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...Century and the classic Disney studios....
...The valuation multiple now ascribed to ESPN may be too low for Disney’s business, which includes theme parks and the movie studio....
...But investors have soured on the group as it competes in a costly streaming battle with larger competitors such as Disney and Netflix....
...Investors are sceptical that the group can compete in a cut-throat streaming business in which it is battling against much larger groups such as Disney, Netflix and Amazon....
...She has held talks about selling the Hollywood studio to Skydance, the production company behind Top Gun: Maverick, people familiar with the matter say....
...But the entrance of Disney — the entertainment giant behind Mickey Mouse and Pixar animation studios — into gambling, a product linked to addiction, is not without risks....
...At Warner’s movie studios, Zaslav acknowledged that there were “some real misses” over the past year....
...Elyssa Phillips, an actor, comedian and writer who served as a strike captain outside the Disney studio lot, said she was “crying tears of joy” when she heard the news on Wednesday that the industrial action...
...and Disney now....
...But after Walt Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and the then Time Warner launched their own streaming services, they pulled many of their shows from Netflix to avoid feeding a company that had grown into...
...Pixar’s latest film Elemental posted the worst opening weekend results in the studio’s 28-year history, intensifying concerns that the Disney-owned studio behind the Toy Story franchise has lost its way....
...Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global are in early talks to merge, in a media deal that would combine the owner of HBO and CNN with the studio behind the Mission Impossible films and CBS News....
...Terrified by television, studios flung money at spectacle, such as 3D films, but kept losing money....
...So much so that this studiedly inoffensive film (directed by Peter Sohn) has been spoken of as a grave omen for the whole future of Pixar; a colourful albatross haunting parent company Disney....
...Mattel is just as enthusiastic an exploiter as any studio of its brands, which include Hot Wheels, American Girl and Barney....
...“Employment as a writer has almost nothing in common with standard ‘gigs’ jobs,” said the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a group that includes major studios such as Disney, Warner Bros...
...The studio trimmed rows of ficus trees along one strike route, depriving the picketers of shade. At another studio entrance, sidewalks were walled off for construction work....
...Disney is in the process of cutting 7,000 jobs, after billions of dollars in losses from streaming forced a reckoning for Hollywood studios....
...He was holding court on the Fox studio lot in Los Angeles this week, one of these people said, and told staff on Thursday that he was in “robust health”....
...However, the only service Disney announced for the device at launch was its existing Disney Plus video streaming content....
...When the company reports results on Wednesday, investors will want to hear Iger’s plan for improving the performance of its vaunted movie studios, which have delivered several box office disappointments...
...Warner and Disney have laid off thousands of workers as they try to cut their expenses....
...Zaslav’s austerity campaign presaged the restructuring under way at other studios, including at Disney, where Iger is culling 7,000 jobs as part of an effort to cut costs by $5.5bn....
...Following the footsteps of Netflix, other global streaming services such as Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus are also increasing investment in South Korea....
...Apple and Disney declined to comment....
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