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...Buying a stake in Starz would bring Vivendi a chunk of subscribers to add to the 24mn it now has at Canal Plus, which would probably improve its profitability by allowing TV and movie production costs to...
...Apollo last week bought a $760mn stake in Legendary, the Chinese-owned movie studio behind Dune and Godzilla, while Blackstone has committed more than $2bn to building a new production company led by former...
...The deal, which is expected to close by the end of the year, comes after talent agencies were forced to dismiss workers due to the pandemic-related suspensions of live events and costly delays in filmed productions...
...Borrowing a line from the movie Gladiator, he asks: “I mean, are you not entertained?” before adding: “I’m not saying I don’t make foolish tweets, of course I do....
...They face a similarly bleak future, scrambling under the weight of costly pre-pandemic productions with nowhere to go except the streaming stratosphere....
...“When you make a mediocre [heist] movie like Triple Frontier for $125m . . . no conventional film financier would ever do that.”...
...For Sony, film and television production is 11 per cent of its consolidated total revenue and just 3 per cent of operating profit....
...His focus on owning premium content that is distributed by others contrasts with the strategy of legacy media businesses, which spent billions of dollars building movie theatres, cable networks and other...
...How do you put a movie out like Stand by Me or Gandhi? Who’s a movie star now? There are no stars any more.” There is no agent with the power that Ovitz once had, either....
...studio and TV production business in May....
...It has generated $133m from its global release, according to the Internet Movie Database....
...“Losing Disney movie output doesn’t necessarily have any visible impact on subscriber growth, as long as the entirety of the service is a good value proposition to consumers,” he said....
...The National Basketball Association pulled plans to stage its annual All-Star game there, while Lions Gate, the Hollywood studio, scrapped a movie project....
...They may have become Hollywood’s new heavyweights, but Amazon and Netflix have taken quite differing approaches to the buying, production and distribution of movies....
...Dalian Wanda, the world’s largest cinema owner-operator, has been among the most aggressive, snapping up Dick Clark Productions for $1bn and Legendary Entertainment for $3.5bn last year, buying AMC movie...
...Production values are high, and even the plot of the micro-movie grips. Our hero suffers a grim voyage and routine abuse before meeting his destiny, a handshake with one Herr Anheuser....
...The purchase will help BeIN broaden its holdings from sports networks and movie channels in 24 countries including the US, France, Hong Kong and Australia....
...Mr Kavanaugh raised hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in movie studio production slates....
...It specialises in presenting comedy, but does everything from TV production to live performance and even public relations....
...To find a movie worthy of comparison, wrote The Washington Post, one had to go back to 1939, to The Wizard of Oz....
...An advertisement from the Republican candidate’s campaign run on both radio and television this week suggested that Chrysler was preparing to shift production of its Jeep brand from the US to China....
...International distribution deals help movie studios offset some of the financial risks attached to costly film productions....
...I have been looking for the chance to cooperate with Chinese movie makers and bring forward Chinese culture to the world....
...But its biggest movie is the new James Bond film – Skyfall – which will be released at the end of 2012. The future of the long-running series was in doubt when MGM’s financial problems began....
...Several companies, including Relativity Media and Legendary Entertainment, have set up Chinese operations, often with local partners as stakeholders, to bypass government restrictions on foreign movie productions...
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