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...acquisition by US Danaher (FT) THG shares plummet after group lowers annual sales forecast (FT) Private capital sector too complacent about risks, says global regulatory body (FT) AMC Entertainment: Cinema...
...Hollywood executives are bracing for a brutal “year of turmoil” as the entertainment business faces the combined threat of an economic recession, slower streaming growth, a cinema industry on life support...
...One former senior Disney executive said that when the pandemic struck, pummelling Disney’s theme park and cinema businesses, any lingering notion of a big Hulu international expansion died....
...Ray Dalio and Hollywood film-maker James Cameron have bought an equity stake in a submarine maker that allows the ultra-wealthy yachting class to explore the remotest parts of the planet....
...Several cinema groups, including Cineworld, have struck deals with Hollywood studios in recent months to give them a protected period to show films in cinemas before studios move them to their streaming...
...The postponement of the majority of Hollywood releases in the autumn, including the long-awaited new James Bond film, pushed the company to close its 670 cinemas across the US and UK and seek $750m in emergency...
...Embattled for months by the fallout of the coronavirus, cinema chains such as AMC and Cinemark are staring deep into the abyss of bankruptcy and their hope of being saved by Hollywood studios is all but...
...He has dismissed cinéma vérité as “the accountant’s truth”, striving instead for a deeper poetic truth even in his non-fiction work....
...Todd Boehly, the entertainment investor, is bringing together three Hollywood companies in a complex deal that will merge the maker of House of Cards with the owner of The Hollywood Reporter magazine and...
...He took over the British cinema interests of MGM in 1995, creating Virgin Cinemas in partnership with Richard Branson....
...Today’s battles are less between studios, agents and cinema chains than the Hollywood establishment and streaming services such as Netflix....
...Among Dalian Wanda’s notable offshore deals, the conglomerate bought Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment for $3.5bn in January 2016 and US cinema chain AMC for $2.6bn in May 2012....
...theatres in 2012, and partnering with Sony Pictures Entertainment and IMAX to invest in film production and cinemas, respectively....
...Without it, they argue, cinema attendance would wither....
...The deal comes as China’s thirst for Hollywood content becomes ever more intense....
...The studio, founded in 1979 by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, revolutionised independent cinema with a string of critical and commercial hits in the 1980s and 1990s, prompting Hollywood’s big studios to create...
...Working with a Hollywood studio in its Silicon Valley incubator was a big change for a start-up based in Boulder....
...He has already orchestrated two of the biggest marriages between Hollywood and China: he was deeply involved in Dalian Wanda’s $2.6bn purchase of AMC, the US’s second-biggest cinema chain, and Huayi’s commitment...
...So the question being asked around Hollywood is what will WME do with its new asset?...
...as “The Punisher” by Meryl Streep when she won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, he is known for a no-holds barred confrontational style which has won him fans in Hollywood...
...Beijing continues to limit the number of foreign films that can be shown in Chinese cinemas to 20 a year and is pushing local film groups to agree more co-productions with global peers....
...But the film business is booming in China, where new cinemas are being added at a rate of about three screens a day, faster than in any other country....
...When he opened his first cinema crime was high and Los Angeles was in the grip of gang violence....
...The five big studios in Hollywood – Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Studios, and Fox Films Entertainment, are all part of larger media conglomerates....
...And as cinema has grown, so has the number of prizes handed out by critics, festivals and the movie industry itself....
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