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...Hollywood entertainment group Endeavor and its private equity partner Silver Lake, which have controlled Learfield since 2018, will become minority partners under the restructuring terms....
...Creative Artists Agency’s top staff are in line to pocket more than $200mn as part of the acquisition of the Hollywood talent agency by the Pinault family, according to terms of the deal obtained by the...
...It likened the situation to French supermarket chain Casino, which fell into an insolvency process last year that largely wiped out shareholders....
...Wayne Newton, the singer and actor known as “Mr Las Vegas”, took the stage this week at the Mandalay Bay Casino flanked by two sequin-bedecked showgirls not for a show of his own but to hand out tickets...
...But in Tinseltown there looms a large windfall for some super-agents representing Hollywood royalty that is coming from one of the year’s largest deals....
...The Hollywood actors and writers strikes last year were also about this race to the bottom, in which more and more creative, white-collar jobs will be done by software....
...Flaring tensions in Hollywood Nearly six months of strikes in Hollywood have weighed heavily on Endeavor, causing it to lose $25mn a month, Emanuel said recently....
...The agency’s other top Hollywood clients include Scarlett Johansson, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Steven Spielberg....
...The Hotel Georgia quickly became popular with the well-heeled and famous, including Hollywood stars and royalty, from Laurence Olivier and John Wayne to future British king Edward, Prince of Wales, and his...
...US private equity group Silver Lake is considering taking Endeavor Group private, with a potential deal for Ari Emanuel’s Hollywood talent agency that would be one of the year’s largest buyouts....
...Lions Gate Entertainment, the Hollywood studio that owns Starz, said last year that it was looking to sell or spin off the business, with vice-chair Michael Burns citing recent “transaction multiples” as...
...Ohtani is represented by Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood talent giant acquired this year by the Pinault family....
...Křetínský has now been employing a similar strategy across unloved media, retail and infrastructure assets, including a winning offer to bail out the debt-laden French food retailer Casino and talks to buy...
...The share price slump has pushed Entain’s market capitalisation to £5.2bn, well below the value of 2021 takeover offers the group received from Las Vegas-based casino group MGM International and Boston-based...
...Springtime in Cannes for many people means one thing: the 12 days in May when the Hollywood stars align to bring glamour to the Croisette, as they have been for nearly 80 years....
...Too many and a market begins to look like a casino and raises suspicions of stock manipulation. But they’re not easy to prevent....
...Hedge funds and asset managers can buy those instruments, and trade them in Macau — a place better known for casinos than financial services....
...Wall Street to Hollywood Despite being an entertainment outsider, Mike Cavanagh’s years spent steering JPMorgan through the financial crisis made good practice for his latest role turning round NBCUniversal...
...“He’s now referred to as a Hollywood mogul. Not an agent, a Hollywood mogul. He almost willed that into reality,” said a media executive....
...The Hollywood powerbroker turned to Raine for advice on a series of transactions that have pieced together Endeavor, his talent agency that has grown to span media and events....
...Out of luck Jean-Charles Naouri had a chance to salvage Casino five years ago and blew it. Now, the French tycoon’s tight grip over the debt-crippled grocery empire has backfired, the FT reports....
...From meetings with the CIA to an engrossing interview with Sam Bankman-Fried, McKenzie shows he is equally comfortable with economics and investigative journalism, as he is with Hollywood....
...Inbox: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Stoner Cats 2 LLC (SC2) with conducting an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities in the form of purported non-fungible tokens (NFTs...
...“People are worried across the board,” said Steve Kram, chief executive of investment group Content Partners, LLC, and former chief operating officer of William Morris Agency....
...How WWE and UFC will pack a punch Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel and professional wrestling impresario Vince McMahon know what it takes to write a script....
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