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...These could be shown during related shows — for example, light entertainment — but not others....
...Pro wrestling is not a proper sport, but “scripted sports entertainment,” as Netflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos noted on a video chat with investors on Tuesday....
...It has raised more than $2.5bn and struck a handful of small deals, including building a minority stake in movie studio Lions Gate Entertainment and four cyber security companies....
...Lions Gate and Vivendi declined to comment....
...ESPN Bet “needs to come out of the gates firing”, said Bernie McTernan, a senior analyst with Needham & Co....
...On-camera, it has been a frequent backdrop to studio blockbusters, if rarely credited as their real location: glimpses of Gastown and Lion’s Gate Bridge have been a feature of Marvel movies, the Twilight...
...In most of social media, it’s entertainment-based, using a lean-back consumption mode....
...Another strategy is to raise gate prices and reduce annual membership fees. The latter will still be higher, typically by three to five times....
...The Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild aren’t usually the people you’d turn to when barbarians are at the gate....
...Hastings will stay on as executive chair, following the past examples of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft founder Bill Gates....
...On Thursday, SeaWorld Entertainment reported 2021 fourth-quarter results that trumped the same quarter in pre-pandemic 2019....
...In the days of the VHS tape and DVD, it was generally known that children would watch The Lion King, Shrek or Toy Story over and over, but no one knew exactly how many times....
...It has scale and pricing power as the biggest live music promoter in the world, with twice the market share of its closest rival, Anschutz Entertainment Group....
...As we bounce over grassy knolls, passing through wide metal gates and checking that the sheep are accounted for, he shares his hopes of starting a petting zoo....
...And through its Oculus headsets, Facebook holds the lion’s share of the nascent virtual reality market....
...Smart reads The Lion of Los Angeles Behind every big deal is a bigger personality....
...The Spac last week announced a $17.5bn deal to take Bill Gates-backed Ginkgo Bioworks public....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 16 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The obvious target for the Cupertino-based company is Lions Gate, one of the last standing independent Hollywood film studios, which is behind The Hunger Games and Orange is the New Black, insiders told...
...“Everything has become entertainment,” Ai says....
...The law firm K&L Gates has hired Bonita Black as a partner in its corporate practice. She joins the firm’s Charlotte office from Dinsmore & Shohl....
...With Bill Gates in tow as a regular keynote speaker, the technology event exploded in popularity in the 1980s....
...(FT) Barbarian at the gate Casey Cogut’s CV as a boardroom warrior goes all the way back to the $25bn brawl for RJR Nabisco in 1989, when he helped KKR’s Henry Kravis prevail....
...Unity was used by Disney to recreate the African savannah for last year’s Lion King remake, while Star Wars TV spin-off The Mandalorian was shot using Unreal Engine graphics....
...A dozen glistening equine avatars lined up at a neon starting gate and then — three, two, one — galloped down a space-age track, hooves pounding to techno music....
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