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...Rupert Murdoch sold his treasured television and film studios to Disney for $71bn while America’s biggest phone company paid $80bn to buy Time Warner’s Hollywood empire....
...“Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner” — to understand everything is to forgive everything....
...be household names in the same way Disney’s X-Men or Star Wars franchises are, Netflix has proved itself adept at leveraging its production know-how and transforming lesser known titles into successful films...
...When Arthur C Clarke wrote about extraterrestrial relays orbiting the earth, the year was 1945. Now they are multi-billion dollar industries. We all watch rocket launches on TV and think that's space....
...Rupert Murdoch is betting C$455m (US$415m) on romance....
...The Blockbuster stores cover 108 cities in Mexico, and are mainly located in the B and C demographic areas, which will expand the customer base of Grupo Elektra....
...There is one crucial difference between the series and other expensively produced TV shows featuring A-list film talent more familiar to audiences from their appearances on the big screen....
...The British Academy for Film and Television now hands out gongs for games, as does New York’s Tribeca Film Festival. Even the venerable Louvre recently announced a joint venture with Nintendo....
...By comparison, it valued cable networks at $29.7bn, and the Fox film studio at $7bn....
...Film revenues fell due to lower home-entertainment sales. Theme park revenues rose on the back of the Harry Potter attraction in Orlando....
...However, the later-than-expected promotion for the English-language film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara – delayed sales for the tie-in book, prompting...
...The rise brought renewed attention to the tiny orange juice market, which, along with pork bellies, briefly entered public consciousness in the 1983 film Trading Places but is today an obscure corner of...
...First Solar , the world’s largest maker of thin film solar panels, was boosted by news that it had sold its Topaz solar farm in Southern California to MidAmerican Energy, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’...
...While renting out old shows and films individually or on subscription generates some extra cash, there is little incentive to encourage a full à la carte system....
...acquisitions said there could be significant savings for News Corp’s satellite broadcast interests – the wholly owned Sky Italia and 45 per cent-owned Sky Deutschland – if they could join with BSkyB to bid for films...
...Comcast’s bid for control of one of Hollywood’s biggest film studio and television networks would give it unrivalled power over the creation and distribution of news and entertainment in the US....
...their valuation of the French group’s stake in NBC Universal, damping hopes of a quick resolution to a stand-off that is holding up Comcast’s planned bid for a majority stake in the US broadcast, cable and film...
...At say $1 per gigabyte of data over a monthly download limit, it would cost $4 to download a typical high-definition film, estimates Bernstein Research, similar to the price for hiring it....
...The owner of the Warner Brothers film studio and CNN has offered holders of debt that was secured by the internet division a payment of $5 for every $1,000 worth of debt and will guarantee the debt with...
...The Dark Knight, the latest Batman film, has raked in close to a billion dollars since its July debut, becoming the second-highest grossing film of all time behind Titanic....
...The conventional wisdom is that businesses such as film fare better in a slowdown because they offer affordable entertainment....
...At its film division, which includes Warner Brothers, operating profit fell 34 per cent to $243m, due to weaker sales of the DVDs of Happy Feet, The Departed and Blood Diamond, compared with sales of Harry...
...During many a night in London, as the dinner hour rolls by, I find myself thinking about a young Englishwoman I met years ago in Washington, D.C. It was a chance encounter....
...In recent weeks, the push to make the most popular television and film content available at the push of a button has gained momentum....
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