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...Many critics and players declared it a vintage year for both big-budget and smaller independent releases, including Baldur’s Gate 3, Diablo IV and Harry Potter spin-off Hogwarts Legacy....
...Lions Gate and Vivendi declined to comment....
...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....
...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...
...TicketMaster’s “monopoly” has “totally screwed up” the live music industry, Fadell said, which was increasingly important now that touring and merchandise provide the lion’s share of artists’ income....
...Frydenberg was instrumental in blocking two potential deals: China Mengniu’s A$600m bid for Japan-owned Lion Dairy and China State Construction Engineering Corp’s A$300m bid for Probuild, a South Africa-owned...
...Concerns about a “boys’ club” of heavy drinking and “intense” entertainment of clients have also surfaced....
...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 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...
...The following year, he resigned from the board of the Murdochs’ other company, News Corp, citing editorial and strategic “disagreements”....
...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....
...The provision of information, entertainment and the means of interpersonal communication are all interlinked in a way that they never have been before....
...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....
...Sports leagues are hurting during the pandemic due to the loss of gate receipts. Major League Baseball derives the lion's share of its more than $10bn in revenues from tickets and concessions....
...Instead the Atlanta-based carrier pledged its rights to operate gates and fly planes from airports such as Heathrow in London or John F Kennedy in New York....
...Warner Music Group, the Len Blavatnick-owned music label and publisher whose IPO was waylaid by the coronavirus pandemic, looks like it might finally get out of the gate....
...Discovery Communications, Lions Gate and Imagination Entertainment were also named as potential targets but they’re not without complications....
...We’re entertainment. You are right that there is a lot of truth in entertainment.” We move to the bigger storms battering Silicon Valley....
...Under Project Big Picture, the Premier League would share 25 per cent of its annual revenues with the EFL, ending its reliance on gate receipts, with £250m to be advanced immediately....
...The adviser listed Discovery Communications, Lions Gate and Imagination Entertainment as potential targets but warned that “cable cowboy” John Malone’s stakes in Lions Gate and Discovery could complicate...
...The developer of Fortnite has come up with a novel solution to the entertainment industry’s perennial problem of finding the next hit, as the blockbuster success of its “battle royale” shooter game begins...
...Two DD events to start: We look forward to meeting those of you who are confirmed to attend the special lunch interview with Barbarians at the Gate author Bryan Burrough on Tuesday....
...(FT) News round-up Wirecard document points to reliance on 3 partners (FT) Lions Gate offered to sell Starz to CBS for $5.5bn (Reuters) Amundi eyeing DWS deal but only if it can take control (Reuters...
...Josh Noble Rupert Murdoch News Corp founder Grigory Rodchenkov Whistleblower on Russian sport Mr Rodchenkov, star of the doping movie Icarus, was the mastermind turned whistleblower of Russia’s massive...
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