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...And they probably weren’t in attendance at Saturday’s All Points East — a London day party organised by US conglomerate the Anschutz Entertainment Group and sponsored this year by crypto platform Luno....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...“It’s going to hit the toy business big time,” Isaac Larian, founder and chief executive of MGA Entertainment, the company behind the miniature collectibles LOL Surprise!, told the Financial Times....
...More important is just how its US-based maker, privately-held MGA Entertainment, has caused disruption in the toy industry....
...Isaac Larian, pugnacious founder of Bratz fashion dolls maker MGA Entertainment, knows all about toys. Despite repeated efforts, he has yet to make rival Mattel his own plaything....
...Mattel, which was the subject of takeover interest from Bratz maker MGA Entertainment earlier this year, has seen its shares rally more than 34 per cent this year....
...Respawn Entertainment, the EA unit behind Apex Legends, said 50m users signed up to play in the first month following its February 4 launch....
...It’s just not the way entertainment works.”...
...Toys R Us has rejected a bid from Isaac Larian, the chief executive of Bratz doll maker MGA Entertainment, that would have kept open some of the bankrupt US retailer’s stores....
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...MGA Entertainment, the toymaker behind Bratz dolls, is trying to pull together a bid for Toys R Us’ Canadian business, the company told Bloomberg on Wednesday....
...We do our best to create phenomenal entertainment and market it effectively, and then we explain what happened.”...
...You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v....
...William Hague, former Tory party leader, and wife Ffion came up to old chum and private equity legend Guy Hands and confessed they’d just come from the Citigroup entertainment tent....
...Traditional toymakers have faced stiff competition as the industry become more fragmented with companies like Spin Masters, MGA Entertainment and upstarts like Moose Toys all battling for children’s attention...
...Television Group, is apparently being eyed by Disney: she is known at Fox as “the Ryan whisperer” for her close relationship with Ryan Murphy, the prolific producer behind hit Fox shows such as The People v...
...John Gapper expresses surprise that Rupert Murdoch is willing to relinquish a large part of his news and entertainment empire....
...RatPac-Dune signed a multi-year co-financing arrangement with Warner Bros in 2013 for up to 75 movies, that have included: Gravity, The Lego Movie, American Sniper, Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Kong...
...Filmed entertainment increased 13 per cent thanks to hits such as Sing, an animated musical comedy....
...Directed by Zack Synder, 2016 Warner Bros The themes come thick and fast — the morality of power, democracy — but Batman v Superman skids across the surface, leaving characters and notions underdeveloped...
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...Getty v Google Google faces a new threat in its rapidly expanding antitrust battle with the EU after Getty Images, the US photo agency, complained that the search giant was unfairly undermining its business...
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...Henny Sender in Hong Kong reports WME-IMG is teaming up with venture firm Sequoia Capital China and internet group Tencent to expand the US sports and entertainment conglomerate’s Chinese business....
...Univision’s stake also includes Onion spin-off sites The A.V....
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