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...BMG and Warner Music declined to comment....
...There is one massive exception to all this: K-pop and J-Pop. In the world of Korean pop, superstardom is very much still in business....
...The British-Nigerian entrepreneur Dumi Oburota is best known for his work in music: he launched the careers of artists including Jessie J and Tinie Tempah....
...Masuch said BMG, as well as big labels Universal, Sony and Warner, have an advantage over investors who have entered the space....
...Before that big step, ESPN is also launching a sports streaming joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros this autumn....
...Much of the intellectual heavy-lifting for Oppenheimer was done by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherman’s biography American Prometheus....
.... ★★★★☆ ‘Rising’ is released by Warner Classics...
...Nolan ended his relationship with Warner Bros in 2020....
...Because, like, you know, I just watched The Mother, which is why J. Lo is so heavily on my mind. J. Lo is 54 years old right now. In the movie, Diane Keaton is 56....
...It is a sombre reminder of the importance of assessing the legacy of J Robert Oppenheimer — not least by going to see Christopher Nolan’s powerful biopic — but also, as FT columnist Janan Ganesh notes, that...
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Two high-stakes legal actions involving J&J and 3M should soon determine whether these strategies are legal....
...Warner Music chief Stephen Cooper told an investor conference in September that the company had successfully reduced its “dependency on superstars”....
...“News Corp, Time Warner, Bertelsmann, Condé Nast . . . everyone is after us,” Smith told the Financial Times in 2012. The biggest old media conglomerates piled in....
...Its biggest stars include Megan Thee Stallion, the Texas rapper whose songs were the most-used on TikTok this year, and Mary J Blige....
...Bloomsbury’s sales of Harry Potter books are still growing 25 years after the first one was published, and she has earned Warner billions....
...Foals’ origins lie in British indie rock from the late 2000s, a time when bands such as themselves, alt-J and Everything Everything emerged with a twisty musical sensibility that seemed to be formed as much...
...BlackRock last week partnered with Warner Music for a $750mn fund to buy songs from “female and diverse artists”....
...“Rap’s unlikely king”, as Newsweek called him, moved to Warner Music Group in 2004, overseeing its move from physical sales to digital music....
...With its broad offerings and original series, Warner’s HBO Max is a serious competitor to Disney Plus....
...Year-to-date sales of US almonds to China are down 23 per cent, walnuts 63 per cent and pistachios 38 per cent, according to J Warner, a Chicago-based nut broker....
...Helping its chances was a multiyear relationship that began in 2006 when Bad Robot entered into an exclusive TV deal with Warner Bros. Television Group....
...J&J counters that its medications account for less than 1 per cent of the US market and that its actions were “appropriate and responsible”. But this is just a taste of what is to come....
...Brussels blocked the rail merger between Siemens and Alstom while UK regulators crushed the hopes of Mike Coupe, J Sainsbury chief executive, for a deal with Asda....
...J Timothy Richards, chief executive of Vue International, wrote an open letter to the Academy to express his concern at their decision-making process....
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