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...Skydance, the film studio behind Top Gun: Maverick, has entered exclusive talks to take control of Paramount Global, which had rejected a $26bn takeover offer from buyout firm Apollo, said people briefed...
...Citizens Financial, US Bancorp and Huntington Bancshares were among the other notable regional lenders reporting declines in profits for the third quarter, falling by 32 per cent, 16 per cent and 8 per cent...
...His reputation as an indefatigable tech maverick helped to make emission-free vehicles desirable, first for the Silicon Valley crowd then the world....
...Ellison, son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, launched Skydance in 2010 and has made a number of blockbusters, including Top Gun: Maverick, which Paramount released....
...Some even see themselves as mavericks, Elon Musk types, who believe those around them have to embrace negative workplace behaviour and the consequences....
...She has held talks about selling the Hollywood studio to Skydance, the production company behind Top Gun: Maverick, people familiar with the matter say....
...Billionaire Shari Redstone, who controls Paramount, has also held preliminary talks with Skydance, the production company behind Top Gun: Maverick, run by David Ellison....
...On Sunday, it seemed as though the maverick billionaire boss of Tesla, SpaceX and social media platform X had pulled off an unlikely coup when he made a surprise visit to Beijing to meet Li Qiang, the Chinese...
...Overstock is perhaps best known for its maverick former chief executive, Patrick Byrne....
...But he has proved himself by co-producing a number of hits, including Top Gun: Maverick and Mission Impossible, building Skydance into a $4bn company with investments from RedBird Capital, KKR, the Ellison...
...Dotcom billionaire Mark Cuban is selling control of the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise to the Adelson family. So what comes next for this serial entrepreneur? Read our profile to find out....
...Etiquette be damned in a tale of maverick spirit....
...Once seen as the future of finance, the plans of companies such as Affirm, Dave Inc, MoneyLion and Upstart Holdings to take on established financial institutions are fizzling out....
...It was a megaphone that helped cement him in the public consciousness as the world’s foremost maverick entrepreneur, even if it brought unpleasant public spats and a run-in with regulators....
...First, there are the mavericks who have had a killer year. A24, for instance, an independent studio which inspires such devotion in its fan base that it has its own A24 merch....
...Most cheering of all, commercially — and perhaps in some more poignant sense too — was the success of Cruise’s passion project, Top Gun: Maverick, the year’s undisputed box office champion ($1.49bn and counting...
...Zaltzman had bought into casual clothing brand Express Inc last autumn at around $1, believing retailers could be ripe for a pick-up....
...The success of Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World Dominion this summer has shown that people are willing to return to cinemas for blockbusters, even as the pandemic lingers....
...However, top executives at Capital One, Huntington Bancshares and Fifth Third Bancorp struck an optimistic tone at an industry conference last week....
...On September 2, Amazon Prime will release its adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, with an estimated budget of $465mn for the first season — almost enough to make Top Gun: Maverick three times over....
...boasted that it also has more influence on pop culture than its competitors, pointing to higher “Twitter volume” for Stranger Things than for Disney’s Obi-Wan Kenobi television series or Paramount’s Top Gun Maverick...
...Ellison was the driving force behind the release of Top Gun: Maverick, having approached producer Tony Scott about the idea of a sequel to the 1986 Tom Cruise film 12 years ago....
...Other data points were less compelling, such as Twitter engagement for Stranger Things outpacing that of Paramount’s Top Gun Maverick — a movie that made more than $1bn at the box office....
...Among the worst hit funds are “Tiger Cubs”: Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital, which was down 35 per cent in the first six months of the year after posting double-digit gains for the past three years, and Glen...
...Handily, she works as an archivist at the Chicago Sun-Times, where Dan Velazquez (Narcos’ Wagner Moura), a maverick investigative journalist, is also tracking the case in the hope of landing a scoop that...
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