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...All3Media has attracted interest from rival companies including Banijay, the French TV production group, Goldman Sachs, Sony and The North Road Company, a studio run by former Fox Group boss Peter Chernin...
...The prediction reveals how vital legacy television remains for content producers. Yet the broadcaster showing this year’s game, Paramount, is traditional television’s most distressed provider....
...Like other legacy entertainment companies, Warner is facing a sharp decline in its traditional television business....
...“Without you, we’d just be Netflix,” Fox Sports chief executive Eric Shanks told advertisers this week in lower Manhattan, where a succession of Fox executives touted their programming — and took jabs at...
...SV Projects, the US-registered entity that Son used to buy the property, mortgaged the house to secure a ¥10bn loan — worth $92mn at the time — from Japanese bank Mizuho to SV America, another Delaware entity...
...Then he landed a coveted spot on a television writers’ programme at Warner Bros, which led to a writing job on an HBO show....
...“He has his work cut out for him — the ratings and profits are down,” said Marty Kaplan, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of Southern California....
...I went last week into a restaurant in Jersey City that was an old Italian couple’s house. It was called 15 Fox Place. And you just sit there and eat for 2.5 hours. They bring things out....
...Industry royalty spooked by upstart Netflix, a Hollywood studio for whom cinema was just another platform....
...In 2020, it became the most expensive property in California history. The buyer, at $165mn, was Jeff Bezos....
...The entity was thought to be so foolproof that its $10.6bn purchase of the Fox assets was funded with just $1.4bn of common equity. But in sports there are upsets....
...It is designed to rival Tonal, a cable-pulley weight system manufactured by a Peloton competitor. Unlike Tonal, Cobra does not attach to a wall and pairs with a television rather than a touch screen....
...Both the studios and the leagues are hesitant, because they still make a lot of money from TV....
...It's the most valuable entertainment company in the world even after its stock price has declined quite a bit. It's got huge studios - Fox Television, the ABC and ESPN TV networks....
...Fortress executives speak highly of Vice’s studio and television news units, as well as the Virtue ad agency. They are less keen on Vice’s online publishing business, where they will look to cut costs....
...(WSJ $) — Electrical-grid emergency declared in California, as heatwave creates threat of blackouts (KTVU FOX 2) — ICYMI: Cineworld incorrectly reported its biggest shareholder (FT)...
...For the studios, while huge audiences would clearly still come out for a film, it was harder to know for what....
...One sign of this can be seen in the ESG-bashing statements from figures such as the Fox television host Tucker Carlson and former vice-president Mike Pence....
...Several days later, she was a guest on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight. Gold was becoming famous. And infamous. Both hospitals she worked for in California stopped allowing her to come to work....
...US and international television rights from the production can reach more than $100mn a year....
...The California-based streaming service will pay €65mn in cash for Next Games, which alongside Stranger Things has also created adaptations of The Walking Dead television show....
...The music business has very different dynamics from those of television and film. First, music is highly concentrated — four entities control nearly 80 per cent of Spotify’s music catalogue....
...A former Ikea store in Burbank, California has been repurposed into a television production site where shows such as Netflix’s Floor is Lava, in which contestants must navigate rooms filled with red slime...
...Antoine Gara, the FT’s US private and institutional capital reporter, tells the story of the bidding war that brought them together in a deep dive on the California-based buyout group....
...Diller became one of Hollywood’s most successful film and television producers and Geffen became a music mogul, but both built the bulk of their multibillion-dollar fortunes as investors....
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