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...This is a really calculated ambush [by streamers and studios] against the lower- and middle-class writers.”...
...We've also drawn a very firm line in the sand against imposing things like gender ideology in our schools. My job is not to kowtow to some woke corporation in Burbank, California....
...It was just the latest bad news in a rolling doom-cloud over Disney headquarters in Burbank, California. Anniversary celebrations are planned until late 2023....
...Murdoch’s $71bn sale of most of 21st Century Fox to Disney at the peak of the media market in 2017 was a financial masterstroke but left his holdings smaller....
...But Barry McCarthy, the former finance chief of Netflix and Spotify who was appointed Peloton’s chief executive last week, told the Financial Times that he was moving from California to New York to seize...
...Speaking after his committee spent several days in California meeting executives including Apple chief executive Tim Cook and Disney boss Bob Iger, Mike Gallagher said he was struck by a general lack of...
...Iger has his own plans to boost profits and undo a management structure introduced under his predecessor, Bob Chapek, that failed to impress Disney’s studio heads....
...Fox’s $70mn was followed by Disney in 2015 with a $200mn stake it quickly doubled....
...Despite many game developers publicly supporting movements such as Black Lives Matter, few have meaningfully addressed a lack of diversity within their own studios....
...Disney is to cut 7,000 jobs, about 3 per cent of its workforce, as part of a cost-saving restructuring....
...In liberal California, it sponsors a string of LGBT+ events at its theme parks in Anaheim....
...For the studios, while huge audiences would clearly still come out for a film, it was harder to know for what....
...Netflix, too, is under pressure from the new competition from Disney Plus, HBO Max and other streaming services heavily funded by traditional studios....
...A new studio space looks directly out on to the corner of 65th Street and Broadway and a 50-foot screen in the lobby will enable visitors to watch concerts for free....
...“We are excited for Next Games to join Netflix as a core studio in a strategic region and key talent market, expanding our internal game studio capabilities,” he said....
...Another executive complained that Netflix had required that their studio assign a showrunner and two directors to one show — an American style of production....
...The investor group acquired Scotland’s largest studio as well as Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York and southern California’s CBS Studio Center, where Seinfeld was shot....
...A cultural anthropologist at Duke University in North Carolina, the 55-year-old grew up cycling from Oregon to California on camping trips....
...Sony executives readily admit that their film and TV studio is “subscale” compared with Disney, Warner Bros and other Hollywood groups....
...This summer Johansson filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney after it released Black Widow on Disney+ at the same time as its theatrical release....
...Gamers have pointed out the irony in the case of Square Enix, whose biggest game, Final Fantasy VII, is an eco-fable about a nefarious corporation profiting from environmental destruction. 3....
...on Disney Plus....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 8 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...“Disney tried and failed to start up a games division three times” in the last 20 years, Pachter added. “Very few movies make it as games . . ....
...Another gaming company, Netmarble, in August created a partnership with Korean production group Studio Dragon and launched a subsidiary called Metaverse Entertainment to explore the production of interactive...
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