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...Křetínský’s portfolio includes stakes in the UK’s Royal Mail, grocer J Sainsbury, and West Ham football club as well as German wholesaler Metro and US sneaker chain Foot Locker....
...The group’s media assets could help grant him the best luxury money can buy: political influence....
...Pinsent Masons has added a technology, media and communications partner to its Singapore office. Alexander Shepherd is joining the law firm from Bird & Bird, where he was a partner....
...Relativity Media, the Los Angeles-based entertainment group, has filed for bankruptcy protection after missing payments to lenders and running up as much as $1bn in liabilities....
...The film industry is in his blood: his late grandfather, Dore Schary used to run the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio....
...The move followed Tribune’s $2.73bn acquisition of 19 stations from Local TV Holdings LLC in the industry’s biggest transaction in six years....
...Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, two former executives with Spyglass Entertainment, were appointed co-chairmen and co-chief executives of MGM....
...and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
...in the region’s media sector....
...Still, in meetings with Creative Artists Agency, International Creative Management, United Talent Agency, and William Morris Endeavor Entertainment – the agencies which represent Hollywood’s biggest stars...
...Gate Entertainment – before they were shown on pay-TV....
...He is keen to merge the company with Lions Gate Entertainment, the company behind the Mad Men television series....
...Lenders to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have approved a restructuring plan which will convert their debt into equity and clear the way for the appointment of a new management team following a pre-packaged bankruptcy...
...Netflix recently agreed a deal worth as much as $900m with three Hollywood studios – Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Lions Gate Entertainment – to add their films to its streaming service....
...The battle for control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has become a three-way fight after Lions Gate Entertainment submitted a merger proposal to lenders of the debt-laden studio, according to people familiar with...
...Epix is owned by three studios: Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
...A Hulu IPO would be the largest offering for an online content company after Demand Media, which creates text and online videos by sifting through search engine data on consumer interests, filed IPO plans...
...The latest round of investments in the games business marks a renewed fascination in big media companies to invest in digital entertainment after a collapse of interest in the early 1980s when Warner Communications...
...It recently struck a five-year deal worth an estimated $900m with Epix, a new cable TV channel owned by Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
...entertainment-focused investment bank....
...Jonathan Dolgen, former chairman of Paramount Pictures, has been mentioned, as has Roger Birnbaum, chief executive of Spyglass Entertainment....
...interest in another Hollywood studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
...Anil Ambani is preparing to bid for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film studio behind classics such as Gone with the Wind, in a move that would bring Bollywood deeper into Hollywood....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Carl Icahn has increased the pressure on the board of Lions Gate Entertainment by announcing plans for a tender offer for as much as $325m of the group’s debt....
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