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...staff report on the GameStop saga: If anything, Citadel Securities and other market-makers should have been encouraging more trading in GameStop, not discouraging it to rescue competitors to the Citadel LLC...
...But the company’s stock has halved in recent years as revenue shrank at its movie studio, which has struggled to produce hits....
...He has also acknowledged that some of Disney’s movie studios need to regain their creative spark. Disney and Comcast declined to comment....
...In the movie Wall Street, the corporate raider Gordon Gekko says: “Come on, tell me something I don’t know. It’s my birthday, pal, surprise me.”...
...The Big Short movie chronicled short selling directed against US mortgage-backed securities while the Netflix documentary Skandal!...
...“People are worried across the board,” said Steve Kram, chief executive of investment group Content Partners, LLC, and former chief operating officer of William Morris Agency....
...To me, it was a symbol of the rise of gaming through the entertainment industry hierarchy: a games company acquiring one of the most prestigious visual effects studios in the movie industry....
...“When you leave this studio,” the Hollywood movie star Mark Wahlberg said after a recent pre-dawn session, “you feel like you can accomplish anything.”...
Deal would be first big merger of talent groups since 2009
...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...
...There are stereo speakers and a fast-charging battery that can last for 10 hours of movie-watching. The Android tablet is available next week, starting at £180 for a model with 64GB of storage....
...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....
...But when Ganieva indicated she was cutting off contact, she says Black turned conciliatory — offering to finance a movie that she could produce, and to use his contacts to facilitate an application at Harvard...
...Television and movie studios have been forced to close for extended periods, while public health regulations have halted ticket sales for many live events....
...The firm was optimistic that, even in an age of digital streaming, Americans would still frequent movie theatres....
...In the post-lockdown landscape, cinema operators are by now used to conciliatory calls from movie makers, revoking yet another scheduled in-theatre debut....
...Had the gifted director Hirokazu Koreeda — creator of bittersweet tales of Japanese domestic life — been invited to make a spiritual sequel to Blade Runner, he might have come up with Family Romance, LLC...
...Traded over-the-counter via “pink sheet” listings à la Jordan Belfort — the convicted stock broker who wrote The Wolf of Wall Street (the 2013 movie version starred Leonardo DiCaprio, pictured below) — the...
...“When you think of Sony, you think of the Walkman, you think of the consumer electronics business, you know they own a movie studio and some music, but you don’t think of them as a Japanese national champion...
...Like any task force in an action movie, the partners bring different capabilities to the mission. US car retailer AutoNation and parts makers Magna contribute knowledge of the automotive supply chain....
...(WSJ) Silver screen Movie-goers have stayed away during the pandemic, creating headaches for industry executives such as Cineworld chief executive Mooky Greidinger....
...Werner Herzog is not quoting a line from a breathless thriller but describing the making of his new movie....
...That’s the subject of Werner Herzog’s new film Family Romance, LLC (opening in the UK later this year)....
...Silver Lake also has investments in talent agency Endeavor, US movie theatre chain AMC and Madison Square Garden....
...“When you make a mediocre [heist] movie like Triple Frontier for $125m . . . no conventional film financier would ever do that.”...
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