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...In today’s newsletter: Shari Redstone preps Paramount-Skydance merger Exor wins big on litigation in the US Private equity’s boycott challenge in Asia Shari Redstone prepares a new Paramount-Skydance...
...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....
...Redstone’s father used his tax law training to concoct complex transactions including acquisitions of Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS....
...Paramount’s shares have risen almost 40 per cent since early November as sale speculation mounted....
...Berkshire also exited its investments in payments business StoneCo, insurers Globe Life and Markel Corporation, and homebuilder DR Horton....
...Paramount is expected to net the more than $650mn in TV ad revenues, according to Dentsu....
...But step back far enough, “and a picture will emerge”....
...Analysts have also warned over high debts and tough trading conditions at Paramount. Cohen said they had looked before at studio businesses but the prices being asked were too high....
...Apple financed the movie and handled marketing and publicity, while Paramount managed its distribution....
...I will not let it become bogged down in fights that fail to recognise the big picture, and what’s at stake,” judge Jones added....
...“Employment as a writer has almost nothing in common with standard ‘gigs’ jobs,” said the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a group that includes major studios such as Disney, Warner Bros...
...It’s here that detail misses the big picture....
...She said the rules were paramount, adding: “Fiscal discipline is really important.”...
...Disney, NBCUniversal and Paramount lost a combined $8.3bn on their streamers. Overnight, Wall Street decided that chasing subscriber growth was not the play — profitability was....
...The studio points to recent deals with George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, M....
...The big picture is that a quarter of the $730bn in CRE loans that are due to mature this year are backed by office properties....
...‘Utter chaos’ By the time TPG entered the picture in 2017, cracks had begun to appear across the Vice empire....
...WaPo’s figures come from an article Cohan wrote for Inc, an American business magazine....
...DS: In my experience, it’s very difficult for very large corporations to change their compass....
...One of the most interesting is WireScreen, part of The Wire Digital Inc, a US-based news and data platform focused on China and global supply chains....
...I peer through their glass cases, hoping to learn where corporations are supposed to fit into the great democratic project, but I see no clues as to what role business should play in promoting “the general...
...The writer is a climate justice activist from Uganda and author of ‘A Bigger Picture’ As corporate leaders and government officials fly into Davos for the World Economic Forum next week, climate will be...
...The moving picture has stoked fears of moral depravity from the start....
...He led Paramount Pictures in the 1970s and 1980s, producing blockbuster films including Grease and Raiders of the Lost Ark, before building up Fox Broadcasting for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp....
...The website seems to be alive and active: So, effectively, arbitrage trading but with dreadful monkey pictures....
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