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...Now, Apollo is preparing a bid alongside Sony Entertainment that could be unveiled as early as this week....
...The International CosPlayboy Award 2023 Winner: Ben Kohn, Playboy Attempting to live up to its name (and former reputation), Playboy bought a plane, and then had to sell it....
...TikTok is a source of news for its young viewers, though it should be noted that its main appeal lies in entertainment....
...Politico-entertainment complex Why moderate to win power when life is cushier in opposition? America’s political industry is lucrative even for those who have lost elections, the FT writes....
...Ecommerce sites Jet.com, ModCloth, Moosejaw and Bonobos, plus video on demand service Vudu, are past Walmart conquests that have since been sold off or wound down....
...You would expect Reddit’s upcoming $500mn-plus IPO to have a touch of populist flair....
...He said publicly last year that the Orioles “are never going anywhere”, but also expressed an ambition to catch up to rival baseball clubs in Boston and Atlanta who have added new entertainment options at...
...Warner owns the Max streaming service, which could be combined with Paramount Plus if a deal were to materialise....
...Yet the buffets, campy entertainment and shuffleboard have proved as irresistible as a siren’s song. The shares of the trio of big cruise operators have each about doubled so far in 2023....
...The idea was to turn Hollywood into an entertainment centre — and Grauman knew he had the show business nous to make that happen....
...Following the footsteps of Netflix, other global streaming services such as Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus are also increasing investment in South Korea....
...Less than a year after the chair of World Wrestling Entertainment abruptly retired from the business following allegations of secret payments to female employees, McMahon has agreed to merge his company...
...We think of companies like Toyota, of course, in the auto sector, you think of SoftBank in tech and Sony obviously in entertainment....
...Disney chief executive Bob Iger plans a similar move later this year by merging child-friendly Disney Plus and Hulu, which focuses on general entertainment aimed at adults, into one app....
...Some rival streamers, including Paramount Plus and NBCUniversal’s Peacock, are also lossmaking....
...Make it Raine Vince McMahon had a plan when he made a controversial return to the World Wrestling Entertainment board in January after leaving last year over a corporate governance scandal....
...“He’s enjoying his life here,” says the veteran entertainment executive. “He bought the Robert Evans house. He hangs out with producers. He likes Hollywood.”...
...Maga Inc, a pro-Trump super Pac, has booked just $6.5mn....
...However, the only service Disney announced for the device at launch was its existing Disney Plus video streaming content....
...Shell, who has served as the top executive of the media and entertainment group since January 2020, said in a statement provided by Comcast that he “had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the...
...The resignation of its chief operating officer Goro Yanase over improper entertainment expenses has only added to the carnage....
...“An extended strike that lasts three-plus months should meaningfully advantage Netflix,” Greenfield wrote in a research report....
...whose PlayStation consoles would no longer be at risk of limited access to Call of Duty and other Activision titles, and whose share price had already begun to feel the pressure of consolidation in the entertainment...
...The ESPN Plus streaming service, which launched alongside Disney Plus in 2019, has reached 25mn subscribers but they pay a fraction of what ESPN earns from cable TV subscribers....
...Hastings’ chosen successors, Peters, a polyglot with a background in tech, and Sarandos, who has built the entertainment side, are confident that cable-style margins of 40 per cent plus are ultimately possible...
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