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...The characters behind Evergrande’s liquidation If life had taken a slightly different turn, Eddie Middleton could have spent the past 25 years or so as a UK nightclub mogul....
...Instead, Mirren said, the bottom line remained the same as it ever was: “What is fantastic is that Barbie was the highest grossing film Warner Bros have had in their lives.”...
...Mark Warner, the Virginia senator, warned Manchin to stay out of the 2024 race in an interview with CNN this week. “Give him his space to advocate processes and bipartisanship....
...Thiele’s son, Bob Jr, a long-term Valentine collaborator, now heads the rebooted label which has co-produced this album....
...Nolan ended his relationship with Warner Bros in 2020....
...Alibaba shake-up: Incoming chief Eddie Wu will have to oversee the break-up of the Chinese tech empire he built with “close, trusted” mentor Jack Ma....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...US, president Joe Biden welcomes his Philippine counterpart Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr for a bilateral meeting at the White House....
...Warner Music buys David Bowie songbook The $250m deal is the latest move in the frenzy to own music copyright that has attracted billions of dollars from investors....
...AT&T has appointed seven directors to the board of Warner Bros Discovery as it prepares to spin off WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery, including former PwC chair Samuel Di Piazza Jr as chair....
...Twitter and Facebook have ignored calls to ban Robert F Kennedy Jr from their platforms despite concerns over his latest documentary which critics say appears aimed at discouraging black Americans from getting...
...It has only ever had two owners: a podiatrist from Chicago, Carrie Warner, and her own family. She shows me photos of Ms Warner in a small truck. “This woman came up here and did this for herself....
...Edgar Bronfman Jr, who then led Warner Music, warned that it would create “one innovation-stifling dominant player”....
...Hearn Jr, long teased as Silver Spoon by his dad, is now arguably the world’s most powerful boxing promoter, occupying a role once held by Don King....
...Eddie Hearn, the British boxing promoter who is taking over his father Barry’s business, has said of Succession: “It’s just like us!”...
...Children got the worst of it, from Robert Downey Jr’s ludicrous Dolittle to the bloodless Artemis Fowl and a botched take on Roald Dahl’s The Witches....
...He reckons attitudes, at least within rugby, are changing fast and points to the example set by England head coach Eddie Jones, an Australian with Japanese heritage: “Eddie has always [said] we need diversity...
...(FT) Lunch with the FT: Eddie Hearn The Hearns are sport’s turnround specialists. Hearn Sr has brought darts and snooker to new fans and financial heights....
...Hugs are shared between gentle charmer Otis (Clarke Peters), prosperous Eddie (Norm Lewis), practical-minded Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr) — and the raging, self-loathing Paul (Delroy Lindo)....
...Competition to buy up large catalogues to take on music majors Sony, Universal and Warner Music, has driven up the price of rights....
...Elliott has taken aim at two of AT&T’s largest buys: DirecTV and Time Warner....
...Director Leo Warner, working with digital design company 59 Productions, bisects the cavernous space with a shimmering, lantern-lit canal, builds towers and platforms, and sends huge projections of deserts...
...Floyd Mayweather Jr, the US boxer, earned $275m from a single boxing bout with UFC star Conor McGregor last year, according to Forbes....
...“Our company is pretty good at taking three or four things and putting them together,” Orbison Jr says....
...“I knew next to nothing — maybe not even next to — about what he was doing in Russia,” says Edgar Bronfman Jr, the US businessman who later sold him the rest of Warner Music....
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