the 15,000 songs downloaded each minute on iTunes worldwide....
...The enlarged Universal Music group will account for a third of all music sales worldwide....
...Disney recently moved to take full control of UTV, one of Bollywood’s largest entertainment groups, bidding $454m for shares in the company that it did not already own, to give it a bigger foothold in the...
...This was partly because of competition from satellite operators and telecommunications groups such as Verizon....
...It scored a healthy result at the box office, generating close to $500m worldwide....
...The FT Christmas Quiz is open to participants worldwide (where permitted)....
...But owners suddenly decided they did not need that fancy new audiovisual entertainment system for their superyacht. “The luxuries are being postponed or cut,” says Horner....
...At the very least it must show that it can earn a higher return on capital from Lonely Planet than it could from investing in new BBC production....
...Recorded music sales have fallen by 24 per cent worldwide since 1999 as digital piracy presented the industry’s core teenage audience with unprecedented opportunities to access its products for free....
...Others have stayed to fight it out, among them Toshiba, the Japanese group that has been making laptops for 20 years, and is currently the third largest vendor worldwide, according to research group IDC....
...Online presence is also a key feature of BBC Motion Gallery’s main rival, ITN Archive, whose current 500,000-hour collection spans every production genre....
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