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...Another crucial task is to improve performance at Disney’s studios, including Marvel and Pixar....
...Jagex in 2022 acquired Gamepires, the developer of the open-world survival game Scum, and Pipeworks Studios, adding game development expertise and a games-as-a-service platform....
...His top priority is to restore creativity at its movie studios, which have had a string of disappointments this year. In a recent Financial Times interview, Iger said he was doing what Peltz wanted....
...It is increasingly popular as a form of entertainment, similar to live television....
...The chair of Disney’s Marvel studio advocated for the activist in several meetings with senior Disney executives, the company said....
...KKR’s previous media and entertainment investments include ByteDance, Epic Games and Axel Springer....
...Candle has also acquired Moonbug Entertainment, the studio behind the hit children’s show Cocomelon, for $3bn, and bought a $60mn minority stake in Westbrook, Will Smith’s studio....
...So the video game industry is orders of magnitude bigger than other kinds of entertainment....
...“Entertainment is consolidating. Do we really need five lots?”...
...All this with cutting-edge hardware, including the VR headsets and other gear that many believe will be the gateway to the metaverse....
...The deal will consolidate around 30 game studios, sending the $200bn global industry on a mad dash for M&A....
...Sure, all triumphal arches are gateways without walls, but most at least celebrate a triumph....
...“We love [media] content, so . . . in the physical world buying studio space.”...
...Music, for example, was celebrated by Persia’s mystical poets as a gateway to bliss....
...“Animated films are generally family oriented, and note children do not generally see films alone,” said Rance Pow, cinema analyst at Artisan Gateway....
...Among his less conventional investments, he worked with Yale classmate Bob Simonds to create STX Entertainment, a movie studio geared towards new opportunities such as Chinese cinema distribution and subscription...
...“We are a city full of creative people, and Frieze is the best gateway,” she says. The Paramount backdrop boosts her confidence....
...Home entertainment has always been a ruthless business, but games consoles’ 50-year territorial war for the living room has been endlessly brutal....
...“Prosperity,” runs a well-worn Japanese saying, “enters through the gateway of laughter.”...
...Angry Birds maker Rovio Entertainment has announced plans for an IPO, with the Finnish mobile games and animation studio intending to list its shares in Helsinki to raise at least €30m....
...U2 Songs of Experience (Island) While continuing to fill the world’s stadiums with lavishly staged entertainments, late-period U2 have not had the best time in the studio....
...Midsize M&A bubble LPs beware — the prices of midsize companies favoured by private equity investors (enterprise value of up to $1bn) keep setting record highs....
...“Netflix is still the gateway service,” Mr Barrett said....
...Wanda notched up over $7bn in spending during its overseas shopping spree over the past two years — including a probably-too-high $3.5bn for Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment — though it’s been impossible...
...Now it is also a gateway to the internet and streaming services, from Netflix to Amazon. “It’s a connectivity business and it’s a video retailer,” he says....
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