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...Major things that changed my perspective were titles like Grand Theft Auto III. For the first time I could wander around in an open world and do almost anything....
...Apollo last week bought a $760mn stake in Legendary, the Chinese-owned movie studio behind Dune and Godzilla, while Blackstone has committed more than $2bn to building a new production company led by former...
...Last month, Apollo injected $760mn into production house Legendary Pictures, the studio behind Dune and Interstellar....
...His third, Churchill Capital III, recently struck an $11bn deal for US healthcare company MultiPlan — the largest transaction to date for a Spac....
...It would in time also come to be recognised as the progenitor of a new entertainment ecosystem....
...Those constraints, especially high capital requirements associated with Basel III, have discouraged bank lending particularly to smaller and more risky companies....
...Property and ship finance would have greater capital and liquidity needs under the Basel III rule book set to be introduced for banks, Commerzbank said (FT)....
...Mr Hands may end up losing £1.75bn of Terra Firma’s and its co-investors’ money on EMI, but he still has €2.4bn left to invest out of the €5.4bn Terra Firma Capital Partners III fund he raised in 2007....
...Or rather, in Adult Entertainment Capital, the err, “alternatives” business run by Milton “Todd” Ault III: entrepreneur, stockbroker, pornographer....
...The sale of $750m (£493m, €551m) worth of 10-year notes for a unit of Harrah Entertainment, the largest US casino operator, was priced initially in 2006 at about $99. Then came the credit crisis....
...Almost every English monarch since George III. Useful for: Impressing overseas clients with Britain’s historical magnificence....
...In October, Harrah’s Entertainment, the world’s biggest casino operator, accepted a $17.1bn takeover from private equity firms Apollo Management and Texas Pacific ....
...The main competition includes The Longest Yard, starring comic actor Adam Sandler, showing in 3,600 theatres and, of course, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, which has grossed close to $200m....
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