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...Redstone’s father used his tax law training to concoct complex transactions including acquisitions of Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS....
...Paramount chief executive Bob Bakish also discussed a possible combination over lunch with Warner CEO David Zaslav in mid-December....
..., both featuring the artists’ voices as well as their pictures....
...For Killers of the Flower Moon, Apple is working with Paramount, which owned the rights to the celebrated David Grann book on which the film is based but was not willing to cover the cost of the film....
...The studio points to recent deals with George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, M....
...Protecting and promoting his father’s work is paramount for Benjamin, but inevitably it is sometimes painful....
...Disney, NBCUniversal and Paramount lost a combined $8.3bn on their streamers. Overnight, Wall Street decided that chasing subscriber growth was not the play — profitability was....
...He led Paramount Pictures in the 1970s and 1980s, producing blockbuster films including Grease and Raiders of the Lost Ark, before building up Fox Broadcasting for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Safety is paramount: if Google Photos’ facial recognition system fails to correctly identify a person in a picture, it is inconvenient; if a Waymo vehicle does not spot a pedestrian, it could be fatal....
...“It’s not that the streaming services are going to put the incumbents out of business,” says Barry Diller, who ran Paramount Pictures in the 1970s and these days controls a digital empire that includes Expedia...
...“No one has ever come close to succeeding in competing with Facebook,” said David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect. “It is almost silly.”...
...And yet, he says, technocrats like Ms Lagarde still miss the bigger picture by continuing to push for trade agreements and ever more open economies despite the protests....
...There can only be one winner in the case of the actor Harry Shearer v Vivendi, the French media group, over royalties from the 1984 film, This is Spinal Tap....
...Soon after he moved to Paramount, where he worked under Barry Diller and Michael Eisner....
...With strong words such as “indecision now leads to trouble later”, “no more stimulus for a v-shaped recovery” and “must bury ‘zombie’ companies”, it shows strong resolve to reform, without losing sight of...
...For cable operators, the picture is much better....
...First, this v probably proves that China’s rehardening of its capital borders is working. Bad news for Macau casinos and anyone else reliant on that cashflow....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...Paramount Pictures released the biggest grossing film of 2014, Transformers: Age of Extinction....
...This article has been amended since first publication to show correct figures for the chart labelled “Traditional v online TV”. Back to the top of the page...
...There’s a reason “David v Goliath” has become the favoured Oscar narrative over the past 10 years: it exactly reproduces the contours of an industry that has itself bifurcated between studio spectacle and...
...Third-quarter earnings, however, paint a mixed picture....
...In the mid-1970s, he was appointed chairman of the then struggling Paramount Pictures and restored sheen to the studio with movies such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Raiders of the Lost Ark, as well...
...Mr Diller, a former head of Paramount Pictures and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox broadcasting company, has amassed an eclectic collection of digital brands....
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