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...OpenAI has launched a charm offensive in Hollywood, holding meetings with major studios including Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros Discovery to showcase its video generation technology Sora and allay...
...Sky is still recruiting in some parts of its business in the UK, including for its new film and TV studio at Elstree....
...Merlin, which booked £136mn in pre-tax profits last year, has used intellectual property deals with toymakers and movies studios to bolster its stable of attractions and theme park rides, which includes...
...There would also be the potential for consolidation of some marketing and distribution capabilities between the studios. Paramount, Sony and Apollo declined to comment....
...If Paramount sold just the studio unit it would be left with its lower-performing cable, broadcast and streaming businesses, without the more valuable content arm....
...Skydance, the film studio behind Top Gun: Maverick, has entered exclusive talks with Shari Redstone to take control of her media company Paramount Global after it rebuffed a $26bn takeover offer from buyout...
...Earlier this year, Apollo offered to buy Paramount’s film studio for about $11bn in cash....
...Yet India has proved a particularly difficult market for Hollywood studios to crack, with Paramount and Disney joining other foreign media groups, including Warner Bros, in scaling back their presence in...
...The scions of two of America’s best-known billionaire families are scrambling to mastermind one of the most complex media mergers in recent memory, as the future of the storied Paramount studio hangs in...
...While both struggle under heavy debt loads, Paramount is the more desperate. It has interesting assets, such as the Paramount film studio and sports rights on its CBS network....
...Paramount is not the only legacy studio facing the question of what to do with the old-school TV networks....
...Skydance was particularly interested in Paramount’s Hollywood studio, people familiar with the New York-based company said....
...Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global are in early talks to merge, in a media deal that would combine the owner of HBO and CNN with the studio behind the Mission Impossible films and CBS News....
...Maria Kyriacou, president for broadcast and studios at Paramount International Markets, said the move would reflect a “sizeable” technology investment by the US group, which acquired Channel 5 a decade ago...
...She has held talks about selling the Hollywood studio to Skydance, the production company behind Top Gun: Maverick, people familiar with the matter say....
...For a show about a group of thugs, none of it really packs a punch. ★★☆☆☆ First three episodes on Paramount+ from January 25....
...The valuation multiple now ascribed to ESPN may be too low for Disney’s business, which includes theme parks and the movie studio....
...But after Walt Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and the then Time Warner launched their own streaming services, they pulled many of their shows from Netflix to avoid feeding a company that had grown into...
...Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, is unconvinced by an $11bn offer from Apollo for its Hollywood studio, people briefed on the matter said and is instead negotiating a rival deal with...
...From the sound of the first unearned laugh from the live studio audience, the series feels less like a renewal than a relic of the past....
...The difference is that Netflix makes money, unlike the streaming services launched by studios such as Walt Disney, Comcast’s NBCUniversal, and Paramount....
...Paramount, which owns assets including the eponymous movie studio and television channels in addition to Simon & Schuster, has been shopping the publisher again as it looks to focus on the streaming video...
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