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...CAA reported $1.5bn in revenues last year, with its largest unit — managing Hollywood stars and offering services to the feature film and television industries — growing 13 per cent to $666mn....
...That was followed by a one-minute “film” of random content, before five more ads begin playing. Each “view” is counted as an engaged consumer....
...They picked the Midwestern state because they considered it emblematic of the wider country, with rural areas and ethnically and racially diverse cities, and because the programme was, for the first time...
...You’ll go from 1950s Midwestern America to a 1920s French prison, each a different world,” she says from Berlin....
...A tie-up would combine Sony’s film franchises including Ghostbusters and Uncharted, with Paramount, which has had recent hits such as Mean Girls and Bob Marley: One Love....
...Highlights The film producers behind Netflix’s Drive to Survive, the docuseries that helped revitalise Formula One, are raising around £30mn from George Pyne’s Bruin Capital, the FT exclusively reported...
...The tag may have encouraged Netflix to spend $20mn buying it at this year’s Sundance Film Festival....
...To film and edit so many messages would normally involve hundreds of hours of work, but it was much easier to pull off thanks to the industry’s new best friend: artificial intelligence....
Which companies will win the rush to the Moon?
...“Any time a major contractual breakthrough occurs, people look at it as the end of civilisation as we know it”, said Leigh Steinberg, an independent sports agent best known as the inspiration for the film...
...Although Victoria’s Secret retired the term Angels in 2021, ex-Angels including Adriana Lima and Candice Swanepoel feature in the new film....
...A more benign version of perpetual life is envisioned in the book and 2002 film Tuck Everlasting, about a family that accidentally lives forever....
...Actors making millions of dollars per film are not the most sympathetic representatives of struggling workers....
...It was only 8.30 on a Saturday morning but more than 100 people were crammed into the back room of Pizza Ranch in Winterset, a small, rural town in Iowa that lays claim to being the birthplace of the film...
...(A film adaptation of Eileen, written by Moshfegh and her husband, Luke Goebel, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.)...
...It reported $1.5bn in revenues last year, with its largest unit — managing Hollywood stars and offering services to the feature film and television industries — growing 13 per cent to $666mn....
...Polosukhin, a science fiction fan from Kharkiv in Ukraine, believed self-attention was a bit like the alien language in the film Arrival, which had just recently been released....
...🎬 FT film: From the production of cheap battlefield drones to AI-powered missile warning systems, Ukraine’s tech sector has put itself on the frontline of the war effort....
...The project in focus is Cardinal-Hickory Creek, a 102-mile power line running through the Midwestern US that, if completed, will allow more than 100 renewable projects to come online....
...According to the SEC, Stoner Cats 2 LLC’s offering raised roughly $8mn from investors by selling more than 10,000 NFTs for roughly $800 each. The offering sold out in 35 minutes....
...By far the most important is The Worldwide Production Services LLC (WWPS), a Toronto-based film company that holds digital distribution rights to the ILBE-produced Puffins and Arctic Friends series....
...In the US, Hulu continues to operate as a separate service to Disney and is the home to edgier programming, such as R-rated films....
...Disney intends to cut 7,000 jobs and rein in spending on film and television content after its streaming business proved not to be the champion his successor-turned-predecessor Bob Chapek had attempted to...
...And, unlike any film company in the world, they tripled down on tools and built a collection of tools that is the envy of the film industry in terms of what’s possible....
...Ray Dalio and Hollywood film-maker James Cameron have bought an equity stake in a submarine maker that allows the ultra-wealthy yachting class to explore the remotest parts of the planet....
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