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...Its manga comics offering is especially attractive. A blockbuster animated film sequel Demon Slayer, co-distributed by Sony, broke box office records this year....
...In 2020, the manga comic series on which Demon Slayer is based sold more copies than the next nine rival titles combined....
...The lapse of the Dish contract prompted credit analysts at Moody’s to downgrade in May their rating of Diamond Sports Group, Sinclair’s vehicle for its RSN properties....
...But that put a floor on the price for HBO Max, due to the network’s valuable contracts with cable distributors....
...,” commented Paolo Pescatore, an analyst at CCS Insight. “ If anything, this places more importance on Netflix’s own investment in original content and puts into context Netflix’s recent acquisition of comics...
...Originally, the film was to be produced by Pitt’s company, Plan B, with funds from Hollywood distributor New Regency, whose recent projects include Oscar winners 12 Years a Slave and Birdman....
...Participating distributors would get 20 per cent of the $50-per-view proceeds, while consumers would get two free tickets to see a movie at a cinema of their choice....
...Match Group, Inc....
...Canadian mining group Lucara Diamond thinks it has hit the jackpot with valuations of up to $80m....
...But this latest twist on the genre is quite different, given that Marriott is the creator, producer — and distributor — of the videos....
...But he still has to extract commitments from would-be distributors....
...Content remains king, for now, and companies such as Disney have an edge over their distributors....
...“We’ve found that since 2009, a lot of our retail partners and distributors have decided only to attend Las Vegas,” he says....
...Diamond Comics, the world’s largest comic distributor, estimates that revenues in the $600m-plus US comic industry are up 21 per cent this year on 2011’s figures, with graphic novels series up 14 per cent...
...Diamond threatens to drag in BoE: Pressure on Barclays CEO Bob Diamond remains after the bank’s chairman, Marcus Agius, resigned on Monday (Reuters)....
...He is repeating accusations he made to the European Commission, which resulted in an investigation that included raids on Velux’s offices....
...One of her first initiatives was to sign with a bigger New York distributor, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux....
...These include Marvel, bought by Disney for $4bn in 2009, and DC Comics, owned by Time Warner....
...“DKSH has been associated with watches for more than 100 years as a distributor,” says Gonpo Tsering, the executive behind the auctions initiative....
...Tintin, much like French comic series Asterix and America’s Archie Comics, is extremely popular in India, and analysts said the movie version was likely to perform well....
...The world’s biggest distributor of diamonds said average market prices rose by 35 per cent in the six months to June. Production of 15.5m carats was flat....
...Take this logic to its extreme and it isn’t difficult to imagine a distributor paying a film studio to screen a trailer rather than the other way round....
...Anglo American takes control of De Beers Anglo American has agreed to pay the Oppenheimer family $5.1bn to take control of De Beers, the world’s biggest distributor of diamonds, in a sign that deal activity...
...The more urgent question for publishers, and for all content owners watching digital stores become more important distributors, is whether Oprah can replicate her influence online, or whether anyone else...
...It has a new 3D version of Dredd, based on the Judge Dredd comics, in production and is financing Headshot, a Sylvester Stallone film, as well as Area 51, a thriller from the director of Paranormal Activity...
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