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...A very public proxy fight is precisely what the octogenarian hedge fund manager has in store for Walt Disney’s executives after they refused to give him a board seat at the troubled Hollywood company behind...
...Sinclair Broadcast Group, which bought 21 regional sports networks from Walt Disney for $10.6bn last year, is under pressure as Wall Street tries to calculate the financial impact from the disrupted Major...
...Disney, Coca-Cola and UPS....
...Much of the repositioning has come in the form of letters signed by scores of chief executives: in the past year, the likes of Walt Disney and Goldman Sachs have joined forces with AFL-CIO union leaders...
...One big move to start: Bob Iger is stepping down as chief executive of Walt Disney a year after extending his contract, handing day-to-day control of the world’s largest media company to the head of its...
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Nor has Britain seen the emergence of any new production companies to match Working Title, the Universal-backed but proudly British outfit behind Four Weddings, Bridget Jones, Darkest Hour et al, or independent...
...The pairings are sometimes surprising, bordering on the eccentric — Walt Disney and Coco Chanel are “The Founders”; Albert Einstein and Leonard Bernstein “The Geniuses”; William Tweed, the corrupt Tammany...
...Kenya bans ‘lesbian romance’ film ahead of Cannes debut Corporate earnings Walt Disney is expected to report a rise in second-quarter revenues helped along by Marvel superhero movie Black Panther — which...
...Technologies (left after Paris climate deal exit) Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company (left after Paris climate deal exit) Rich Lesser, President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group Doug...
...(Bloomberg, New Yorker) Could James Murdoch succeed Bob Iger as head of Walt Disney? The possibility is apparently being discussed....
...Time Warner’s are down 15 per cent, while Walt Disney’s are off by a similar amount, on fears of slowing growth at its ESPN channel. By contrast, the S&P 500 is flat over the same period....
...In the Netflix world, Comcast et al still deliver the content, but they need to find a new way of getting paid....
...Hollywood has always been the world capital of the film industry, and movies are the quintessential American art form....
...Electronic Arts spent heavily promoting Battlefield 3, and games such as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Activision’s World of Warcraft with advertisements featuring actors including Chuck Norris....
...Yet the extraordinary efforts of the Soviet restorers had little impact on the world....
...Euro Disney, in which the Walt Disney Company owns 40 per cent and Prince al-Waleed, the Saudi investor, 10 per cent, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2012....
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...Disney pulled back 1.8 per cent to $35.13, in spite of its first-quarter results beating analyst expectations....
...Walt Disney’s $4bn acquisition of Marvel Entertainment and Adobe Systems’ $1.8bn takeover of web analytics group Omniture also illustrate non-defensive deals with strong, industrial logic....
...Walt Disney, the first broadcast network owner to make shows available for free online, is also researching subscription-based digital services....
...Walt Disney, the venture’s marketing and distribution partner, is expected to provide $175m in mezzanine finance. ”I’m not sure it speaks to the broader market as much as it speaks to the quality of the...
...Ovitz, meanwhile, departed for Walt Disney as the number two to then chief executive Michael Eisner....
...Both The Losers, based on an “adult” comic about a rogue special ops team, and Scott Pilgrim vs the World, the pop art tale of a “himbo” bassist who has to battle his new girlfriend’s evil former boyfriends...
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