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...The group has produced a biopic, to be released next month through Sony Pictures, and attached Houston’s name to perfume and cosmetics lines....
...In late 1989, no person better symbolised Japan’s postwar rise to economic superpower than Akio Morita, Sony’s co-founder, who stunned the world with a $3bn acquisition of Columbia Pictures....
...For Napoleon, Apple will work with Sony, where the head of the Motion Picture Group is Tom Rothman, a longtime collaborator with director Ridley Scott....
...by the Delaware Chancery Court....
...WaPo’s figures come from an article Cohan wrote for Inc, an American business magazine....
...begun to feel the pressure of consolidation in the entertainment world....
...Profits at the group have risen dramatically under Vinciquerra and Tom Rothman, who runs Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group....
...So the video game industry is orders of magnitude bigger than other kinds of entertainment....
...In 2009, the Londoner was picked as a left-field choice to lead Epic Records in Los Angeles, a division of Sony Music. Her stint as president was a rocky experience, lasting less than two years....
...The figures, which immediately made the movie the top-grossing film of the year in the country, marked a stunning success for Sony Pictures....
...US fund manager Invesco has stepped up its battle with the founders of India’s largest listed media company, Zee Entertainment, raising concerns over a proposed $1.6bn takeover by Sony in a rare case of...
...In a market monopolised for decades by a stodgy state broadcaster, Indian entrepreneur Subhash Chandra was a trailblazing pioneer of contemporary television entertainment....
...Even the throwback soda fountain next to Walton’s has been subsumed by the Walmart museum, which is funding tonight’s entertainment....
...The website seems to be alive and active: So, effectively, arbitrage trading but with dreadful monkey pictures....
...The transaction could take over a year to complete, with regulatory approvals needed for a deal that would make Microsoft the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenues, behind Tencent and Sony....
...Underlining the Korean music industry’s global ambitions, Hybe Corporation — formally known as Big Hit Entertainment, the company behind BTS — in April completed a $1bn merger with Ithaca Holdings, an American...
...The two-step gambit is made possible by the Lone Star state’s divisional merger law, which — unlike every other US state excluding Delaware — defines a merger to include “the division of a domestic entity...
...The result was a fragmented organisational structure where until recently, Funimation was run by Sony Pictures Television with its focus on strengthening franchises and IP that would succeed in the US market...
...The case involves a series of cyber attacks that took place over an 11-year span, including the 2014 hack that targeted Sony Pictures Entertainment over its intention to release The Interview, a comedy about...
...In a statement late on Wednesday, Tony Vinciquerra, chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment, said: “We have a deep understanding of this global art form and are well-positioned to deliver outstanding...
...But as the US reopens after a year of empty cinemas, executives across the entertainment industry are questioning whether the industry has changed forever....
...Sony Pictures Television also acquired Silvergate Media, the producer behind Netflix’s Hilda and Peter Rabbit animated series, for $195m in December, while Sony’s music unit spent a similar amount to buy...
...It’s a magical, globally installed unifier and distributor of content that makes the acquisitions of CBS Music in 1988 and Columbia pictures in 1989 look like part of the coherent plan that successive Sony...
...“Jim Ryan [head of games division Sony Interactive Entertainment] and Tony Vinciquerra [head of Sony Pictures Entertainment] are partners, and even friends.”...
...The question now is, who is ready to sell: Sony Pictures Entertainment has long been viewed as a target, but its parent company in Japan has resisted it....
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